The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-17
WASHINGTON.
TrespaSsing on the Ute Reser-
VatiQn.

W ASH n n YIN
on the Ute Reser-
Fati0n.
Washington, 16. - Hon. Lucius
Fairchild. United States minister to
Spain, will represent the United States
at the conference TO be held at
Madrid to arrange with the envoy of
Morocco for rules relating to the pro-
lection. by foreign powers, of the Jews
and other subjec's of the Sultan OF
Morocco.
The secretary OF the interior, to-
day, received a telegram from Los
Pinos Agency, dated March 14th.
stating that q number of parties mad
already staked placer claims and taken
up ranches on the Ute Reservation,
and others are preparing to follow.
The telegram sage: The next two
weeks will see the reservation swarm
ing with trespassers, and conflict Is |
inevitable. The agent concludes with |
a request that troops be ordered to
the reservation for the purpose or pro-
tecting the Utes. This matter was
the subject of consideration at the
meeting of the cabinet, to-day, and
later Secretary Sehurz had q confer
ence on the subject with Ouray and
the chiefs now here awaiting the
action OF Congress on their agree
ment with government to ceding their
reservation. 1t was decided, at this
conference, that in order to influence
their nation against hostilities, toe
Ute chiefs should leave at once for
Colorado.
This afternoon, the following order
was issued
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT,
Washington, 10th.
1t having been brought to the at
tention OF the interior department,
that persons are now entering the Ute
Reservation in the state of Colorado,
for the purpose OF locating ranches
and mineral claims, notice is hereby
given that such locations and CLAIMS
will not be recognized by the interior
department, as the lands embodied
within said reservation are not non
public lands OF the United States, AMI
no location made thereon can or will
be recognized as legal, except those
made after the lands shall have been
regularly restored 10 the public do
main.
(8igned) c. sOHURz.
Secretary.
The secretary has ALTO addressed a
communication to the Indian COM
mitiees of the Senate and House OF
Representatives, informing them OF
the threatened difficulty and urging
prompt action upon the pending
agreement. It is said, ct the wal
department, that troops are now sta
. toned at convenient poiLt3 near the
reservation, and if it is deemed neces.
sary, can be readily called into ser
, vice to keep of tbs invaders and pre-
, serve the peace. Il is understood
, that q proclamation will be Issued il
the invasion continues.
After af1ording Minister Seward
ample opportunity to retire from thC
diplomatic service voluntarily land,
5 IS stated in these dispatches seveTa
/ times during the past few months,
. has been confidently expected
the President has emphatically re
quested his resignation as minister Il
China, and there is perfectly reliable
authority for stating in addition
, to this, that if the resignation be noI
forthcoming very coon, Mr.. Seward
will be removed. Meanwhile, the
settlement of his accounts with TIT
state department is suspended. 1
seems to be substantially admitted
now, on all hands, that the practices!
OF Seward during his official career IL
China should have led TO his re,
movsl long ago, but the executive
department thought proper 10 await
the result of the investigation set on
foot by the House of Representatives,
it having first been argued by Seward Z
friends that he could clear himself
from the charges, and subsequently
that the House should either report
that the charges we're not sustained
or else proceed to impeachment. The
mem bers of the House investigating
committee, however, take the ground
that it is not desirable and should not
be necessary to push their proceed
ings further IN this case because,
while the evidence already taken may
not be sufficient to secure Seward q
conviction on an Impeachment trial ,
they claim that his guilt has been un-
mistakably established by his refusal
TO produce his books.
The House committee on foreign
affairs has directed Wilson's bill to be
reported providing for the paying
over to China of the Chinese indem
nifty fund, except such sum as is
necessary for the liquidation of GER
tain claims on the part OF the United
States against China.
The ways and means committee has
referred the subject of Mckay q
approach of Judge Kelly for improper
purposes 10 sub-committee-Tucker,
Frye and Morrison.
Edmunds' electoral count bill pro-
vides for the meeting of the electors
on the second Monday in January,
| lnoLOhA Va Viz eGSOlA W COuCcOoI III
December, and provides for state dis
position OF any controversy under such
laws as it may have in existence
before choosing the electors, the two
houses to proceed in conformity with
tue decisions of the respective states.
Tie general appropriation bills are
now ready, and will be taken up at
once to the exclusion of other bills,
go that several days msy elapse be-
yond the day set before the debate
upon the funding bill is entered
upon. Meanwhile, the opinion is
gaining ground among the mem
bers that the 81 per cent. is the
proper rate of interest for the new
bonds to bear, and aside from
the new ultra-greenbackers, no serious
opposition to the passage of the bill is
anticipated.
It was the intention of the Senate