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Show THE DEATH OFTHE U.VCOJIPAHs cr.E BILL. Tjie Washington correspondent of the St. Louis tTfcis-Ceniocrafseut the following dispatch to that pa-ron pa-ron tboEJth inst. in relation to the attempted Uucorupshgre reservation reser-vation steal, which w as vetoed by President Harrison. We have posted our readers on this matter and those who have been interested la it will be plowed to learn the motives which inspired the President Presi-dent In Hitting a quietus oil the bill: "There is much gossip slHit the Uncompaligre Beservatlou cto some ot the Colorado people do not hesitate to ay that the President is puuishi eg Senator Teller awl Wol-cott Wol-cott and I!epresentatieTowi)iwud fcr their course on silver But as the facts come out they seem to sustain sus-tain the President fully. Senator Dawes told Congressman Frauk today to-day that the veto was right aud would be sUsVdncd. He is chair man of tiie Indian committee which rt-iorled the Mil to the Senate. It seems from Mr. Daue7-! statement tint there was no iuvcwtiga-tlou iuvcwtiga-tlou of the merits uf the measure. meas-ure. A Jsirty iu .. horn Ihecomiuit-lliehad Ihecomiuit-lliehad confidence Mid the bill was all right. Senator Teller called it up and lit it through in tlie Senate. A member uf the House committee on Indian atTairs stated to the UUJiC DtiMcrat e-urrespou.'e-ut today tint there is no special consideration of tlie Lull by that committee. Mr. TouiiseiHl, cf Colorado, had charge of it, and Mr. Perkins, of Kansas, got it through the llou-e. Nothing was said at any stageor the proceedings proceed-ings about tho existence of the a-l-Iialtum deposits. Anattemi t will be made l'i the Colt rado ciclczatioti to l--s tile bill over tile President's veto. There is no prospect or sue-cei-t now that tin- fails are out. Tlie iiicmbersgciteralry fvel that a little cs-uftdeitce game lias been plated upon them, and without regard to Iity pronounce the veto entirely Iroper. h-stdeslhe protestor the re,4ib!i-can re,4ib!i-can Congressmen from Missouri, tlie President ha't before Ilini when he w rote his veto the following sworn statement: "Your memorialist respectfully represent lliat they are interested iu, and art owners uf of a mine uf giloiiite', a new kin I of asplntltum suj-enorto all others b'iu.- in Xurt-i-ea-brn Utah, near JVtt Duchesne, aud just east of Uintah Brservalkiu; that fur tins projitrty its pr.'sciit ownen-, the I it jjuit Asphalhim Com-(iaiiy Com-(iaiiy of St. Louis, Mo., paid the sum of SIIu.uOJ; that at the time r such Mirvhasc the sjij comjony knew uf u deiesit or tain mineral lying a shi-rt di-tautt- from the Colorado State line, i.i t'ie I icouijohgrL. Itescrvation, which hati bten tiis-covercd tiis-covercd by If. Seholt, an officer of the said d 'tin Asphaltum Com-Iuy. Com-Iuy. Knowing of the existetie-e of this last deposit, this cumitauy paltl fur its mine a larger sum than it otherwise would have done, tioping that at some tune au ojHioiliiuity would l g -.en to compete fur tile purchase ot these tleuusits lying within the reservation." "About two years ago some Colorado Colo-rado farties came to the reservation and atteiii4ed to soeateand 0-i;rate some of the-se deiusity, imtting up Hire fenct-s and a shanty; but the Indian Agent. Cokiuel Bryner, ex-lielled ex-lielled them aud dc-4rnyed their im-pruVL-nienU. Latterly the whole reeratlon has been overrun by Iircs-jedon-, with the evident pur t-e of mmimr to Congre-s to secure more bills to validate their iretendetl hicatiuns rovide-d tliLt bill should , become law . To such an extent has ( the resereatiun be--n ovenuu that I the government ofliciai-t liave lieen conqa lied to clear thtm t.'S. There are two