New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-30
MUST LEAVE THE CHEROKEE OUTLET
SECRETARY MOBILES PLAIN HINT TO INTRUD.
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ING CATTLEMEN.
WASHINGTON Oct. a9.-secretary Noble. under date
Of October %, has written long letter to General
Fairchnd, chairman OF the Cherokee Commission. In
which be virtually serves notice upon the cattlemen
who have leased from the Indians lands within what
is known a. the Cherokee Outlet that they must
vacate the lands with their property on or before
juno 1. 1890. this date being fixed IN order that they
may escape without injury suffering 10 their eattie
Soon after Congress had passed the act authorizing
the Cherokee Commission. says the Secretary cattle
syndicate called, he thinks, the Cherokee strip Live
Stock Association, proposed to lease the 100000
acres involved at the following rental For the hrst
FIVE years, 5000. 600; for the next succeeding five
years, 400 600: and for the last Eve years. SI2o
0oo The Secretary's letter characterzes the pro-
posed rentals as peculiarly extravaganza particularly
from the fact that the increase as the land would
ordinarily depreciste for tho objects intended and
says the syndicate which is ordinary corporation
proposes to outbd the United States and enter tho
as citizens contending with the National Govern
ment.
The Secretary then quotes figures to show that the
Cherokees viii obtain from the United states inc
sum of at least 100000, exclusive Of payments
already made, from which sum, at per cent, they
would receive $4,000 year; and contrasts this
with the offered By the syndicate his conclusion
being strongly against the latter proposition. After
stating tho action Of the last Administrator decia
ing all leases Of these lands to cattlemen null and
void and ordering the latter out Of the country the
Secretary says that careful consideration of the
whole subject by Assistant Attorney General Shields
has led to the following conclusions:
/. That leases of tho 4" Cherokee Outlet are un-
lawful and Illegal
2. THAT the President has authority TO declare
invalid any agreement lease of the Outlet for graz
ing purposes made contrary TO the provision OF
Section No. 2,116 Revised Statutes. ,-.,--,
3. That he may the removal OF unauthorized
persons and property from this reservation whenever
their presence Is, in the Judgment of the
Of Indian Affairs and the Sec etaTy of the INTERIOR
detrimental to the peace and welfare of the Indians"
whether they cla'm 10 be on the reservation under
former lease or by License or permit from the CherOkee
Nation
The Secretary, in conclusion reaflrms tho sover
eighty Of tho United States In the premises; says
that the Cheroees will be compelled to sell their
lands to the United States and intimetes plainly that
the syndicate must leave the Outlet by June l. 1890
THE BOSTON AND PORTSMOUTH NAVY YARDS.
Washington Oct 20.-In his forthcoming report,
Secretary Tracy WILL it is understood, urge upon Con-
gress the adoption of some positive policy with re-
gard the Navy Yards. The people interested
in opening those now closed, and maintaining them
in state Of activity have presented their arguments
to the Secretary, and these have been submitted 10
the chiefs of the several Bureaus for their examina
ton and report. For the Portsmouth Yard an estt-
mate for $4,000 has been submitted by the Bureau
of Yards and Docks and by the several Bureas Of Yards
and Docks Engineering and Construction estimates
amounting to 100000 for the Boston Yard secre-
ary Tracy will probably ask Congress to open the
yards for the construction or repair OF ships or the
establishment Of training ships, with barracks for
apprentices else close them entirely and dispose OF
the property and plant.
THE LEAD-ORE DECISION TO BE MAINTAINED.
Washington, Oct. 20.-Messrs. Behr & Steiner, Of
New York, recently wrote to the Secretary OF the
Treasury, calling in question the p'opriey of the
Departments Instructions of July II, preventing the
cntry of mixed Mexican lead-silver ores, and r.
quiring the value of the lead in such ores to be
estimated at the New-York market price, less cent
per pound. Acting Secretary Batcheler has Informed
them that said instructions were carefully considered
before PRONUNCIATION, and that good reason l. now
perceived for changing them, the department Deing
OF opinion that Congress In leglslaiing upon ore,
the mines-aDd not 10 ores mechanically prepared
and cunnlngly mixed for the purpose OF evadinS
duty.