Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-02-12
NATIONS CAPITAL.
Debate Continued on the New
House Rules,
Republicans Arted Well In Election Of
Reed as Speaker"
The Temporary Government OF Okla
homa-Mains Inventors aud Pen
a1ona

WAsHserox. Feb. 1.-THE Senate .
one O'Clock resumed consideration Of tn
bill 10 rrovide temporary government 70
Oklahoma, the pending question being o
ar amendment offered by Plumb to coui
prise No Man. Land Slthin the limits o
the proposed territory.
| Vest argued u support Of the amend
menf, on the ground that there are no~
large numoer of persons living in No Ma
Land without Laws wirhsn, government pro
tsctioa, without security for life, liberty oil
property. and these people should have tn
| territorial Jurisdiction -xtended over them
In referring TO the obi ctlons Of the Cherp-
kse Indians 10 surrender the Che rokee Odt
let, he SAID that as sDou as these Indiai
realized the United States was N earnest
in the matter sn No MAn's Land had beer
add.d to Oklahoma, they w3ud take il tina
the Cherokee Outlet is to become a part oi
Oklahoma and would xbAt- their demands
Plat On charge of the biiD argued
against the anne endment.
Dawes opposed the amendment, although
be agreed ~iih the senator from Mis.our
a. the importance and liability Of the
Cherokee Outlet becoming soon . part OF
he public domain, by reasonable and fair
compe eDsauon. Dawes gave q newspaper
as his authority for the statement and adj
Did that he had seen in . newspaper that
the S.c-~tary of the Interior supplemented
the threat that the United States c )lid con-
denim land for public use by the statement
that the Ch -rokres had no title at all.
Jones of Arka sas believed that the com.
mission who negotiated with the Cherokees
last summer had gone forward in q prscti
cal, moderate, conservative way In their
effort TO carry out the act, AMI did not be-
heve they threatened the Cherokees In any
way.
Plat remarked that when il became evi-
dent that the Cherokee nation were deter
mined not to Ct de land, but hold it, because
they were backed up by cattle men and
others, he did not believe there was mem.
ber Of the Senate or House, who ~onld
not be ready to ssy, if that were the posi-
tion the Cherokee nation occupied, that the
United Staies would be justified in the sb-
roeation of the provisions of the treaty. by
taking land.
Tell.r-Wil the senator from Connecti-
cut tell the Senate how by legislative ac-
ton We are to divest the Cherokee nation
of fee title?
Plat said he was not going into the ques-
tion of the title of the Cherokees, but he
believed in their rights to Cherokee Outlet
At the same time hs wanted to say that all
lands in the possession or occupancy of To-
dians would have to give way sooner or
later to the necessity of settlement by the
people of the United States. The Indians
ought to be negotiated with fairly, but if
they would not negotiate the question, the
inevitable logic of events showed that the
United States would take their lands.
Land in Cherokee Outlet. could be sold
tomorrow in bulk at s. an acre What
right, he asked, had the United States to
say that the Indians should part with them
at . price less Than their value? If the
government C ,uld not afford to pay a fair
price and give away the lands, should they
buy Il from the Indians and sell it to the
settlers.
ingalls, spoke at considerable length
against the amendment.
The bill went over till tomorrow without
action on the amendment as to No Mans
Land
The Senate took up the educational bill.
and Blair continued his opening speech in
support of the measure.
Frye asked Blair if Texas. with a surplus
of over 81. 900 900 and 60 600 900 acres of
public lands, making a grand total OF S15-
600, 900 that could be used for educational
purposes, required any help from the gen
era government to educate her children.
Blair declared his disbt lief in Fryes
statement aud said it did not represent any
thing like the actual condition of Texas
He did not know what T-xss might not 90
but he Did know not half of the children of
Texas ait, nded schools. Without conclud-
ing his opening speech, Blair yielded to
the motion o prUct ed TO executive business.
After session for tina, purpose the Senate
at 5. Is adjourned.