Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-22
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Secretary schurz' Agreement with the
Utcs.

Secretary schurz' Agreement with The
Utcs.
Especial to the REcoRD-UEIoS.l
WASHINGTON, March .21st.-The Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs will hold
special meeting tomorrow, with a view of
taking action upon the question of ratifying
Secretary Schurz agreement with the Utes.
The committee will probably report that the
agreement, or at all events the bill submit
ted by Secretary Schurz to carry it into
effect should be amended in several par
ticulars, and they will undoubtedly insist that
some handsome provision by way of a reduc-
ton from the Utes' annuities be made for the
benefit of Mrs. and Miss Meeker and Mrs
Price, who were so brutally treated by the
savages. The exact features of the agree
ment as to the lands which these Colorado
Indians are to be allowed to occupy hereafter
have not yet been published. They are as fol-
lows-the precise terms of the agreement be-
ing quoted literally:
The Southern Utes agree to remove to and settle
upon the unoccupied agricultural lands La Plata
river in Colorado and New Mexico, and such unoc-
cupied agricultural lands as may be found in that
vicinity The Uncompahgre Jtes agree to remove
to and settle upon agricultural lands upon Grand
river, in Colorado, and such other unoccuped agri-
cultural lands may be found in that vicinity and
in the Territory of Utah. The White River Utes
agree to remove to and settle upon agricultural
lands on the Uintah Reservation, In Utah.
Senator Teller opposes the granting of the
unqualified options above set forth in regard
to the Southern and Uncompahgre Utes, be-
cause the agricultural lands in New Mexico
and Utah, in the vicinity of La Plata and
Grand rivers, having long been open to set
Element, are. he says already occupied, and
the practical effect of granting these options
will be to allow the Utes to absorb nearly
800, 000 acres of agricultural land within the
boundaries of their present reservation, which
in his opinion will leave little or no agiicult-
ural land within those boundaries to support
the anticipated settlement upon its vast ex-
tent of mineral territory.
The Ute InyestigaiiOn-Re Of the
Witnesses.
WASHINGTON, March Dist. The House
Committee on Indian Affairs is likely to have
a case of INSTRUMENTATION to take care Of, and
it may be that the public will see the novel
spectacle of party of Indians brought before
the House for refusal to answer questions, as
white men have often been. The examine
ton of Chief Ouray has been going on for
several days, and the committee have been
immensely entertained by the statements of
the famous Indian; but when delicate SUBJ
ject was reached-the outrages that were
agency-Ouray began to show for the first
time that taciturnity which has always been
represented as characteristic OF his race. His
wife, Who'll, q woman of uncommon intelli-
gence and ability, was tried, but found
even more reticent than her husband
Then Jack and Towanack, two of
the associated chiefs, were placed uson the
stand, but none of them can be persuaded to
speak word in relation to the barbarous
treatment which the Meeker family received
| from their tribe. The committee were
amused at first at the ingenious methods of
evasion, but after consultation it was agreed
that this was all important branch of the
inquiry and the attitude of the committee
became more serious. Chairman Scales ex-
planned to the Indians that the committee
had been directed to ascertain the true his
tory of the whole affair, and told them that
they would be expected to relate all they
knew about it. He dilated upon the serious
ness of the question, and the effect their
answers might have upon legislation to
be hereafter adopted by Congress. The COM
rnittee, he explained, were in possession of
the statements of the victims, and it was due
to the Indians that their version of the cir
cumstances be given. The committee should
insist upon full and accurate statement of
all their information, and would detain them
in Washington until that statement was
given. Ouray and his companions listened
attentively as MIR. Scales remarks were IN
terpreted to them, and then left the commit
tee-room. Il is learned that they have had
several councils over the situation but their
decision is not known.
The Unfinished Double.Turreted Men.
itOrs.
special to the RECORD-UNIoN.l
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-The Senate
Naval Affairs Committee will this week sub.
NIT written report on the House joint reso-
luton providing for the creation of q Board
of navy officers to examine the present con-
dition of our unfinished double turreted MON
itors and report whether or not it is advisable
to complete them. The committee will, at
the same time, incidentally report ON the res.
olution of the California Legislature which
asks an appropriation to complete the Mo-
nadnock, now at the Mare Island Navy
Yard They will report that the original
contract for the construction of the M0nad
mock was entered into legally, and that it is
entitled to consideration upon the grounds of
equity, which they say are wholly wanting in
the cases of the Puritan, the Amphitrite and
the Terror: the contracts for their construc-
ton having been unauthorized by law.
Nevertheless the majority of the committee
are of the opinion that, as the plans Of the
were Dy
the contractor, it viii not be wise or prudent
to authorize her completion upon those plans
until after the proposed Board shall have care
fully examined the question whether they
should not be changed or perhaps, wholly
abandoned.
a" Boom" for Hendricks.
CHICAGO, March 21st.-The Inter- Oceans
Washington special says: Senator'S Melon
aid and VOORHEES,, of Indiana, the Demo-
cratic Representatives and some Indiana
Democrats resident in Washington, held a
meeting last evening and organized Club to
help on the Hendricks "boom" Represent
alive Cobb was chosen President, and the
headquarters will soon be opened and
literary bureau put in operation. His friends
profess to entertain considerable hope that
he may get the nomination at Cincinnati
basing it largely upon the fact that he is the
second choice of SO many Democrats, espe-
cially in the South. Voorhees, encouraged
his brothers by the statement tina. Horatio
Seymour has recently said that Hendricks is
the man who ought to be nominated, and
there is no question but that he could carry
New York State.
Judge Field and the Presidency.
Especial to the RKcoKD-UMos.J
WASHINGTON, March 21st.-The SUNDAY
Herald, which for some time has been as.
siduously working up the Hancock BOOM
contains the following editorial paragraph
to-day: "Mr. Justice Field has made him
self honored among non-partisan lawyers for
the ability with which he has defended our
Constitution and expounded the necessary
distinctions between State and Federal power.
We have not thought Judge Field an avail
able caniidate this year for the Presidency.
but the disgust Of the people at the prostitu.
ton of the Judiciary to partisan purposes NAV
some day become so deep that they will set
the seal OF their condemnation upon it by de-
uanding for President just such jurist as
Mr.. Justice Field"
Northumberland Passengers.
OMAHA, March Dist. Tha following
through passengers were on to-day's train.
leaving at 1915 P. NJ, to arrive in Sac
ramento March 18th: Colonel A. Andrews.
G. G. Garibaldi, L. P. F. Walter, Mrs. Mas.
sey and two daughters, San Francisco: John
Deane, Oakland L. A Kiefer, wife and
child, Ottawa, Canada Miss Sutherland and
niece, Kingston, Canada A. Lee Smidt.
New York; Z. C. johnson, ElInira, n. Y;
A. j. Robinson, Stockton.
Pacific Coast Postal Changes.