Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1897-04-22
THE INDIAN BILL.
The End of Tribal Government
Within Sight.
4 PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY.
The President VIII Not Issue One at Pres.
ent-Our Lumber esources-Arbi-
tratloh Treaty Vote on May 3
Indian Bureau Ofacers.

WASHINGTON, April Su'-lI tnc house
agrees to the senate amendments to
the Indian appropriation bill passed
by the senate yesterday the end of bad
government among the Indians OF the
five civilized tribes in the Indian terri
tory is in sight. The United States
government has been spending many
thousands of dollars through the
medium Of the Dawes commission, try
ing to secure from the five tribes form
al assent to the adjustment OF tribal
government and the holding OF lands
in severalty. Merely as an intimation
Of what it proposes to do in the near
future the senate has amended the bill
so that If the leaders Of the five tribes
do not, within the next eight months,
come to terms with the Dawes commits
sion, the power of self-government will
be taken away. The judicial ma
chinery in the territory is vested by
the bill entirely in the territorial
courts under the United States, and
after January next all measures OF
tribal government passed by the In
dian councils will have to be approved
by the president before they become
valid. Congress has decided that
tribal government must end and that
in the near future. 1t is very probable
that the next session of congress will
witness the breaking up OF existing
conditions in the territory.
A PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY
WASHINGTON, April Cot has been
suggested that the president probably
will be called upon to issue procla'
nation Of neutrality, now that war
has begun between Turkey and Greece
The officials have looked into the pre-
cedents in such cases and have con-
cluded that the conditions at present
do not require the issue OF such a
notice. The purpose of a neutrality
proclamation is to guard American
citizens against the consequences OF
infraction of the neutrality imposed
upon nations not party to a war. IL
does not directly concern either OF the
belligerents, but is intended to warn
American citizens that if they espouse
the cause of either combatant they
will absolve their own country from
extending protection to them. Condi-
lions may arise later on, it is said at
the state department, warranting the
issue of a proclamation, but the Amer
leans in Turkey and Greece are so few
in number, and are Of such character
as to make it unlikely that they will
involve themselves in trouble.
OUR LUMBER RESOURCES.
WASHINGTON. April 2O.-The secre-
tary Of agriculture yesterday sent to
the senate report by the chief of the
forestry division of the department on
amounts of white pine and other con-
ferrous timber standing, and its con.
sumption in the United States, in re-
Spouse to a resolution by Senator Chan
dler. The report states that accurate
statistics are unobtainable, but that,
while white pine will be cut in the
United States for many decades, as
owners of the stumpage control their
holdings, the enormous amounts which
hitherto have been cut annually cannot
be had beyond the next five or six
years, even with Canada to help exc
out our deficiencies.
TREATY VOTE TO BE ON MAY b.
WASHINGTON, April 2o.-The senate
has agreed to vote on the arbitration
treaty on the 5th Of May at four p. m.
There was no particular opposition
made to fixing the time for the vote,
although Senator Davis urged an ear.
| lier date. His frat suggestion was for
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