The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-01-15
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES.


WAsHINoToN. Jan. l2.-Mr. Critten
don, n member of tho Cherokee council
testified before the senate committee oil
Indian affairs to-day, that he WAS In
formed that money was paid to secur,
the passage of tho Indian lease bill.
Indian Agent Miles, OF the Usage, ant
the Kaw Indians, testified that those In
dams leased about 600 acres of theil
lands to seven lessees tor ten years AZ /
yearly rental of 3 To 4 cents per acre
Witness had never been paid anything
to secure the leases. He advised tn,
Indians To lease the border lands o
their reservation, in order To protec
themselves from tho incursion of cattl,
from Kansas and the Cherokee reserva
ton.
pELvA CLAIMS EVERYTHING.
Miss Belva Ann Lockwood, candidate
OF the Equal Rights party tor president
In the last campaign, In her petition Il
the senate, through Senator Hoar, asks
that the votes cast for her In New York,
New Hamsphire, Indiana, Colorado,
Michigan, Illinois, Maryland and
the electoral vote of indians
be given to her. She charges that the
votes cast for her were "fraudulently
and Illegally counted for the alleg I'd
| majority candidate, the same being an
tagonistic to the letter aud spirit OF the
law, and .subversiye of every principle
of equity and justice"
She also asks that the senate refuse to
receive the electoral returns of the state
of Now York or count them for the al
legged majority candidate, for had tho
1886 votes polled In the state for your
petitioner been counted for her and not
for one Grover Cleveland, he would not
have been awarded q majority of all the
votes cast at said election in said state.
The reason for asking that the cleo
toral vote OF Indiana be cast for her, she
says, is that after the electoral college
of that state had cast its vote for the
aforesaid Grover Cleveland, 1t changed
its mind, as it had legal right to, and
cast its united ballot for your petitioner.
JUST AS 1T SHOULD BE.
Tho impression is gaining ground
that the appointment of a commissioner
of labor statistics will be left to the next
administration.
chief signal officer, has fled
with the secretary of war
formal charges against Gen. Chauncey
McKeever, assistant adjutant-general,
for alleged remarks derogat0ry to Lieu
tenant Greedy and tho management of
the expedition sent to his relief by tho
signal officer.
PINcuINa RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
The house committee on rivers and
harbors has completed consideration of
the river and harbor appropriation bill,
with the exception of the item making
an appropriation for the Mississippi
river. That appropriation Is to be- con-
sidered tomorrow and the bill will
probably be reported to the house on
o,,, ,s.,n
mission has asked for an appropriation
of about $l0,000,000. Members of the
committee express the opinion that the
commission will receive about 81, 100000.
The Missouri river commission have
asked for about Sl,3000O0 for the I'M
provement OF the Missouri river. The
committee have determined TO recon-
mend an appropriation of 100000.
MR.. BR"CKENRIDGE MAY d. RIGHT.
Representative Breckenridge intro
duced in the house to-day u Joint reso-
luton, reciting that there is reason to
doubt the efficiency of the works in
which the government has been engaged
tor deepening the outlets to sea of sun
dry rivers and harbors, and temporarily
creating board, to be called the United
States harbor board, whose duty it shall
being constructed by the gov
eminent for the improvement of
outlets by means of what is known as
the Jetty system, to make examination
of the same, aud toreport its conclusions
to the secretary of war. The board shall
consist of seven members, to be APP
pointed by the president, who shall each
receive salary of 5000 per year, and
nm appropriation of 900 is made to en-
able the board to prosecute its investi-
cations.
Az IMPORTANT MATTER.
Senator Van WycK to-day submitted
a report from the senate committee on
public lands, to accompany the bill also
reported by him relating to
fencing public com lands In t the
repHHfs th bG least and in open
and bold defiance of the rights Of the
government. Large, and oftentimes
foreign, corporations deliberately en-
close hundreds of thousands of acres,
closing avenues of travel and prevent
ing the occupancy of lands by those
seeking homes. They have alleged that
the lands within their enclosures, still
no humble settler, with scant means for
the necessarios of life, would presume
to enter any such enclosure to seek o
home. The government has sufficient
authority to drive those seeking homes
from the Indian Territory, and to burn
the ranches of those settlers invading
the Yellowstone park, while those APP
ing that the only remedy to
be used against them will be
the laws delays and the courts.
Therefore, the committee has added a
new section to the house bill, authoriz-
ing the president summarily to remove
all Instructions, and if necessary to use
the military power Of ths United States.