The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-01

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 part of sectarians to get control of these funds. The priests are at work. the priests o fall denominations. They go to an Indian and tell him you are going to hell if you don't send your son Billy Bowlegs. to our schools and give us an order on the treasury for pay ment.' We're seeking to do by in direction what we should do by direc- ton if at all-merely beating the devil around the bush
 Evening Session.
 At o'clock when the evening ses- sion began consideration of the In- dian appropriation bill was resumed with an amendment by MT. Bailey un- der discussion to allow an appeal in the case of E. H. Bounds and others against the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. It provides that a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States shall relate only to the question of law involved in the appeal which shall bee raised by proper assignments of error. Mir. Stewart made a point of order against the amendment and MT Bailey declared that if the point were insisted on he would make a of the bill when it gets into the Sen ate. Well, all right; I will not withdraw it." said MT. Stewart. The chair sustained the point of or der. and MT. Bailey appealed. The l chair was sustained 26 to 20. Against the next amendment read MT. Bailey made the point of order but almost immediately withdrew it, | saying he was not disposed to mutil- ate the bill. The amendment relating | to interests of claimants to citizenship then A rnRn for the payment of $3o0.0o0 from the funds of the Chickasaw tribe for the payment of outstanding school war rants was amended by adding a pro- vision for the payment of $75,000 of the outstanding indebtedness of the Creek nation.
 | The provision paying $1So.o0O to ths | executor of the late c. N. Vann and William H. Adair. due under the res olution of the national council of the l Osage Indians, was stricken out.
 Mir. Platt (Conn.) had discussed in a humorous vein a claim for the pay ment of Pretty Bear and numerous other Indians of fanoiful names, wh' | in 1862 rescued Mrs. Julia Wrigh and others from the Sioux Indians. Hc took the position that the claims were | perennial and objection was useless | The amendment was agreed to. | point or order was made by MT Spooner to an amendment authoriz ing the President to designate such Indian tribe or tribes, deemed suffi- | ciently advanced in civilization, to be prepared to receive and manage theii individual shares of the tribal funds and thereupon to cause the money held in trust for such trihe or tribes ir the treasury to be allotted in several. ty to the members thereof. The point | was sustained.
 point of order was made by MT Berry against the committee section relating to electric railway. light ol power companies doing business in In dian Territory and MT. Long offered substitute which was agreed to. Il provides that land may be overflowed by the construction of any water pow CT in the Indian Territory may be purchased from the allottee or leasee with the consent of the secre. tary of the interior.
 | MT. McCumber said his amendment would have the effect of allotting an nuities to individuals of the lands of 1 the Indians, He also said that the pro- vision had the indorsement of the In- terior Department
 l MT. Spooner found In the provision