Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-16
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
stu Discussing the Wool Schedule
in the senate-Teller ON the Ute
Removal Bill-Sutcide Of
an Ex-COngressman.

Washington, June 16.-At the opening
of the senate to-day Senator Teller asked
unanimous consent to consider the house
bill approving the recent negotiations
of J. Montgomery Smith and other United
States commissioners with the Southern
Ute Indians and confirming the treaty
provisions of June, 1880, alloting lands
in severalty, etc. Senator Teller ex-
planned the provision of the bill which
at any place within their reservation
within given time or 60 west forty
miles. Its object, he said, was to open
up the east end of the reservation. The
bill encountered some opposition from
Senator Villas. A commission appointed
six years ago negotiated with these In
dians for the surrender of their reserva-
tion, which lies like barrier between
Colorado and New Mexico and which
should be opened in the
INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE.
of Colorado. The treaty they then made
was satisfactory to the Utes, but was op-
posed by some people who gained the
impression that it placed the Utes in
possession of less valuable lands than
they now hold. Senator Villas did not
like to give consent to bill that would
overrule the treaty and take from the
Utes two-thirds of their lands, giving
them in return tract of much less
extent. He finally decided in view of the
opposition to allow the bill to 90 over
until Monday.
Tho hill roooad Gv;pD 4ho r-;oo
desert lands at $l.25 per acre and author
izing the refunding of payments in ex
cess of that price.
ANOTHER VOTE ON WOOL.
The tariff bill was then laid before the
senate and vote Immediately taken on
the pending amendment of Senator
Pfeffer to transfer all manufactures COM
posed wholly or part of wool to the free
list. 1t was defeated by vote of to As.
Three Populists, Messrs. Allen, Kyle and
PETER, voted in favor of it.
Senator Hansbrough announced that he
would have voted aye had he not been
paired. The senate then plunged into the
actual consideration of the wooden sched-
ule. The first paragraph places duty of
Is per cent on wool and hair from stub
bing waste. Mungo shoddy, corded waste
and carbonlzed cloths.
KYLE ON FREE WOOL.
Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, in his
tariff speech yesterday, said her ecognized
the Importance of the wool industry. In
his own state there were three-fourths of
a million sheep. From the Mississippi to
the Rockies sheep raising was vast in
dustry and it would be a great injustice
to strike it down. But he WAS not pre-
pared to say that free wool would de-
stroy the industry. Speaking of himself
alone, he was not afraid to place wool on
the free list. The advantage that would
accrue to the farmer from the reduction
of the price of clothing would more than
compensate any reduction in the price of
wool that might follow the free listing of
that product. He believed that wool
could be raised on the broad prairies and
of the west as he caplyas at any
other place.
SUICIDE OF AN Ex-CONGREssMAN.
Ex-Representative Thomas NJ. Bayne,
of Pit sburg, committed suicide to-day at
his home in this city by shooting himself
through the heart. 1t is supposed that
and possibly financial reverses
caused the deed.
TI-OPTION BILL.
Col. Hatch announced to-day that he
would call up the anti-option bill on
Monday. He expressed confidence that it
would receive prompt attention and pass
by large majority.
SENATOR QUAY's 1NsOLENcE.
Senator Quay was before the sugar in
vestigating committhe just before 8
o'clock. He told the committee that he
had bought sugar stocks in speculation
and would do 80 again.