The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-03
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'The Kiowa and Comanche land cannot
be opened, no matter how rapidly the
work is done, for about nine months
Congress refused to appropriate money
| for allotting agents, but provided that the
| lands should be allotted TO the Indians by
an inspector appointed by the secretary
OF the interior. 1t also provided that the
land shold be allotted within ninety days,
and the department has already held that
1T is utterly impossible TO do that work
| in that time. There was a further pro-
vision in that bill that they should be
| opened to settlement within six months
after the allotments had been completed;
| so that people now who are going in there
l believe technically under the law. where
| they go IN to hunt mineral, are correct,
1 but want to warn my friends, after
eight years OF trying to get congress TO
ratify that treaty, that the department is
going to hold against every man that goes
in there; that they will be removed by
| the troops; and then, last and not least
1 fear as congress viii meet again be-
fore those lands are opened TO settlement
that if the rush is made by our people,
that the next congress will pass a law
disqualifying anybody who has been
| upon those lands from the date of the
passage of the act up to the date of the
Issuance of the proclamation by the presi-
dent.
There was a little trouble in getting
| those lands opened. I introduced the bill
to open them. First we tackled it onto
the Indian appropriation bill. It was
knocked out on a point of order. We
went to the senate and tried to put ii on
there and a certain prominent senator
said IF you will pass q separate bill I
will help you out, and we did that
hunted this man up and said, We are all
right; I want you now to help me- He
said, Well the conditions are such that
/ have reconsidered my former opinion
There were we again with the bill hung
up. We had sent that bill to the senate
during three different congresses. The
senate was very DESTROYS of helping one
Of its own members who resided in Ida
no. He had a treaty known as the Fort
Hall treaty, which provided for the open
ing of four hundred thousand acres of
land in Idaho. The senate passed that
bill. The house referred it TO the Indian
committee. A subcommittee was appoint
ed, of which your humble servant was
not a member. but thanks to one of the
gentlemen who was, he resigned from the
committee, and 1 took his place And the
Fort Hall bill was reported with the rec
ommendation that it pass, and with an
amendment which provided for the open
ing of the Kiowa and Comanche land
The bill came up in the house as amended
passed and went to the senate, and the
senate hung it up for ninety days, and in
order to save that great and good sena-
tor, who is a good friend of mine, find
ing they couldn't get the treaty ratified
unless they also ratified the Kiowa and
Comanche treaty, at o'clock in the morn
ing before we adjourned, the American
congress passed the act. which at once
received the approval Of the president
which will give us down here two mil
lion more acres of land open to settle
ment.
There were various other bills passed
pertaining to the territory, of various
kinds and character 1 will not undertake
to give in detail all of them, but I will
say this to you, my friends, when it was
talked that in appreciation of my work.
it was the desire of the benefciaries to
make me a present of a home. so that 1
might also have one, and be a participant
in the benefit which they were receiving,
said: No; If 1 had done what the peo-
pie expected me to; if I had in that meas
ure satisfied them in their wishes and de-
sires; that is all the recompense that any
honest man should ask of his constitu-
ency'
I'VE are home now. In a short time
I presume 1t will be nay pleasure as we'll
as my duty TO again canvass the terri
tory. What the ides of November may
bring around nobody can tell There are
only two certain things OF the world, and
those are taxes and death You can't
tell very much about the majority but
the record is there, the record of the par
ty that has honored me ever since I
came to the territory. is there. have Only
been one spoke in the wheel This is
great promising territory. The Ameri-
can congress is composed of three hun
dred and sixty spokes, in that lower
wheel of the lower house One man is
almost insignificant without the aid and
assistance of another; a delegate, al least,
is powerless. because he has not even the
right to vote. But L want to give credit
to the men who wrote the letters TO their
friends in both houses of congress- and
implored them to support and vote for
the free homes bill; want to give those
people that credit which as an honest
man I say they are entitled to. I could
do nothing but my share and my part
When we advocated it originally, people
looked in surprise. in fact some Of them
hadn't got over the look of disgust until
they found that the president had abso-
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