Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-20
THE TARIFF COMMISSION BILL.
1t Will be Considered by the Senate Finance
Committee This Week,
THE PROSPECTS FOR ITS ADOPTION,
Approval of Several Rcserve Agents
for Nebraska Banks - Bishop
Hare's Sermon on the In
dians Commented On.
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Senator Paddock said today that his bill
creating permanent tariff commissioner
would be considered by the senate committe
on finance this week. He believes the meas
ure will receive favorable action by the SEN
ute at an early day. He could find little OBJ
lection to the principle involved or the mode
proposed for their recognition. The bill pro-
vides for n commission of five men, not more
than three Of whom shall be appointed from
the same political party, each TO be paid q
salary Of $1,000 year. Tho commission will
have headquarters in Washington, but shall
look into the operation of the tariff law in the
various sections of the country and report
annually to congress with recommendations
as to the changes needed in the tariff law
The intention Is Is give congress fresh non
partisan information relative to the opera
tons of the tariff law and what is
needed to make it more satisfactory. or
course the conclusions would in a degree be
conferred by its partisan majority, but for
that reason 1t is regarded very favorably by
the minority, The reports oftho commission
would be based on practical and material evil
dence. 1t would, 1t is believed, be break
water between the extreme and wide views
of the two leading political parties.
But 1t does not meet the approval of repre-
sentative Mckinley, author of the present
law. He said of the bill this afternoon: 81
don't believe it would be republican wisdom
to pass such a measure at this time. AL
though favor tariff commission for the
purpose named in this bill, 1 am afraid it
would be confession Of weakness for the
repu blicans to pass such n measure on the
heels of a revision of the tariff. 1t would
look as though we were not sure we had
acted wisely. 1t might be regarded as an IN
vtation for moro information for another
tariff bill. No, 1 don't think we ought to
create tariff commission until we have
given the new a trial and seen its opera
tions."
BISHOP uARE's TALK ON TIE INDIANS.
A sermon preached at Grace church IN
New York last night by the Rt. Rev. w. H.
Hare, bishop of South Dakota and an Indian
missionary, provoked considerable comment
in congressional circles today, After the
recent trouble in South Dakota and Ne
braska, he said, people had come to the opin-
ion that there was no solution to the Indian
problem except eXterminatiOu Even the
friends of the Indians, those who had in the
past contributed money for their education
and advancement and who were truly utter
ested in the Indians welfare, were veXed and
showed a spirit Of impatience because the
Indians had not all been swept off the face of
une eitrJn. 1le gave Il DTleI nlSJOTy OF Uue
troubles. The number Of ghost dances, he
said, had been greatly exaggerated. There
were not moro than seven or eight hundred,
and there were actively engaged in the war
only 800 Indians. OF the causes that led to
.he war; he said broken promises was one.
The government had in some respects been
wonderfully generous in keeping its treaty
promises. Some of its promises it
had ilagrantly broken. The most seri-
GUS of the broken promises, he thought, was
H. ALaS H.
to build for each Indian who ac-
cepted farm on the reserva-
tion and would work, a substantial house.
That promise had not been fulfilled. He
spoke of other broken promises aud said that
when the Indian commission went anon e
the savages in 1889 to purchase from them IA
part of their reservation for the use of the
whites the Indians were suspicious. The
promises made were only the broken ones in
in new shape, and they did not favor any sur
render until past promises had been fulfilled.
Finally, when an agreement was made, the
Indians waited SIX months for the fultillment
of the promise and then three months longer
and nothing came from Washington, and
then they heard that the president had de-
clared half of their reservation open to the
whites.
INDIAN DEPRECIATION CLAIMS.
Senator Paddock intends to continue his
fight for the passage of the Indian depreda-
ton bill in the morning hour OF the senate.
Inc TlcaSuEe Will D6 bahGu up us SOOU Us INC
cloture resolution is out of the way and will
likely be passed before the end of this week.
A flood Of claims Is coming in from the set
tiers who live in the locality of the present
Sioux disturbances in South Dakota and Ne
braska and Senator Paddock believes there
should be provisions made for their speedy
and equitable settlement. There are no
statutes upon the subject and Indian claims
are simply filed in the interior department,
where they remain for years brfore adjust
ment and when the amounts Of losses are de-
termined there is no satisfactory procedure
by which the claimants may get what is due
them.
At present it Is folly for claimants to ad-
dress members of congress upon the subject
of their losses Settlers in the Indian fight
ing states are also bombarding their repre-
sentatives in congress with requests to have
the war department order the disarmament
of the Indians and begging that the settlers
be not left helpless at the mercy of the war
riors. These opportunities are useless. Offi-
GERS at the war department say the troops
will not be withdrawn from the disturbed
sections until perfect safety to settlers is GER
tain and that the department will not be mis-
led as to whether the Indians have given u p
their arms in good faith or deposited them in
convenient but safe places for an outbreak in
the spring. The matter of disarming the
Indians is one of discretion with the war de-
partment and the manner, time and place