Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-04-04
COMMITTEE FOR INDIAN BILL
Senators Favor Sale Of More Pine
Ridge Lands.
APPRAISED BY COMMISSION
Bankers Association of Nebraska
Applies for Relief Against Laws
that Prevent Extradition for
Certain swindIes,
(From a Staff Correspondents }


WASHINGTON. d. c.. April 3-tspeclal
Telegrsm.)-The senate committee on In.
dian affairs. through Senator Gamble,
has reported favorably on bill providing
for the sale Of a portion OF the surplus
and unallotted lands on the Pine Ridge
Indian reservation In Wasabaugh county,
s. d. An area OF about 6Sl.6l3 acres
will be opened should the bill become a
law. There are a few allotments still to
be made before proclamation is to issue.
The report states that while some Of the
Pine Ridge Indians protest against fur
ther decreasing the limits Of their reser-
walton. in the opinion Of the committee
majority favor the act and believe
with the committee that the settlement
and development Of the proposed area to
be opened would greatly enhance the
value of the holdings of the Indians.
Two sections in each township are to be
reserved for school purposes.
The lands are TO be inspected, appraised
and valued by a commission to be ap-
pointed by the president, subject to the
approval of the secretary Of the Interior.
and are reserved for homesteads, one
fifth Of the appraised price 20 be paid
upon entry. the balance in five annual
installments. Tracts for town site pur-
poses are to be reserved by the secretary
Of the interior, and money raised from
their sales is to be applied for the benefit
Of the tribe. funds realized from other
lands to be deposited in the treasury to
the credit OF the Indians, to draw interest
at per cent and to be expended for their
benefit.
Taft strength IncreasinE.>
Friends OF President Taft in Iowa. with
only thirteen votes lacking to give them
me necessary 7l TO control the state
convention to be held April "a at Cedar
Rapids, yesterday secured exactly the
thirteen by tho selection OF a solid Taft
delegation IN Butler county. About
twenty-five county conventions are to be
held and adyices from Iowa are that
enough of these will select Taft delegates
10 give the friends Of the administration
good working majority in the state
convention. The Taft forces already have
carried six OF the eleven congressional
districts in Iowa and the delegates from
these. together with the four delegates
at-large which will be selected by the
state convention. will give Taft at least
sixteen Of the twenty-eight delegates
Lease Land 10 Owls,
\ bill was introduced today by Con-
gresham Mondell to authorize the secre-
tary OF the interior to lease at a nominai
charge tract Of land not to exceed loo
In extent to the Order of Owls for health
and saJtarium purposes.
Mr. Mondell also presented a bin TO
amend Section three OF the enlarged
homestead law providing that any home
stead entryman on lands Upon which
final proof has not been made shall have
the right to further entry on lands con-
tiguous to his former entry which shall
not together with his original entry ex-
coed go acres. The bill further provides
that residence upon and cultivation of
the original entry either prior or subss-
quent to the date Of the original entry
shall be deemed as residence and cultiva-
tion upon the additional entry.
The bankers' association Of Nebraska
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