The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-25
WILL MAKE TROUBLE
QUAY THINKS HE HAS BEEN
 TREATED UNFAIRLY.
Will Object to Unanimous Consent Until His Motion to Discharge Committee Has Been Acted
 on by the Senate.

Washington, June 24--The Senate to- day passed bills creating National For est Reserve in the Southern Appalachian Mountains and ratifying the agreement between the Choctaw and Chickasaw In- dians of the Indian Territory and the United States
 The first bill provides for the purchase of four millions of acres in the Southern Appalachian system at cost not to ex- cesd s10,oOo.00o The Secretary of Agri- culture is to designate the lands to be purchased and is take measures to pre- serve the hardwood forests which they bear.
 Mir. Quay Penn.) was unable today to secure consideration of his motion to discharge the committee on Territories from further consideration of the Omni- bus Statehood bill, but gave notice that he would demand that it be taken up to- morrow.
 At o'clock consideration was resumed of the bill to ratify an agreement with tke Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians. An amendment was adopted to strike out section g. of the measure. This section provides that the citizenship court shall have appellate jurisdiction over all judg- ments of the courts in the Indian Terri tory rendered under the act of June 10. 1898, which admitted persons to citizen ship in the Indian Nations. The right of appeal may be exercised by the na- tons jointly.
 An amendment was agreed to striking out of the bill the appropriation of $15.- 900 to pay the expenses of removal to the Indian Territory of full blood Mis- sissippi Choctaws and other Mississippi Choctaws Identified under the pending agreement
 Section 64 of the bill provides that the Chickasaw Nation shall cede to the Unit ed States $40 acres of land in the vici- nity of the village of Sulphur, to be paid for by the UaitsEh States at not to exceed s2O an acres tiI6A Improvements on the land to be paid for by the United States at their appraised value, and the Gov crnment shall control the Sulphur Springs. The provision was finally strick- en out.
 The bill then was passed. The Senate irsisted on its amendments and Messrs. Stewart, Plett (Conn.) and Jones (Ark.) were named as conferces.
 The following bills were passed:
 Authorizing the President to reserve public lands and building in the Island of Porto Rico for public use and grant, ing other public lands and buildings to the Government of Porto Rico, the pro- vision giving the resident commissioner from Porto Rico to the United States a seat in the House of Representatives be- ing eliminated.
 Mir. Quay said he had been unable to get his motion to discharge the Commis- sion on Territories from further conside- ration of the Omnibus Statehood bill un- der consideration on account of the "ob- structive ta)ctcs' which had been em- ployed against 1t. He gave notice that after this evening he would object to any bfurther business bsing transacted by unanimous consent until his motion was disposed of and that he would call up his motion tomorrow.
 Other bills were passed as follows:
 To raise theagranko of Chief Engineer David Smith f0n the retired list of the Navy to the next higher grade; for the suppre ssion of train robbers in the Ter ritories of the United States and else- where; to amend the act of March 2, 1893, so as to provide that all locomotives and terders shall be equipped with train or power brakes and automatic couplers.
 The Senate then at 5:40 o'clock went into executive session and soon after ward adjourned.