Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

mittee on resolutions, consisting Of one member
from each district, was appointed. This COM
mittee introduced the following resolutions,
which VIII be acten upon at the next meeting TO
De held at the same place, Marcq 20, $780,
We, the Freedmen Of the Cherokee Nation, in
national convention assembled.
Resolved. /. That we are grateful to the con-
gress of the United states for the justice done
In appropriating Si5, 600 for our benefit, as a
recognition OF our legal right to share per cap
ia In the appropriation made by the act OF
March 3, 1888. for the Cherokee Nation, and
from which, as constituent part of such Ma
ton, we were unjustly and unlawfully deprived
by an act OF the Cherokee council
2. That in Hon. John ". Wallace, the United
states commissioner entrusted with the respon
freedmen entitled TO their pro rata share of the
funds, we recognize q faithful, patient and just
officer who has endeavored to mete out equal
and exact justice to every freedman of the Chero-
kse Nation.
5. That inasmuch as $3.50 was the amount
per capita paid to each Cherokee by blood out Of
the 500, 600, the like amount should of right be
paid TO every freedman who shall be found by
the rolls OF Commissioner Wallace TO be entitled
70 snare IN the olstrlDuton OF the SAID $40, OO0,
and II that sum shall prove insufficient 70 pay
that amount per capita, we ask congress to
make up the deficiency.
4. That we are justly entitled to our pro rata
share Of the $50, GOO distributed among Chero-
KEGS by blood only in 1885, the same being
money belonging to the Cherokee Nation, OF
which we are, by the Cherokee constitution and
the treaty of 1856 with the United States as le-
gally apart as Cherokees by blood; and we ask
congress to see that our rights under such treaty
are vindicated, we are satisfied the Cherokee
Nation will not do US justice.
8. That during the late contest for chief of the
Cherokee Nation, both the National and Down
ing parties in their platforms professed that they
were IN favor of equal and exact Justice to the
freedman, but that during prolonged session
OF the council succeeding, lasting nearly sixty
days, not one word in our behalf was uttered in
either house, and that henceforth we intend to
support for Office those only whom we know to
be our friends, irrespective of party.
That heartily "a ont
clamation of the president of the United States
ordering the removal of the cattle from the
Cherokee Strip by the lst of October, 1890, and
are in favor OF sale OF the same to the United
States for reasonable sum, and demand that
our pIoportionate interest in the same be pro-
tected.
Z. That we recognize in Col. E. c. Boudinot
bold. unseIfsh and true friend of the freedman
as well as all people OF the Cherokee Nation.
8. That the secretary of the convention be di-
rected to furnish a copy of these resolutions to
the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, the
president of the United States, the secretary OF
the interior, and to both houses OF congress.
Commissioner Wallace has not yet completed
his census, but estimates that there are in the
Cherokee Nation $500 freedmen-men, women
and children, whose citizenship cannot be Ques-
toned.