Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-05-01
AN INDIAN TREATY.
Agreement for Abolishing Tribal
Relations and Allotting Lands.
WANT TO EXAMINE THE TARIFF BILL
Democratic Members OF the Senate Com
mittce Insist on Time 10 Examine
the misunderstanding bliss
Not to Resign.

WArhtNoioNs hphii ~. hO ASPAS-
sentatives OF both the Dawes Indian
commission and the Choctaw and Chick
asaw tribes who five days ago Mt Atoka,
/. T., jointly executed joint agree.
ment or treaty for abolishing tribal
organization and allotting lands in
sevcralty have reached here and have
announced formally the results Of their
conferences. The agreement now has
TO be ratified by the senate and there
Is little likelihood Of material delay In
securing that approval. The tribal
governments are to continue for eight
years from March 4, 1898, on the ground
that no further lands will be coded till
the lands shall, in the opinion Of con-
gress, be prepared for statehood admis-
sion. Provisions practically identical
to those in the former unsanctioned
agreement are made rs to direct pay
ment of per capita funds; us to the
Choctaw and Chickasaw trust funds
and their payment to the Indians; as
to Choctaw orphan lands in Mississippi,
assuming of citizenship on the expira-
ton Of tribal existence, and fixing the
senate us the arbitration tribunal for
claims between the United States and
the two tribes Forty acres IRE to be
allotted Choctaw freedmen; $40 acres,
instead Of ten each, are given certain
eleemosynary institutions designated;
the federal government agrees to main
tain strict laws in the territory of the
two nations against the liquor traffic
in any form; lots, not exceeding so feet
front and 100 feet deep, for churches
and parsonages In the towns are set
apart and exempt from sale, with re-
version to the tribes; all the coal and
asphalt mines are to be controlled by
two trustees, appointed by the presi-
dent and recommended by the heads
OF the tribes; past agreements for oper-
ating coal or asphalt mines are de-
clured void, but all contracts here
after made by the national agents thus
authorized are ratified by the agree
ment. Coal and asphalt leases are to in
clude 900 acres and to run over 30 years.
Aloyalty Of Is cents per ton on all coal
mined and 90 cents on asphalt Is pro-
vided for, subject to change by the In
dian legislature.
WANT To EXAMINE THE TARIFF BILL.
WASHINGTON, April a9.--The repub'
lican subcommittee of the senate
finance committee, which is preparing
the tariff bill, decided definitely yes
terday not to attempt to report the bill
TO the full committee before next Mon
day. The democratic members of the
committee, when the bill Is presented,
will ask for time sufficient to examine
the bill in detail with the view of sug-
gesting any amendments they may con-
slider II possible to have accepted by
the committee. They might expect to
make this examination apart from the
republicans and to sit with them only
when conference is necessary.
Amendments which they know will
have no chance Of being accepted will
be reserved for presentation in the
senate. The democrats insist that
they have no purpose of placing
distractions in the way of the orderly
disposition OF the bill or of delaying
its passage beyond the time necessary
to present their views, but insist that
they must have time for thorough ex-
animation.
TIE BEER AND TOBACCO TAX.
WASHINGTON, April a9.-The repub-
lican members of the senate finance
committee have agreed to double the
tax on beer and tobacco. When the
revised tariff bill is presented to the
senate Monday it will contain these
surprising changes in the two sched-
ulcs. The present tax OF 81 a barrel
on beer is not to be doubled outright,
but the increase Is to be made up by
taxing the percentage Of alcohol used
in the brewing of beer. On tobacco
the present rate Is TO be doubled. This
will give about $40, 100000 year addi'
tional revenue.
SECRETARY BLISS NOT TO RESIGN.
WASHINGTON. April 29.-Secretary
Bliss, of the department of the inte'
rior, last night denied the report that
he intended to resign his portfolio in
President McKinley's cabinet. Mr.
Bliss said: ~ am Mt n loss to know
the authority for such statement
do not wish mt this time to make any
extended statement, further than tC
deny the report of my intended resig