The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-06-02
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WASHINGTON.
More Bonds Called I'm.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-The Secretary of the
Treasury has just issued call for $1O,0O0,OO0
of $50 coupon bonds.
The bonds are known as the 4th series, act
of Feb %, 1862, dated May 1, 1862, as follows:
$50. Nos 203O1 to 81, 900, both inclusive; $100.
Nos. q, sol to $780, both inclusive; $1,000,
Nos. 8O,651 to 81 800, both inclusive Total,
$10,0O0,O00.
Decorating Confederate Graves
A number of persons iD this city and neigh
borbood are engaged to-day in decorating the
graves of the confederate dead at Arlington.
The Internal Revenue Bureau.
The amount of distilled spirits remaining in
warehouses on the Both of last April is official
| ly reported at 1922, l13 gallons. OF this
amount 1888 1923 gallons is taxable at 20 cents,
and Z, 4S3 789 gallons at 80 cents per gallon. 1t
is estimated that the internal revenue receipts
for the present fiscal year will aggregate $780,
100000
The Department of Justice.
The Attorney General to-day designated the
following as heads of bureaus in the Depart
ments Of JUSTICE Bureau of Court of Claims,
Assistant Attorney General Thomas Simons;
Bureau of Legal Investig Alexander j..
Bentley; Bureau of Official Correspondence,
A. R. button; Bureau of Chief Clerk, A. j.
Falls; Bureau of Common Law, Edward u.
French.
Council of the Sioux Indians and the
Secretary of the Interior.
WASHINGTON, June 1,-All of the delega-
tions of Indians assembled in the rooms OF the
Secretary of the Interior this morning for an
other council. The Indians were gaudIly attlred
and painted in all colors. Bishop Hare came
in with Secretary Delano. Commissioner
Smith told them that when they were here last
the Secretary made proposition to them TO go
to the Indian Territory, and also asked them
to consider the offer of the government. OF
$25OO0 to relinquish part of their hunting
grounds; also of the desire of the white people
to go to the Black Hills, and the difficulty OF
preventing them, and requested them to agree
to such arrangements as would prevent blood
she'd .Ew
In regard to going to the Indian Territory
they were opposed to it, and unless they bad
changed their minds there was no use IN saying
anything more about that. In regard to the
offer of $25,900, their answer was not so def1n-
ite The Secretary told them if they did not
accept it within thirty days they might not get
it at all. In regard to the Black Hills. they
did not say much, but they had plenty of time
to think of 1t, and it was hoped they could
give such definite answers to-day as to make 1t
unnecessary to have any further talk on the
subject.
Red Cloud said: t
Great Spirit, hear me; have mercy on me;
pity me. He called the heaven, the earth, to
witness before he spoke. he had not forgotten
what had been spoken. The President must
have made mistake in telling him when he
first came here that their arrangements were
for thirty.fVe years. The President told him
at that time to select country for hunting and
he had done so. The two men by his side
came out last summer and told him for the first
time about 1926, 600, and he said wait till 60
and see the President, and see if he has got the
money, and if it is really there have chill
dren and am not willing to do anything to
make them poor. This $4,000 will only pay
for the land to Pawnee Greek. We wish to re-
tain the rest. When he was here four years
ago he was shown large building where all
the money is kept, and ne knows he had
large amount of money there. He would like
this $25, 900, but when winter comes he wanted
them to try to get more. When he came here
before nothing was said about the Indian Ter
rtory, and since he has been here this time he
had seen but little of the President, and he
thought it hard that he should be asked to go
there and live; and he now told them twice he
would not go there, His country was good
one and he wished to keep it. He did not like
the Nebraska line through his country, and he
considered it robbery. Last winter, when the
annuitiss were issued many of his people were
absent and did not get their goods and he
wanted more goods for them. He was not sat
isfied with the food that was sent to them. He
did not like salt pork, and thought his children
had died from eating it. He wanted bacon, rice,
tea and bominy sent him. He was looking to
the future for the children, and tried to do the
best for them.
Before the conclusion of the interview the
Indians agreed to accept $25000 in considera.
tion of their relinquishiDg the large portion OF
their hunting grounds in Nebraska. The Sec
rotary is willing to concede to them ten or fiji.
teen miles south of the Nebraska River
A treaty was drawn up, but Spotted Tail re-
fused to sign it till he received $25,00O appro-
priated by Congress for the purpose. 1t was
explained to him that the money could not be
obtained until the treaty was signed and the
Indians were given a copy of the treaty to take
to their rooms to consider. There was only one
dissenting voice in regard to the treaty-that of
Little Wound, of Red Clouds band, who insist
ed on $40 900 for 100 years.
Tomorrow the Indians will have a confer
ence on the question OF cedlng the Black
Hills.
ARRANGEMENTS were made to night for anoth-
er council with the Indians at thei interior De-
partment to morrow. The President promised to
be present and listen to Spotted Tail in relation
to affairs at the agency.
Treasury Agent Murdered.
Larkin w. Sellers, an officer of the secret
service division of the treasury, missing since
April 15 was found dead near Appressus sta
ton in Wise County, Va, yesterday, with two
bullet hol es in the head and two in the breast.
IL is supposed he was murdered by gang of
Alabama Claims Court.
In the Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims yesterday, in case 104, q ID. q M. A:
OConnor, judgment was rendered in favor OF
the claimants.
Mail Controversy.
The Postmaster General telegraphs Mr.. Gar |
rett that Mr. Scott offers to take our morning
mails from Washington, over the Baltimore q |
Potomac road, at 8. 10 a. m. and deliver in New |
York an hour in advance of the present time. |
He also offers to take our mails from New |
York at 925 a m. aud deliver them at Washing |
tod at 5. 90 p. m, which would be leaving New |
York one hour later and arriving in Washing |
ton five minutes earlier than under the present |
If the transfer at West Phla- |
delphia from your cars cannot be avoided, the |
nublic good will compel me to accept Mr..
Scott's offer. My sense Of duty will not per-
NIT me TO continue a service that must prove |
nnsatisfactory. The Postoffice Department |
will not be involved IN a controversy between |
ronr company and that represented by Mr..
Scott.
The call for $40 900, 900 of bonds issued to-day !
indicates an additional suDScriptlou W Ouac
amount by the syndicate.
The Secretary of war left tonight to inspect
The military academy at West PoInt anu atteho
The annual examination.
The payments made from the Treasury dur
ing the month of May were as follows: On ac-
count of civil and miscellaneous, $5,331 ,9o4 10;
war; So 235, 3S1. %; navy, 1896 55l 20; INTERIOR
Indians and pensions, S5, S97 $685. Iotai,
Bis 361, 1881. The above does not include
payments on account Of interest or principal OF
the public debt.
,s that part of Newport, VT, is designated as
as port from which imported merchandise
may be shipped in bond in transit through the
United States or from the Dominion OF Cana