The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-21
FLYNN ON THE STRIP
Says 1t Presents a spectacl. More asrvelens
Than the Original Opening.

1t Is something TO represent 500 600 peo-
pie. That is what Dennis Flynn OF Okla
homa does He represents more people On
tho floor of congress than any other man
in tie United States. More than that,
Dennis Flynu does it we'll. There may be
a few people in the territory that Flyn:.
does not know personally, bu. he Is get
ting around to those few in doub!s quick
time.
Congressman Flynn was in Wichita yes
terday. For the past week be has been
galivanting about the Cherokee strip,
swapping jokes with the settlers and Incl
dentslly finding out their Legislative
needs.
DIR. Flynn says the Cherokee strip is
wonderful He declares that Perry ia iu
the way Of frame buildings. more Of a
marvel than Guthrie or Oklahoma City
was after the original opening.
There are going to be number of
county seat fights he said ''In fact,
they are going to be as thick as hops. You
see, the Indians took their alotments
around and near the railroad sta
tons. Then the government located
the towns aud in the counties away from
the regular stations. Mr.. Chandler origin
ally rendered decision that The Indians
must take the lands they had been culti
vating | am informed that Hoke Smith
signed this decision but afterward went
back on it on account of some political
pressure"
Durlu the last session of congress Mr..
Flynn arraigned the interior department
and quoted from the EAGLE copiously to
prove that the most disreput able methods
We're practiced at the opening of the strip.
He has been further investigating the
charges Of corruption against the govern
mont employees at the opening. Upon
this score, he said: "There was corrup-
tion and whole lot Of it. l am loaded
with facts in proof OF this and Hoke Smith
VIII hear from me at the next session of
congress-"
Congressman Flynn is much interested
in the statehood convention which takes
place at Kingfisher next Tuesday. He
says great interest in this meeting is man
tested throughout the territory. He has
prepared "a bill for the admission of Okla
homa and the Indian Territory as single
state. which he will introduce at the COM
ing session.
The bill provides for three members of
congress until the next national census is
taken. The right OF the Indians are
guaranteed, so long as such rights shall
remain unextiuguished by treaty with the
general government. A constitutional
convention is provided for. to be conpos-
ed of seventy-five delegates. The dele
gates are to meet not later than the fifth
Tuesday after the election, and for the ex-
penses of the delegates while in conven-
tion $4,000 are appropriated. The
school lands reserved are to
be turned over to the new
state for the purposes for which
they were withheld from settlement The
state when admitted shall constitute one
judicial district under the name of the dis
tlict of Oklahoma The circuit and dis
trict courts are to be held at the capital of
the state, and the judicial district shall be
attached to the Eighth judicial circuit.
The constitutional convention is empower
ed to provide for the election Of state Off
GERS and a legislature at the time the vote
is taken on adopting the constitution, but
the officers elected shall remain in abey-
ance until the state is admitted into the
Union.