The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-08
A Scene Of Wrangle and Riot
Characterizes the Clos.
ing Session.
Both the Houses Wrangle
Through Bills in Order
to Adjourn.
SENATE.

"Mr. President, / deem it due my friends
| that / call attention 10 certain statements
find copied in the public press as well as
in the congressional record of the 9th of
June"
First, am set down on the list as what
is termed 'land grsbber," as having in
some mysterious way accumulated the vast
amount of $4,000 acres of land.
This statement is utterly without FONDA
ton In fact The New York Herald of the
18th, adds, thirty thousand head of cattle.
/ wish that were true, but there is no foun-
dation for the statements. i would take
no notice of this, however, were it not for
the charge that follows.
Second-The person who made the state
ment, after finding il was untrue, instead
of doing justice TO me, against whom he
might, by his erroneous statements, have
done an injury, he proceeded to put an
other false statement on record, as follows ::
II might have said to the deluded SOL
diers of this land, What do you think of a
great senator who, in his greed TO absorb
territory which belongs to the actual set
tiers, in land that was made for iadepen-
dent freeholders and small farmers? What
do you think of q man who poses as a
statesman and patriot as friend par ex-
cellence of the soldier, and who, under
cover of his brother, went into New Mex
| leo and tried to pre-empt the most val
liable tracts of land lying along her
streams and was only stopped by public
officer finding out it belonged to the gov
eminent and to the class which he pro-
fesses the utmost friendship for, and who,
from his manner and appearance, rumor
SAYS has their blood in his viens. He
tried 10 steal from his own kith and kin
hundreds of thousands of acres of lands.
[Grest laughter and applause on democrat
ic side Taking from the unfortunate Saw
age,who was unable TO protect himself,until
an honest secretary of the interior went
there With surveyor and took back the
land for the Zeunis. Renewed laughter
and applause.
Now, Mr.. President. this statement is, so
far as l am concerned, or any one else of
whom have any knowledge, msliciously
false.
Sir, what are the facts out of which this
attack has been made.
Captain Lawton, Major Tucker and Mr..
Stout located claims at Newtria Springs
and lands adjacent in New Mexico, not
however until after ascertaining from the
general land Office that the land was SUBJ
iect to location. being outside of the Indian
reservation, and some five miles from the
Indian line and some twenty-five or thirty
miles from the town of Zeuni, so il will be
seen that the hundred thousand acres of
land this man says that / was stealing
from the Indians resolves itself into three
homesteads on desert act claims, located by
two army officers and one citizen, on pub
lie land open to such entry, with which 10
cation, however, / had nothing to do.
In order to prove the statements he had
made he read a number of letters The
first was a letter from the commander gen.
eral of the land Office, showing the land in
? question was subject to location and entry
as public land al the time and If not locat-
ed would have been subject to cancellation.
The next letter was from Major Tucker to
Secretary Teller, giving the facts in connec-
ton with the location of the lands men,
toned by him and his associates and pro-
testing against any change by are-suryeyof
the Zuni reservation. He says the charges
against Senator Logan in connection with
these lands are untrue. The next letter
was from Capt. Lawton TO Gen. Logan, and
refutes at great length, the charges against
the latter, and says there is not nor has
there been any company or organization
for the purpose of buying or owning land,
or raising stock, or securing a rancho on
the Nuiria in which you or any other per-
son is or was interested My land on the
Nutria was entered in good faith for my
self and no other person has any
interest in my locations. Amy and all
statements that there was a combination
either to secure land or start ranch for
your benefit or for the benefit of any person
other than those appearing on the record
of the land Office is untrue.
Jas. S. Stevenson, of the United States
geological survey, bears the following tes-
timony in letter to Gen. Logan:
"Having had my attention called
to the statements in the Congress
sional Record, of recent date,
indirectly charging you with fraudulently
attempting to deprive the Zuni Indians
of New Mexico of their lands, beg to say
I am familiar with the facts and circum-
stances, from a thorough investigation
of the subject made at the request of the
honorable secretary of the interior, and
take pleasure in stating that the aliega-
tons there made are grossly unjust to you,
as well as to Major Tucker and his asso-
ciates, and wholly without foundation"
The next letter is from Secretary Teller
to Gen. Logan, in which be says: "There
is not the slightest evidence that any wrong
was intended or done by the parties to the
entries or any law violated. The land was
public land at the time entries were made
and as such was open to entry by the pub
lie. The gentlemen who made the entries
were qualified to enter such lands and had.
perfect right to do so and they neither
violated the law nor rights of any parties
whatever in so doing 1 asked the execu-
tive order extending the reservation with
out understanding all the facts at the time
1t gives me pleasure to make this state
ment in view of the allegations to the con-
trary which have been made. When Maj.
Tucker and his associates were attacked