New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-18
WASHINGTON.
FEATURES OF THE PINCHBACK POSTPONE.
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| THE POSITION IN WHICH SOME SENATOR'S VOTES
PLACE THEM.
| tBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TglDrSH1
| WASHINGTON. March 1.-THE postponemcnt N
the Pinchback case until next December by the
Senate last night. was en- act Of positive necessity
in order to save the Republican party in Louisiana
Mr.. Pincbback and his coOred friends 10 that State
have never attempted to conceal tlesr disapproval
Of TIE Wheeler compromise. 1t has seemed To tho
colored people Of Louisiana that, they furnished
nine .enths Of the Republican vote Of the State it
was very unfair that in making compromise they
were not consulted and their interests were not re-
gardcd. One of the conditions of the compromise
is that tho Conservatives shall allow Mr. Kellogg to
! serve out his term as Governor quietly; but no
such pledge is given in regard to Mr. Antoine
the colored Lleutenant-Governor. Mr.. Brown.
| the Superintendent Of Public Instruction. or
Mr. Deland. Tie colOred people expect
that il the Conservatives obtain tho power
they will turn these men out. SO great has become
The interes. of the coOred men Of Louisiana IN this
compromise and in the admission OF Mr. Binch-
back that several of their leaders haYo been In
| Washington for a week, urging It, Among them are
| Lieut. Gov. Antoine. James Lewis. late Superin-
| tendent of Public Works in Ncw-Orleans; j. Henri
Burch State Senator VIM. G. Brown, Superintead-
ent of Public Instruction. and Mr. Ruby tho editor
of The LouiSidniGn, the newspaper organ OF the
Louisiana colored people. They have demanded the
admission of MI Pichback rs a recognition oil theif
race by the National Republican party. and have
intimated t is said. that the colored vote OF their
State could DO longer be depended upon by the Ad-
ninistration If Mr. Pinchback were rejected again
1t was rumored here yesterday that the result Of
| the canvass made by the House Committee ID New
York had been either to give the Conservatives IN
the Louisiana Legislature majority on JOINT Dali
lot or to make the vote so close as to render the re-
snlt of Senatorial election very uncertain. Should
this be true one of two things would happen; either
| Conservative Senator would be chosen. OF MI.
Pinchback would through his colored friends. hold
the balance of power. In the latter event.
that power would not be likely to be
used for the advantage Of the Admin
| istraton, since the colOred statesmen, it is
believed, would prefer that Conservative should
| come to the Senate rather than that any of the
| white Republican politicians should profit by the
| compromise in which Mr.. Pinchback and his frenh
had been sold out When, therefore, 1t was ds-
covered that Mr.. Pnchback would not be admitted
if a SQUARE vote taken. the Administration men
saw that one of two Things must be done. The de-
cison of the case must be postponed, or they must
run the risk of having Conservative here in De-
cen,ber claiming seat and also Of serious de-
lection of the colored portion of the Administration
| party in Louisiana.
The votes of some of the Senators who were last
night recorded in favor of postpOnement are not
very credtable to them. Mr. Morton, for instance
has urged very strongly that an immediate vote on
| Mr. Pinchback's admission should be had, III order
| that Louisiana may no longer be deprived Of her
| proper representation in the Senate. When, how
| ever there is q probability that a Legislature ~
soon to be convened which will actually represent
the wishes of the people he votes TO deprive that
Legislature of the opportunity to give expression to
those wishes. In other words, he is willing and
anxious that the State shall be represented by an
Administration man. but if it desired to send Con-
servative here, that is quite another matter.
THE BLACK HILLS EMIGRATION QUESTION.
| THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT HAS no CERTAIN
| KNOWLEDGE OF EXPLORING PARTIES BEING IN
| THE BLACK HILLS-sTEPs TAKEN TO SECURE THE
| RIGHTS OF THE INDIANS-EFFoRTS MAKING TO
HAVE TIE SIOUX TITLE EXTrSGUISIIED AND THE
COUNTRY OPENED TO SETTLERS.
| WASHINGTON. March l7.-ln response to resou-
ton of the Senate the President to-day transmlttedo
| that body numbero of documents from the War and
| Interior Departments in regard to the PROPOSED emil
grafton to the Sioux Indian Reservation in the Black
| Hills country Secretary Delano, in q communication
to the President. dated yesterday rectes the proyi
sions of the treaty of April 90 1863 with the Sioux.
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person or persons should be permitted to settle upon
| or occupy, or, without tho consent of the Indians
| pass through any portion of the country north OF
| the North Platte River and east of the SUBMITS OF
the Big Horn Mountains which section includes the
Black Hills Secretary Delano continues follows:
AS to the proposed emf grafton TO that por Ion OF tue
Sioux Reservation named IN the resolution, this Depart
In possession OF information except that de
rived from the pubic prints which contain eertalo re-
ports 10 abe eject that expedition Las succeeded Ia
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expe on have gone upon the Sioux Reservation
ation of the provisions OF the treaty. and are
and tn SSon the eoHsens Of the ISdi,ss state.
| ments published IN the newspapers indicate
ont 6e conntry to- eSppre the Baek ILLS n scarca Of
minerals. Measures have been adopted by the Score
tary OF War; with the concurrence Of tnls Department.
prevent further Intrusion upon the Reservation in
question looking 10 the removal OF the persons now I'M
General OF the army by the Hon. Secretary Of War,
10 prevent any further expedition into .at por ION oi
the Indian Territory known as the BACK Hls country
as long as the present treaty exists, and advising that
efforts being made to arrange for the eAtneush,
be used accomplish tnat end and that II he Steps
toward the opening OF the country 10 setenent
fail those persons present within that territory
without authority must TO expelled. This department.
mas taken steps bring TO this city delegation OF the
aIlng for the Xunguishment OF their right TO tue rsser
walton embracing the Black Hills cOuLtry, with view
TO opening up the ~ settlement; aud, untl suc
an arrau genes has been effected, H Is the lnentOn
this Depart ent, with the cooperation OF the war ne
partment protect the rights Of the Indians as guar
anteed them by treaty OF 1868. and 10 prevens
any further Iniractlen OF those rights also rue ~
teDton this Department TO Use every tnJr PssiDo
70 erIingush the Indian title the Black III eoun
| try, open the same TO settlement aud hpor"u'"
| for mineral wealth III the earliest day practL"0'~
| The documents transmitted from the War Depart
ment, with the exception of tho order to the Zen
| eral Of the Army, teleTaphed to the press yes'er
day. contain no information of special intereS'
beyond what has already been published.