Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-23

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under his land
In holding the favorlte bugaboo of
| big corporations up 10 US, the learned
| congressman forRets that all individ-
| uals and corporations are limited 10
! holding an acreage OF $500 acres
with this Limitation existing, Mi.
! Chandler can easily and should read
lily allay his intense fear on this
score.
After making the above generar
objections, our congressman then
proceeds 10 enumerate his objection,
the first being, because. tho Indian
who has sold his land will then par
ticipate in oil royalties to which he Is
not entitled, and knew he was not en-
| titled TO, when he sold his land THIS
| objection I have already necasar-
| ily answered in meeting his first gen
| oral proposition. The Indians right
to royalties never depended upon the
| division and allotment OF land, but
his primal tribal rights. holding tho
land. with all OIL gas and minerals
, hereunder I'm common. The fact that
the Indian received his segregated al
/ lotment did not give him his right to
the royalties, and that right is not an
/ Incident of his ownership of the sur
| face He knew that congress could
and ought 10 extend that right before
| II expired in 1891. and every pur-
| chaser OF the land took il with tho
| same understanding.
His second reason. is "because the
/ man who has not sold mis- land VIII
/ finally not only remain the cWn'r -
| the land. but he will also have the oil
ROYALTIES In other words. knowing
as we do that so much of this land
4 docs not produce oil. knowing that.
! before allotment tlls oil belonged in
/ equal norton 10 each member OF the
/ tribe. as- well as the surface under
which IL haupcrs 20 lie. the anottee
" no is fortunate enough to have tho
land With tho oil. will gather to rIrn-
| SELF and take from the ether owner
what also once belonged to him. and
thus get n far larger prapqrtiT1 or
| the common property than his fellow
trihemen. This produces the very in
equality that con gresg sought TO avoid
/ in the fir.t instance. and can now he
| prevented by an extension. Reuuced
/ to its simplicity Is nothing more than
! taking the property Of one man ana
handing IL over to another. Congress
simply becomes the "stick-up" man,
! who holds the unfortunate aIlottee,
/ who has nothing but surface value,
while the few fortunate ones the ones
/ who have oil on their lands. run their
/ eager and avaricious hands into the
/ rockets Of the victims bound by con-
4 grcSs and steal from them the richest
/ portion of their tribal patlimony tne
/ oil Gas and mineral rights. once Ieid
by them all i'm common. righteouslv
! reserved in the first instance. and
/ iniguirously permitted to lppse in
I the end.
His third reason is "because IL is
unfair to the man who has bought
I land from the Osages. based on the
/ law that the tribal period would end
i'm 1881. and the oil royalties would
become his property after that time.
ami not after 1859" The law is not
that the tribal period would end in
1891. but. in effect the law Is that ths
tribal period should continue until
1891. and as long thereafter as con-
greys shall provide. Congress knew
that the period provided might prove
inadequate, and IL has so proved as
all know No man has bought An
acre of land from the Osages, based
or the law that the tribal period
would end i'm 1891" but every pur-
chaser bought it based upon the law
that congress might continue the
period indefinitely, and that the SUR
face owner might be entitled to the
ROYALTIES. Those who have sold any
part Of their surplus lands did not
part with one iota OF the oil. gas and
mineral rights. but if our congress
nan viii examine the deeds he wll
find that there wa an express rcSer.
vation of these rights, a thing not MT
common in the transfer of non-In.
dian lands. and the spectators. VIII
have Seen picking up these lands al
modest prices. in the hope that con
gross viii refuse to extend the period
did SO with the EXPRESS understand
ing that tho contrary might appear
They paid prices based on the value
of the surface. and not the minera
rights. and they have no rights thai
will be iuteriered with by an eXlcit-
sion
Ills fourth reason is, because the
people Of the state and the Couu,
will be benefited py the development
lctwcen now and 1891. and the In
dians who are now alive will be able
to participate in the distribution OF
the tribal funds while they are auvc;
whereas. they could not do so II tho
period were eNtended. and all MEM
hers OF the tribe. whether they hau
sold land or not get in on the dis
Il ibution of royalty"
This fourth reason Is puzzle to
mc as an argument against the ex-
tension, Nor, II It's statements ne
true. it is conclusive one for con
tinuing the rights. II the state ana
county viii he benefited during the
DeriOl Of tribal right until 1871 what