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Eashingfon. Mar 9.

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certain extra services were ordered 10
be engrossed for third reading A
part of the day was passed in the consid-
Grafton of Executive business.
The appropriation bill TO carry into
effect the Greek Treaty, was passed,
yesterday, in the House of Representa-
tIves, when protest signed by the
whole Georgia Delegation, was handed
in by Mr.. Forsyth, and read by the Clerk
as foliows.--
The president Of the United States
having submitted 10 the House of Repre-
sentatiges contract, made by James
Barbour, Secretary of War, and certain
Indians ofthe Creek tribe, dated the 2Gth
Of January, 1926, which has been ratified
by and with the advice and consent of the
senate Of the United States, aud having
a'ked of Congress an appropriation 10
carry il into effect, the undersigned Re.
presentatives OF the people Of Georgia,
feel il their duty respectfully to repre-
sent to the House.
That by a contract made at the Indian
Springs, between certain Chiefs of the
Creek Tribe, and the Commissioner Of
the United states, on the 12th of Feb.
Tuary, 1925, the claims Of the Greek In
dams to the land occupied by that tribe
in Georgia. was extnguished, and pro-
vision made for their removal, 10y the lst
day of September, 1926.
That this contract was on the 18th
March 1925, duly and solemnIy ratified
and proclaimed by the President of the
U. States, acting by the advice and with
the consent of the Senate, and that Con
gress, anticipating such contract, had ap-
proprIated the sum of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars towards the exc
cution of it. This contract partially ful
filled, on the part of the u. States, their
obligation under the compact with
Georgia, of 1902, and removed every
difficulty interpcsed by the occupation
of the Creek Indians, to the full exer-
else OF all the vested rights of the State
over considerable portion OF her soil
and territory.
That the undersigned are under the
solemn conviction that neither the Pre-
sdent alone nor the Government of the
United States have an, constitutional
power, without the consent of Georgia,
to interrupt: or invalidate. under any
pretence whatsoever, the right secured
20 that State by this contract, made in
obedience to an act of Congress, and
ratified with all due solemnity.
That the new contract for which an
is now asked, differs from
that at'the Indian Spring in this:-That
it does not provide for the removal of
the Creek Indians prior to 1927, and
does not expressly provide for the re
moyal from all the land occupied bv
them in Georgia. The undersigned
are, therefore, compelled BY last
sense of what is due to Georgia. to pro-
test, as they do most solemnly protest,
againstIt, as violating the rights of that
member of the Union of which they are
the Representatives, leaving to the con-
stitutional organs of the state sovereign
ty 10 vindicate or to waive those rights,
as their own sense of proprety, their
duty to the people of the state, and their
reverence for the Union of the States,
under the Federal constitution, may die
tate. ALBERT CUTHBERT.
GEONGE CARY.
JOHN FORSYTH,
C.. f.. HAY ES,