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Show REPORT OP TEE OOMMI$SIONJ~RO P I N ~ ~ A ANP'F AfRS. XLIII their Indians as unanimous in their refusal to give their consent to the survey, and the matter has not since been agitated. Uintah and Uncompalqre reserves, Utah.-By the act of Congress ap-proved March 3,1887 (24 Stat., 548), a right of way is granted through these reserves to the Utah Midland Railway Company, a corporation of the Territory of Utah, entering the Uncompahgre reserve at or near the place where the White river crosses the east boundary line of the Territory of Utah j running thence by the most feasible route in a gen-eral westerly direction across said Uncompahgre and the Uintah re-serves, to the western boundary of the latter, iu the direction of Salt Lake City. By Department telegram of May 7last, the resident agent at the Uintah and Ouray agency was informed that permission was granted for a preliminary survey for the road, provided no serious ob-jection or obstruction thereto by the Indians was developed. The agent was further instructed to explain to the Indians that all questions of consent by them for right of way and constraction of the road would be considered and determined hereafter. It is unde~stoodth at the survey is now in progress. The act vests the President with discretionary power to require that the consent of the Indians to the right of way shall be obtained in such manner as he may prescribe before any right nnder the act shdl accrue to the company. It also contains the usual provisions as to compensation to be paid the Indians, etc. Partial and deferred legislation in reference to railroads. Devil's Lake reserve, Dakota.-At the second session of the Forty-ninth Congress the House Committee on Indian ABairs favorably re-ported tho bill (9. 1057), passed by the Sehate at the preceding session, grantiug a right of way to the Jarnestown and Northern Bailroad Com-pany through its reserve, but it was not reached on the calendar. Wallcer River reserve, Nevada.-The bill (S. 1056) granting a right of way to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company through this re-serve, passed by the Senate at the Brst session of the Forty-ninth Congress, and referred to the House Committee on Indian AEairs, was not acted upon. Pakama reserve, Washington Territory.-The bill (S. 1211) grant,ing a right of way to the Xorthern Pacific Railroad Company througbthis reserve, passed by the Senate at the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress and referred to the House Committee on Indian Affairs, was adversely reported by the committee at the second session. Sisseton and Great Biom reserves, Dakota.-The agreement made with the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians in Dakota for right of way through the Lake Traverse reserve to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railroad Company, also those made with the Sioux Jndiaus in Dakota for right of way through the Great Sioux reservation to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company and the Dakota |