The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-03-07
SENATOR HEARST OF CALIFORNIA DEAD
Much Dickering INDUCED in Over the
Adjudication Of Indian Depreda-
ton Claims.
The MissOula 4 Northern Railroad
Secures the Right of Way
Through the Flathead
Reservation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-Representative
Bartine of Nevada in behalf of the mi.
nOrity members the house coinage com
mittee today submitted u report IN favor
of the passage of the silver free coinage
bill.
Senator Hearst of California died at
$40 o'clock this evening.
The bill to provide for the adj Indication
of Indian depreciation claims, as agreed
upon in conference and passed by the
house today, gives the court of claims au-
thority to zeal and determine these
claims. The bill provides for the APP
pOintment of assistant attorney general
who is to assist the court in its work. The
bill as it passed the house originally
provided for consideration by the court
of all claims, arising from depredations
committed by the Indians generally.
The senate bill provided for the consid-
GRAFTON ofclaims arising from depredations
committed by Indians in amity with the
United States.
The house conferees insisted on more
liberal provision of the house bill, and
a compromise was finally effected, which
enlarged a class of claims that may
be considered SO as to include all claims
that have been favorably passed upon by
he interior department and whose In
vestigation have been authorized by Va
riOus arfc nf rnnrroSc ipn1,,l;n.r tha
Indian appropriation bills. The original
house bill provided that all claims passed
upon favorably by the interior depart
ment should be held by the court to he
prima facie correct. The senate proposed
an amendment to this, which the house
conferees accepted, requiring that the
C 'uit shall pass judgment upon allow
ances made by the interior department.
The cOu is to fix amount of attorney
fees, but in no case are these fees to ex-
coed 10 per cent of the amount OF the
judgment except where unusual services
have been rendered or where the amount
of the judgment is less than $500, or
where necessary expenses have been in
"A'eN ~ tAC ostv'uCy, ouO lncu Vic Ices
are not to exceed 20 per cent. All claims
accruing previous to 1865 that have not
been presented to the interior department
or to congress are barred, ami for depre-
datiOns committed subsequent to 1865
claimants will have three years in which
to present their claims.
The consideration If the Indian appro-
priatiOn bill having been resumed, ALI
sons amendment to strike out the pro-
vision relating to the Cheyenne and
Arapaho agreement was disagreed to.
Dawes motion to strike Out the house
provisions In connection with six agree |
ments with Indian tribes, and to substi- |
tute the senate provisions therefore was
agreed to. Rega1 offered an amendment
which was ad opted, to paw $2OO,OOO to
friendly Sioux Indians during the late
trouble, for properly lost or destroyed by |
obedience tn orders of the government. |
Carey of Wyoming offered an amend.
ment which was adopted, providing Tor a
commission to negotiate with the .Sh0-
snOne Indians of Wyoming for cession of
their reservation. The bill Their passed.
A conference was ordered on the bill,
and Dawes, Plumb and Call were ap.
pointed cOnferees ON the part of the SEN
ate.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 28.-The president
has designated Assistant Secretary Nettie-
ton to act AS secretary of treasury, IN the
absence of Secretary Foster, and Assist
ant Secretary S%paulding 10 act in the alb.
sence Of both. The vacant assistant sec
retaryship will he filled 10 a few weeks.