The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-02-25
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FULL TEXT OF THE RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED.
The Convention Was a unIe Except on
the PrOpOsItioa to Appoint Terri
tOrIaI Governor. and on That
Substitute Was Adopted.

South McAlester convention assem- :
oled at O'Clock Friday morning [
and went at once to the considera- 1
ton of the report of the committee
on resolutions. The report, which
was adopted by sections, is as fol-
lows:
Your committe on resolutions beg
leave to report the following:
This convention recognizing that
the title to the lands in the Indian
Territory is in the members of the
tribes; desiring to obtain no jot of
that to which the Indian is justly en-
titled under any form of legislation
whatever; gladly acknowledging the
cooperation of many M embers of the
tribes in the labors of this conven-
ton; realizing that the interest,
prosperity and advancement of all |
classes in the Indian Territory is in |
dissolubly linked together, and that
no better political condition can ex-
ist for citizens and non-citizens alike
than the attainment of all the rights
and the privileges of full American
citizenship as soon as may be con-
Sistent with justice and good faith
doth resolve,
l. That we urge upon congress to
increase the appropriations for al
loting the lands, and appraising the
towns in the Indian Territory, and
to strengthen the administrative
agencies, and increase the force ap-
pointed by the government to per-
form this work.
| 2. We favor the abolition of all
taxes levied by the tribal govern
ments upon the property and voca-
tions of citizens of the United States
resident in the Indian Territory.
3. That lnasmuch as the people
living outside of the towns in the
Indian Territory are without laws
and without means to organize and
maintain schools, we urge upon con-
gress to pass necessary laws for the
organization of schools i'll the coun-
try and to make appropriations for
that purpose pending the allotment
of lands and the adjustment of Eion-
citizen interests in the Territory,
leaving to the towns relieved of the
burdens of tribal taxation the task
Of providing their own schools.
4. We ask the passage of a law
authorizing the creation of private
corporations in the Indian Territory,
and recommend the bill 8. All, II. r.
1889 now pending before congress.
5. We ask the enactment by con-
gress of law authorizing the issu-
ance by incorporated towns of bonds
to be used for the establishment of
water works and the building of
school houses, such bonds not to ex-
ceed an amount of interest which
at five per cent per annum would be
liquidated by a tax of five mills upon
the dollar OF the fair valuation of the
taxable property in said incorporat-
ed town, said bonds not to be issued
except upon a three-fourths major
ity of the qualified voters voting at
an election called for that purpose,
and upon the finding of these prere-
quisites by the United States court
exercising jurisdiction over said
town.
6. That we urge upon the congress
of the United States the justice and
the necessity of allowing the Indian
Territory representation in congress
through a delegate to be elected by
its people.
Z. We ask congress to repeal the
laws authorizing citizens or non-citi-
sens to be elected from the Indian
Territory by the executive branch of
the government, and ask that the
personal liberty of individuals in the
indian Territory be not abridged ex-
cept after presentment for crime and
trial had according to due process of
law in the courts
S. We favor the ratification by
congress of the treaty negotiated
with the Creek nation, with such
amendments as congress and the
commissioners representing said ma
ton may see fit to make; we also fa-
vor the ratification by congress of
the agreement between the United
States and the Cherokee nation.
g.. We favor the passage by con-
l gress of the bill, H. r., introduced
by Mr. Gaines of Tennessee, to en-
large the jurisdiction of the United
States commissioners of the Indian
Territory.
10. That we ask the erection and
maintenance by the government of
an asylum for the insane of the In
dian Territory to supplant the in
human method now necessarily prac-
ticed of confining them in the jails;
and we especially call attention to
section 81, of the agreement between
United States and the Cherokee ma
ton, wherein provision is made for
the donation by the Cherokee ma
ton to the United States of the
Cherokee insane asylum buildings,
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