The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-07-01
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Mr. Bailey-Let me finish my stateE
ment II is absolutely certain that ]
would be prompt TO defend any right
lawfully acquired by any citizen Of
Texas. though the senator from Wis
consin ought TO know that If these
men hold their judgments they will
cease TO be citizens Of Texas and be
come citizens of the Indian 4 'rltory.
Indeed. / will go so far as to say that
every man with a judgment Ell thing
him TO membership I'm those tril os Is
already in the Indian Territory, and
has removed from the state of Texas.
MIR. Quarles-I must confess 20
some surprise, Mr.. President, that my
distinguished friend, the senator from
Texas. is not willing to accept the
disclaimer which | promptly made on
the floor the moment the suggestion
was made that was disparaging the
senator or imputing to him any i'm
proper motive. ! am surprised that
my distinguished friend is not gra-
cious enough TO accept my disclaimer,
and n II requires another assertion of
the proposition, claim the right 10
say now that | had not the remotest
idea or thought Of suggesting that my
friend had done anything that was
not entirely proper or that he had
any improper connection with these
people, or anything else There was
nothing of the kind in my mind.
Mr.. Bailey-Oh, do not for a mo-
ment imagine that the senator would
impute to me any improper connec.
tion, because that is a state.
ment that no senator would
make with respect TO me. But what
complained about was that the sen
.ator constantly repeated the state
ment as to these lawyers from Texas
and these people from Texas, thereby
insinuating TO the senate that had
other than the mere legal objections
to II. ! tell the senator now that as
often as a man goes from Texas to
the Indian Territory he improves the
citizenship of that Territory. and the
same could be said of Wisconsin, just
as well as Of the Indian Territory.
But, Mr. President, the senator from
Wisconsin. as | was proceeding to
say, said two brothers might come
from Texas with the identical facts
in each case. One might apply for
admission under one Judge, the other
might apply for admission under the
other Judge, and yet. upon the iden-
tical facts. he said. one brother might
be admitted as a member of the tribe
and another might be excluded. Grant
IT, Then, what Is the arrangement?
One brother having been excluded,
and the other brother having been
admitted. the arrangement is, If
this new court shall hold that
the Judge had erred i'm the case, ad-
mitting one brother, that the adj
mitted brother shall be excluded.
But IL is nowhere provided that the
brother who was wrongfully excluded
by the other judge is permitted to ap-
peal from his decision. The result
will be-and that is the purpose OF IL,
as was made plain by both the sena-
tor from Wisconsin and the senator
from Nevada-that large numbers of
these people win go of that roll upon
a pure question of law, and thus they
abandon the charge of wholesale per
jury and fraud, because they now be-
lieve that they car carry their meas
ure through the senate by proclaim
ing its real purpose: which Is, that
they intend by an amendment to the
law TO destroy a law which they say
ought never to have been enacted.
That is the purpose of IL. That is
the avowed object of It. Mr.. Presi-
dent, IL is difficult for me to charac-
terize in temperate language the eff
fort TO make II appear that everybody
in the Indian Territory who has been
connected with these cases is a ras-
cal, lawyers included. That there
are rascals there practicing law /
have no doubt. There are IN every
state rascals in every vocation. But
in the main the young men who have
gone 20 the Indian Territory TO prac-
tice their professions are ambitious,
vigorous, STRAIGHTFORWARD and honor
able. They have not gone there, II is