The record-union., 1897-01-15
Applies to All Lands Acquired From
the Various Tribes.
All Settlers on Such Lands, Under
the Provisions of the Bill, Are En-
titled to Patents on Payment OF the
Customary Fees. and That NO
Further Charge of Any Kind Shall
be Required.

phase of the Pacific Railroad scheme
was presented in the Senate to-day by
Morgan of Alabama instructing the Ju-
dietary Committee to inquire whether
by the very fact that certain of the
bonds of the Union and Central Pacific
Railroad Companies had fallen due and
We're not paid the property of those
companies had not become and We're
not now the property of the United
States The resolution went over with
out action.
A resolution was offered by Chandler
Rep) of New Hampshire, and was
agreed to, instructing the Committee on
Interstate Commerce to inquire into
the agreement recently made by the
manage of the lines of steamers on
the Great Lakes to maintain the rates
established by the Joint Traffic AssO-
citation.
The House bill for free homesteads on
public lands in Oklahoma Territory,
which has been the unfinished busi-
ness in the Senate since the first week
of the present session, came to a vote
to-day, after three hours debate and
was pa.ssed-yeas 30, nays II. 1t was
first amended in very important par
ticular by striking out the words in
the Territory of Oklahoma - thus max
ing it apply to all public lands ac-
quired from the various Indian tribes.
On motion of Hale Q}ep) of Maine, it
was ordered that when the Senate ad-
journ to-day it be to meet on Monday
next.
The army appropriation bill was re-
ported back from the Committee on
Appropriations by Quay CRep.) of Penn
sylvania, and was placed on the cal
endar.
The printing of $500 extra copies of
the Anglo-American treaty and of 1000
extra copies of the memoranda re-
Gently presented by Hale Rep.) of
Maine as to the right of recognizing for
eign Governments was ordered.
a bill for the classification of first
class and second class Postoffice clerks
was introduced by Cullom Rep) of Il
linois. and was referred.
Cullom also offered a resolution
which was agreed to, requiring the
United States Civil Service Commission
to Inform the Senate whether the an
nual reports of the commission were
forwarded to the President, and if not
the reasons for such neglect.
Senate bill for an examination of the
improvements at the pass of Aransas,
Texas, was taken from the calendar and
passed. Also Senate bill authorizing
the construction of bridge across the
Columbia River in the State of Wash
ington.
The House bill for free homesteads on
public lands acquired from Indians was
was advocated by Jones CDem.) of Ar
kansas and Teller (Silver) of Colo
RADIO.
Allison (Rep) of Iowa, taking part
for the first time this session in the
proceedings of the Senate, inquired of
Pettigrew (Silver) of South Dakota
whether the bill applied to all Indian
reservations.
Pettigrew replied that the bill did not
apply to Indian reservations not yet ac-
quired by the Government, and that, as
to such reservations, Congress would be
left to provide as it chose.
Teller made an impassioned appeal for
the passage of the bill. The policy of
the Republican party, he said, in its
earlier days, when it was a party Of the
people. had been for free homes and
free soil. and both parties had declared
in the last election in both their great
conventions for the identical bill before
the Senate. so far as / am con-
cerned,' he said, Il will give every acre
of unoccupied land to the men who will
occupy it, and l shall be doing my duty
to my country when l do it. The great
danger TO the republic is not that you
have too many farmers. but that you
have too many men in factories, mines
and mills. The fathers of the republic
saw the danger. They said: We do
not want to become a great manufactur-
ing people because the people who work
I'm shops are not the men who carry for
ward the liberty and law. They are. not
the men who viii be patriotic in every
hour of the country's Distress Every
time that we called upon the American
peopla we found the great agricultural
party responding, and there is where
our hope lies.
Platt (R) Of Connecticut spoke against
the passage of the bill.
Allison (R.) OF Iowa thought the bill
was too sweeping in its character, and
he would ike TO have it amended to re-
strict If at least TO lands already ac-
quired from the Indians.
Cockren OD.) of Missouri opposed the
bill, arguing that it was perversion of
the principle Of homestead law. and that
it was in the interest of comparative
few as against the vast number of peo-
pie who We're unable to get homesteads.
Stewart Pop.) of Nevada argued in
favor of the bill
After two final speeches in support Of
the bin by Carter of Montana and Pet
tigrew the Senate at o'clock began 10
vote on the bill. The amendments re-
ported by the committee were agreed to-
also an amendment offered to-day by
Allison to insert the words Prior to the
passage of this Act" after the words
public lands acquired"
The bin was passed-Yeas 30. nays II.
The bill reads: That all settlers under
the homestead laws of the United States
upon the public lands acquired prior to
the passage of this Act by treaty or ar
rangement from the various Indian
tribes who have resided or who shall