The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-09
FRAUDS ON THE INDIANS
Bryan's Running Mate Much Discus
sed at Washington.
THE PEARSON. CRAWFORD CONTEST
II Will be Called Up Today by Representative
Roberts. Representative KIuttz Max
ing Fine Record in the
House..
Especial to News and Observer.


Washington, d. c., May S.-As it is con-
ceded by everybody that Bryan will be
nominated for President the question
most asked by the people is "who will be
Bryan's running mate?" OF the several
names mentioned that of Representative
Sulzer, of New York. is most frequently
heard and arouses the most interest 1t
is said by nearly every leading Southern
Democrat in the House that an Eastern
Democrat should be nominated for Vice
President. And it is admitted by all fair
minded men that SulZer is easily the
strongest candidate for second place on
the ticket with Bryan. His friends point
to the fact that he is the one leading
Eastern Democrat who made straight
out fight from the shoulder for Bryan and
| the Chicago platform in 1896 Another
| thing in his favor, he is personally known
| from one end of the country to the other
He halls from the people, being a self
| made man. and he is not in any way
| identified with the trusts or great cor
| porations. | am informed that he will
| have the solid New York delegation be-
hind him at Kansas City, besides many
votes from the New England States.
Some of the people are disposed to treat
| the Sulzer movement lightly and poke
| fun at it, but l happen to know that the
| leading Democrats in the House and
Senate think differently. They regard
| the Sulzer movement seriously, and do
not hesitate to say that the popular New
| York Democrat is candidate to be
| wit
place.
| Tomorrow the Pearson Crawford con-
| tested election case will be called up by
Representative Roberts. And it is not i'm
| probable that the Republicans will COM
| nit another outrage against the voters of
North Carolina and unseat Crawford. If
| he is unseated, however, the people of his
district will resent the outrage by sending
him back by an overwhelming majority.
Mr.. Crawford is a faithful representative.
| He is constant in his attendance on the
sessions of the House. He never loses an
opportunity to advance the interests of
| his constituents.
For new member Representative
| Kutz has forged to the front this ses-
sion. His record is number one.
The Presidents first veto is liable to
unearth scandal of large proportions
and several prominent people in Arizona
will be scorched. The other day Congress
passed without a dissenting vote the bill
introduced by Delegate J. F. Wilson, of
Arizona, authorizing the adjustment of
rights of settlers on the Navajo Indian
Reservation in the Territory of Arizona
This is a most important matter to the
settlers on the Navajo Reservation for
it settles the question of vested rights.
Delegate Wilson says the reasons ad
vanced by the President for his veto are
| no reasons at all for the reason that the
President has been misled and is abso-
lutely ignorant of the facts in the case
The land in question, he said, was never
secured from the Indians by treaty, but
was included in the reservation by an
executive order after the settlers for
whose relief Congress had passed his bill
had obtained vested rights, and therefore
| the President is in error when he says
the settlers should have obtained the In
dams.
THE lands in question" said Delegate
Wilson, ARE rich mining lands on which
these honest toilers have spent thousands
and thousands of dollars in developing.
They are lands absolutely barren and
never used by the Indians. Why, the ORR
ginal Navajo Reservation, exclusive of the
lands covered in by Executive order, en-
brace a territory as large as the State of
Pennsylvania, over which the Indians are
| free to roam. 1t is very evident to me
| that the Secretary of the Interior has per-
haps innocently imposed on the President
because of having been misnformed him
self in this important matter, and a
serious injury has been inflicted on my
people Now, as l say, there is a niger
| in the wood pile and l propose to smoke
him out. 1t would be a double outrage
TO confscate the property of these set
tiers, for that is what will be done un-
| less Congress passes my bill over the
Presidents veto. | am inclined to be-
ieve that when all the facts are pre-
scented to Mr.. Mckinley it will be made
| clear to him that he has made a mistake,
| and he will not use his influence to control
| the action of the Republicans in the House
and Senate, when the question of re-
straining the veto comes up