Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-17

lect committee of the Indian com
mittee Of the United States Senate
may have direct bearing upon the
business on certain corporation
whose property ia located in Colo
RADIO, Wyoming and other western
states and which have heretofore
had practically complete monopoly
of the coal market in Oklahoma and
Indian Territories.
There will be shot time IN
Indian Territory when the i've IN
yestisators, who compose the mem
bersbip Of this special Senatorial
Committee, commences operations
The work Of the committee will be
thorough and its recommendations
TO Congress for remedial congres,,
sional legislation will be practical
and not theoretical
The investigation is TO be made
largely by western men OF well
known integrity, familiar with west
ern affairs and conditions in new
countries and long public experience.
The committee is composed of Sena-
tor C. d. Clark, of Wyoming, char
man; Chester |. Long, Of Kansas /;
Frank b. Brandegee. Of Connecticut ;
Henry NJ. Teller, of Colorado, and
w. A. Clark, of Montana, The COM
mittee has just concluded an execu-
tive meeting held in this city and at
which tentative understanding was
reached as to the scope Of the lnyes-
tigation and thhe matters and things
to be investigated.
The importance Of the investiga-
ton this committee is instructed to
conduct cannot be gainsaid. II is
national in many Of its aspects. The
members of the Five Civilized Tribes
are wards of the nation and the gov
ernment of the United States is NOR
ally bound to see that they are rem
dered secure in their rights; to pro-
tect them from imposition on the
part of the agents and officers OF the
nation who have been handling theli
affairs for the past ten years. II Is
of first, and primary Importance, tc
the people Of Indian Territory, who
are today existing under the mosl
obnoxious form OF federal oomiAa
ton known to any citizens or sub
iects of the American nation. This
condition has been superinduced and
brought about by recommendations
of federal officials to congress which
recommendations have been enacted
into law.
IL is evident from information
furnished the committee that there
is no branch of the government that
needs probing as bad as does the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes,
and the men selected for this work,
and appointed as members of the
committee insure rigid, thorough
investigation. OF the membership OF
the committee four are lawyers and
at least three Of them are well
versed in indian matters. Senator
Clark, the chairman of the commit
tee, is chairman of the Judiciary
committee of the senate, selected fot
that position because of his eminent
legal attainments. He has thor.
ough knowledge Of Indian matters,
he is a practical man familiar with
conditions in new countries, gained
BY his early residence in the west
and learned in the school of actual
experience. Twenty-Five years OF
public service during which no hui
man being has had the temerity to
assert that he has even been indis'
erect or to even intimate that he has
been guilty of dishonorable act
Fitting il is that such man should
have been selected for the chairman
ship of this committee which is
charged with the duty of not only
investigating affairs in Indian Ter
ritory but recommending to congress
the enactment of legislation FOR the
protection of the members of the
Indian Tribes-wards of tho govern
ment.
Senator Long, the second ranking
member of the committee, has al
intimate knowledge of affairs in The
Territory by reason of his service OF
the Senate Indian Committee, ant
the close geographical proximity Of
these people to his home state.
Senator Frank Brandegee, th,
third ranking member of the com
mittee, is comparatively inexper
fenced in Indian affairs and wa'
selected with one object in view Of
giveing to the esthetie easi repre-
sentative who might 90 to the Ter
ritory and there learn from the peo
pie themselves and with his own eye
the true conditions existing, so tina
he might be able to explain to I'M
eastern senatorial friends next win
ter the utter impracticability of th'
various schemes proposed by thu
Indian Rights Association of Bostol
and Philadelphia, and kindred wei
meaning. charitably disposed organi
zations of the east which they hav
urged uon congress with more per
sisteney than sound Judgment fo
the protection of the red man in tn
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