Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-13
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
Persistent Hammering at the
Rules.
BILL IN THE SENATE,
The Usual Program in the House.
THE SENATE.

Among the bills reported from committees
and placed on the calendar were the following:
Two for the establishment and maintenance
| Of Indian industrial schools in Michigan and
South Dakota.
FISH IN THE POTOMAC.
To continue in force the :provisions Of the
act OF March 2, 1885, to protect the fish in the
Potomac river and to provide a spawning
ground for shad and herring in the Potomac.
For light house on St Mary's Island,
Alaska.
To extend to Tampa, Fla, the privilege of
immediate transportation Of unappraised mer-
chandise.
BULE EIGHT.
Mr.. Sherman offered resolution providing
that tomorrow the Senate will proceed to busi-
ness on the calendar under rule (unobjected
| matters) and continue that business until ad-
journment or an executive session. He asked
| unanimous consent for immediate considera-
| tion.
Mr.. Hoar questioned the wisdom of the
| eighth rule, inasmuch as under it public and
private business of importance was frequently
defeated by single objection.
MIR. Harris said that under the eighth rule
there was greater dispatch of business than
there ever had been before its adoption or
than would be if the rule was abrogated.
MIR. ingalls, objected to the immediate con-
sideration of the resolution and Mr.. Sherman
| gave notice that he would ask for its consider
alton tomorrow.
On motion of Mr.. Dolph the Senate bill ap-
propriating S5OO,OOO for a public building in
and passed.
THE OKLAHOMA BILL.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the
bill to provide temporary government for the
territory of Oklahoma, the pending question
being Mr.. Plumb's amendment to comprise
No Mans Land within the new territory
Mr.. Vest again spoke in favor of the amend
ment. While he agreed with MIR. Ingalls, as to
| the improved condition Of the FIVE civilized
tribes, Senators ought, he said, as practical
legislators, to look deliberately to the inevitable
and to what was taught by past experience in
relation to the region lying west of Indian ter
ritory.
He had never said Gas Mr.. ingalls, Intimately
that No Mans Land was a refuge for outlaws
but he asserted that, SO far as the laws of prop
erty were concerned. No Mans Land was in an
anomalous and unsatisfactory condition; and
30, indeed, was the whole Indian territory,
which had been characterized by the Supreme
Court as
An INDEPENDENT DEPENDENCY"
whatever that might mean. Without injustice
to the Indians, without any proposition to de-
spoil them, with full intention to pay them a
fair price for the Cherokee outlet, he thought
that the best thing that could be done was to add
No Mans Land to the territory of Oklahoma.
He favored the appointment of a new
commission, the removal of the lin
itation of $1.25 an acre and the
authorizing Of the commission to negotiate
with the Indians and to pay them fair price.
No Mans Land and the Cherokee outlet should
be addedto the territory of Oklahoma and
then there would be state (for it would be
state) with fair dimensions.
Mr.. Reagan stated some considerations
which induced him to favor the amendment.
Mr.. PLUMB ADVOCATED THE AMENDMENT
and said that. while the PEOPLE living in No
Mans Land were as law-abiding and level
headed as the people Of any other part of the
It's duty In the premises The condition in
which No Mans Land was left was scandal on
the legislation of the country.
He expressed his amazement that the COM
mittee territories had set itself so strenuous
ly and so totally without reason against his
proposition of inclusion. Referring to the
statements made in the discussion that the title
Of the Indians to these lands was the same as
the title OF any person to his homestead Mr.
Plumb declared that any man who said so was
entirely mistaken.
Then. said Mr.. Teller, the Supreme Court is
mistaken.
Mr.. Plumb went on to say that any title to
land which limited its sale to one party (as the
Indians were limited, being confined to dis
posal of it to the United States) was not such
title as men usually had to their property.
NO MANS LAND VOTED IN.
Finally the discussion on the amendment was
closed and vote was taken on it. The vote re-
sulted--yeas "a, nays 16. So the amendment to
include No Mans Land within the territory of
Oklahoma was agreed to.