| Show INDIAN reservation the following from the Congress lon 1 01 record of tuesday march will be read by utah people with a good goal 41 of interest mr cannon 1 I ask unanimous con out to call from the table the answer of the secretary of 0 the interior to the solution ol atlon of inquiry which cassea the senate on the ch instant sand and I 1 isbell move to have that answer referred red to we the committee on indian affairs I 1 laire sevire to make a few observations upon if before it is committed if I 1 may bave bare the permission of the senate to do 0 so 0 o the whole chule matter will not oo oc copy capy more then than five minutes of time binti an in all probability will not lead to any debate the vice president the question to te on 00 the motion of the senator from etab to take from the table the corn com amol cation referred to by him the in doni ment upon which will be elated the secretary read as follo follow wt A letter from the secretary of the interior in response to the senate re solution Ol ution of the jtb of march as to the reason the nonagricultural and lands of the uncompahgre reservation have not been retired re to the public domain and proclaimed upon to oury enry and location the vice president the quest question iob Is ie on toe tho motion of the senator from utah to refer the communication to the committee on indian affairs mr cannon mr president it would woul 1 be unfair to send to the committee on indian afra affair irs without a statement state meat which will show to the senate its utter incompleteness this alleged answer to the resolution resu lution or of the senate sent bent by the secretary of the interior and without calling the attention of this body botne wrong which is belne bein a perpetrated abed not only upon the people of utah and upon the he but upon the treasury iry of the united mates by the persistent inaction of the secretary oi of the interior at ai d his refusal by that inaction to obey the mandate of the lav kw this communication is not an nar answer it to id merely an evasion eva where it to is not d discourteous Is courteous to the senate it is ie misleading mislead ipg it la Is diso our toona tome to the senate in that it does doea not give any reply to a very proper inquiry propounded to the secretary 01 the tee interior by the senate but re ferous refers us to 90 tho the geological report redart of some special agent who was waa a act outside or of we the laws with to examine the character of the land which the law says y hall be thrown open to settlement and mineral entry it to la nu no more a reply for the secretary of the interior to tate state to the senate that certain valuable mineral deposits exist wore here than it would be a proper answer of the secretary of the navy to 90 the Senate bail he been bean required by law to tild certain warships to may bay that some ec scientist bad discovered a new tarn iscle which fastened upon the bottoms bottome of vessels and therefore the secretary of the navy deemed it inadvisable to execute the law the cown coain uni cation of the secretary of the interior to ie misleading in weal this that it states that the matter of the opening of the uncompahgre reserva lion lin is now in the hands bands of the president of the united states and the secretary has oot not been advised a as to the presidents dems purpose nowhere in all the be voluminous correspond correspondence eDco which has baa been had on this question is 18 there an oy y showing nor has there been a any by public showing by t he secretary of the interi interior ur that be has reported to the president of the united states accord lue to the terms and provisions of the law jaw the designation of the lands noi to the indians Ind laDe I 1 desire to call attention to the fact that the senate may now DW have nolice of it and that the on appropriations may have notice of if hat bat there was appropriated in T 1 th sum of to pay for the work of a commission to allot lands in severalty severally to the aagre angre indians aud to treat with the indians in utah tor for the disposal of 0 portions i of their reservation er 1 ahat hat was appointed in ID november of 1894 and proceeded to lo utah ostensibly to engage lu in us its work of treating with the lau laDs out but as late as march 1895 to io comma al cation with the secretary of the lu la enor the commission stats states this that it su ou fur far has bas keen been to do di anything because of the fact that we the grou id d was covered with snow the whole busi gems has been con acted just along that line of ignorance aud misconception A commission was sent into the tops of the rocky Bocky s mountains at the beginning of winter wine to examine the soil as to its character hara oter and fitness for agri cultural cyl tural purports pur posts a commission com misel on of gen flemen who knew nothing whatever the character of the soil no matter how estimable they way may have been in otner olner respects was sent to the reservation and ried there for months drawing pay from the treasury or of the states and absolutely performing no go public service us as is ie shown eh own by the official correspondence mr president in chisso abie so called answer of the secretary ot of the interior shall go to abe committee on indian af affair faire I 1 desire most moat emp emphatically bati now dow to protest against any appropriation which may be charged tu to the account of the people of the abe wet we it t in treating with the abe indian Ind lave which shall be so mismanaged and I 1 desire here and now publicly to protest against the implied assumption ot of the secretary of the interior that he be alone knows anything about the character ol of we tue land in the and buacom reservations ot of bath I 1 insist that he has not the abe rig right titto to set up his bis individual opinion against the declaration ot of the law of the united til aies which so bays 9 that under certain cony contingencies cles cies those these reservations shall be dared open to settlement the men who nave have had bad the matter in charge have hare had the impertinence to assume that the only ones obes desiring to have the tie opened were men who are the agents of corporations seeking to obtain control oi of abe asphaltum asp ballum lands of utah the secretary of the interior antl mates as the only possible reason for his bis failure to carry out oat the law lam his in opinion that it would be well for congress to pass an act requiring that the mineral lands in the jodom buncom reservation shall be sold or leased at public sale to the highest bidder for cash that if this were do e vast sums of money would come into the public treasury and if the lands were allotted in the ordinary way by settlement and mineral entry the government would be ba deprived of extensive profits which should go into its treasury mr IS misconception of the real situation if these min eral era lands should be put up at ac auction and sold to the highest bidders bidden they would necessarily tall fall in the hands bands of large corporations if wey are located as are all other mineral lands of the united unite J states the hardy pioneer the man who has made his bla prospecting trips through that region gion of cu country will under the law take nis die just portion of the valuable land paying pay log the amount fixed by statute the law restrains the entries on oa the asphaltum round ground to ton ten acres to each person as it restrains the entries r lee of all mineral lands to defined areas mr president it would not be ba lair fair to leave jav the matter without protesting in the name of the west against the management of affairs so distant from washington by a sentiment so wholly lien alien to me he progress of the west it i is a a great misfortune that the secretary of the interior is not required by law lair to know something of be country over which be exercises such absolute juris diction a jurisdiction more mere autocratic than that of the congress of the united states because hotel here when laws are to be pawed passed affecting the welfare of the west there is discussion rath with we be secretary of the interior tb there erele is merely bill return of personal opinion the vice president the question is in on the motion of the abe senator from utah to refer the communication of trie toe secretary of the he interior to the committee on indian affa affair irp mr gordon I 1 hope the senator will not object to the communication lying over fur for one more day it la Is a new DOW question q to some of us ua and I 1 should like BD an opportunity of junking into it to some extent the subject la Is still lill before the senate mr Certai tily I 1 have no objection to that mr Preel president deuL phe fhe vice Pree president Adent the motion of the senator from utah will gp over |
