Pauls Valley Sentinel (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1905 Page: 2 of 16
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TOAUDIT ACCOUNTS
CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW AF-
FAIRS TO BE PROBED
COMMITTEE OF FIVE TO EXAMINE AFFAIRS
The Matter of Attorneys' Fees in Citi-
zenship Cases to be Investigated—
Provision Made for Appointment of
Auditing Committee
WASHINGTON: Representative
Stephens of Texas has introduced
two resolutions concerning; the Choc-
taw and Chickasaw nations In Indian
Territory. One provides for, the ap-
pointment of a committee of five to
audit the ai-counts of the two nations
and the other calls upon the secretary
of the Interior to furnish information
with reference to the fee of $750,000
allowed the legal firm of Mansflleld,
McMurry & Cornish of South McAl-
ester by the citizenship court of these
two nations, for services for these
nations.
The latter resolutions requests the
secretary of the interior, among other
things, to furnish to the house a copy
of any contract entered into by the
attorneys representing the nations in
the citizenship cases since the pass
age of the balance unpaid; the sums
now claimed by the attorneys under
such contract, with a bill of iteifls
for which they claim the same to fur-
nish information whether the citizen-
ship court allowed to the attorneys
$ir>0,000; whether the secretary did
not refuse to approve the same con-
tract unless the attorneys would agree
that the maximum amount they were
to receive thereunder should be $250-
000.
Further, it is requested that the
secretary furnish Information as to
what authority ihe governors of these
two nations had to bind the nations
and whether or not at the time the
contract was negotiated the attor-
neys were regularly employed by the
nations and were then receiving from
each nation a salary of $5,000 per an-
num: to advise congress If it is a fact
that the governess requested the al-
lowance by the utizenship court of a
Tee of sore than one million dollars
to the attorneys, and If he knows why
'he governors made such request, if
they did so.
The secretary Is further asked to
advise congress whether in his judg-
ment, in view of the early dissolution
of the tribal governments and the tin
settled condition of the accounts of
Ihe nations. It is not adisable to send
* special board of auditors to make a
thorough examination of their assets
and liabilities.
He Is asked to report how many
citizenship cases were heard by the
rourt, and if technical rulings of the
court have not deprlevd more than
2.000 Indians of enrollment and added
correspondingly to the enormous fee
allowed by them to the attorneys.
The ot;.er resolution provides for
the appointment of five persons, one
to be a citixen of the Choctaw nation,
ane to be a citizen of the Chickasaw
nation, to be selected by the prinicpal
r-hief and governor respectively and
to be appointed along with the other
members by the president, such com
raittee to be known as the Choctaw
Chickasaw auditing committee.
Among the duties assigned to the
'ommittee by the resolution is the in-
vestigation of the books.. record"! and
files of the national governments of
the two nations. It is to report prior
'o the convening of the next congress
!o the president, the secretary of the
interior and to congress. Meanwhile
ill payments from the funds of the
latlons or from government fands on
:heir account are to be suspended ex-
* t those for reeular expenses.
NOGI'S BIG CATCH
Japanese General Reports That He
Will Hjvs Nearly 48,000 Prisoniro
TOKIO: A report received from
General Nogi'a headquarters largely
Increases the figures of the surren-
dered garrison, and intimates fiat the
force handed over to the Japanese at
Port Arthur will be. 32.000, exclusive
of l.>,000 or lti.000 sick and wounded,
making a rough total of 48,000. The
report is as follow-?:
"As previously reported, the trans-
fer of the objects nv.-nrtoned in ar-
ticle 2 of the capitulation compact
took place on January 4. and the
transfer of the forts and batteries has
been conmleted."
"Reports received up to date are a*
follows:
Eight generals. four admirals,
fifty-seven colonol3 red majors, 100
captains and commanders, 531 army
captains and lieutenants. 200 naval
lieutenants and naval officials, ninety-
nine army officials. 109 surgeons,
twenty chaplains; of the rank and file
of the army 22,434: of the rank and
file of the navy, 4,500; army non-com-
bntants. 3.645; navy non-combatants.
500; total, 32,207.
