Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-21
MANY CHANGES MADE
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL
AMENDED BY COMMITTEE.
Employees of the Government Prohibit
ed From Specializing in Lands of the
Red Man-Proposed Schools.

The Senate committee on Indian affairs
has finished consideration of the bill max
ing appropriations for the Indian depart
ment.
Among other things the committee In
corporated in the bill appropriations to
carry into effect treaties with the Turtle
Mountain band of Cheppewas, in North
Dakota, s1000,000. and the klamath and
Modoc tribes and the Yahooskin band OF
Snake Indians. in Oregon, s537OO7
Specializing in Indian Lands.
1t has been provided by the Senate COM
mittee that any person who is now or may
have been in the employ of the United
States shall be prohibited from purchasing,
leasing or taking any interest in any In
dian lands. the distribution of which was
pending during such persons employment.
until after the expiration of two years from
the termination of such employment.
An appropriation of $4,000 was incor-
porated in the bill for exhibits from Indian
agencies. The Secretary Of the Interior is
authorized to make sales of lands In Indian
territory covered by coal and asphalt leases
subject to the right of the lessee to use so
| much of the surface as may be needed tor
such structures as are generally used IN
the production and shipment of coal AMI
coke. The Secretary also is authorized to
apply the funds derived from cravings as a
tribal or community fund in the payment
of the balance now remaining due on claims
OF certain licensed Indian traders against
individual members of the tribe. There is
appropriated 100000 for the purpose OIL
sa tisfying the final decree of the Court OF
Claims in the suit wherein the United
States was complainant and the ChoctaW
Nation the Chickasaw Nation and The
Chickasaw freedmen were the defendants
and respondents.
All leases made by any allottee of the
Choctaw Chckasaw, Cherokee Creek d
Seminole nations shall be absolutely null
and void unless recorded in the manner
provided in Indian territory WITHIN thlrtv
days after execution of such instruments
The committee has inserted provision ioI
the payment of SIS, los to the estate OF Ell
Ayres. late of Kaufman county, Tex, IN
full OF his claim by reason of the fallure OF
the President of the United states 10 op
prove deeds of land purchased by Ayres
from certain Chickasaw Indians IN MISSES
sippi.
The Chippewa Indians of Minnesota are
authorized to dispose OF the tlmper OF tH7H
respective allotments.
The Secretary of the Interior is author-
lied to pay out of funds belonging u the
Creek Nation the sum of S6,6S7 TO me es.
tate of VIM: M. Springer for plo1ess''n 1aa
services which Springer rendered 10 spe
Creek Nation.
To Establish Indian Schools.
For the purpose of establishing an INDIAN
agricultural school at or near Wahpeton,
N. L., an dppTOpIldtlou VI @1VV,OVo 10 ihouS'
and to establish an Indian school in Elko
county, New, $4,000 is appropriated.
The committee recommends abolishin9
reservation lines of the Ponca. Otoe and
Missouri Indian reservations and attaching
the territory to the counties of Kay, Paw
me- and Noble. Oklahoma territory.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorizes
to divert the waters of the Colorado river
for the reclamation of irrigable lands on
the Yuma and Colorado River Indian reser-
vations. in California and Arizona, and also
to reclaim and dispose of the irrigable lands
on the Pyramid Lake Indian reservation, IN
Nevada. Five acres of such rrigable lands
are to be allotted to each of such Indians
belonging on the reservation and the re-
mainder is to be disposed of to settlers ur-
der the provisions of the RECLAMATION act.