The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-07

| emit engaged In this work among the
Creeks and has made arrangements for
taking the census of these people up
to and including Inc Both of the pres
ent month.
Should the agreement between the
Chodtaws and Chickasaws be ratified by
congress and should the other tribes fail
ito make an agreement with the COM
mission, then 1t will be necessary that
some legislation be had by congress,
which, while just and honorable to the
Indians shall be equitable to the white
people who have settled upon these
lands by invitation of the tribal au.hori-
ties or nation.
Chairman Dawes, in a letter under
date of October IL, 1897, to the secre-
tary of the interior, says: Individual
ownership is In their che commission's)
opinion absolutely essential to the de-
velopment of the territory and lack of
1T is the root of all evils that so grieyi-
ously aff1ict these people. Allotment by
agreement is the only possible method
until the United States courts are
clothed with authority to appor.ion the
land among the citizen Indians for
whose use it was originally granted"
I concur with the secretary of the in
terror that here can be no relief from
the evils of trusts i'm the Indian Terri
tory except by the removal of the gov
eminent that creates them.
Favors National Quarantine
The prevalence of yellow fever in
number of places in The south and south
west has seriously interferred with COM
merce and necessitates such amendments
to our quarantine laws as will make the
regulation of the national quarantine
laws paramount. The secretary of the
in, erior in his report relative to THE OPP
Grafton of the Marine Hospital service,
calls attention to the defects in THE pres
ent quarantine laws and recommends
laws which will give this department
authority to prevent evasion of them ana
aid in the shutting out of diseases from
foreign countries and in times OF emer-
gency like the past, such additions as
will add to the protection of the people
with The least possible restriction or
commerce. l concur in his recommenda-
ton.
In a further effort to prevent the inva-
sion of the United States by yellow fe-
YER the Importance of the discovery or
the exact source and nature of the dis
ease Is, obvious, and to this end sys-
tematic meteorological investigation
should be made I therefore recommend
that congress authorize the appointment
of a commission by the president to con-
6. st of four expert bacteriologists, one
ITO be selected from the experts of the
marine hospital service one from civil
life and two to be detailed from theSmed-
ical officers of the army and one from
the medical officers of the navy.
Sale of Union Pacific
The Union Pacific main Inc was sold
| under the decree of the United States
court for the district of Nebraska on the
| LIST and I'd of November this year. The
amount realized consisted of the princi-
pal of the subsidy bonds $37,295,512, and
the accrued interest thereon, s21, 151,-
| 711.73. making the total Indebtedness
| S5S, 44S, 223.73. The bids at the first sales
were for the first mortgage lien and en-
| tire mortgages of the government, prln-
cipal and interest The sale did not in
| clude THE Kansas Pacific main line, on
which the government holds second
lien, which has been postponed until
] Dec. 16, 1897.
The debt of this division of the Union
Pacific railway ITO the government on
| Nov 1, 1897, was the principal of the
| subsidiary bonds. $6.309,000, and the I'M
paid and accrued interest thereon, So
| 626, 500. SO, making total of ST., ,6so.3 50.
! The sale Of this road was originally
advertised for Nov, 4, but for the pur-
| pose of securing the utmost public no
tice of the event 1t was postponed until
| Dec. 16, and a second advertisement OF
| the sale was made By the DEGREES OF
| the court the sale of the Kansas Paclf1c
| will yield to the government S2,5Oo0OO
| over all prior liens, costs and rentage
| If no higher bid is made this sum Is all
| that the government will receive on its
| claim of nearly $13,000,o00. The govern
i ment has no information as to whether
there will be other bidders or a higher
| bid than the minimum amount herein
stated. The inquiry therefore, is,
| whether the government shall, under the
| authority given it by the act of March,
8. 1897, purchase or redeem the road in
the event of no proposals from RESPONSE
| Bile parties covering the entire govern
| ment claim? To qualify the government
to bid ait the sale will require deposit
of 5000, 900, as follows: In the govern
ment cause, $500, 900. and in each of the
| first mortgage causes 100000, and the
| deposit must be in cash. Programmes
at the sale are as follows: Upon the &C.
! ceptance of the bid the sum paid with
the exceptance of the deposit shah equal
| Is per cent. of the bids; the payments
shall be completed within forty or fifty
days after the sale has been confirmed.
The lien on the Kansas Pacific prior to
July 80, 1897, principal and interest,
amounted ito $7,2S1, ASH. The govern
ment, therefore, should 1t become the
highest bidder will have to pay the
amount of the first mortgage lien. I
believe under the act of 1887 it had been
the intention to do this and in absence
of any instruction by congress l shall
| direct the secretary of the treasury to
make the necessary deposit as decreed
by the court to qualify as bidder at
the SALE to ait least protect the sum
owed to the government. I recommend
that an amendment to the law be I'M
| mediately passed giving the secretary