The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
MIR. .F0RAKER SPEAKS
ARGUES AGAINST. THE HEPBURN
 D0LLIvER BILL.
Ohio Senator Relieves That Existing EIlxins Law Can Be So Extended As to Remedy the Evils
 Complained of.


 Washingtou, Feb. 2s-For three hours. lacking a few minutes, today MT. Foraker held the attention of the I Senate while he read | carefully pre-.
 pared speech on the railroad rate ques- I tion. His speech was a protest against lany general Legislation on the theory that the existing Eikins law could be ] so extended as to make 1t answer all I the requirements He did not fail however, to point out what he consid- | cred the defects of, the Hepburn Dolli- ] yer bill and he made the declaration i more than once that 1t would fail to remedy the evils complained of. The speech was listened to by large nt. ktendance.% both on the floor of the Sem
 ate and in the galleries and at its close l the senator was warmly congratulated l by a number of his colleagues. Mr. Foraker's speech was followed by further discussion of the railroad l land grant in Indian Territory with the result that Mir. Aldrich's resolution ex- 1 tending the tribal government of the ! Indians was adopted arter so modify ing as to carry that government over { March {. 1907.
 A bill was passed authorizing Jeff ferson County Arkansas to construct a bridge across the Arkansas river at
 Pine Bluff. Ark.
 The joint resolution for the continu- ance of the present tribal government of the five civilized Of Indians until next June. offered yesterday by MT
 Aldrich was then taxen up and MT. Clapp offered the following substitute for it:
 That the tribal existence and tribal relations of the Choctaw. Chickasaw, Cherokee. Creek ana Seminole tribes of Indians in the Indiaa Territory shall continue unaffected until all property of such tribes or the proceeds thereof shall be distributed among the individ- ual members of said tribes" The presentation of the substitute provoked debate which was particlpat- ed in by Messrs- Clapp. Clark (Wyo) McCumber. Bailey, Te'ier. spooner and , others. Mir. Bailey said that his especial de- sire was to protect the Indians in the old railroad land grant. He was es. pecially averse to placing the control of the Indian lands in the hands of the Secretary of the Interior. He did not believe that any secretary should be given such power. hut he said. If we were willing to confer the power on any one individuais the present sec retary of the interior would he the last man on whom would confer it."
 Mir Teller thought there was no nec essity for the immediate dissolution of the present government and he thought 1t better that the tribal aIsrelation should continue for all time than that the lands should be turned over to the rail roads.
 Mir spooner pointed out a discrep- ancy between the Act. Of 1880, provid- Ing for the settlement Of the Cherokee Indians in Indian Territory and the pat ent making the conveyance showing that while the Act pro s,des for the re- version of the land to the government fin case the Indians become extinct or abandon the land." the patent provides for such reversion in case of extinc- tion of the Cherokee tribe or its aband- onment of the land. He. expressed the opinion that Congress mad not intended to deprive the Indians of their land ex- cept in case of extinction.
 The AIdrIch resolution was then taken up, modified and adopted.
 As passed it reads: That the tribal sexistence and government of the Choc- taw, Chickasaw, Cherokee. Creek and Seminole tribes. or nations of Indians in Indian Territory are hereby continu- ed in full force and effect for all pur-
 poses until the. fourth day of March. 1907, unless sooner provided by law"
 The Senate went into executive ses- sion at AIS F. M, but the doors were reopened ten minutes later and the re- mainder of the session was devoted to the passage of private pension bills. The Senate adjourned at 5:3O F. M.