Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-01-22
C0aGRRssloSAL.
SENATE

WAsAANSAO@- Jan. IA resolution
vas aefeed 70 calling on the Secretary
OF TIE Treasury for any further core
spondenee IN his Department relating
% tns ooliectiqn or p1stpo1emsnt of the
tax on Distilled spirits.
The chair laid before the Senate
ranmes resolution offered yeste rdsy.
requesting the President - advise the
Senate as 10 his views Of the present
lands.
Owing 10 Piumb's absence fnsalIs
visned u TO 60 over until tomorrow.
Vest offered a substitute for the reso-
luton, providing that the Secretary of
the interior shall oousmnnic4te with the
authorities of toe Creek and Seminole
Nations. 10 ascertain upsn What terms
sney will convey to the United States
all OF their rights 70 the Oklahatna
lands.
Conoer said that when the matter
shonld come up for consideration be
sould move to refer it 20 the Csmmiitee
on Indian Affairs.
Dawes sac no nss To that As that
committee bad already reported gu the
s1blect, and the senate bad adopted the
report. He thought some good would
result from giving the President an os-
portonity OF proclsiminR again the po-
sltisn which, under bis oath Of offise, he
fees compelled 70 assume. namely, that
the settlers on the laDds in question are
thsfe IA violation OF iaw.
Vest said that early action on be
subject was desirable, a. il had bee a
stated in the press thai United States
troops were prevented only BY high wa
ter from having conflict With people
Who had gone on the Lands.
The matter then vent over until TO-
morrow, and the Senate proce. did to
the consideration of bills upon the cal
endar.
Morgan offered an amendment which
vas agreed 70, securing to shs defend
ant IN criminal cases the absolute rixht
to q writ Of error.
Further consideration of the bill was
cot Oh By the limitation of time. ana
consideration of the inter- State com
meree bill was resumed. Coke being en-
titled to the floor.
Coke severely criticised Charles Fran
cis Adams, Jr., who, be said. after hav-
ing asserted that the railroads we're
Establishing dsspotism that no spas-
modic popular action esuld shake of,
sas nov advocating the consolidation
or federation Of all the railroads In the
sountry under one head. Ia tie days
OF bis impartiAitty Adams saw the evils
81 great railroad coordination. since
he got TO be cheek by jowin with Jay
Goald, be saw ne harm 10 them. Coke
insisted that the great railroad CON
pantes were the most iawless bodies
9Th which the Government had ever
had TO deal, and tue passage of the Rea-
gan bill would, in his opinion, have a
greater moral effect on them than any
thing that Congress could do.
On the conclusion of Coke's remarks
the Senate, ON motion of Butler, ad
iougned, a. q mark Of respect 10 the
uemory Of RepFes sntative Evins.
house..
WAsHIsoroa, Jan. N.-After the in
PRODUCTION Of q number Of bills the
House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Iudian Appropriation bill.
The bill Was then read by sections for
amendments.
Burnes rnoyedlto amend the paragraph
appropriatinR $45. .000 for payment Of IN
terest TO the Greek Indians. by adding
. pioviso that no part OF this suua shall
be paid until the Greek Nation sh .li
make and tle an acceptance and ratifi
cation OF the survey made under the
treaty, and also statemept in writing
releasing the United States from the
seeming trust created by the treaty ss
TO half the lands sold to the United
States by that treaty. (lt is under this
treaty thatl the Okl-hamA lanas we're
eeded 70 the United States) Ruled out
on peint Of order.
Rogers of Arkansas offered an amend
ment providing that no part Of the
money shall be paid unless the Greek
nation shall within tveivs months make
file in the office of the Secretary of
state on acceptance and ratification Of
the survey made and approved by the
department under the treaty Of June Il,
1866, And that additional lands aolnir-
ed by the United states by survey shall
be held by the United States under the
provisions Of the treaty. Adopted.
Burnes noved 10 strike out the para
graph, and In the course Of bis remarks
declared that Oklahama today Was
practically In possession Of esttle csm-
panies. The lana was covered With cat
tie as thiekly az their careasses were
With haas. The cattle COMPANIES cover
ed every foot to the exclusion OF indi-
vtdnsl ssstlsrs. Let Congress investi-
gsts the subject, for on the settlement
Of the Oklahama question depended the
blood Of Amerieaa citizens. The mo
tion 10 strike not was lost.
The House then as a marx OF respect
70 the memory OF senator Anthony, ad-
iourned.