The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-27
TIE cHERokEE OUTLET.

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mo Secretary OF She Interior Gives FTss
tsAds TO Open t1ss strip 80 Settlements II
Should Act Speedily.
WAsUISGToN, Feb 2O--The Cherokee
outlet question IS attracting consider
able attention here at present and yes
terday there were distributed at the
capitol printed copies OF Secretary
MOBILES letter to Chairman Struble, OF
the house committee on territories, in
regard TO Representative Mansur's bill,
introduced January II, which, in effect,
proposed TO appropriate s., $50, us - 70
pay the Cherokee nation, at the rate of
81. rs per acre, for any claim or interest
they might have 20 lands within the
outlet.
This bill was referred 70 Secretary
Noble and he referred it in turn to In
dian Commissioner Morgan. who held
that the Cherolzees had a full and com
plete fee simple title to the lands enc
braced in the Cherokee outlet and that
it was private property in which the
United States had no more interest than
had state in private lands liable to
escheat- He also held that the lands
could not be appropriated without the
assent of the CherolSees-
Secretary Noble differs entirely from
the commissioner and at great length
explained the various treaties and eS-
ecutive orders for the past fifty or
sixty years bearing upon the lands and
the ChcrotIces in their rights accorded
them when they consented TO move
west of the Mississippi
Mr.. Noble concludes his letter with
several reference to the attempts of the
commissions to treat with the Chero-
KEGS and says: Recent Communica-
tions from the board of commissioners
show that negotiations during the past
year have been barren of results, if not
entirely futile. Propositions have been
nv CT1r ~ hipll were
met by counter propositions, some OF
which were so eXtravagant and I'M
heard of IN character that the commits
siOners were compelled to decline all
discussion in relation to them and now,
after repeated efforts to bring about an
amicable settlement OF these matters,
no agreement has been reached
| and negotiations have come TO
/ an end Whether they will be
| renewed and with what result remains
/ for the future to disclose. So far as 1
/ can see, VIC are now no nearer an annie
! able arrangement than we were at the
| beginning. I, therefore, think, in view
! of what has been said and of other con-
| sideratiOns not necessary to press upon
| you now, that if congress intends to
/ open up the Cherokee strip to settle
ment the measure proposed or some
( similar law should be speedily enacted.
| OF course the foregoing views must be
t taken to be applicable only 20 the
| Cherokee outlet in which believe the
Indians have only an easement which
! congress has power to declare at an end
| upon reasonable compensation for such
| interest"
| A copy of Secretary Mobiles letter to
! Samuel Paul, of Pauls valley, ChiclSa-
saw nation, was to-day inclosed to Rep
resentative hansur by Representative
| Clements, and the latter says that he
| has been assured by the secretary that
all rights of citizenship of the nation
and rights of money and land belonging
to the Chickasaw council forfeited these
/ rights to those who, under the act to
provide for the temporary government
of Oklahoma, became citizens of the
/ United States In his letter to Paul
/ the secretary assured him that the laws
| of the United States We're paramount to
any enacted by the ChiclSasaw nation