Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-07-27

Tue Oil went over unuli to-day. lne houSo
during the morning hour discussed the
bill to provide for post office buildings,
throughout the country according to plans
recommended by the Postoffice Committee.
The morning hour expired without any
action on the bill and the House went into
Committee of the whole on the Oklahoma
bill Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, opposed
the bill and protested against the govern
ment taking the lands which had been
given TO the Indians, and converting itinto
whlteman's territory under the form of
legalizcd robbing. The government he
said would not permit the whiteman to go
into this territory aud rob for himself but it
IS proposed in violation of every right of
the Indians and obligation of the govern
ment to set aside patents and to take the
land whether the Indians were willing or
not.
Mr.. Stockdale. of Mississippi, favored the
bill, and donied that there was any scheme
of robbery in it. Ii the advocates of the
bill were robbers then the finger of scorn
should be pointed at Daniel Boone and
William Penn, who took lands from the
Indians, but paid for them The decree
had gone forth, he said, when the Pilgrim
fathers knelt on Plymouth Rock, that the
American Indian must submit to civiliza-
ton, and the Government should not now
withhold its laws from small portion of
the country. and fence it in for the breed
ing of savages.
Mr.. Perkins. of Kansas, favored the bill.
Oklahoma. he sal 4 was great asylum TO
which desperadSes looked for protection.
He contended that the bill would not take
an acre of land from the Indians in viola
tion of treaty stipulations.
Mr.. Symes, of Colorado, remarked that
the bill provided for commission to treat
with the Indians for their lands in the
usual way. Mr.. Cobb, of Alabama, said
the usual way" TO treat with Indians and
to which he objected. was with rifle in
one hand and an axe in the other. He
thought it time the usual way should
cease.
Mr.. Cannon in supporting the bill, said
there would have been no trouble about
this whole matter were it not that individ-
ual white man was put off the Cherokee
ship at the point of bayonet while cattle
cattle syndicates fenced in six or seven mil
lion acres of land and kept possession of it
notwithstanding the opinion of the Attor-
ney General, that they had no right to do
so.
Pending vote on an amendment to the
bill the committee arose.
The fortifcation bill was reported from
the appropriations committee and at 5
o'clock the House took q recess till even
ing. The night session to be devoted to
bills reported from committee on the ju-
dietary.
THE SENATE
The Senate passed the army appropria-
ton bill yesterday. Discussion OF the fish
ing treaty was resumed.
Mr.. Teller gave notice that he would to-
day ask the Senate to take action on the
bin proposing to refer to the Court of
Claims the celebrated claim of William
McGarrahan to the mines worked by the
New ldra Company, in California
The army appropropriation bill was
then taken up, the pending question being
on Mr.. Hawleys amendment appropriating
$15O,OoO for gun factory at the watervliet
at the New York arsenal, and s., ,000, 900 for
the the purchase of steel and for the CON
struction of coast defense guns; 500, 900
for sub marine mines and $780, 900 for sub
marine torpedoes. The amendment was
agreed to without division and the bill was
reported back from the Committee of the
Whole to the Senate.
Mr.. Berry called for separate vote on
Mr.. Hawley's amendment and spoke of op-
position to il.
Mr.. German opposed the amendment.
He did not believe that the appropriation
bill was the proper place for the considera-
ton of the question OF the manufacture of
the manufacture of large guns, but as the
Senate seemed determined To do so now,
he offered as an amendment proposition
similar TO that reported by the House Ap-
preparation Committee III the Notifications
bill, providing for the expenditure of large
sums of money for heavy ordnance between
now and the year 1901, the guns to be con-
structed outside OF Government shops.
Mr.. Hawiey ridiculed the plan proposed
by Mr.. German. 1t bad come from no
committee and he ventured TO say that it
was not approved by more than one clan
in the world and that was the man who
prepared it; except, perhaps, by several
persons whose plans for guns it attempted
10 revive.
After further discussion Mr.. Germans
amendment was rejected and Mr.. Haw-
ley's amendment was agreed to-ayes "a,
hayes l6-and the bill was passed.
The Senate took up the fisheries treaty.
Mr.. Wilson, of Maryland, spoke in favor of
its ratification. He said if the treaty were
TO be rejected, then the only honorable
remedy left would be an appeal 10 arms
and not resort TO petty aud contempt
ible species of retaliation, which would
only fill the Golfers of few New England
owners of fishing vessels by according to |
them that which they valued next to |
heavenly bliss, the monopoly of the Amer |
ican fish market He justified the reason |
ableness of the British contention as to the
construction OF the treaty of 1918 / said |
there was not a nation on earth that would |
not claim exclusive jurisdiction of such |
noble bays as the Bays of Chalems, which |
was essential 10 its national honor and secur- |
ity. He drew a parallel between the |
British right TO exclusive jurisdiction in |
these bays and exclusive jurisdiction of
the United States in the Chesapeake and |
Delaware bays. There was no power on |
earth more interested than the United |
States in maintaining the principle on /
which the treaty rested, both now and in |
the future, especially with reference to the |
great northwestern fisheries, whose import
ance time would develop. Was it he asked,
fair or honest or logical, when a
treaty was presented that removed
many grounds on which American
fishing vessels had been harrassed, to
claim as an insuperable objection to that
treaty, that the United States was already
clearly entitled TO all the advantages offered |
under its highly doubtful construction of |
existing treaties. Mr.. Wilson then consid-
cred the political phase OF the discussion,
and said Republican Senators had been
enacting the incendiary role of striving to
arouse war spirit among the people, and
thereby 50 gain the votes of restless and un-
easy spirits throughout the land. They
had pursued the un-American policy of
appealing TO some of the old world passions
OF foreign born citizens.
Mr.. Fry said that he would ask the SEN
ate to meet at IL g. m. on Saturday, Mon
day and Tuesday, and until the vote was
reached on the treaty adding that shortly
Q tariff bill woull be before the Senate and
would occupy all its time.
Mr.. Waller commented upon what he
called "Some of the remarkable state
ments'' in the speech of the Senator from
Maryland. He had gone several degrees
beyond which any British official or Ca
madam official had ever gone In his effort to
defend the treaty.
Mr.. Wilson. denied the statement rAfter
fnrfhar acri rrnoniors oc,llonnu hefuAan Sen. |