The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-01-31
.MPPEHIH8SiI WASHINGTON.
Some Of The Latest Gossip from the Rational
Capital.
Secretary smith Opposed 70 OustlnE En-
trudsrs-The National sshragIsts-
Pensions Vested Risht-Ths
"WOman's BIhie.o

territory before their claims tc citizen
ship can be passed upon by representa-
tives Of the federal government is made
in a report by Secretary Smith, for
wsrded Saturday to the house commit
tes on Indian affairs, in response to
request for his opinion on a senate
joint resolution. Secretary Smith rec
ommends that congress Immediately
/ provide some mode by which the de-
cision Of the Cherokse nation as to the
citizenship of intruders can be re-
viewed
It is represented to the committee
that the condition of affairs in that
territory is such as to demand immedi-
ste action by congress; that the In.
dams have themselves violated the
treaties with the United States; that
instead OF holding the lands equally. e
few Indians own most of the land, and
90 out Of 100 of them have but poor
existence. The Indians have ihVited
white men into the territory and
leased their lands to thsm, and 1t is
represented that 500, 900 whites are
there outside the jurisdiction and pro-
lection of the United States laws. The
suggestion to be considered by the
committee Is to divide the land among
all the residents Of the territory, white
and Indians alike; 10 open it up to set
Element; to abolish the Indian legisla-
ture and courts, and to establish the
usual territorial government
National SufIraEIsts.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29,-The senate
nsrble room was completely filed to-
day by delegation of women from
the National Equal Suffrage associa-
ton, who appeared before the senate
committee on women suffrage to pre-
sent their plea for recognition at the
ballot box. Senators Call and PETER
were the only members Of the COM
mittee present, and they were lats in
arriving. The delegation was present
at ten o'clock, the hour specified for
the meeting The speakers were pre-
sented by DR.. Anna Shaw. None of the
speeches was of more than five minutes
duration, The speakers all dwelt up
on the right of the female sex to
squal participation with men in shap-
ing legislation, and almost all of them
referred to the injustice of taxing
women without allowing them to vote.
Mrs Thompson, of the District of Co
lumbia, declared that there were 25
per cent more educated girls than ed
ucated boys Mrs Hubbard indirectly
rasped the committee by declaring
that the ladies had shown two of the
virtues of craftsmanship to-day, those
of punctuality and patience, the refer
ence being to the hardness or absence
of the members of the committees
Yesterdays session of the conVen-
ton opened with a review of the
work in the south by Miss Laura
Clay, of Kentucky. She spoke of the
almost entire absence OF the foreign
element in that section and said the
women there now have the oppor-
tunity to break the solid south" of
opposition to the movement She pre-
dicted rapid progress Of the suffrage
sentiment there.
Henry B, Blackwell, OF Massachu-
sets, made a brief address urging
state associations to petition their re-
spectiVe Legislatures to insert a clause
in the state constitutions granting
women the right to vote in prssiden-
tial elections He announced that the
women OF Kansas would take this &C.
tion at the opening Of the next legisla-
ture.
Officers we're elected for the ensuing
year as follows; President. Susan B.
Anthony, reelected unanimously; vice
pFesident-st-large Anna Howard Shaw,
reelected; corresponding secretary,
Rachel Foster Avery; recording secre-
tary, Alice Stone Blackwell; treasurer,
Harriet Taylor Upton; first auditor,
Miss Laura Clay, and second auditor,
Mrs Annie L. Diggs.
Pensions snd Vested RIghtE
WASHINGTON, Jan, 27.-The sub-com-
mittee on invalid pensions has eonsid-
cred the terms Of general bill to
make pensions vested rights and to
provide for the repeal of the clause in
the act Of 1890 requiring widows and
orphans to prove as condition prece-
dent to obtaining a pension that they
are dependent upon their daily labor
for support, and to substitute therefor
3 provision along the lines Of that
ruled out while the pension appropFia-
tion bill was before the house, rsquir-
ing them 70 prove that their net In
come does not exceed s5Oa The bill
will be drawn and submitted TO the
full committee tomorrow
The "Woman's Bible"
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-Ths feature
Of Saturdays meeting of the National
Suffrage association was the detailed
report on organization. The executive
committee considered the trouble over
the so-eailed ''Weman's Bible, and II
was agreed that the question was 8
| personal one Of which the general or.
gauization could take no cognizance.
a call for subscriptions to the general
fund resulted in the raising Of 50, 9Oo
Bans wrecked.
! OMAHA, Eeb,, Jan. ga special