deposits of gtbonite within the two ranges of towithi proposed bi in- resturetl to the l-ublic domain by Senate bill ITSi-one ITSi-one is a ri-iire iin about s fret in tluckucTs and about two milts in length: the other deposit de-posit is but a small i..f tion of a similar simi-lar vt in, tlie main body of which lies West ur the abuve named ranges of tow nshrtst. All of these within the two ranges can Le taken up under the provisions of Semie lull I ' 17 1, by a L-catmii of not ninre than fifteen acres for which tlie United s-tates w ould rec-eive the sum of S-J jtr acre, ur, in the asfgregate, the mere itiann. nf STOii. X0 other valuable mineral has been fotiml within the L'ucompaglire I'te Ite-s-ervntkin. Il thugilsonite veins within with-in this. to rar.,- ur townships were ollVreil by the Government at publie sale. tie Gilson Asilinltiim Couny stauds ready to jy for the veins therein cmLiluIng tlml muifral the sunt of S-j'VkW. 'iriheseian-tsareto Iwauaiu restored re-stored to the i-ubhc domain in the usual maiiiK-r, so that all persons would have equal opt-ortuuity to nwke entries aud 1'jcation. the gross injusti. e vf the pre-ent bill would ! avoided. laxa- j tions hive already l.ren made j by certain gentlemen of aU the gll- s-mltowilhin three towteJiijs. The eff--c:. therelun-, of the ire-sent bid I is tlie same as if the government i were saying. -We will sell those I kinds to those parsons at the sum of I 52" ir acre.' Tho am-iidnienLo I made to the bill time its IntroJiic- ! tion make it more ol jectlonabie titan it originally stood, tor it not only deprives theS-irelaryor the Inter-' ior of the right to otTer the lai- at public sale, and tnereby see-ua- to I tlie government tlieir real alue, but ' it also takes from the Uncumpahgre I Utes the Itenefit of the moneys tint may be realized Ihcn-fruiii.' This is signed and sworn fo by I Charles . Baxter. uesidcut of the comjony. I Atta- hed is tile affidavit of Adol ' pliua Butch, the rL Louht brewer, ! to tlieem-d "lliat lie fully v.-riiie ' the statement vf the value of the I deio-itsi mane, aud lie-reby gives his I I-ersonal tmior-envent of the oiler ot f5u.J for the gil-oui;e in the two ! rauge-eof tounsliira naimni." Au auditioual statement shows ' that the stockholders or ttie com- i iny are Adoipltus ItusUi. Ch irle- -Nagcl, C. O. Baxter. F. . Bkbtu- I gcr, Chas. L. Kirchner, Charles ' Uttmann Ao.uii Bknk. II. 1 Natr-, ! E. A. Holm, or &t. J-oul-; A. L. I j Conger, C. S. Cobb, c. it. Grant, J. ' M. Beck aud E. G. Cublcr, of Ak- i ron. Ohio; Horace B. Camp mid ' Thomas V. WaWi, of Cuealtoga! Falls, Ohio, and B. Sebolt. of Salt i likeCitv. Pieeident Baxter, who lias been ' here awaiting Die action of the '' company, left today for at. Louis " greatly pleased at the result. Since the President's iitu an iu-terc-ling letter of Senator Vest's ! upon this bill has come to light. Tlie Senator wrote to one of the j stockholders in the St. lamia com-jtauy com-jtauy asfollous: "1 agree with you eutirelv as to wliat iou stated In jour letter. The thing I a bald steal, -,ii,l I will never be su.ee-ssfuL I will I keep my eye upon tt-e bill audi sitae it as soon as it shows Its heau iu the Senate. Il suef, k-gclatlou I as this can be successful there is no 1 1 ueiu talking about lioi.t-t i.v.-r,.. : ment in this eounuy any longer." ( As will lie observed the latter was I written before the Mil jos-ed the ' ' Senate. Senator Vest thought he : liadhlseyeonit,LutthUwa-.acase ; of "now you set, jt aml now-you don't." Before the Senator knew what Isd happened the bill had passed aud had gone to the House. : rtie Senator sa.) s that to tills day he 1 I dot not understand now the bill got i through the Senate without his I knowledge.. ! , . ! |