The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-08-16
BUSINESS MEN
MAY SUFFER
Unless Favorable Action is Taken the
Regime of Indian Agents
Ends Thursday.

Tulsa, Okla Aug. 10.-The action of
the conference committee of the SEN
ate and house in Washington In elimi-
mating from the Indian bill the appro-
priation for the district agents in Ok
lahoma has thrown scare into bus
mess and professional men having bus
mess with the different offices. In the
event that the committee is sustained
by the two houses the district agency
win close on next Thursday.
No previous notice having been
given that the appropriation will not
be continued an immense amount of
unfinished business will be left in the
agency. Especially interested in this
unfinished business are tenmerchants,
farming implement dealers and lumber
companies which have been furnish.
ing supplies for Indians through the
agencies.
A large number of kilograms We're
sent to senators and representatives
in Washington yesterday from Tulsa,
urging that the district agency be con-
tinued for at least a sufficient length
OF time to close up all unfinished bus
mess.
One of the important actions decid-
ed upon was that which restricts the
secretary OF the interior in the use of
tribal funds, he being required to hold
his expenditures solely to the salaries
of the tribal officers and attorneys,
tribal payments and schools. When
ever other moneys are spent 1t will
have to be through specific legisla-
ton of congress and the department
cannot continue to spend the Indians
money with free hand as in the past
years.
BY agreement of the conferees, $40,-
900 is appropriated for the Kiowa-
Comanche hospital near Lawton. The
conferees struck fro mthe bill the
same amendment providing for the
payment of the heirs of John w West
for the Saline claim The house
agreed to the same amendment pro-
wding $4,000 for the expenses, adj
yertisement and sale of unallotted
lands of the five tribes Without this
item the sale would have probably
been discontinued during the next
yea. An amendment made by the
senate providing for the expense of
collecting the tribal revenues was not
to exceed 90 per cent of the amount
collected was agreed to. The senate
amendment for $4,000 for travelling ex-
penses of the appraisers for the Sc
gregated mineral lands was knocked
out Under the present law these APP
praisers are paid $15 day for salary
and expenses. 1t is claimed by tribal
authorities that appraisers will not
spend sufficient money for expenses to
expedite the work The senate amend
ment providing for the settlement of
improved claims of the settlers in the
segregated lands was adopted
Right was granted for the purchase
of cemeteries on the segregated land.
The senate amendment calling for the
appropriation Of $4,000 for the con
struction of sewer through Platte
National park, which will be of great
aid to the city of sulphur Okla, was
adopted with the amount cut to ST..
500.
The senate amendment for the ap-
propriations for Albert ]. Lee for court
judgments against Jack Postoak and
other Mississippi Choctaws was agreed
to.
The fight for the payment of 5 per
cent interest on Chootaw funds,
amounting to $S9o,25792, now deposit
ed with the United States, was post
poned and the amendment stricken
out of the bill Special legislation like
~ will be enacted at the next session
of congress caring for this feature
One of the interesting features Of
the agreement was the appropriation
of $4,000 for the purchase of lands
for the Apache prisoners of war who
desire to remain on the Fort Sill reser-
vation instead of removing to the
Mescalero Indian reservation in New
Mexico, where the original Apache
tribe is now located
No Sore Spots.