The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-08
INDIAN TERRITORY LAND BILL
IMPORTANT MEASURE PASSEI
BY THE SENATE.
Census Bill Precipitated a Debate On
Civil Service-Proposal to Subject
Census Employees to Examination.

Washington, June Almost imme-
diately after the senate convened to-
day, consideration was resumed of the
bill for the protection of the people Of
the Indian Territory. After the reading
and discussion of the measure, which
occupied nearly three hours, it was
passed. 1t provides for the allotment
in seVeralty of certain lands to the In
dams of the territory, the payment OF
interest claims to the ChickasaW In
dams, and the ratification of the agree
ment effected with the Indians by the
Dawes commission.
The discussion fsthe census bill pre-
cipitated a civil service debate, which
had not been concluded when the SEN
ate adjourned.
After the transaction of routine
morning business, the bill for the pro-
lection of the Indian Territory was laid
before the senate.
Mr.. Bate (Dem., Tenn.) thought the
bill ought to go over. as it was clearly
a violation of all the moral and legal
obligations of the government to the
Indians of the territory, and the Whfte
citizens who had gone there to i've.
The BILL he said, took away from the
Il0ians their courts and violated every
treaty that had ever been made with
them by the government.
During the consideration of the meas
ure several committee amendments of
a trivial character were adopted. AT
the suggestion of Mr.. PettigreW, in
charge of the bill, section &c, which pro-
vided for the segregation of l5I, 900
acres of land purchased by the Della
wares from the Cherokees, 100 acres OF
the land to be allotted to each register
ed Delaware, and the remainder re-
do Of da0pa sd
registered DelawareS, was stricken from
the bill One of the amendments ratl-
fies the agreement made by the Dawes
commission with the Eve civilized
tribes.
Mr.. Plat (Rep., Comm, one of the
members of the Indian conference COM
mittee, opposed that amendment of the
committee which provided for the pay
ment of $685., 900 interest at per cent
on s24O. 600 from 1910 to 1889. The amend
ment provides that the interest shall be
paid to the Choctaw nation. After an
explanation, the amendment was
agreed to, and the bill passed.
CENSUS BILL.
Consideration was then resumed on
the measure providing for the taking
of the 18th census. Mr.. Carter (Rep.,
MONTH, in charge of the bill, proposed
an amendment providing that in addi-
ton to the director and assistant dl-
rector of the census, and of five expert
statiSticianS, not more than 20 persons
shall be appointed to the census estab-
lishment before Jan. I, 1899.
Mr. Cockrell Oem.. Mo- accepted
that amendment in lieu of those Of
fered by him yesterday, and it was
agreed to. Mr.. Cockrell offered an
striking out the provision
that the census force should be sub
jected to such examination as the d.
rector, with the approval of the sec
rotary of the interior, may prescribe.
In lieu thereof ne asked that the en-
ployees should be examined and certi-
fed by the civil service commission.
Mr.. Carter vigorously opposed the
amendment. He felt that it was no
more, unreasonable to select an army
for service in the field against Spain
by civil service examination than it
was to select the clerks in the census
work in that way.
Mr.. Lodge (Rep., Mass.) heartily sup
ported the amendment. He said that
the force needed would be largely
copysts and clerks, and the civil serv-
ice commission was even now prepared
from it's lists to supply these people
Mr.. Wilson (Rep., Wash) made
vigorous attack upon the present adj
of the civil service. The
civil service itself, he made clear, he
was not particularly opposed to, but he
did oppose the methods employed by
the. civil service commission. He re-
cited some Of his own experiences with (
the commission, all of which indicated !
that the people of Washington, in his
opinion, had in every case been i'm
posed upon. The people of the United I
States, he said, were paying 100000 a 1
year for civil service examinations
which were practically useless to the /
country.
Mr.. Turpie Dem., Ind.) antagonized /
the amendment, as did Mr. Chandler +
(Rep., N. HI The latter took occasion /
to warn the civil service commission !
and its friends that in extending the /
system they were instituting them |
selves the foe of true civil service, and /
their efforts. if continued, he said, /
could result only in the eventual de- I
struction of the whole system.
Mr.. Hoar Rep., Mass.), in a brief |
reply to Mr.. Chandler denounced the |
former "spoils'' system which had been |
succeeded by the present civil service
system.
Without passing upon the amend
ment, the senate, at sos p. M, on mo-
ton of Mr.. German fDem., Md, adj
journed.
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