The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-10-29
CHICKASAW
LEGISLATURE
MARCH !, WILL WITNESS OlsSo-
LUTON TRIBAL COVE RNMENT.
Efforts Will be Made to Get Chicka.
saw Affairs in shape by That
Time The Report OF the
Commission Is Defeated.

VI lfiltdlll u NtINtR a. DulDOHt SUM-
but its power is gone The last ses-
sion of the Legislature marks the
passing of the tribal government,
hence to safeguard the interests OF
the individual Indian is the task OF
the tribal body
Unless something unforeseen hap
pens. March Atm, Will witness the
final dissolution of the Chickasaw
and Choc'aw governments as well as
the governments oi the other nations.
Indian leaders have clung to tribal
traditions and institutions with un-
dying devotion and only surrenered
when they say the inevitable. The
same leaders are engaged in mapping
out a policy for the guidance of in
dividual Indians, when the govern
ment is at an end.
Men intimate with the situation see
the necessity of the continuation of
tribal relations. But IL Is doubtful
If the Indian members will request
congress TO grant the tribal govern
ment lease of life
The legislature intends TO so shape
its affairs that when March 4th
comes matters will be in tirst-class
shape. II is practically certain that
the interests Of the Chickasaws will
be placed In the hands of a specially
created commission whose power will
be autocratic and from whom there
will be no appeal.
The Legislature yesterday after a
lengthy session killed the report of
the commission appointed some time
ago TO adjust the financial differences
between the Choctaws and Chicka-
saws. The commission composed OF
w. II. Mur1y. Yves Parker and Dave
Fulsom. brought In Il report covering
in detail the financial transactions
between the two tribes. The com
mission recommended that the sum
of $4,000 sgreed upon he accepted
IN full as final payment for the in
dChtedness alleged TO be due the
Chickasaws For years all efforts 70
affect a settlement naVe been futile.
Tho Chickasaws claimed that the
sum of $4,000 wa due them as their
share of the coal and timber royalty
collected v the Choctaws before the
Curtis bill became effective. The
Choctaws disputed the financial
claim. The commission this year on
tae part oi that nation agreed TO
settle with the Chickasaw nation for
the sum mentioned in settlement for
all claims rending. The Chickasaws
alleged that they were entitled to
one-fourth of SGS,102, the amount of
tn, Judgment awarded in the court
cg claims and later affirmed by the
United States Supreme court This
Judgment was the result of a suit
against the federal government and
lew out OF a boundary dispute be
tween the Choctaw nation and the
United States over a strip of land
thlt was awarded to Arkansas. The
ChoctaWs alleged that through the
faulty survey of the federal govern
ment the tribe lost the land.
In the commissions S report the boun.
Diary money was the only item agreed
upon. The report would have been
adopted Il II were not for the fact
taat il released the Choctaws from
paying their portion Of the indigenl
fund appropriated out of he money OF
the Chickasaws and which amounted
10 $4,000. Because the internal AFFAIRS
of the Choctaws and Chickasaws We're
entangled the commission did not
urass the claim for money alleged 10
be- due from coal and timber royalties.
The matter will PROBABLY be adjust.
ed before the Legislature adjourns.
The legislature will pass n memor-
igl bill requesting congress to en-
roll all new born children since the
last supplemental treaty was nego-
tiated.
The legislature will ask congress
TO take immediate charge Of the
townsites and reimburse the members
of the tribe as soon as possible. II Is
claimed that the townsite matter can
not be DISPOSED Of for years hence
the tribal government wants the
United States 10 settle for townsite
property before the government eX-
pires.
The legislature will also nave to
settle the problem of the residue
lands. II Is estimated that there will
be l000.0O0 acres of land unallotted.
II cannot be predicted what will be
done.
Wishing TO preserve their racial
identity the legislature declared for
separate statehood and passed iong
memorial setting forth its reasons
for separate statehood.
A portion of the resolutions Is as
follows:
Resolved, BY the legislature of the
Chickasaw nation that We do unalter-
ably oppose being included within
the boundaries of Oklahoma, or any
other state or Territory now occu-
pied by the Five Civilized Tribes,
that we 10 most solemnly protest
against the passage of any bill seek
ing to include MS within the territor-
ial limits of Oklahoma, either as a
State or Territory;
Resolved. second, That we en-
dorse and commend the work of the
Muskogee convention and the consti-
tuition adopted by the same, looking to
the creation of State out of the
lands now embraced within the pres
ent limits of the Indian Territory;
that this memorial take effect from
and after its passage by each house
OF this legislature, and that a copy
Of the same be furnished to the com
mittee and delegates selected by said
Muskogee convention to be presented
to the president and TO the senate
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