The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-01-21
NATIONAL NOTES.
The Cattle Trail BIII-Report of the Pub
lie Printer-Cherokee Indian
Lease, Etc

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-The bill introduced
live stock trail, provides for the appointment
of three commissioners to lay out and estab-
lish a public highway for the purpose of
driving live stock to market or from one
place to another; and also to establish at
convenient points on this highway or trail
suitable quarantined grazing ground where
live stock may be held and grazsd for short
periods during the drive. This trail shall be-
gin on the Red River, near the Tooth
degree of longitude, thence run
in northwesterly direction
through the Indian Territory, following
es far as practicable the Fort Griffin and
Dodge City trail to the southwestern corner
of Kansas and thence over unappropriated
lands of the United States in northerly di-
rection to the boundary line between the
United States and Canada. The trail is not
to exceed six miles in width, and the quar-
antined grazing grounds shall not exceed
twelve miles square. Unapproprated pub
lie lands needed for the purpose of the act
are to be Withdrawn for settlement and set
apart for the purposes of the act for ten
years. The report OF the commissioners re-
quires the approval of the Secretary of the
Interior before the trail is established. Ten
thousand dollars are appropriated for the
purposes of the act
The Public Printer to-day transmitted to
the Senate his report for the fiscal year
ended June 80. 1884. The report says that
printing by the order of the Senate cost
$149, 143 against S64, ,464; and the House
printing S276, ,333 against $I75,267 for the
previous year. On the probable introduction
of cholera into this country and its rotation
to his Office, the Public Printer says:
81 am advised that imported rags are largely
used by the contractor who SUPPLIES the paper.
The Treasury Department has issued an order
prohibiting the importation OF rage from cholera.
infected countries. II there be danger in the use
of rags at the mills IL would that the disease
might be communicated in the paper daily
ceived at this Office In view oil the infected ap-
proach OF cholera, and in the name Of 2300 people
under my charge, snhni. this as a proper ques-
tion. for the.consIderation of Congress"
AN appropriation of 81, ,675 900 is asked for
the coming fiscal year, against s., 045, 900,
the estimate for the current fiscal year. The
Public Printer says he has applied the spirit
OF the civil service law in the management
OF his Office as far as he was able to, and says
there is net foreman or an assistant fnrs
man in the Office who is not competent to do
the work Of his subordinates.
DR.. Adair, Of the Indian Territory, Cher
okee. was examined by the Senate Commit
tee on Indian Affairs TO day. He said be
was President of an association of Cherokees
formed Tor the purpose OF taking lease OF
the vacant lands of the Cherokees. The asso-
cations agents were authorized to offer
Sl25 coo for the lease. but ii was secured by
outsiders for 100000. The impression OF
the members of the native association was
that money was used by their rivals. Cash
was very rare commodity among the Cher.
okees before the lease was made About the
time it was made, however members OF the
Council came to the witness store with $50
bills to be changed.
a life size portrait of the late President
Garfield has been purchased to be placed in
the room of the House Committee on Appro-
priations, OF which committee he was chair.
man while member OF the House.