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Show REPORT OF TkIE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 71 - The committee submitted no measure to enable the Department to oarry out its suggestions. Under date of December 16, 1885, Commissioner Atkine submitted for presentation to Congress the draught of a bill, embodying in the main the suggestions contained in the committee's report, accom-panied by a full statement of the facts and the necessity for legislation upon the subjeot. (See House Ex. Dm. No. 21, Forty-ninth Congress, first session.) The bill passed the Senate, but failed in the House of Representatives. After the final adjournment of the Forty-ninth Congress it was deter-mined to make one more effort to secure to the Round Valley Indians some portion at least of the 96,000 acres in the possession of white men, although hut little hope appears to have been entertained thilt anything would be accomplished. Accordingly, on the 2d of April, 1887, recom-mendation was made that authority be granted for the removal from the reservation of all parties found to be unlawfully hhereon, and for the employment of the necessary military force. Authority was granted, and on the 25th of May, 1887, the agent was instructed to notify all par-ties urilawfol1.v upon the reservation to remove therefrom, with all of their stock and personal effects, on or before4he 1st day of August 1887, and that in the event of their failure to remove their ejectment would be effected by a sufficient military force. From this order there , were excepted the persons and lands covered by the judgment of the United States circuit court rendered May 31,1880; all persons occupy-ing land the title to which had passed out of the United States, as shown by an abstract furnished by the General Land Office; and par-ties who had improvements within tba reservation on the 3d of March, 1.873, to whom payment or tender of payment had not beenmade. All of these parties were to be confined to the lands actually covered by the exception, and the latter class were to be confined to 160 mres each. September 30,1887, Agent Pates telegraphed that he was proceeding to eject settlers by military force as directed, when he was served with an order to show cause before the superior court of Sonoma Oount~r why he should not be restrained.' October 1, 1887, report was made remmmending that the matter be referred to the Attorney.Genera1, with request that the district attorney be instructed by telegraph to represent the interests of the United States in thg case, and to nse all proper efforts to defeat the contemplated injunction. This request was complied with by the Department of Sustioe, which Department upon request of the Department of the Interior, had previously directed the institution of proceedings against parties upon Round Valley under section 2117, Revised Statutes. October 27,1887, General Eowardtelegraph6d the War Department asking for instrnctiona and stating thatcaptain Shaw'u company of artil-lery bad beensentto evict trespassers on Round Valley j that an injanc- |
