Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-03-12

lstration to its present condition. This was
the star chamber method, inviting sssaults on
the character of men and then denyinp 70
men all knowledge of the nature of the
charges against them. Was it this error tha,
induced the refusal to furnish the papers and
Information called for. The administration.
Mr. Wilson said, in conclusion, had been a
comedy of errors" and its position in the
light Of all who had been promised was not
little discouraging,
Mr.. kenna obtained the floor to speak on
the resolutions.
Mr.. Edmunds said that next week he would
press the Senate to ''stick to- these resolu.
tions so as to get them finished and out of
the way of other business. He did not feel
disposed to press them to a conclusion now
while one of our members lies unburied."
message was received from the President
and read vetoing the bill to quit the title of
settlers to Des Moines river lands; ordered
printed and to lie on the table,
Mr. Stamford offered resolution of regret
at the death of Hon. John F. Miller, late
senator from California and providing for a
committee of five senators to take the order
for experimenting the funeral of Mr.. Miller,
that his remains be removed from Washing
ton to California in charge of the sergeant
alarms and attended by said committee.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.
The Senate then at 3.45, on motion of Mr..
Mcpherson, went into executive session. At
SIX o'clock the doors re-opened and the Sem
ate a journed.
HOUSE.
Resolutions calling on the secretary of the
navy for statement showing the amount of
money expended in the ordnance shop at the
Washington navy yard, the number of guns
made, altered and repaired there, etc., were
presented.
When the morning hour expired the House
went into committee of the whole on the
Indian appropriation bill.
Mr.. Weaver of Iowa, entered upon criti-
cism of the present Indian policy and address
ed himself first to discussion of the educa-
tional branch of the question. He quoted
frsm the report of the superintendent of In
dian schools, to show that cattlemen loosed
their herds on the Shilocco school farm and
defed anyone who attempted to interfere
with them. race course had been laid out
there and horse racing and whiskey selling
had been introduced, and it was safe to say
that more drunkenness could be seen at that
school than at all of the agencies In Indian
Territory. If these things were true the In-
dian Industrial School is a farce and a sham
Is
passed on to review Of what he considered
the most disgraceful chapter in the history of
the Indian question. The Cherokee Strip
Live Stock Association, he said, had procur-
ed lease from the Cherokee nation of the
entire Cherokee strip, for which it was pay
ing annually $4,000, but the association sub
leased the land to other cOmpanys, and was
receiving from those sub-leases about $780,
600 year. The question was no longer
whether the red man or white man already
occupied it in violation of TIE law. The real
battle was whether the homsteader of this
country should have right to go there and
build churches and school houses or whether
he should be excluded by rich, foreign and
domestic syndicates that were there in viola
ton of the law.
Mr.. Long of Mass.-Why does not your
administration enforce the law?
Mr.. Weaver-Why has your administra-
ton allowed these cattle syndicates to occupy
this country? This was done by Chester A.
Arthur. This unlawful occupation bv cattle
syndcstes was effected under republican ad-
ministration. President Cleveland has not
done anything different from was done BY the
republican President, except as to the
Cheyenne and Arrapahoe reservation where
no did order the military to eject the cattle
Mr.. Weaver stated that the secretary of
the interior was in favor of the removal OF
the intruders as soon as possible. He then
went on to advocate the passage of his Oklo-
hame bill, one provision of which authorizes
the appointment of a committee to negotiate
with the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Indians
for settlement of their reservations.
Pending further discussion the committee
rose.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
printing of the testimony taken by the Pan
Electric investigating committee.
A resolution was adopted authorizing the
appointment of committee of seven men,
bers to join similar committee oD the part
of the Senate to accompany the remains of
Senator Miller from Washington to Cali
fornia.
The House then, at SIS, adjourned.