"Besides these there are about 15,-
000 or 10,000 sick and wounded in the
hospitals. The volunteers are chifly
included in the list of non-combatants.
"One hundred saddle horses and
1,870 draft horses were surrendered."
CHANCE IS KILLED
JOINT STATEHOOD QUESTION
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICOHAVE
SPOILED OKLAHOMA'S CHANCE
p,ASPECTS FOR STATEHOOD NOT BRIGHT
HOPE TO RAISE SOME OF THEM
Jap« Greatly Interested in Condition
of Russian Warships
TOKIO: The Japanese naval of-
ficers have not examined the sunken
Russian warships at Port Arthur, and,
therefore, nothing is known of their
condition and possible availability for
further service It is expected that
careful examinations of the vessels
will be made at the earliest possible
moment. The Japanese are keenly
anxious to Know the condition of the
sunken ships, and it is believed some
of them are salvable. The Russians
Ingeniously blocked the Sry dock.
They towed the transport Amur in-
side the dock, blew her up so that
she partly turned turtle and sank
sidewise and then they destroyed the
dock gate.
The Russians surrendered posses-
sion of the dock yard and other naval
property and turned over to the Jap-
anese ten small steamers available
for immediate use. All the other
craft had previously been sunk.
The work of clearing awav the
mines commenced as soon as the
Russian charts provided for in the ca-
pitulation asreeemnt were delivered
to the Japanese.
The official figures giving the Rus-
sian and Japanese losses at Port
Arthur are not yet available. The
original strength of the Russian gar-
rison is not known, but the number
of prisoners creates the impression
that the garrison was larger than gen-
eral ?y supposed. The disposition of
the surrendered garrison has not yet
been determined. It is impossible
to move the majority of the sick and
wounded, who will be nursed at Port
Arthur. The Japanese are hurrying
supplies of medicines and foods to the
scene, and. with improved sanitation
and careful nursing, they hope to cure
thousands of the patients. The cam
of the many prisoners is a trouble-
some and expensive task, and it is
possible that Japan will arrange later
to return them to Russia. The ques-
tion is now under consideration at
Tofcio. It is said that General Nogl
will return to Tokio. at the request of
the emperor, in which esse he will
receive a tremendous popular ovation.
The building and material of the
News, a newspaper published at Lind-
say. were totally destroyed by fire
last week. Loss. $2,500; insurance,
$s00. The fire reMihe.1 from the
work of an incen^iarv
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Must
Part Company With Other Terri-
tories— Most Congressmen Concede
the Fitness for New Oklahoma
WASHINGTON: The joint state-
hood bill will continue to be the prin
cipal topic of discussion in the senate
during the present week, but other
measures will receive attention each
(lav during the morning hour, includ
ing the omnibus claims bill, for which
Senator Warren stands sponsor. The
bill comprises more than 200 pages,
but the senator his succeeded in hav-
ing it read by utilizing odd hours, and
thus has put a large and important
part of the work of consideration to
the rear.
An effort will be made to get the
bill providing for the compensation of
American fishermen whose vessels
were seized previous to the arbitration
of 1893 through at this session. This
measure is in the hands of Senator
Fulton, who will press it as an act
of justice to men whom he thinks
have been discriminated against.
The pure food bill will remain in
the background for the present, not
because the friends of that measure
have abandoned it, but because they
consider that its chances will be im-
proved by not pressing it for immedi-
ate consideration. They have been
assured by the republican leaders
that the bill shall have first place on
the calendar, aside from appropriation
bills, after the statehood bill is dis
posed of. and therefore they will not
antagonize the statehood bill for the
present, if at all.
Discussion of the statehood ques-
tion began on Monday with a speech
by Senator Morgan, followed by other
apposing senators. The present plan
of the opposition is to keep the discus
sion going until some of the appropri
ation bills are reported and it becomes
necessary to take them up, or, if this
in postponed too long, to displace the
bill with the pure food bill. Failing
in all these expedients, they probably
will seek a compromise.
