The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-03
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE.

MI STEVENSON Tep.) or Ohio, presented petit.
ton or business men or Cincinnati against q change
OF the time when reduction OF the duties shall
take place under the Tax and Tariff bill. and pray
Ing that the date liked, December 81, 1870, be re.
tanned.
ACCOUNTS OF CONSUL HELPER.
Mr.. MYERS, (rep) OF Pa, from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported back the senate bn for the
settlement OF the accounts OF Hinton Rowan Helper,
late United States Consul at Buenos Ayres Passed.
THE PUBLIC LANDS.
The House proceeded to the consideration OF re.
ports from the Committee on Public Lands.
the yeAS e Of nd reported phi to forbid
AT re sp u! SSsa % adssssSS & & tie pocy
and absurdty OF making treaties with rowing tribes
OF Indians, and with them natlonalties
Mr.. JULIAN represented the object OF the bill TO be
10 notify the Senate thar in no future treaty are
indian lands 10 be secured for the benefit of railroad
companies or other spectators but that such lands
are to became part Of the public. domain and to be
under the control OF Congress. The bill was passed.
Mr.. JULIAN also reported a bill authorizing appl-
cants under the Homestead act when prevented by
ance at the District Land Onlcs, TO mike aiiidayit
transmit the ms With tie ices by mai to the Regis
.ey and R6c6 yer OF the Land ONCE. PASSED.. ...,..
Mr.. JULIAN also reported bill for the protection OF
settlers Oh the lads OF the United States, prov ding
mat when any person entitled to avail himself OF the
benefits OF The Presumption or Homestead laws has
made bona the settlement on lands sub ect thereto.
such settlemen. shah be deem to create contra
between the government and the settler, ana his
claim shall constitute vested right OF property,
wa ar na 0I G ae e q ad inquired whether that
Mr.. JULIAN repiei that everybody had believed
so until recently, when contrary decision was de.
vered by Judge N Her, OF the supreme Court OF the
monssrous, and one that would be discredltabe to
the Judge OF q Western county court
Inc BIZ was passed.
M. JULIAN also reported bill TO prevent the fur
ther sale OF pubic lads III the Territory OF DacOtah,
except under the Presumption and Homestead laws,
&c. Passed. Also similar laws applying to Nevada
ana Nebraska. The bll was amended by making it
apply 70 California, Kansas, Arkansas and Utah,
ana, as amended, 1t was passed.
Mr. JULIAN also offered a z declaring forfeited to
the United States the lands granted to the State OF
and Great western Railroad He said that II would
open up TO settlement million acres OF rich land
That was now locked up, and that the bill had the
approval OF the members r0m LOUISIANA.
The oil was passed.
Mr.. JULIAN also reported the bill to confirm to
James M. Huichings ami James G. Lamon pre-emp-
ton claims in The Yosemite Valley. California.
The bill gave rise TO discussion, involving the i'm.
policy oil the act ceding The valley TO the State OF
California IN trust, to be preserved Ms national
park and The absence Of title in the claimants VINO
settled IN the valley before was surveyed ana open
to settlement.
Mr.. sCHENCK, Crep.) of Ohio, expressed the idea
that the squauers or pre-empuonsts had any
equity In their claim 1t would be far better to COM
pensate them Tor II than to turn over TO them the
and on which they or their successors might estab-
llsh lager beer garden, or disJlery, or lay out
potato patches or COW yards to be a botcll ON the
beauty which J. was desired to preserve.
The bill was finally, on motion OF MIR. RANDALL
(dem) OF Pa, laid on the table--yeas lO5. uays 81
REPORTS FROM TIE COMMITTEES on PATENTS
The House then proceeded to the consideration OF
reports from the Committee on Patents. the question
being ON the motion to reconsider the vote whereby
the House refused yesterday to lay on the table the
nlli 70 extend the wood screw patent Of Thomas
Mr.. LoUGTRlDGE, rep OF Iowa. who had made
the motion TO reconsider, withdrew ii. The oil was
then passco-yeas II, nays AZ
Mr.. MOORE, uep.) OF Ill.,. from the Committee on
Patents, reported the OIL Tor the extension OF the
patent of Arson Smith for Improvement in ploughs.
