Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-13

ihe Guy az time during the last month
not the same persons, Tor tney cone ANA
81 daily but the total OF Dcmocratic
NbSehtets does not often fan below
lwenty, IN addition 20 these who are IN
ne city but notAln their seats al the cen.
ltol The minority party freqnentiv ioYe.
av majority 70 Yield TO their demands
TOT Time To deliver partisan spccches
even pending tho consideration 81 meas.
Nws oi q purely business character. a.
cause Tue Democratic leaders know that
Y VII % impossible 30 fnd quorum 81
uelnoefs IA the city II the Republicans
Iev,lnu 70 answer TO their names. AZ
friday nlHht's meeting for the cOnsidora.
tleh ~ prNata pension bills tho entire
numpefd representatives. In attenaanea
vcty fntoly exceeds one hundred. inrlud.
Ing both par,les, and frequently tails 81.
low tlIjy. u is at these sossions anal
nearly an ~ the apcclal pension bins al
many u which have been vetoed. are
passed., As q rule the attendance "A
limited 20 momburs whose constlments
have hills that are likely 20 be reached on
thc private calendar, aud few others
VINO resort To The representatives. hall 10
assist some iellow-member, or hecaum
tney have no other amusement 60 engage
their attention,
The usual large batch Of private pcn.
Aion bills WAS not turnod out OF tho min
on tln last two Friday nights, because
certain mdmhers had been arousrd to a
sense Of their duty hy the preaidcnts
criticisms, aud they Insisted that tho
business should not be transacted with.
out quorum Ia attendance.
OKLAHOMA LANDS.
WAshiNaroN, July i2.--Chief ID w.
hnshyhead, delegate chambers Of tho
Cherukco nation, and Gen Pleasant pot.
Ter OF the Creoke, have united m u letter
70 General Master Workman powderly Of
the Knights OF Labor, They write,
we have been nainod TO observe amoua
The measures recommended Co congress
10y petltl0ns emanatlng from Organize.
iionr OF the knights OF Labor, on uur.
porting 20 do 30, recommendations for
the passage OF u measure known ag tho
Oklahoma bill As Ear as wa have been
able 10 ascertain, those patltlons aru
blank forms similar Ia character. and
seeming 10 have been furnished fron
some common point and to have been
directed through thceo channels. RenYe
sontlng the parties chiefly Interested oral.
footed by the proposed measure, ana not
believing that the Knights Of Labor have
iully Intended To violate our ireatlaa OF lu.
wade our rights, We tako this means,
through you, OF romonstatlng agalBet
me proposed violation Of our rights. Tho
lands of the Indian Territory are In no
sense the public lands OF the United
states. Under authority OF an net Of
congress OF Mny, 1850, aud OF numerous
treaties ana covenants, the lHnds 10 Qnes-
ZION were entirely Invested Of what IA
known az Indian occupancy title atty
years ago, and the United States haylnr
ihus acquired the full title first, BY ths
purchase oi Louisiana from lilo French,
second, hy purchase from tho Indian o..
cupanis~- conveyed by patent, ID ico sim
pie, every foot OF land Ia The Indian Ter.
rltory 20 certain organized Indian nntions
aud tribes, aud have thus been Hold Nv
them for the greater part OF half a rantusv
by precisely the same title that every cltl
IN OF Tho United States WHO owns land
holds his title
the representatives OF tho Chprokuon
and Creeks then take up tho Okahoms
movement aud say
~ IN true there have been many lawlesa
persons on the Kansas border threatening
TO lnyade our country II IN true thai
they have sqnatter organization, and
even maintain lobby IN Washington. n
they were honest squatters, seeking 10
settle on public lands, there are plenty Of
public l0nds for them to settle on, The
truth H., our lands are very valuable,
Tracts Of our land they wish TO pick ara
worth $40 TO $50 per aero. Thoy With
70 pass an outrageous law, eet
ting aside tho patent wo received from
the United States, paying Us an arbitrary
low price for our property, 80 that these
adyontufers may grow rich out OF The
property Of which we are 10 be robbed
II y really DO the purpose o. the 0rRanI
latlon OF which you ARE the houd 20 sci
aside all land titles and seize lands and
lots, and make a division Of them, we cn.
treat you 20 ut least do II lntelliRontly.
The letter concludes as follows
II you desire congress 10 pass bills 10
sonllscaio land, ask them TO c0nascatc
Inc 200, 100000 acres ~ land grant that
WAS originally their GIT, and not az ours,
sold for full consideration. II combs
iatl0n ~ % be the rule, seek 10 cOnGseata
he large holdings o. the rich whgte
'cople among you, They arc able 10 Dc.
end themselves, Surely an 0rganiza.
Ion professcdly established TO aid aud
strengthen the weak should not sock 10
loepoil nud rob wohk and helpless
leopa.