The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1906-05-31
OUR WASHINGTON
NEWS AND NOTES
Items OF INTEREST BRIEFLY
CHRoNICLED.
AGREED ON INDIAN BILL
Conferees Finally Agree on All Points
of Dispute Not Subject to
Debt-Homeless Provided for-Free
TRANSPORTATION for Children.


has been reached by the conferees on
the Indian appropriation bill ON all
points of dispute between the senate
and house and the report has been
stoned. The chief differences raised
bv senate amendments were disposed
of by agreement adopted as 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 slde
of the center line of the road except
where there are heavy cuts and hills,
when the right of way shall not ex-
ceed 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 add1-:
tional and mot 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 ls
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 OF
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 it's 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 "a
the coal lands of the Choctaw OF
Ohickasaw 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
value of the coal deposits in and un-
Ger the segregated coal lands Of the
Choctaw and Chicksaw nations, In
fian Territory, and the expense there
#, not to exceed the sum of $4,000
Shall be paid out of the funds OF tht
Ehoctaw and Chickasaw nations III
lhe treasury of the United States
provided that any and all informa-
ton obtained under the provisions OF
Ibis 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 ths
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 agreemen
has been pending before congress fol
ten years.
Under this treaty, the lands cedet
by the Indians comprised 612,S2-
acres for which the United States was
to pay $537,OO7.
The conferees agreed to adopt th'
; senate amendment to carry into ef
feet the provisions of the agreemen
with the Indians residing on the Col
vile reservation in Washington, en-
tered into in 1891, by which ther
shall be set aside for the benefit O
these Indians $1,500,000 in full pay
ment for 100000 acres of LAM
opened to settlement by the act o
1892.
For the construction Of irrigation
system to irrigate the unallotte,
lands of Uncompaghre, Unitah AM
White River sites in Utah, $600,00'
is appropriated, the entire cost Of tn
project to be repaid by the sales o
land in former Unitah reservations
The foreign commerce of the Unatet
States for April aggregated $251 900,
600 of which $1O7, 100000 was in i'm
ports and $144,OOO,OO0 in exports
These figures are given in bulletin
issued by the bureau of statistic
which says that only in one previou
April in the history of our expor
trade has the total of imports an
exports reached as much as $40, ,000, 90
An effort is being made to adjourn
congress by june 10.