The only real fight Is against the
uniting of Arizona and New Mexico,
and there is talk of eliminating those
territories entirely from the state-
hood proposition. It is believed if
this were done the bill for the consoli
nation of Oklahoma and the Indian
Territory would pass. Thus far there
has been no conference of opposing
factions on the subject, and probably
there will be little done to change the
present status so long as the leaders
are anxious to keep other matters in
the background, as appears to be the
case at present.
In a speech of two hours duration
Mr. Morgan spoke particularly of the
character of the population of New
Mexico and Indian Territory. He de-
clared that the framers of the consti-
tution were of the white race, and
that it was not the intention that
Mexicans. Indians, negroes and half-
breeds should be brought into citizen-
ship. He said if Arizona and New
Mexico were admitted into the union
this class of citizenship would con-
trol the elections, and bribes and
whisky might control them.
Senator Teller has introduced an
amendment to the statehood bill pro-
viding for the admission of Oklahoma
and !ndlna Territory as one state and
New Mexico as another. This amend-
ment proposes that Arizona be left a
territory.
A Resolution to Have New Mexico and
Arizona Reject Constitution
WASHINGTON: An amendment
to the statehood bill has been intro-
duced by Senator Foraker, intendel
to permit the inhabitants of either
New Mexico or Arizona to rejcct the
constitution of the proposed state to
be created by combining (ho two ter-
ritories. The bill, as reported lo the
senate from the committee on terri-
tories. provides that the constitution
phall be submitted to the people of tho
proposed state for a ratification or re-
jection, "and if a majority of the legal
votes cast on that question shall be
for the constitution the said canvass-
ing board shall certify the result to
the president of the 1'nited States,"
etc.
The amendment proposes that a mr-
jority of votes must be cart in "eich
of the territories in order to ratify tho
constitution."
C lonenis of t'.ie statehood hill, that
is, those who advocate the admissim
of Indian Territory and Oklahoma as
one state, but urge that no action be
taken at this tine in regard to Ari-
zona and New Mexico, believe Ill-it
the Foraker amendment outlines the
character of the contest that will be
waged against statehood legi-lation.
They declare the people of Arizona
are not ready for statehood If com-
pelled to accept it in the forr.i of an-
nexation to New Mexico.
ONE TERM FOR PRESIDENT
Senator Bailey Proposes an Amend-
ment to t..s Fed-ral Constitution
WASHINGTON: Senator Railey
has submitted to the senate a pro-
posed amendment to the constitution,
fixing the term of the president at
six years, and making him ine'igibl3
for re-election. The text of th pro-
posed amendment follows:
"The executive power shall be vested
In a president of the 1'nited Stat?s,
who shall hold his office during a
term of six years, and. together with
the vic-e president chosen for the samo
term, he elected as provided in article
12 of the amendments to the constitu-
tion. The president shall forever be
ineligible to a re-election, nor shall
any person be eligible to an election
to the presidency who Ins served as
president under any succession pro-
vided for in the constitution or the
laws made in pursuance thereof."
DELAWARES TO GET $150,000
The Government's Agreement With
the Indians Has Been Approved
W ASHINGTON: President Roose-
velt has approved the agreement be-
tween the government and th* Dela-
ware Indians in Indian Territory, by
which the Delawares accept $150,00')
n settlement of their claims against
the government. The money to pay
hese claims was appropriated in the
ast Indian appropriation bill. in
ratifying the agreement the Indians
consented to the payment from this
fund of $1,000 to ex-Senator .lame;* K,
lones of Arkansas and $15,000 to
Walter S. Logan cf New York, who
epresented them in negotiating with
the government.
Wants Uncle Tom Rnled O-it
DES MOINES: Wilbur N. Roe of
-< lumbus. Ohio, has written to Gov-
ernor Cummins, asking that h? re^om-
nend the prssage of a law making
he presentation of the play. "Un^c
Tom's Cabin." on any stage l„ |owa
i felony. Roe declares the plav mis-
represents the south.
Patent for New Wrtch
SOl'TH McALCSTER: Frc.i Mc-
ntyre of this place has be?n granted
patent for a new watch. He will
*ave in a few days for th2 east to
"onfer with a number of watch manu-
acturers v.ho are said to b? dos'r-
>us of securing control of the p\tent.
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