The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-20

that By said inehoate contract said /
attorneys agreed TO prevent the said
persons whose names were included |
In the said judgments OF the United |
States District Courts from receiving |
any portion Of the comuon property
nov in controversy. that IL vas
agreed by and between the contract |
ing parties that the Individual
shares In the said property should
be $4,000, and that the said firm of
attorneys should receive nine per
cent OF said amount for each person
who had heretofore been decreed
80 enrolment as citizen"
of said Nations by the United States
Courts. and who was deprived OF the
right to share in the common prop
erty OF the Choctaws and Chicasaws
AZ a result OF heir efforts; that said
attorneys went to Washington and
made false and fraudulent represen-
tations to the Committees OF Con-
gress. and to the individual members
thereof, with reference to said judg-
ments; that Congress acting upon
said false and fraudulent represen-
tations included provision. drafted
by the said attorneys or some one
representing them, in an Act which
was approved July l, 1902, pro7id-
ing among other things for the crea-
ton of a Legislative Commission, to
be known as the "Choctaw-Chicka-
saw Citizenship Court; that said
Commission was composed of three
members who were appointed by the
President and confirmed by the Sen
ate OF the United States, by name,
Spencer B. Adams, Walter l.. Wea-
Commission was authorized to pass
upon two questions of law which had
been previously determined by the
United States District Courts in the
Indian Territory and their decisions
thereon affirmed by the Supreme
Court Of the United States; that it
was provided in said Acts that if the
said Legislative Commission found
that the said Courts had erred in
determining these two questions of
law, that said Commission should
render a finding and decree to that
cree should operate to yacate and
annul all the judgments rendered by
the United States District Courts in
favor of said persons as citizens of
the said Choctaw and Chickasaw Ma
tons, and that said court should
then proceed to try de move all such
cases thereafter brought before 1t
for consideration and decision; that
said court rendered a finding and
decree which, under the provisions of
said Act, rendered void all the judg-
ments entered in all said cases by
the said United States Courts; that
thereafter cases involving the rights
of 1904 persons were brought be-
fore said court for consideration and
determination; that all said persons
included in said cases, with the ex-
ception of 1856 persons, were denied
enrolment as citizens of said Ma
tons by findings made and DEGREES
entered by said Legislative Commits
sion; that said attorneys thereafter
secured the incorporation of a pro-
vision in an Act of Congress APPROX
ed March 5, 1903, authorizing the
said Legislative Commission, upon
| final determination of the cases COM
ing within it's jurisdiction, to fix
reasonable compensation for said at
torney under the said inchoate con-
tract dated January II, 1901; that
upon the rendition of all DEGREES by
the Legislative Commission, the said
Commission awarded to the said
600, as fee for services rendered
in said cases, which award was GER
titled to the Secretary of the In.
terror and by him certified to the
Secretary of the Treasury and paid
out of the trust fund of the Choc-
taws and Chicasaws by warrant
drawn by the Treasurer of the
United States on said funds; thai
many of the persons thus deprived
of the right to enrolment as citi
Zens of the Choctaw and ChickasaV
Nations were among the designated
class of persons for whose exclusive
use and benefit the grant was made
and are complainants herein; anG
the trust fund belonging to saiG
designated class of persons, in which
fund they had and have a vested
fright, were unlawfully paid to sale
Iattorneys for alleged services rem
Idered before said court and Congress.
in this unconscienceable attempt tt
deprive them of their lawful prop
lerty interests; that said Legislativ.
Commission did not confine its in
lCuiry into the rights of person,
whose cases came before it for de
Termination to the one question a,
whether or not they were member
of the designated class of persons
mentioned in said treaty and grant
but pretended to determine tn,
rights of said persons solely upo1
their rights to citizenship in sale
Uations, under the laws, customs an,
usages of the said Nations; that com
plainant is reliably informed an,
therefore alleges on information an,
belief, that certain members of sal,
; Legislative Court were bribed b.
said attorneys to render findings an
, DEGREES denying to said persons thei
property rights as citizens of sal
tribes, and received as a considera
, ton for their decisions a part of tn
: fee of $4,000, awarded by sal
: cases coming before said court; tina