Passed
Mr.. MYERS, from the same committee, reported
the Oil To pay $4,000 to the two daughters OF
Jethro Wood, the inventor OF the cast iron plough
On point OF order made by Mr.. AsPER, lrep.) Of
mo-, tnas Inc bli made an appropraton, ana must
the Dill was referred 10 that committee.
MI MYERS then moved to suspend the rules, bring
the bill before the Louise and put upon its passage
The SPEAKER decided the notion to be in order
unier the rale wnich authorizes motions to suspend
rules during the last ten days OF the session.
Mr. MYERS withdrew the motion Tor the present,
with the understanding that he would renew 1t on
another occasion hereafter.
THE INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
The SPEAKER informed the House that Ule Indian
Appropriation bill mad been returned from tn
Sena.e, WIN a request for further conference, the
conierees OF The two bodies having failed to agree.
Mr. sARuESl. rep or Cal, one OF the House Con-
ferees committee, stated the grounds OF difference
between the Two bodies. The Senate, he SAID IN
s.sted upon specific appropriations under treaties
MAZE since July 1867, and that these treaties be
recognized as the supreme law OF the land 1t
CLAIMED the exclusive right OF determining the pro-
priety OF making treaty the terms OF such treaty
and with whom 1t might properly he made, and That
It's action was no. open TO the criticism or vi
the legislative power. The Senate conferees had,
however, offered To put clause In the Dill authorz-
ing the President 10 use the money Tor any other
purposes tnan those named IN the treaties in his dis
creton, but with the consent Of The Indians. The
House conlerees had refused to insert in the bill
anything winch could be taken Us ratification Of or
eons ya % any an treaty made since Z9.h
spOnsl1c bands OF Indians are not independent
nations, with whom treaties can possibly be
made; That so regarding and treating them mad been
fruitful OF frauds on the government and Injurious
to the Indians; That the new treaties for which the
House had steadily refused appropriations involved
an expenditure Of S7OOo0,0j0 at least ana that to
concede the demand or the Senate conferees would
ever could be- TAKEN from the treasury Wout e
consent OF the peoples representatives either as 10
the amount or TO the use winch it should be applied
that ,lie OBJECTS for which the money to be used
under the treaues WERE IN great measure IAN
tstlc and useless; that the recent indian delegations
had denounced these treaties fraud and sur
prls1 on tile indians, and that the government had
paid no respect TO them 80 far as they conferred
coIiirmed hunting privileges on the Indians AS
OF preventing an Indian war and securing the
comfort aud CIVILIZATION OF The Indians, thu House
amount which the senate had Inserted In a gross
sum, and to leave to the Executive the duty aud
or Compromise, was made because the confereess
considered the question one not OF money but OF
principle: The senate conferees. however, refused
Mr. BECK, (deIn.) Of KY, denied the right OF the
House to say whether 1t would appropriate money
to carry out treaties, and declared that ne never
would consent to any such proposition as that. The
Senate mad o right to make treaty with hundred
Indians, any one OF whom might he hung for steal
ing COW, and pay them q hundred millions for the
territory OF Colorado.
Mr.. LAWRENCE, (rep) OF Ohio, gave three reasons
wny III his Judgment, the House was not bound TO
carry the indian treaties made in pursuance Of the
act Of july 1867 First because by the express terms
OF that act Congress reserved to Itself tie right to
walton the Indians, ana therefore treaty could
be made binding Congress 10 appropriate money
until these reservations mad been expressly approved
by Congress- second. that money cannot be appro
prlated from the Treasury except In pursuance OK
iaw--that Is, law enacted by both houses and APP
proved By the President, and that treaty Is such
law: third, that the Indian tribes are not independ-
nations In the VI international law, capa-
bic OF making treaties that can bind them or the
Unit STATES.