The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1888-02-29

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charge, or to intimate, that the Presi-
dent had made up his mind TO veto the
bill, If it went to him in one shape or in
another shape.
| After some remarks by Messrs. Man
/ derson and Blair, Mr.. Blackburn went
on to say that it was not to be wondered
| at if those Senators in their zeal should
| undertake to warn the SUPERFICIAL of the
| land against the disloyal policy of a
loyal executive. IL those Senators were
| unwilling to submit bill for the deter
! mination of an American Congress, but
| insisted that it should go through in a
stereotyped form, after a Procrustean
| fashion, because the Grand Army of the
Republic so desired it, and if they meant
| to dispose of tue surplus in the Treasury
in that way and no other, they should be
frank enough to face the issue and to go
to the country upon it.
| After further debate by Teller, Hoar,
Blackburn, Blair and Henderson, the bill
went over without action.
ADJOURNED.
! The Senate proceeded to executive
business, and at 8 p. m. adjourned.
HOUSE.
| WASHINGTON, February 2S. Mr..
Gaines, of Virginia. from the Committee
| on War Claims, reported the bill author
izing the Secretary of the Treasury to
settle the claims of certain States and
the city of Baltimore, growing cut OF
money expended for military purposes
during the war of 1912. Referred to the
| committee of the whole.
| THE OKLAHOMA BILL.
| In the morning hour the House re-
suned, in committee of the whole, con-
sideration of the bill for the organization
| of the Territory of Oklahoma.
Mr.. Barnes, of Georgia, gave notice
that he would, at the proper time, offer
a substitute for the appointment of a
commissioner to negotiate with the In
dian Territory, with view TO opening
that portion of the Territory lying west
of the 9sth meridian of longitude TO
white settlers, He said it was with re-
gret that he found himself compelled to
oppose the report which had been made
by the majority of the Committee on
Territories, but the pending bill was sub
ject TO such serious objections that he
could not conscientiously give it his APP
proval.
He sketched the history of legislation
pertaining to the Indian Territory from
the tine it was acquired from the
French in 1903, and he quoted from the
treaty stipulations with the Cherokee In
| dians to show that the land known as
the Cherokee outlet was held under the
same patent as the 7,000,0 600 acres east of
the 9sth meridian of longitude. He con-
tended that the Cherokees held their
| lands by an absolute fee simple title,
| while the Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws
and Chickasaws held theirs by qualified
fee, the qualification being contained
in the treaty condition limiting the fee
as long as they continued as rations.
| Good faith required the Government to
observe the terms of the treaties. Il was
said that the Indians were mere wards
of the nation and that the guardian
could not treat with them, but the old
Roman law required that when a su-
perior treated with an inferior, that SUI
perior should observe faith, such as the
mother observed to her nursing child.
The committee bill proposed to organ
ize Territory to be composed of Nc
Mans Land and so much of the Indian
Territory as was not actually occupied
by the five civilized tribes. In so far as
No Mans Land was concerned the bill
was all right, but if faithfully carried
out its provisions were impracticable a:
to the rest of the Territory
The Territory proposed to be con
structed had no fixed or definite limit
1t ought to be called an india rubber ter
ritory.
Mr.. Warner, of Missouri, suggested
that if the gentleman's substitute wa
adopted one small tribe of 100 indians
could block up the whole territory.
Mr.. Burns replied that the differenc,
between the bill and substitute was tina
the former proposed to organize the Ter
ritory and then negotiate with the In
; 6ians, while the latter provided tina
negotiations should be had, and that N
! treaty rights should be violated. TIL
substitute would give a Territory whicl
, had no vague and uncertain bounds
while the honor of the Government
would remain unsullied. The momen
the committees bill passed there woul
be rush of white men to the India
, Territory and collision and irritatio
. would ensue. 1t was bill which mean
, war a. the Indians and an extinction {
peace the Indian Territory
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
: The morning hour having expired, th
e committee arose without action.
e The House then went into committe
0 of the whole, Mr.. Mcmillan, of Tenne
]. see, in the chair, on public building
= measures.
Y The 100000 appropriation for Oual
: (reduced from $500, 1000, was passed.
5 Mr.. Bland opposed the next bill, $50
e 600 appropriation for Bar Harbor, Me
Il which brought Mr.. Milliken to his fe'
Y in defence of tie bill.
/ Mr.. Bland said for the last four da,
j the gentleman from Maine had been run
e ming around like a cockroach ON
y kitchen floor, and now his excitemel
e was explained by the az pearanee of tn
= Bar Harbor bill,
e Mr.. Milliken thought that the gent
l. man from Missouri tBland), was like 8
it old woman who borrowed kettle Fl
d forty years, then she got a new one
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