The San Francisco call., 1904-03-20
SENATE CARES
FOR POOR LO
Concludes Task of Making
Appropriations for the Use
of the Indian Department
NEW SCHOOL FOR ELKO
Nevada Town to Have Edu-
catiOnal Institution for
Exclusive Use Of Red Men

WASHINGTON. March 19-The SEN
ate Committee on Indian Affairs to-day
concluded consideration of the bill
making appropriations for the Indian
Department and viii report to the Sen
ate Monday next. AS amended by the
Senate committee much additional leg
islation is concluded, which for the
most part relates to Indian Territory.
among other things the committee
incorporated in the bill appropriations
10 carry into effect treaties with the
klamath and Modoc tribes and the
Yaahoskin band OF Snake River Indians
in Oregon.
1t has been provided by the Senate
/ committee that any person who is now
or who may be in the employ Of the
/ United States shall be prohibited from
purchasing, leasing or taking any in
terest in any Indian lands the distribu-
ton Of which was pending during such
( persons employment, until after the
expiration of two years from the ter
mination of such employment.
An appropriation of $500 was incor-
porated in the bill for exhibits from
Indian agencies at the st. Louis Expo
sition.
| The Secretary of the Interior is au-
tnorized to make sales of land in In
dian Territory covered by coal and
asphalt leases, subject to the right of
! the lessee to use so much of the sur
4 face as may be needed for such struc-
lures as are generally used in the pro-
duction and shipment of coal and coke.
/ The Secretary also is authorized to ap-
/ ply the funds derived from grazing
/ from the tribal or community fund to
the payment of the balance now re-
naming due on claims of certain IL
! censed Indian tribes against individual
members of the tribe.
There is also appropriated $500, 900 for
the purpose of satisfying the final de-
/ cree of the court of claims in the suit
wherein the United States was COM
plainant and the Choctaw nation. the
Chickasaw nation and the Chickasaw
freedmen were defendants and respond
ents. All leases made by any allottee OF
the Choctaw. Chickasaw, Cherokee,
Seminole of Creek nations shall be abb
solutely null and void unless recorded
in the manner provided in Indian Ter
ritory within thirty days OF the eXecu-
tion of such instruments.
The Secretary of the Interior is au-
thorized to nay out of the funds be-
longing to the Creek nation the sum of
S667S TO the estate Of William Springer
/ for professional services which Springer
rendered to the Creek nation.
To establish an Indian school in Elko
County, Nevada, $4,000 is appropriated.
/. The committee recommends abolish
ing the reservation lines of the Poncho,
Otoe and Missouri Indian reservations
and attaching the territory to the coun-
ties of Kay, Pawnee and Noble, Okla
homa Territory.
The Secretary of the Interior is au-
thorized TO divert the waters of the
Colorado River for the reclamation of
! irrigable lands on the Yuma and Colo
rado River Indian reservation in Ne
vada. Five acres of such irrigable lands
( is TO be allotted to each of such In
dians belonging on the reservation, and
/ the remainder to be disposed of to set
tiers under the provision of the re-
clamation act.