Show III tin SriiuU ASniicrrox May iThe rc olullon of I Wilson which mao ordered to lie over ono I day providing for nn Investigation of the tantterof thanppoii tmcntof Indlnn traders by Ito Commissioner of Indian Affairs The preamble to the resolnllon recites that In I tho matter of such appointments I instated I IIo Islcr to that acts tao been done or pcrmiltod i lip dono In disregard of time law nnd rights and proper interests of the citizens On motion of Dolph the Senate took up the IWI JIIo to the bun e ln States r tain of lands crimled to time Northern Ill cilia Company nn Wek edit the bill proposed to forfeit for-feit from Vnllula to 1orlland tIme portion ot tic original grant over which lImo iorth era tnciflo Itidlroad did fI now contem 1 Into bnildlnc the line Hit I nti ycks ubjcctlon to the bill 1 wnn theio rYI land unfinished porllons of Ibo rood aloiiRotlicr unlnlabed prlonA ntid Rome nlouK nortloiii that had been fin Uhed hicli should to Included Intho bill A sIt I s-It Rtixnl ho mid if U passed It would i lien legislative 1 I declnrntlon I that lime mattei of I forfcltnro had been pis edonb Coiicresi nnd tlmt no other forfeiture nroccedlncs eonld bo undertaken Ho moved nu amendment I amend-ment for tho committeo bill which nrneml incut provides for time forfelturoof I rn r alt tlio I Northern Inciflo Knllrond land grant except lorlherlllnifo Iniiils nlnnewhioli the road woo oornplctid IlIml IIlonr rnl before June 418 ° ti an1 1 except ibo right of wny Call said the Committee lull was refill a proposition to confirm and not forego the the crant of some 43 000 anl acres of ol land to tho Northern I 1ncifio 1 Jlnllway Company It was equivalent to a clft by ConRess of > 2000lx or 3O05s3O to a fow individuals and ho protested ngalust I ilmunda eiprcsseil regret that Von Wok had moved Ibo amindracntnt thu time ns Ibo bill as I stood he odd forfeited certain lands to which there would be no difference of opinion in Congress while Ibo mucml mcutof the Senator from Nebraska Involved In-volved lie forfeiture of some lands nit to which there was nnd would boo bo-o great difference of opinion on that point ns to whether Congress Las aright a-right to forfeit Tbs question of forfeiting lauds attaching to Inv portion of the now completed line simply on the ground that the lIne had not been completed within the time limited by time granting net coos n mooted and disputed question both as to the right of Congress in the premises under It fsinn r this decision < the Supremo Court aud ns to Ohio morality nnd justice of Ibo forfeiture It was a question involving complicated I points of law 1 requiring serious consider nlon |