Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-03-01

The military people and Secretary
Schurz say there will DO no war With
the Utes this Spring.
Lieutenant Collins and Commander
Hull OF the United States Navy, were
before the House Special Committee on
the inter-Oceanic canal to-day, and adj
yOcated the Nicaragua route.
Operations of the National Bank Re-
demption Agency.
WASHINGTON, February 2S.-The fol-
lowing is a statement Of the operations
OF the National Bank Redemption
Agency for the mOnthan eight months
ending this day, compared with cores
ponding period last year:
Notes disposed Of Month. Months.
Notes tt for circulation
returned 10 banks Of
issue.. ......... ...........s 2.5lO.7OO ls,sssC
Notes unfit for circula-
ton assorted and de
lyered 10 Comptroller
Tor destruction and re-
placement with new
notes............... -. 2.is9.sOO l7.S26 $40
Notes OF failed, lIquadat-
ing and reduoi'g banks
deposited In treasury. 665,DO S,55OOO
Totals for IssO.........s 5,66s. 100 -. .7is 500
Totals for s7g........... I22sg COO lOS Sg7, ,75G
Decrease - B,i2O gOO Is COZ 80
The Comptroller of the Currency re-
ports the amount Of additional circula-
tiOn issued during February 10 be 1903,
40; amount surrendered and destroyed,
S797, 7,4l2; amount of legal tender notes
on depoist for the purpose OF retiring
the National bank circulation, Sic, 800.
PSI
The increase in the National bank cir
Culation during the year ending March
I, 1880, will be Sl7,63l ,6l7; increase in
legal tender notes deposited for the
same period, q, ,052, ,445; total amount OF
National bank notes outstanding March
|, 1880, will be S342, ,2l0 1857, not includ-
my the circulation Of tho National gold
banks, which will amount to ii 426, 40.
United States currency outstanding at
this date-Old demand notes, Sol ,255;
legal tender notes of all issues, $i46,-
6Sl ,Ol7; one year notes OF 1868, Si7 ,520; ;
two years coupons OF 1868, S3,35O;
compound interest notes, $50, ,iSO: frac-
tional currency of all issues, Sl5, ,63l ,3l5;
total, $685., ,70S,59l.
The Chinese Question.
WAsHISGToS, February 28.-Repre-
sentative Wright, chairman OF the Select
Committee 10 inquire into the Causes Of
the Depression OF Labor, read to-day a
long report upon the Chinese question.
Ii will be reported to the House on
March 10th. The report recommends
the modification OF the Burlingsme
treaty, and the adoption OF joint reso-
luton limiting Chinese immigration To
fifteen persons in any one vessel. Tes-
timOny is quoted regarding the demOral-
iIing character Of the Chinese popula-
ton and the detrimental effect Of Chi
nese labor on the industrial interests Of
the white wOrkingmen on the Pacific
coast and the community in general.
The necessity for immediate action on
the part Of Congress is strongly urged.
Commissioners Of Indian AfiAirs.
WAsHISGToS, February 2S.-Rowland
T.. Trowbridge, Of Michigan, has been
confirmed a. Commissioner OF Indian
Affairs.
Indian AffAirs.
WAsHISGroN, February 2S.-The Sem
ate Committee on Indian Affairs, at a
long special meeting to-day, agreed TO
report for passage the original bill de-
signed 10 cover the entire range OF the
Indian question by the enactment OF
various new provisions, based upon the
general principle that the United States
should, in a great measure, abandon the
policy IL treating the Indians as chill
dren and place them as speedily as pos
sible upon the footing OF citizens The
main features Of the plan outlined by
the Committee are:
/. The permanent localiEatiou Of the
Indians by allotting homestesds to them
in seyeralty, with the provision that the
lands 50 allotted shall be absolutely ina
lienable during the period OF twenty five
years.
2. Extension over Indians OF the gen
eral civil and criminal laws of the United
States, or OF the respective States and
Territories within whose borders they
are located.
3. Continuation Of a certain degree of
assistance to them by the Government
in the line oi progress toward eiyiliEa-
ton, until they become self-sustaining
by means Of agricultural and pastoral
occupations.
Ii i not proposed by the Committee
To- transfer control q. the Indian
tribes to the War Department, but
the bill will largely diyest the Interior
DEPARTMENT Oi discretionary power IN
regard to the Indians, by placing them
individually under control OF the cOun-
try's general laws. The provisions OF
the bill are not to apply TO the i've CIV
ilized tribes in the Indian Territory. lbs
details will be subjects for consideration
at future meetings. Colonel Brooks,
acting commissioner OF affairs, said al |
the tribes except the Utes and Lempis
are on reservations capable OF support
ing them by means OF agriculture or
stock raising.
Tho special committee inquiring into
the matter OF the removal Of the Poncas
Ia Indian Territory, and into the declsr-
atiOns Of the POneas that they never
signed a paper asking TO be removed
into Indian Territory, were informed by
Bright Eyes that the Poncss, knowing
nothing OF the white mems geography,
were at the time Of signing the doeu-
men, utterly ignorant OF the location or
even the existence Of Indian Territory;
that Morgan. the interpreter. Was an
Omaha Indian, equally ignorant upon
that subject; that neither he nor the
Poncas had any wori in their language
corresponding with the word territory,
and could only speak OF it in their Ian
guage as "the Indian country" or
reservation; that when Morgan
asked them ss to their willingness
to remove To the Indian country or res
eryation, they understood him 10 mean
the reservation OF Indians with whom
for years theyhs been talking OF uniting
their fortunes, the Omahas. They,
therefore, signed the document which
they supposed 10 be Q petition Tor re-
moval TO the Omaha reservation, but
which was really q petition for removal
10 Indian Territory. Afterwards they
made treaty with the Sioux, and re-
considered that action, deciding 20 re-
main on their own rcserynfion, and did
80 until they were foncib'y remsvsd