The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1886-07-07

will notice Q large area Of country em
bracing perhaps from 100000 to 500,
COO acres, including stream with Il
tho Dominion Cattle Company. o
Canada," - you will observe. Her,
[pointingl i tho New York Cattle Com
pany, and there the Eagle Chief Pool
the Wyeth Cattle Company, and ths
Mcclellan Company. In the northeas
corner you will find indicated tw<
leases Of the Standard Oil Company
Their brand il 20. I. L." They "struch
oil" down there. Laughter.
These lesees are I'll pooled and il
only costs about % cents 10 raise Z
steer until he is three years old. How
can an honest farmer compete with
that kind Of thingf
cArrLE-KrNGs on HoMrsrKADERs.
Now, / submit that the question i
no longer whether tho red man or the
white man shall occupy this Cherokee
strip. The white man already oocu.
pies it. He has been placed there BY
tho Indian himself in violation OF law.
The real battle i whether the poor
msn seeking . home, who has but Z
single yoke Of oxen perhaps to draw
his family to the Territory, shall have
. right to 60 there taking with him hia
family, the church, and the school
house, Or whether no shall bo excluded
BY the rich foreign and domestic cattle
syndicates that are there in violation
q Law. lApplause.l
That i the question before this
country and before this House; and
want 10 leave this committee and this
House without further excuse in deal
ing with this Indian question. II this
mOnstrous condition of affairs II 70
continue longer it shall be with the
full blaze Of the facts streaming upon
this House and upon the people.
Mr.. DUNHAA. Why does mt your
administration enforce the law
Mr.. WEAVER. Well, I am sorry to
say, have no administration. Laugh
ter.
MI. LONG. Why does mot the I'd.
ministration enforce the law3
Mr.. WEAVER. The gentleman from
Massachusetts, puts the question in :
different shape, "Why does not the ad-
ministrati0n enforce the lawr in
tend to answer that question, and /
will answer it fearlesslv. I retort upon
tho gentleman from Illinois Mr.. Dun.
haml and ask him the question. why
was It that your administration allow
ed these cattle syndicates TO settle upon
that country and infest every acre OF
the public domainp This WAS done
when Chester A. Arthur was Presidont
Of the United States.
Mr.. DUNHAM. That il not answer.
ing the question.
A MEMBER. Il i : Yankee way Of
answering.
Mr.. WEAVER. It IL . Yankee way
Of answering, and . very good way;
but ! will answer directly.
This unlawful occupancy by the cat
tie syndicate was effected under . Re
publican administration. Under the
administration of Mr.. Arthur the poor
people tried to 90 into Oklahoma and
were driven out by the military. Mr..
Cleveland, on coming into power, found
this unlawful condition Of affairs ID the
Iudian Territory, and he has not chang.
Cd the policy Of Mr.. Arthur except O.
to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reser-
vation and the Oklahoma country,
whore ho did order the military 20
eject the cattle syndicate. It WAS not
obeyed . to Oklahoma except by the
merest pretense.
Mr.. HEPBURN. Did not you CLAIM,
on the stump last year, and did not Ill
the Democratic speakers In the State
of Iowa claim that President Cleve
land had removed all these intruders
from that Territoryf
Mr.. WEAVER. / am glad the gem
tleman has asked me that question;
for it affords mo IN opportunity to
apologize to my constituency and to
tho whole country for having made >
statement believed at the time to be
correct, bat which l now ascertain was
not correct. l believed when I was
canvAssing my State during tho cam
paien that We had entered upon . new
era, and that the administration had
issusd an order which, il NOT in legal
terms, did il effect apply to every cat
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case; and l ch ssrfully state il here, for
there i no administration on this earth
in whose interest would conceal the
plain truth with regard TO this matter.
Mr.. RYAN. viii the gentleman n
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