The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-12-01

set aside Gao acres OF the townsite OF
Sulphur for n national park. Further
Than this, the agreement went on to
provide that one-third of the receipts
from sales OF town lots should be set
aside by the nations, and their one
third interest in town lot sales should
be set apart Tor the purpose of i'm
proving and maintaining such govern
ment park. The treaty did not say
whether this was one-third of all the
sales from town lots in Sulphur. or was
onc-third of all the sales from town
lots In the Chickasaw and Choctaw
Nations. This section alone would
have aroused my bitter opposition
FIRST. from the fact that / am opposed
to giving the United States govern
ment pny part of the lands OF the
Choctaw and Chickasaws Tor national
park purposes, and, further. | am bit
terly opposed to any ambiguous
clauses in any treaty. whereby such
an enormous sum of money would be
given to the United States govern
ment for the support of such park,
and from the wording OF the treaty
| take IL that one-third of all the rev
enues from all town lot sales could be
claimed tor the improvement and
maintenance OF the government park
at sulphur, If the treaty were permit
ted to go through and should be rati-
fed
Il take the ground that the Chickasaw
and Choctaw commissions in session
at South McAloster are not legal, and
tina, they are not constituted as was
provided for by act of legislature. The
acts OF the ChickasaW and Choctaw
legislatures creating these commits
SONS provided that there should be
Chree commissioners from each ma
tion, aud that the governors of each
nation should be eX-ofiicio chairmen
of such commissions. There was only
one commissioner representing the
Choctaw Nation, Judge Simon Lewis
w. w. Wilson and Hon. Green McCur-
tain not serving There were only
two commissioners for the Chickasaw
Nation, Hon. Holmes Willis and Hon
Calvin Grant-E. B. Johnson of the
Chickasaw Nation OF se' Wing.
Furthermore. | take IL, that II the
two commissions We're legally and
properly constituted. they had no right
to go into other details of a supple
mentary treaty than 20 arrange date
for closing the rolls of the nations.
which was the only thing provided for
In the legislative act creating the com
mission | do not think, in my humble
Judgment. that there Is any necessity
whatever for supplementary agree
ment between the ChiCkasaws and
Choctaws and the Dawes commission
The A'oka agreement and the Curtis
act cover all the ground in the prem.
ises. and the rolls may be closed at
any time in thirty days. All the gov
ernors OF the two nations have 10 do
TO close the rolls is to call their legis.
latures together and pass an act
closing the rolls. and this will settle
the matter. | think the Curtis act and
the Atolia agreement cover all the
points In connection with closing the
rolls and getting ready for the allot-
ment of lands in the two nations
There is another clause in the So
called supplementary agreement" "
which provides for the sale of the coal
and asphalt lands of the two nations.
IL Is alleged on good authority that
there is a proposition TO sell these
lands outright to the mine operators
in the two nations. and that under the
agreement the governors of the two
nations have the right to make sale of
such lands. and that the lands might
be sold for five dollars an acre. where
as they now bring in to the two ma
tions n yearly revenue of 5000 an
acre for Royalties on coal and asphalt
mined.