The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-02-05

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OKLAHOMA DIsCUSsIoN.
Mr.. Turner, fir N the conference com
mittee Oh the Oklahoma resolutions, re-
ported that agree ment had bs Ell IT ached
on amendments which ore commended
The resolution, as agreed upon asks
congress to enact law that Will open
tor settlement 50 much OF Indian terri
tory as is not absolutely needed by the
Indians at preseI: located therein.
Mr.. Gillette was inclined to let each
section of the country take care of itst If
He had lived in Kansas tWeGty. four
wears, and had seen the state settled. The
advance of civilization has advanced
The frontier OF successful set cement.
NOT GOOD FOR KANSAS.
To open up country for settlement to
compete with US Is not prudent. Letus
keep still. The settlers on our present
frontier are now enduring what was en-
dured IN their turn by the settlers In this,
central and eastern, part of the state.
Should our action here cause the open
ing OF the Indian territory, would Kan
sas get its expected share OF the emigra-
ton of the near future? We are not sent
here to legIslste on behalf of the IndiaG
territory. This resolution should be
voted down in the interest of the people
OF hd0sds. VT. olCNSoI "OuIO oSSOAN
the opposition to this resolution. He
was a better business man than to work
himself down in advertising the store of
his neigbbor across the way. Should
the territory be opened il would leave
the newer counties OF Southern Kansas
dead IN the shell, with scarcely a new
SETTLER. This would be true, In the face
OF the fact that our country offers as
great OF better inducemt nts to immi-
grants than the country farther south,
Mr.. Overmyer could not see the dam
age to Kansas in this thing. If he did he
would oppose it. Citizens of Kansas
desire to go to Oklahoma. The obstacle
| in the way is the interest of the great ag
| gregatIon of wealth ia cattle More
than six million acres in that country is
| to-day in the hands of the cattle kings
He should always be found on the side
of the people, opposed to aggregated
| wealth whenever centered. Mr..
Greer agreed with last speaker. The
cattle kings, with the political influence
! they WELD, are opposing the rights of
| the people Mr.. Collins represented the
| farmers and should take the side of the
| farmers as against the stock men. MI.
Rash was as fully acquainted with the
wishes of the people as others from his
| section of the state. He knew the peo-
| pie tu6Ec uoclIo Tue upHuiuS "a tic tCiAA-
| tory for settlement, and should support
this resolution. MIR. Finch said that no
| lands in the Oklahoma country are held
| by lease by cattle men. Leases are held
| IL other parts of the territory If there
| are cattle men there they should be re-
moved with the boomers. The cattle IN
| terests are not all in the hands of corpo-
| rations, home or foreign. He had large
interests himself. but is not backed by
any corporation. NJ. J. B. Cook recog-
nized two elements of opposition to this
measure-one that It will interfere with
the interests of the cattle, but this is not
we'll founded. as the cattlemen do not
OCCUPY Oklahoma. They are on the
Cherokee strip and some of the Indian
reservations. The settlers down there
are entitled to fair treatment. As TO the
| emigration argument, Dakota Is getting
the bulk of the foreign emigrsnts. The
people who 90 to Oklahoma must g
through Kansas. This would serve u
; | change the tide of emigration from thG
northwest to the southwest sDd woulC
be of advantage 10 Kansas. Mr.. Burtol
said that 50 much cry about getting OF
the side of the people Is more buncomb
than sense.
MOTION TO POSTPONE LOST.
Mr. Burton closed his speech by NOV
ing that the report OF the conference
: committee be iDdefnitely postponed
: The vote on the motion stood SO to sc
I and il was lost.
MI. Weilep thought that the discus
/ | sion of this matter had gone vide of ID
, purpose of the resolution. This
: merely petition to congress to ope
that country To settlement, and he shout
favor il. Il has been said that openin
d the Territory will tend to depopulai
{ some parts of Kansas Every one know
!. that people who leave Kansas alwa,
8 come back when they can. II is mot OF
; established citizens who want 70 go I
: the Territory, but that class who As u
e | have no homes, and desire to go there
: establish homes for themselves. Aide
e population within the reach of our ma