River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-05
CONGRESSIONAL MATTERS

+ SENATE conference report was made on
the army appropriation bin. A debate arose, in
whirh several Republican senators severely criti-
cisea the action Of the president in the case of
the Swain court martial. calling it very unjust
The legislative, executive and judicial appro-
/ priation bin was considered.
The same bill made appropriations as fol-
! lows for Dakota, which were passed:
For salary of governor. ............ So, 600
Chief justice and five associate judges, 5000
. each. .''.'........>... .'..-'-.........-. 90
secretary .-.............- l,SoO
For legislative expenses, postage, station
For contingent expenses. to be expended
by the governor. ....-........... 500
The following clause had been passed by
the house and struck out by the senate com
mittee. The senate adopted the erasure:
The legislature of Dakota may divide said ter
ntorv into as many council and representative
districts they desire, which districts shall be
as nearly equal as practicable, taking into con-
Eideration population except Indians not taxed /;
provided, that the number of council districts
shall not exceed twenty-four and the number of
representative districts shall not exceed forty
eight.
HoUsE-Bills passed for a 100000 public
building at La Crosse and 100000 TO pay eiti-
gems for supplies furnished Indians in Minnie
sofa between 1860 and 1862. The river and
harbor bill was considered. At D. m. the
opponents of the measure began to fllibuster,
and this was continued until adjournment at
midnight.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram Feb. 25.--The
claim of Nathan Myrick of st. Paul and others
for the loss of money for goods sold TO Indisns
just before the outbreak in 1862, for which the
Indians could not pay, because their annuities
were cut off, passed the house to-day The bill
originated in the senate and there passed, allow
ing $4,000 for these claims The house
amended the bin by providing that the secretary
of war should approve the amount of goods sold
to the Indians and pay the claims, if they ag@
gregated less than 100000, and nothing should
be paid in excess OF that amount. The story Of
the claim is that in the summer of 1862 certain
bands of the Sioux Indians assembled at
the Yellow Medicine and Redwood agen-
cies in Minnesota for the purpose OF
receiving their annuities, which they had been
the first of July. The money for the payments
did not come at the usual time. The Indians
waited until their supplies were exhausted and
also those of the government at that point
They became hungry, dissatisfied and restless
Certain licensed traders. among them MIR. My
rick. by the advice OF the Indian agent Maj
Gaibraith, furnished supplies. as the only meas
uTe os preventing an outbreak, until their stores
were exhausted, relying upon the money soon to
arrive for the annuities for payment. Before the
money arrived, the outbreak occurred. The In
dams, goaded to desperation by hunger COM
in part by the confscation of moneys due them
from the United States amounting to $5, $751;
900. Payment of the annuitieS was stopped;
the means from which they could have paid for
the supplies furnished them on the credit Of
future annuities was wholly taken from them
Myrick has been pressing this claim for ten
wears.