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Show \I . f XXXII REPORT OF COM~ISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. served to the United states, and a the proposed legislation appeared ' to aflord reasonable protection to the Indians in providing for wmpen. sation to them; and in other respects, under the direction of the Secre-tary of the Interior, prior to the vesting of any right in a railroad com-pany in and to the lands of the reservation,'I returned the act stating that I saw no objection to its appmal. Thepresident, however?daem- , ing that the bill did not sniBciently guard against the iiivasion of the righta and a disturbance of the peace and quiet of the Indians on the reservation mentioned, and not being -satisfied that the legislation pro-posed was demanded by any exigency of the public welfare, returned the apt to the Senate without his approval. ' (See Executive message, Senate Ex. Doc. 204, Forty-ninth Congress, first session.) Ccew d'Al8ne ReSme, Idaho..-Quite late in the last session of Con-gress measures were introduced granting :r right of way to tbe Spokane and Palouse Railway Company and the Washington and Idaho Rail-road Company, respectively, through this reservation. Both bills have been referred to the Udited St.ates Indian agent in charge for an ex-pression of the views of the Indians thereon, and for investigation as to the necessity and advisability of the propomd legielation. Crow Reswve, Montana.-Bills (9. 2778md H. R. 9677) were also in-troduced authorizing the Billings, Clark's Fork and Cooke City Railroad Company to constrnct and operate a railway through this reservation. Fort Hall Rams, Idaho.-By office letter of Deeember 12,1885, the attention of the Department was again called to the snbject of t.he wn-tinned failure of the Utah and Northern BiIroad Company to eompen-sate the Shoshone and Bannaek Indians for the right of way and lands of the reservation taken and used for the purposes of its road, con-structed from north @ south through the reservation in or about the year 1878, and the matter was made the subject of Executive message to Congress December 21,1885. (S. Ex. Doc. No. 20, Forty-ninth Con-grese, fist sesaion.) At the lsst session of Congress a bill (H. R. 2847) wasintrodneed- To authorize the6hoabone and Bannsck Indians to sell to the Utah and Northern snd Oyrm Short-Line Railnay Companies certain lands situated upon the reserva-tion of said Indians in Idaho, ueceassry to said railwig oompauiea for railmad por-poses and for the relief of said railvray companies. Binding; upon examiustiouof this bill, that it made no provision for negotiations with the IndianFi in respect of tlie lands originally taken for the north and south line of the Utah and Northern Railroad, hut was simply directed to the acquisition. of additional lands at Pocatello Station (the junction of the two roads, whera the railway Oompaniea seekto acquire some 1,600 acres), I returned the hill with the sugges. tion that the question of compensation arising out of the constf~iction of the north and south road be considered in connection with the pro-posed measud, and that the bill be amended in committee accordingly. Late in the session, House hill No. 9378 (prepared in this office) was reported from the Committee on Indian Mairs, which authorizes the |
