The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-25
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The Secretary's Failure to Obey q Law
Opening Reservation In Utah, ant
Cleveland's Home Mission Speech. th,
Subjects.
WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The feat
ure Of today's proceedings in the sen
ate was short debate upon join
resolution directing the secretary O
the interior to execute the law fol
opening to settlement some 100000
acres OF land in the eastern part O
Utah, which have been part of tn,
Uncompahgre i Indian reservation
Severe structures upon the secretary o
the interior for his attempt to nullify
the act of congress were made by Sen
ators Cannon, Wolcott and Vest. Tht
latter inveighed with much vehem
ence, against the secretary declaring
that the time had been when the heat
Of a department would have to answer
to the bar of the senate for such an at
tempt to trample upon the legislative
branch of the government. Mr.. Yes
also caused much amusement By; aa1I
witty and eaustic criticism Of Presiden
Cleveland's recent speech before th'
Home Missionary society in New
York.
Mr.. Vest began with the remark
that there was time when cabine
officer, who deliberately failed to exc
cute an act of congress, would bt
brought before the bar of the senate
because he had trampled upon the leg
islative department of the government
and had violated his oath of Office
He happened to know all the facts II
regard to the matter.
He said that some years ago com
pany had been organized in St. Loui:
for the purpose of opening up certain
asphalt deposits in the Uncompaghrt
reservation in the eastern part o.
Utah and had invested large amount
of money.
The ST. Louis company had no
gone into the reservation. It hac
| bought land outside and wa,goned ths
product down to the Union Pacific
railway by which it was sent to the
different cities. The company did no.
want the lands because the asphalt ex
| listed IN such enormous quantities thai
there could be no monopoly in it.
There was also, Mr.. Vest said, New
York corporation which came on the
| scene last summer and which made
some adjustment with the st. Louis
company. The question was whether
congress knew what it was doing
when it passed the act to open up those
lands. Congress did know it anc
knew very well that there were great
aspoalt deposits there.
What sort of right, Mr.. Vest de-
manded angrily, had the secretary Of
the interior to nullify that act OF con
gress. That practice had grown up
until it demanded apprehension Of
congress and at once. The action OIL
the secretary of agriculture on the
seed question was another instance OF
the same kind.
"And now" said he, "comes the
secretary of the interior and says thai
congress did not know anything about
these enormous deposits; and he takes
the responsibility of saying to the
President of the United States that the
proclamation opening these lands tc
settlement shall not be issued. Here
is a positive statute nullihed by the
head of department, with no othe,
excuse except the paltry one that hs
assumed that congress had not the III
formation which it has had for the las
seven years.
There seems" Mr.. Vest continued
ito be disposition on the part Of the
administration to treat the Western
people as if they were in condition
of pupilage, as if they do net know
their own rights or their own interests
and as if they must be informed eS
cathedra, from the east in reference *
what is best for them and what shoulc
be done for them. Even the President
of the United States, lately on mis-
sionary occasion Qaughter) spoke o.
the west as a land of immortality anc
crime. He stood with the light-the
ghastly ight-of the hell-holes ano
rum cellars of New York blazing
upon him, and cantingly, said thai
home missions must be used to civilize
to Christianize the men who have left
their homes in the civilized east anc
gone out among the mountains anc
valley of tie wild and woody west
Loud and general laughter.)
"Our President stood with DR.. Tai
mage on one side and the Rev. Shel.
don Jackson on the other and gave us
new version Of that beloved Ole
missionary hymn:
From Montana's sinful mountains,
From Utah's wicked plains,
They call us to deliver,
Their land from errors chains"
Continued laughter.
1--WE are told upon high ecclesiastl.
cal authority that his eIcellency mas
lately laid down his honors at the feet
of Jesus. I am glad to know it. Il
has been the general impression OF
Democrats that Mugwumps and in
cense burners had got those honors
and intended to keep them. have
great respect for the Christian religion
and for missions at home and abroad,
but this was SANDER upon the raen
who, with rifle in one hand and axe
in the other, have gone cut and blazed
that pathway of civilization in the
western wilds. I went to Missouri
when it was frontier State, roamed
by the Indian and buffalo. / have
lived with those people nearly sc
years, and I say to our president now
that if he will pretermit hunting ducks
in North Carolina and silver Demo
Gratis in Kentucky long enough tc
come out west, we will show him q
God-fearing, self-respecting, law-abid
ing people. We will show him
churches in which there is real and
unaffected piety; we will show him
happy and Christian homes, where the
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