Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1894-12-13

ers oifthe road should have a right
to negotiate a deal with the city of
Tahlequah for putting in water
works and lighting the streets and
business houses with electricity
The company which proposed to
build the road was represented by
Mrs. Morgner Of st. Louis, who
was here and attempted to get the
bill through last council. The
bill was a good one, and should
have had the support of every
councillor and senator, but after
holding out their hands behind
them and bitterly opposing the
measure until Saturday evening it
was killed in the senate where it
originated. Speeches were made
by Senators Sanders and Smith Of
Saline, both of whom bitterly op-
posed the bill, for the pretended
reason that it conficted with treat
les. Such excuses for opposing ad-
vancement and ologging the wheels
of progress are not calculated to do
the Cherokee nation any good in
this enlightened age of electricity.
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A bill making an appropriation
of 81 900 for Maxwell q Chase, at
torneys in the freedman case, was
passed in the senate and killed in
the lower house.
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A bill was introduced b. Mr..
Sanders ofSalnie providing for the
construction OF an iron fence
around the capitol building and
the male seminary, but it was
killed on its passage.
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Friday a bill was submitted by
the ways and means committee
providing Q means of revenue for
the nation. The bill provided
that all peddlers, physicians and
other professional men be taxed
from s5 to 500 per year; that
property be taxed one-half of one
per cent, and that all improved
land exceeding 100 acres held by
an individual be taxed at the rate
Of $3.50 per acre per year. The
head of a family may, Of course,
own l60 acres per capita for each
of his children or for those he is
acting as guardian over without
taxation, but for all. over that
amount he must pay tax Of $3.50
per acre per year. The bill ex-
empts fifty head of stock cattle for
each family. Newspapers, lumber
yards and stocks of merchandise
must under this proposed law pay
one.half of one per cent. per year
tax. The bill was calculated to
soon raise the nation out of debt
but it now sleeps on the fatal
senate "table," unconcurred in.
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The bill introduced in the lower
house the first of last week by Mr..
Hare of Illinois, known as the
"white clerk bill" but more prop
erly named "a bill providing
against competition and for high
priced goods" by The CHIEFrAIN,
was killed Thursday in the lower
house. But its supporters were
not to thus have their well laid
scheme" fall through, and Mr..
Martin V. Benge, senator from H.
linois district and candidate Of the
Nationals for circuit judge of the
southern circuit, introduced the
same bill in the senate Friday and
it passed both houses and went to
the chief. But, alasi Mr.. Harris
did not seem to be "onto the
scheme" and he vetoed the bill as
unconstitutional and class-legisla-
ton.
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Just before adjournment Satur-
day Chief Harris sent down a mes
sage calling an extra session for
such business as he sees fit to rec
ON mend from day TO day.
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No appropriation was made by
the regular session for the national
Jail or the Advocate, and this will
constitute part of the work of the
extra session.
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The delegation left Monday for
Washington and will be followed
by Chief Harris as soon as the ex-
ira session is over.
Last Thursday night about one
mile north of Chelsea. l. t., at a