Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-06-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST BRIETLl
CHRoNICLED.
AGREED ON INDIAN BILL
Conferees Finally Agree on All Points
of Dispute Not Subject to
Debt Homeless Provided or-Tree
Transportation for Children.

signed. The chief differences ralsed
by senate amendments were disposed
of by agreement adopted IS follows:
No allotment of lands to Indians on
the various reservations shall become
liable to the satisfaction of any debt
contracted prior to the issuing OF the
final patent.
Five thousand dollars of the appro-
priation for the transport of pupils
to and from Indian schools may be
used by the commissioner of Indian
affairs in placing pupils IN positions
where remunerative employment can
be found for them in industrial pur-
suits.
Railroad rights of way through In
dian reservations and lands shall not
exceed fifty feet in width on each side
of The center line of the road except
where there are heavy cuts and fills,
when the right Of way shall not ex-
eeed one hundred feet on each side of
the center.
Railroad buildings and switches
shall not occupy more than 200 feet
in width and 5000 feet in length addi-
tional and not more than one station
shall be situated within any one con-
tiuous length of ten miles.
Officers of the army shall not serve
as Indian agents.
An appropriation of 100000 is
made to purchase land for landless
Indians in California.
A compromise substitute in rela-
ton to the sale or disposition of un-
allotted lands In the Couer D'Alene
reservation in Idaho was agreed to
and it was provided that any coal or
oil deposits Shall remain the property
of the United States.
No person who has been or is. or
may hereafter be an employe of the
commission to the FIVE civilized tribes
or its successor, shall be permitted to
practice before the commission with
in two years after such person shall
cease to be an employe of the gov
ernment.
A compromise provision relating TO
the coal lands of the Choctaw or
Chickasaw nations was adopted by
the conferees as follows:
THAT the secretary Of the interior
is hereby authorized and directed to
make practical and exhaustive inves-
tigation of the character, extent and
galue of the coal deposits in and un-
Ger the segregated coal lands of the
[Fhoctaw and Chicksaw nations, In
lian Territory, and the expense there
#, not to exceed the sum of $4,000,
shall be paid out of the funds of the
Ehoctaw and Chickasaw nations in
the treasury Of the United States,
provided that any and all informa-
ton obtained under the provisions of
this act shall be available at all times
for the use Of the congress and its
committees"
The conferees agreed to the senate
amendment to carry into effect the
provisions of the agreement entered
into by James Mclaughlin, an In
dian inspector, acting on the part of
the United States, and the tribes of
Indian belonging to the Klamath
agency in Oregon. This agreement
has been pending before congress for
ten years.
Under this treaty, the lands ceded
by the Indians comprised 612,S24
acres for which the United States was
to pay $537, 7,OO7.
The conferees agreed to adopt the
senate amendment to carry into ef-
feet the provisions of the agreement
with the Indians residing on the Col
vile reservation in Washington, en-
tered into in 1891, by which there
shall be set aside for the benefit of
these Indians $1,500,000 in full pay
ment for 100000 acres of land
opened to settlement by the act of
1892.
For the construction Of irrigation
system to irligate the unallottel
lands of Uncompaghre, Unitah and
White River sites in Utah, 100000
is appropriated, the entire cost of the
project to be repaid by the sales of
land IN former Unitah reservations.
The foreign commerce of the United
States for April aggregated $251 ,0OO,-
900 Of which $107, 900, 900 was in i'm
ports and $144,O0O,OOO in exports.
These figures are given in a bulletin
issued by the bureau Of statistics
which says that only in one previous
April in the history of our export
trade has the total Of imports and
exports reached as much as $4,000, 900
An effort is being made to adjourn
congress- by june TO.
The conferees on the Quarantine
Bill adjourned without reaching an
agreement.
The senate Finance Committee or
dsred a favorable report on the de-
nAtured Alcohol Bill.
Representative Hepburn viii ask
are honse for special rule to. send
ehe Railroad Rate Bill to conference.
The conferees on the Statehood Bill
will probably reach an agreement this
week.