The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-21
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP
The Indian Appropriation Bill.
WASHINGTON, d. c, June 10.

thereto by the Senate. These are eighty.
two in number and add about three
million seven hundred and siXty.scvcn
thousand dollars to the aggregate amount
appropriated. One class Of amendment
is to make good former Indian payments
in currency, whenever treaties called for
payments in gold. The amount under
this head is not large, and will ultimately
be given. The amendment disposscssing
the Usage Indians Of their lands in Kan.
sas and providing for their removal to In
dian Territory is rejected The numer.
Gus amendments sending farmers and me.
Cllanics on salaries to the various tribes
in consequence of the discretion conceded
in many old treaties to the President, will
mostly he reported against, though II
small number of them are likely to be
saved in Conference Committee, to which
the bill must finally be referred. The
great struggle in the House, us also in the
Conference, will be over the amendments
carrying ont the provisions Of the treaties
made two or three years ago by General
Shcrman's Peace Commission. The
movement for this Commission originated
in the House, but that body did not like
its work, and has pcrsistcntIy refused to
sanction the treaties by appropriations OF
money to give them effect. Everybody
knows that much of the trouble on the
plains is due to the fact OF this rcpudia-
lion. but the House is Just rs obstinate
now us ever, and seems willing to give
cause for further difficulties by further re-
fusal to observe faith with the Indians
asserting to these treaties. The amount
of money involved is rather over two and
half millions, nearly half of which should
20 TO the great tribe of Sioux; to which
the bands Of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
belong.
Mr. Dawes and his committee think it
useless to again ask the direct assent Of the
House 10 the treaties of the Peace Com
mission, but will endeavOr to give the
President control Of the grcaterpart OF the
money for which they call, allowing him
to use ii in his discretion. The commit
tee, so far rs they arc concerned, do not
mean to promote an Indian war by the
refusal or neglect to furnish the President
with means for carrying on his peaceful
policy. They have had good deal Of
conference on the matter with the Secre.
tary of the Interior, and US whole find
themselves in general sympathy with his
views. lie says the administration has
been more successful in dealing with the
Indian question than it had reason year
ago to think it could be, and the Presi-
dent and himself nrG quite hopeful of the
future if sustained by Congress with the
necessary appropriations. The new In
dian agents and Superintendent now UNI
derstnnd their business, and will be much
better able than heretofore TO distinguish
between thieves and honest men among
the whites, and between those who are
well disposed, and those who are evil dis
posed among the Indians. The Secretary
will exercise the utmost care and caution
in making new trcaties, and holds that cX-
pediCncy us well rs fair dealing requires
the observance Of those now existing.
The Committee, as already stated, thinks it
useless to make any further efforts at
present TO get the formal aCquiesCenCc OF
the House in the Sherman treaties, but
will strongly advise and urge that the
President be given what money is need
full to be used in his discretion under re-
sponsibiity to Congress, and they will
also concur in appropriations for the en-
pGnses of the present unpaid Indian Com
mission.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ROAD.-The
Southern Pacific Railroad question comes
up in the Senate tomorrow evening, If
that body holds to the unanimous agree.
mcnl il made on Friday. There are two
bills, one reported by Mr., Howard, and
one for which Sherman is sponsor How
ards names seventy gentleman as corpO:
ratOrs, and Shcrman's one hundred and
twenty. Most Of those in Towards are in
Shcrman'S, while the additional fily in the
latter are Fremont and his friends; or in
other words, ShCrmAn's is the Fremont
bill, while Towards is antagOnistic to
Fremont. The general features Of the two
bills are about alike. The proposed road
is from Marshal, Texas, on the thirty
second parallel, to FL PaSO, and through
New Mexico and Arizona TO the Pacific
coast at San Diego, California. The land
grant in Texas comes from the State
the Government grant in California is
twenty and in Arizona and New Mexico
forty sections per mile, I'LL in odd number
cd sections, and to be sold to settlers at
two dollars and Il half per acre after five
wears from the completion Of the road
Towards bill provides that the whole
line must DO built Of American iron OF
steel; Sherman allows foreign to be used
in Texas, where the grant comes from the
State. Shcrman's bill insurcs completion
in ten and Towards in eleven years
Towards authorizes the company to issue
first mortgage bonds on all its property
and rights Of property to the extent OF
forty thousand dollars per mile; Sher-
mans authorizes land bonds to the extent
of two dollars and half per acre for land
mOrtgaged, and construction bonds to the
extent Of fifty thousand dollars per mile OF
track and personal property of the COM
pany. Both bills give the right OF con
nectOn with twenty sections per mile
grant from San Diego TO San Jose, Calitor'
min; connection from New Orleans to Mar.
shall with ten sections per mile grant, and
connection from Fulton, Arkansas, to neal
Dallas, Texas, with nothing but the right
of way Towards calls the main line the
Texas Pacific Railroad, while Sherman'S
names it the Southern Trans.C Continental
Railroad. Thcpoint of fight over them is
whether General Fremont and his friends
shall be allowed 10 have hand in tho
work.
TIE TAN AND TARIFF Bill will be re.
ported from tho Senate Finance Commit.
ice tomorrow in u greatly modified form
The tax sections mostly give way for the
Sherman bill, which does not attempt to
Codify the internal revenue laws at all, but
simply abolishcs taxes on sales, gross re-
Ccipts, lcgacies, SUGGESTIONS, carriages
watches, gold and silver plate, passports
and all special taxes on banks and brokers
and lpaVpS nothing Int taxes on shirts