The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-04-22
A DAY OF ORATORY.
The Senate Listens to Speeches on
the Cuban Situation.
TIE CURTIS INDIAN BILL PASSED.
The House Almost Unanimously Endorses
the Measure Providing for Relief in
the Indian Territory BUSH
ness Transacted Uninteresting.

Senator Hale, of Maine, presented u
memorial from the National Civic
club, of Brooklyn, calling attention to
the necessity, in the event of war with
Spain, of repeating some of the pres
ent navigation laws. The laws, as
they are at present, 1t said, would
prevent our merchant vessels from
sailing under foreign flag, while
every Spanish merchantmen would be
under the French flag. Our ships
would, therefore, be preyed upon by
Spanish privateers. Senator Hale said
the question raised was most serious
one. He thought it would be mortify-
ing and humiliating to this country
for its vessels engaged in commerce to
fly the flag of any other country than
our own. He asked that the memorial
be referred to the committee on COM
merce, which, he hoped. would give it
thoughtful consideration.
BY unanimous consent, at the re-
quest of Senator Davis, chairman of
the foreign relations committee, the
resolution Wednesday reported by the
foreign relations committee was laid
before the senate. Then for more than
six hours the speeches delivered upon
the various phases of the Cuban situ-
alton, eloquent and vehement as all
of them were, disclosed no irreconcila-
BILE difference among those who spoke.
All were in favor of action in some
form by the government of the United
States The most radical difference
was as to whether the resolutions
finally adopted should recognize the
independence of the Cuban republic or
simply declare for armed intervention,
with view to the ultimate freedom
and independence of the Cuban people
The speakers were Senator Turner, of
Washington: Senator Hoar. of Massa-
chusetts; Senator Turpie, of Indiana;
Senator Gray, of Delaware, and Sepa-
tor Fairbanks, Of Indiana.
Upon the conclusion OF Senator Fair
banks speech, Senator Cullom, of Hi
nois, was recognized and had hardly
spoken dozen words before Interrupt
tion came from several members look
ing to an adjournment, Senator We'll
lington moving that the senate adjourn
until to-day at II o'clock, where
upon Senator Allen, of Nebraska, indi-
Gated that he wanted to register his
protest to the position of certain sem
ators on the floor, who, taking advan-
tage of the situation, desired to repair
their fences, in order to allow the reso-
luton to go over for another day.
The house resolution relative to the
Cuban situation was then reported to
the senate and. on motion of Senator
Davis, was laid on the table.
Tho votn tuoo aho,,t 20 Ia ta1ya,, ~,
the motion to adjourn, when Senator
Allison called upon Senator Davis to
arrange for an amicable adjournment,
il it could be brought about, but the
chairman, seeing that an adjournment
was out of the question, asked Senator
Wellington to agree to an amendment
to adjourn to a specified time, which
the Maryland senator accepted, and a
roll call was demanded by Senator
Chandler. The motion was voted down,
SO to 80. After some more talk about
adjourning Senator Davis then re-
newed his motion to adjourn until ten
o'clock to-day whereupon,. the yeas
and nays being called, by vote of 80
TO %, the senate at 6:l5 p. IN. adj
journed until ten o'clock to-day.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, April 15.-The passage
of the Curtis bill in the house yester-
day, providing relief in the Indian
territory, is the first substantial in.
road made by congress against the
anomalous condition of affairs in that
country. The fact that it passed
unanimously, practically, adds to the
personal standing of the father of the
bill. The bill applies to all the tribes
located in the Indian territory and
affects over 60, 600 Indians, and dis
poses of the use and occupation of 70, e
900. 900 acres of land. The bill affords
protection to 10000 or 300, 900
white people who have been To-
Gated in the territory for years
without laws schools or titles, and
gives to those people an opportunity
to secure titles to homesteads in towns
The Cherokee tribe of Indians are
given a remedy whereby 1000 intrud-
ers occupying 1871 900 acres of their
farming lands are to be expelled. 1t
provides for the allotment of lands TO
each individual Indian in the vari-
GUS tribes and also for the leasing of
the rich mineral deposits under rules
and regulations to be prescribed by
the secretary OF the interior and the
larger income thereby received to be
divided among the tribes in the terri
tory.
Aside from this the session of the
house yesterday was dull and abso-
lutely devoid of interest The gal.
leries and the floor were almost de-
serted. During the afternoon other
bills were passed to authorize the sec
rotary of the interior to rent or lease
sites on forest reservations for hotels
and sanitariums; for the preservation
and protection of public roads; TO set
tie the accounts of the state of Arlfan-
sas and the United States as to school
lands to regulate the jurisdiction of
the United States courts; to confer
jurisdiction upon United States cir
cult courts over suits in equity; for the