The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-19
MR.. SMITH CRITICISED
ron NOT OPENING TO SETTLEMENT
piRT or 4 DISSERTATION.
senator Vest Takes Advantage OF the OPP
portunity to Ring in Caustic Comment
on Mr.. Cleveland.


WASHINGTON, March B.-The fea-
ture Of to-day's proceedings in the Sen
ate was a short debate upon a joint Teso-
luton directing the Secretary OF INC IN
tero' TO respect the law Tor openi15 to
settlement some two million acres Of hand
in the eastern part OF Utah, which nave
been part OF the UncOmpahgre Indian
reservation. Severe structures upon the
Secretary Of the Interior Tor his attempt
10 nullily the act Of Congress were made
by Senators Cannon, Woicou. aud vest.
VESTS SPEECH.
Mr.. Vest began with the remark That
there was a time when CaDinet oihceI
who deliberately failed TO execute an
act OF Congress would be- brought before
the bar on the Senate because ne hao
tramplcd upon the legislative department
of the Government and had violated MS
oath of office. lie happened 10 know All
the facts In regard 10 the matter hs
said that some years ago company hau
been organized ia ST. Louis iof the Pei-
pose OF opening mp certain aspnalt "e-
posts I'm the UncOmpahere reservation
in the eastern part oi Utah. ana Lan IN
vested a large amount Of money. Inc 81
Louis Company had not gone into the
reservation. IL had bought land outside
and waROned the product down 70 the
Union Pacific railroad, by which II was
sent 10 the different cities. The COM
pany did not want the lands because tue
asphalt existed i'm such enormous auahtl-
ties that there could he no monopoly IN
il.
There was also. Mr.. Vest said, Now
York asphalt corporation when came on
La. IN
some adjustment with the 81 LOUIS
Company. The question was whether
Congress did know f.. and knew very
10 passed the act 10 open mp those lands
Congress DID know 70, and know very
well. that there were great asphalt de-
pOsits there
THE RIGHT QUESTIONED.
What sort of right. Mr. Vest demanded
angrily. had the Secretary of the Interior
10 nu.lify that Get OF Congress; That
practice had Crown mp until it demand
ed apprehension OF Congress, and az once.
The action of the Secretary OF Agricul-
ture on the seed question was announcer
instance OF the same kind.
And now" said he. comes the Secre-
tary OF the Interior and says that con-
gross did not know anything about THESE
enormous deposits. and De- taxes the re-
sp0nsbility OF saying 10 the President OF
the United States that The proclamation
opening these lands t0 settlement shali
nor Doe issued Here DIS a positive statute
nuuined bv the head of department
wish uo other excuse except the paiug
one that he assumed that Congress had
not fine information which 10 has hdd TOT
the last seven years. There seems AT
Vest continued Ito Dec disposition O"
the part Of The administration To treat
the western people ass II they We're I'D
| condition of piHase. as 81 they d"u h"""
their own rights or their interests, anu
rs II they must be informed * catnedfd
from the East in reference 20 what is pest
for them and what should he done LOT
them. Even the President Of the United
States lately on a missionary occasion
0aurhter) spoke of the West as land or
| immortality and crime. lie stood with the
Hrht-the chastity lieht-Of tho hel.-holes
| ana rum cellars of New York blazing
upon him and cautlngly said that home
missions must Dec used 10 ciVlii1e' TO
Cbristianize the men who have lefi their
homes in the civilized East ana gone OUT
among the mountains and valleys OF me
wild and wo0lly West loud ana senei"i
| lauehtcr)
A NEW VERSION.
/ "our President stood with DIT. iaimafe
ON the one side. and the Rev. Sheldon
Jackson on the other and gave us
now version of that beloved old mission
AIRY hymn.
"From Alontana's sinful mountains
prom Ttah's wicked plains,
"Thcv call MS 90 deliver
"Their land from errors chains.
| daughter continued) Z
We are told upon high ecciesiastical
authority that his Excelency has lately
lad ID M
sus. ] ann glad 10 know b.. IL has been
! the general impression of Democrats that
| the rnu-wumns and incense burners had
! cot those h0uOrs and intended 90 ke p
them 7 have great respect for the Chris
| tan religion and for missions az home
and abroad. but this was SANDER upon
! the men Hh0. with rifle in one hand ami
axe in the other. have gone ont. and
| hiazed that pathway Of civilization in the
western wIlds. 7 went 90 Missouri when
DO was "a frontier State. roamed hy the
Indian ANA the buffalo.
THE WESTERN PEOPLE.
II have lived with those people nearly
fifty years; and / say 20 our President
now that fl Doe VIII prctCrmit hunting
| ducks Boo North Carolina and silver DEM
| ocrats in Kentucky long enough 20 come
| out West we Will show him "a Gol-fear-
| A.. rfu chow him cTrrches IN which
there is real anl unaffected piety. we viii
| snow him happy and Christian home
| whore the sons. the fathers and the
| husbands pray. our spires may not $50
| as near 90 Heaven as those in Eastern
! c'lD'. we may hoi nave organs that roll
! doiorous tones along freftcd aisles hut
we have people who fear God and OIL
! serve the law and fhe commandments.