Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-19
COMMISSION.
It Has Concluded It's Negotiations
with the Indians
MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
A Bill Giving the Institution $3.50 Acres
of Land-Duty on silver-Indian Terri
tory Courts-Cherokee Fees Claim
appropriation Bills.


was received at the interior depart
ment yesterday which seems to indi-
cate a speedy termination of the work
of the Dawes commission in a most sat-
isfactory manner. The commission, 1T
is said. has concluded it's negotiations
with the Choctaws, the Creeks and the
Cherokees, and it is in a fair way to
conclude all that need be done by the
commission in the field in very short
time. Members of the commission are
daily expected in Washington, and it
is reported that they will come here to
formulate their report to congress
They are to be here before the Christ
mas holidays, and the report will be
made at the earliest practicable mo-
ment. From the tenor of the reports
received by the secretary of the in
terror it is almost certain that the COM
mission will succeed in accomplishing
what it started out to do
MISSOURI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Ex-senator Cock
rell is still hopeful that he will be able
to secure at this session the passage of
the bill to grant the state college of
agriculture and mechanical arts $3.50
acres of the public lands of Missouri.
The bill failed of passage at the last
session, but is now on the senate cal
endar again. The measure is intended
to correct error in the act of 1862,
donating to Missouri lands for the ben
eft of the agricul tural college The
grant was to be made of pu bile lands
along the proposed route of the At
lantic & Pacific railway, within six
miles of the surveyed line. After the
state had selected 54.513 acres, which
was charged to it at the double min
imum price of ST. so per acre, the route
was changed SO to throw $3.50 acres
outside the six-mile limit. 1t is to cor
rect this error that Senator Cockren
has introduced the bill.
A DUTY ON SILVER
WASHINGTON. Dec. I6.-Silver is to
be given recognition in the new tariff
bill by the imposition of a duty equal
to the discount in the price of the bull
lion; that is to say. if the average price
of silver for a month be 65 cents per
ounce, the duty will be 35 cents. The
scale will be elastic and the rate will
depend entirely upon the market price
of the bullion. 1t is estimated that by
putting this protective tax on silver
the bullion value of the American
metal would be raised from ten to
twenty points
INDIAN TERRITORY COURTS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16--The house
committee on judiciary yesterday voted
10 TecOHllncHo Ihc
committee that the Updegraff bill of
last session, making the officers of the
United States courts salaried instead of
fee officials, be extended to the officers
of the United States courts for the In
dian territory, who were excepted from
the provisions of the Updegraff bill.
This change will not apply to court
commissioners. Acknowledgement Har
mon asks for the legislation.
CHEROKEE FEES CLAIM.
WASHINGTON, Dec l6-The old set
tiers Cherokee claim fight threatens
to be renewed with full vigor at this
session of congress The amount in
volved is upwards of 500, 900, all of
which the attorneys claim is due them
in fees The proposition passed the
senate at the last session, but was
knocked out in conference by Messrs.
Curtis, of Kansas; Sherman, of New
York, and Pendleton. the house con-
ferees, who will again oppose the claim.
APPROPRIATION BILLS READY.
WASHINGTON, Dec 16--The house
committee on appropriations yesterday
finished the bill for the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial expenses of the
government for the fiscal year ending
June so, 1898. The bill carries a total
of So, 667. 500, which is Si,o99, 2s1 less
than the appropriations for the current
wear.