Resolved, That a copy of this memorial and joint resolution, be immediatedly forwarded to our senators and representatives in congress, by the secretary of state, and that they be requested to present the same without delay, and use their best efforts to secure the passage of said bill.

Approved, February 18, 1875.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

Relating to the confirmation of tiile to school lands in Nebraska.

Whereas, Lands in Nebraska have heretofore been selected in lieu of sections sixteen and thirty-six, or any part of said sections, which have been sold or otherwise disposed of by the general government; and,

Whereas, The title to said lands so selected has not yet been confirmed to the state, and the school interests of Nebraska are seriously suffering from the uncertainty and delay in such confirmation ; therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That our senators and representative in congress, be requested to use their best endeavors to secure the confirmation of said lands at as early a date as possible.

Resolved, That the secretary of state transmit a copy of this resolution to our senators and representatives at Washington without delay. Approved, January 21, 1875.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION.

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled.

Your memorialists, the Legislature of the State of Nebraska,

would respectfully represent that they express the will of the people of this state in asking for an amendment to the constitution of the United States, which shall provide for the election of United States Senators by the whole people, and not by delegated authority.

Therefore, Your memorialists would respectfully ask your honorable body to propose an amendment to section three (3), act one (1), of the constitution of the United States, by which this election by the people of their qualified representatives shall be arranged more in accordance with the demand of the popular voice.

Resolved, That the secretary of state, be, and is hereby instructed to transmit a certified copy of this memorial to our senators and representative in congress, who are hereby requested to use all honorable means to secure the object above expressed. Approved, February 25, 1875.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION.

To Congress relative to the establishment of a branch Mint at the city of Omaha, in the State of Nebraska.

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America.

Whereas, The large and rapidly developing mining interests of the far west, and the ample facilities now existing at the city of Omaha, Nebraska, for the refining of metals, and the great demand existing for increased means of coinage, all demand the location of a branch mint within this state; therefore,

Your memorialists, the Legislature of the State of Nebraska, respectfully and earnestly petition your honorable body to establish a branch mint at the city of Omaha, in said state.

Approved, January 27, 1875.

JOINT RESOLUTION.

In relation to removal of the Red Cloud and Spotted Tail Indian agency from the limits of the state.

Whereas, By a treaty entered into on the twenty-ninth day of April, A. D. 1868, between the United States, by its commissioners, and the Dakota or Sioux tribes of Indians, the said commissioners agreed to give to said Indians, the privilege of hunting in that portion also, agreed that all said portion of the state, should be held and considered of the State of Nebraska, lying north of the North Platte river, and as unceded Indian territory-upon which white men should not be allowed to settle or to travel over the same; and,

Whereas, The State of Nebraska never agreed or consented to any such privilege being granted to said Indians, within the limits of said state, or to any such prohibition of the rights of her citizens to travel over, or settle upon any portion of the territory of the state; and,

Whereas, Without the consent of said state, the United States, or its commissioners, could not grant such rights or pretended rights, to said Indians, nor impose such prohibition upon white settlement and travel within the boundaries of the State of Nebraska; at the time of the making of said treaty, a sovereign state of this Union; and,

Whereas,, Within a recent period the United States has removed to, and located within the boundaries of the State of Nebraska, two large Indian agencies, to-wit: The Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies, and has collected at and about said agencies, many thousand wild or emi-civilized Indians, thereby occupying a large and valuable portion of the state and preventing the occupation of the same by the citizens of the state, thus preventing the growth, development, and prosperity of that portion of the state, and menacing the peace and wellfare of our border settlements by placing at their doors a horde of lawless savages; therefor,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Nebraska, That we call upon the general government and

demand that it shall immediatedly remove from within the boundaries of the State of Nebraska, the Indian agencies of Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, and the Indians who have been brought into our state and located at and about said agencies without the consent of the state, and, also, that it take steps to abrogate the pretended hunting and other rights claimed to have been given said Indians in the said treaty.

Approved, February 4, 1875.

MEMORIAL AND JOINT RESOLUTION.

Relative to the distribution of seed in that portion of Nebraska which has been devastated by grasshoppers.

Whereas, The senate of the United States has recently passed a bill providing for the purchase and distribution of seed in that portion of Nebraska devastated by grasshoppers, and appropriating thirty thousand dollars for that purpose.

Whereas, Said bill is now pending in the lower house of congress; therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Nebraska, That the passage of said bill would be but an act of justice to those of our citizens for whose relief it is intended.

Resolved, That without the aid extended by the general government, as provided in said bill, settlers on lands of the United States within the State of Nebraska, will be compelled to abandon said lands and thus retard the settlement of the public domain.

Resolved, That the secretary of state transmit a copy of this memorial to the Hon. Lorenzo Crounse, our representative in congress, to be by him laid before the house of representatives at as early a day as possible.

Approved, January 21, 1875.

PREAMBLE AND JOINT RESOLUTION.

Whereas, It appears that in the organization of the legislature of the State of Louisiana, a minority of the members of the house of representatives holding credentials to seats in said house, in a violent and revolutionary manner pretended to elect a temporary speaker before the completion of a roll of members, and to vacate the seats of certain members holding certificates, and to admit certain parties who contested such seats preliminary to a regular organization; and

Whereas, When their disorderly proceeding were about to culminate in riot and bloodshed, the pretended speaker of the house aforesaid called in the aid of the United States military forces to preserve order; and

Whereas, The action of the commanding officer of the federal troops in insisting upon the retirement from the house of all outsiders and all claiming to be members, but not holding certificates, until a legal organization of the said legislative body could be had, has been made the pretext of an unwarranted and unjust assault upon President Grant and General Sheridan, who have, as in duty bound, assumed and indorsed the action of General De Trobriand by sundry state legislatures, and sundry members of congress, and a portion of the political press; therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Nebraska, That we heartily endorse the position of the president and the course of General Sheridan in assuming the responsibility of securing to the State of Louisiana a republican form of government by their prompt suppression of an attempted revolution.

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be sent to the president of the United States and to each of the presiding officers of the two houses of congress.

Approved, February 25, 1875..