50-1JudiciaryPunishment of Crime in Indian Territory. [2598] Legislation calling for punishment of burglary and larceny.1888-2

House of Representatives Report No. 7, 50th Congress, 1st Session (1888)

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50TH CONGRESS, } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1st Session. {REPORT No.7. PUNISHMENT OF BURGLARY AND LARCENY IN THE IN-DIAN TERRITORY. JANUARY 10, 1888.-Referred to the Hoase Calendar and ordered to be printed. Mr. RoGERS, from the Committee ou the Judiciary, submitted the fol-low1ng REPORT: [To accompany bill H. R. 1213.] The Committee on the Judiciary, having had under consideration House bill No. 1213, report the same back with the following amend-ments, and recommend its passage: (1) Insert after the word "mule," in line 6 of the first section of the bill, the words '' or other domestic animal." (~) Strike out the word ":five," in line 8, same section, and insert in lieu thereof the word " :fifteen." (3) Insert after the word" robbery," in line 2 of the second section, the words "or burglary;" and in line 4 of said section strike out the word " ten" and insert in lieu thereof the word " :fifteen." The committee :find that section 5356 of the Revised Statutes of the United States prescribes the punishment for larceny. The maximum punishment is $1,000 :fine and one year's imprisonment. This has been found inadequate to suppress larceny in the Indian Territory. The States surrounding that country have found it necessary to inflict much severer punishment-the maximum punishment in one State, and perhaps others, being :fifteen years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. ,The result is, the thief follows his vocation in the Territory. It is be-lieved the passage of this biJl will go far toward deterring his operations in that country. There are statutes of the United States punishing the robbing of the mails and the robbing of persons of property belonging to the United States, and also in a few other instances robbery is punishable under existing law. It is not intended by this bill to interfere in any way with any existing statutes relating to the crime of robbery. There is no statute punishing robbery in the Indian country except as stated. This crime is not unfrequently committed in that country. Sometimes the railroad trains are stopped and the railroad companies ancl express companies and passengers robbed, and the perpetrators can only be punished under the general statute for larceny, the maximum punishment of which is $1,000 fine and one year's imprisonment. This punishment the committee think incommensurate with the character of offenses stated. The surrounding States have found it necessary to punish this offense much more severely, and the committee think a severer vunishment shoulq be inflicted for this class of crimes when 2 PUNISHMENT FOR BURGLARY IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY. committed in the Indian Territory, where lawless and bad men have con-gregated in great numbers. The committee have been unable to find any statute punishing the crime of burglary in the Indian Territory, and have therefore recom-mended an amendment of the second section of the bill, so as to em-brace that offense and inflict an appropriate punishment therefor. The committee also recommend amending the title of the bill by striking out the words ''and horse-stealing," and inserting in lieu thereof the words "burglary and larceny." 

Punishment of burglary and larceny in the Indian territory

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Punishment of burglary and larceny in the Indian territory

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