The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-08-24

for not keeping in a strictly conf
dental manner the resolution
which was introduced regarding
Mr.. Pequette's rights. that he had
no intention of making himself a
tool of Mr.. Coffey, and for this
reason drew a substitute for the
Cotfey resolution; and that Mr..
Pequette was entitled to know
with what he would have to con-
tend.
To the statement that there was
no zone of confidential harmony
in the work of the committee in
public matters for the public good,
that is, no sense Of honor, not even
gentleman's confidence in the dis
cussion of public subjects" the
publisher very emphatlcally con-
tends that the council and every
person Interested was entitled to
know everything that took place,
and every word that was uttered,
in the committee room, and in
closing this phase of the argu-
ment says: Il will admit that I
have heard of honor among
thieves but no one who wants to
do his duty to the General Council
would make himself party to the
theories expressed in the letter
signed by you."
9Th. 1T is matter of indiffer-
ence to me- the publisher says,
whether the writer of your letter,
or yourself, admired my persist
ance, or gall" in standing up
openly, and without compromising
my self-respect, for subjects that
| thought were right regardless of
whether you thought they had any
merit or not. Outside of the coun-
Gil room | approached none of the
delegates for the purpose of urg-
them to stand by my contentious.
| understood my position at all
times, and what | said was merely
for the purpose of informing the
council of the subjects which were
being discussed as / understood
them to be, and / had no selfish
motives either in the form of al
legged contracts
my contention was that each
of the several reservations and
coded reservations in this state
should have representative upon
the Chippewa Claims Commission,
but you we're willing, for some
unexplained reason, to permit it to
stand with only representatives
from White Earth on it.
"You are extremely inconsistent,
for you have fought lard at each
meeting of the General Council to
have as equal a representa-
ton FOR your reservation on
the Executive Committee as
White Earth has; that is Que
from each reservation, but
White Earth with more than half
of the Chippewas of Minnesota
has only two, and with only six
or seven hundred members living
upon or belonging to your reser-
walton and living elsewhere, you
tried even this year to get as many
executive committeeman as White
Earth reservation with over six
Thousand members has. Why did
you not stand by my contention to
give your reservation one member
on the Chippewa Claims Commits
sion? What will you do next year
when the subject may again be
brought up?" In this connection it,
would be interesting to know what
induced Mr.. Coffey to get his del
egation to vote for anything those
interested in Furst wanted, and
who believed they had binding
contract with the Chippewas of
Minnesota to prosecute the latter
large claims. He should be candid
and tell what the deal was.
The publisher in his reply to
Mr.. Coffey predicts that the reser-
walton people will in the end insist
unon the formers contentious,