St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-20
THE ACME OF IMPUDENCE.

The Majority of Senator Chand-
Ier's Committee on Indian Trad
erships Submits a Bill Before the
Testimony Is All in.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 19.-The
senate select committee on Indian trad
erships has adopted a series of resOlu-
tions relating to the sale of timber from
the Chippewa reservations of Wisconsin
and Minnesota, and Senator Chandler
reported back a bill to-day covering a
part of the subject matter of the resOlu-
tiOnS.
The resolutions declare it to be the
sense of the committee,
First-That no sale of pine timber from the
Bad River. Fond du Lac, Court Oreille or
FlamDeau reservations should be allowed to
be made by any Indian before his allotment
of land in seyeralty has been formally ap-
proved by the president and the allottee so
notified, nor before such notice should any
negotiations be allowed with any Indian for
such a sale.
Secoud-That no further sale OF pine tim
Der from allotted lands should be allowed
until after rules and regulations specifically
prescribed the conditions OF such sales and
adequately protecting the Indians, both our
ing the making and the performance of the
contracts and in the disposition Of the money
received from such contracts, have been
adopted by the secretary of the interior and
publicly promulgated.
Third-That the pine timber remaining on
the reservations upon lands not allotted to
Indians in severalty whenever IL is eXpedient
TO sell the same. should, if it NAV lawfully be
done, be sold by the government under law
or suitable regulations ana the proceeds held
in trust for those members of the various
tribes who have not received allotmentS in
severaIty of pine timber lands, or otherwise
hlln aT1n a of mo hn loo and
equitable.
Fourth-That no further allotment of lands
in severalty should be made to the Indians
except where the allottee desires and intends
to make his home upon the land allotted to
him or TO cultivate the same or use 1t for
grazing purposes.
Senators Blackburn and Faulkner
made formal written protest against
the consideration by the committee of
the resolutions arguing that action
would be premature before finishing the
testimony. The minority calls attention
to the fact that it submitted the names
of twenty witnesses to be subp9naed,
only six of whom have been examined.
1t believes the object of the majority is
to affect, if possible. the action of one of
the executive departments. and it holds
that the committee has no jurisdiction
to advise an executive department as to
duty. The bill reported is
substitute for that of Sena-
tor Platt and covers the substance of
the first two resolutions. 1t makes it
unlawful for any person to contract for
or purchase pine timber from any of
the reservations named until the allot-
ment of the land shall have been ap-
proved by the president, and directs
the secretary of the interior to make
and publish rules governing the making
of contracts and adequately protecting
the Indians, and makes it unlawful to
purchase pine timber from allotted
lands until such rules shall have been
published. 1t is made a misdemeanOr
punishable by fine and Imprisonment to
contract or purchase contrary to the
provisions of the act.