The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-20

for improving the harbor was referred tC
the Committee on Commerce.
| A hi enacting that agricultural lands
SOLD Tor non-payment OF taxes In the late
reoei states be sold in sub-divisious, not
sold as Will discharge legal obligations
was referred to the Committee on Public
A substitute for the Alaska Fur Protect
ing Bill was retired to the Committee on
| Commerce.
Tue bill granting lands to Minnesota to
| improve the river at st. Anthony's Falls
| Lands
| preparation Bill.
Paine introduc d resolution to refund
! $1,000 advance money TO Milwaukee for
| I'M proving its haFDOr. Referred to the
| committee on Commerce.
| Julian introduced bill that the agrieuI-
tufal lands sold for nOn-payment of taxes
| In the late rebel States, he sold in sub
| DIVISIONS not exceeding forty acres each
and SO much only sold as will discharge
| the legal obligations. Referred 10 the
comm Ittee on Public Lands.
Dockery introduced a bin to refund to
dlstlilers OF brandy from peaches, apples,
or grapes, the special tax effecte under
Section 59 Act Of July %, 1867. Referred 10
the Commlttee on Ways and Means.
Johnson offered a su bstitute for the
Alaska Fur Protection Bill. Referred to
the COMMITTEES on Commerce.
wilson o1fered a bin granting land to
Minnesota TO Improve the river at st. An
on Public Lands
Whole on the Indian Appropriation Bill,
Judd in the Chair.
Dawes explained the bill, which was
S1mp y the House bill of the last session
without the senate amendments.
Toe whole question of the policy TO the
Indians of the Government was opened mn
by an amendment offered by Wood to add
an appropriation 10 the Arickare, Gras-
was participated in by Wood, Beck, Axtei,
Dawes, Lawrence Maynard, Julian. Ben
Jalnin, and others.
az
treaties with the indians as q system Of /
fraud on the Treasury, and injury 10 the |
Indians. He declared That appropriations |
mad been made for Indian tribes which |
had no existence
Lawrence, a member of the Committee |
on Appropriations, characterized the In
dian bureau as entirely rotten and a den /
Of thieves. The only question for the |
House was whether it would root out that |
the piunder and robbery going on under |
cover OF the treaty-making power, or |
whether 1t would surrender the legislative |
power to the treaty making power He /
declared that there was not any such thing
IS Indian treaty IOwer; mere csntractS
We're nlade, DuI treaties were conventions /
between sovereign nations, and 1t was a
farce to apply such a term to tribe of
wandering SaVages. Treaties have been
put through when there were not SIX SEN
ators present. every man who paTtici pat
ed in fraud of that sort is unfit to occupy
a seat IN any deltberatiVe body. | wish
to God could reach the Senate and
ears of every man in the country. until
LHG senate SuDutt De compelled TO D3V |
some heed To the voice of the people aud
have some respect for the interests of the !
people, instead OF squandering their
money.
NegIey inquired OF the Chair whether
it was parliamentary to apply such Lam
guage TO the Senate.
Cnairman-As the Chair understood il it
was rather broad. and the Chair suggested |
to the gentleman from Ohio that IN refer
Ing to q coordinate branch of the Lpgista- |
ture he should be a little more careful and /
cho ce in his language.
Lawrence-Yes, l shall be more careful: |
1 could go good deal further than that
and say Things "A good deal worse and
yet keep within the bounds of tIuth.
Dawes said ne would have felt surprised
at the remarks of his cOileasue on the
mmitCee, only for the fact tnat the gen
t!eman had not found IL consistent with /
his other public duties 10 attend the meet
1ngs Of the committee, at which the qaes-
tiou had been fully consfde ed. II he had
done so he probably would not have shot
off IN a new orbit of his own, bat WOutu
nave stood Dy his associates ia their efforts
TO rescue the Treasury The very founda-
tion stone of this new bill was to nut a
stop 10 these new treaties, aDd refuse to go
farther Ahan iulnii1ng the stipuiatiORs of
treaties that have the sanction of al
branches OfIhe Government There Was IA L
au item in the i'll Ina cOutd come uutl-l- I
called down the enathemas of mis- col-
league L1wrence) II he had known
W hat was in the bill, the House wouId
have been saved his remarks until
the amendments OF the Senate shoald
/ I
order II the douSe wers TO re >i>L these
at all, it would have to do so
by standing by the bill as reported from !
the Committee on Approximations. II the !
mt mDers were to depart from il, or under
I re either TO Introduce amendments or !
to abandon the law of the land, they
would be all ut sea.
After furt her discussion, Wood, Is amend
ment was rejected.
The Clerk proceeded with the reading %
the bill, which was occasionally inter- |
rupted by the Offering or amendments,
which brought up some general questions
for discussion.
AT a quart-r past the committee arose
and reported the bill to the House. II was
passed.
Judd, from the Committee on Foreign
Affairs, reported n resolution instFuctiug
that Committee 10 inquire into all the
relating TO the alleged i'm
priSonment of Bliss and Masterman IA |
Paraguay, and into the conduct OF ths
late American Mini ter in Paraguay, and
the officers commanding the South Attain
tic Squadron, with power to send for per-
SoEs and pape is, and report at any time.
The Speaker presented communication
from tie Governor OF Massachusetts, with
the action of the Massachusetts Begisia-
ture rat fyi z the Fifteenth Anne ldment
to the Constitution.
Adjourned until Monday.
is a 40 E'1N G. II.