The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1902 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SOUTHWEST WORLD
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GUTHRIE, OKLA., MAY 31, 1902.
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Paints of All Kinds
From $1 00 to $1 50 per Gallon-
We guarantee everything we sell. Call and get
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C. R. Kenfro Drus Co.
206 W. Oklahoma Ave., Opp. P. O.
JtSlItt IS HONE
$100,000 FOR IjUlliltlt
Oklahoma City Was Completely Cut Out 01 Ihe
Deal Anil Is Prostrated.
I ill PRESIDENT
ia to Si^n Indian
propriation Bill,
A p.
is Unjust to the Indians
I resident Roosevelt Thinks the
I Jill Does Not Treat the In-
dians With Due Fairness.
The following dispatch was
sent out from Washington:
The President has not yet
signed the Indian appropriation
bill, and the difficulties that re-
sulted from its passage have be-
come further complicated bj the
refusal of representative Rich-
ardson, the Democratic leader in
the House, to permit considera-
tion, under the unanimous con-
sent rule, of a resolution to cor-
rect certain sections which Mr.
Roosevelt considers objectionable.
In order to straighten out the
tangle, Senator Stewart, chair-
man of the Indian committee;
Senator Ouarles, a member of
the committee, arj.fl Representa-
tive Lacey, ot the House Indian
committee spent an hour with
the President, going over the ob-
jectionable features.
In addition to the "roving
blanket lease" on the mineral de-
posits in the north part of the
Uintah reservation, embracing
one and a halt million acres, the
President points out the amend-
ment covering the disposal of the
Colville Indian reservation lands,
in the state of Washington, is in
such shape that the lands would
be thrown open to a mob of white
speculators, who would rush in
Guthrie gets the full $100,000
appropriation for a public build-
ing. It is recommended by the
house confrees and will pass the
senate in the same shape as it
went through the house. It is a
most righieous decision, and one
that will give general satisfac-
tion throughout Oklahoma.
A Tuesday's dispatch from
Washington says:
"The house confrees on the
public bunding bill have reached
an agreement with the senate
confrees to strike out the pro-
and take them as soon as the bill
was signed, and thus the Indians
would have no land at all. It
appears that the Spokane Indians
have not had their lamb allotted
and have made no selection, yet
two congressional committees
and the House and Senate have | vision appropriating $50,000 for the senate confrees have agreed."
deliberately passed a bill to throw 1
a building at Oklahoma City,
and have restored the provisions
appropriating $100,000 for a
building at Guthrie. As passed
by the house no provision was
made for Oklahoma City. The
senate changed the bill so as to
provide $50,000 for each, reduc-
ing Guthrie from $100,000. The
house confrees argued that $50,-
000 was not enough to provide a
suitable building for either, and.
therefore, concluded to strike out
the senate amendment, to which
the lands of these Indians, the
wards of the government, open
to all comers. This is directly
in line with much legislation by
congiess in the last few years and
recent decisions of the federal
courts, all tending to the one con-
clusion, that an Indian title is not
to be regarded and that practic-
ally the Indians have no rights
white men are bound to respect.
A resolution lias been rushed
through the House straighten-
ing out the Colville reservation
tangle, and the Presidet has been
insisting that a similar resolu-
tion correct the Uihtah grab.
Senator Ouarles assured the
President that this difficulty could j
easily be obviated by passing the
bill as it stands and then purpos-
paragraplis which he has pointed
out to be defective. After a con-
rerence with Mr. Hitchcock, Sec-
retary of the Interior, the Presi-
dent asked for the adoption of a
resolution, providing for the in-
dividual allotment of e'ghty acres
of grazing lands to the Uitnah
Indians, in addition to the eighty
acres of homestead provided for
in the bill. He also asked that
the resolution prescribe the limit
of time in which the Uintahs
may dispose of their homestead.
The Dawes commission act pro-
vides that Indians may not sell
their allotment for twenty-live
years. The President is not cer-
tain that the Uintahs' allotment
j would be covered by that provi-
sion and wanted the limitation
ly failing to execute it. Mr
Ouarles is a member of the Mil-1 specifically fixed by the resolution,
waukee law firm which represents j Mr- Sherman, chairman of the
Charles M. Pfister, a Milwaukee House commiltee on Indian af-
capitalist and president of thc | fairs, offered a resolution embody-
Florence Mining company, which in£ lhe Pr^dent's wishes in the
House and asked unanimous con-
congress. upon recommendation
of the Indian affairs committee.
It will be necessary under exist-
ing conditions to secure a rule
for the consideration of the reso-
lution. It is not thought there
will be any difficulty in having
this rule made and the resolution
finally adopted. Upon the as-
surance that such action will be
taken, the President will sign
the bill.
company, w
has the objectionable Uintah
lease, on the basis of which the
managers of the company propose
to capitalize at three million dol-
lars.
Members of the two Indian' endeavoring
committees say the President will
approve the bill, if necessary,
without waiting until the fea-
tures objectionable to him are
corrected, but will sign it and
hope for the best. In other
words, their proposition is that
he shall sign the bill as it stands,
taking their assurance that joint
resolutions will be passed by the
House and Senate correcting the
sent for its consideration.
Richardson ask :d a question
about the purport ol the resolu-
tion and while Mr. Sherman wa^
to explain, testily
objected to its consideration and
the resolution went over. Mem-
bers of the Indian alTairscommit-
tee are incensed at the action ol
Mr. Richardson. They charge
that he is simply trying to make
cheap political capital out cf the
matter by calling attention to
the fact that three resolutions
have been asked for the purpose
of correcting a bill passed by
A Mother Gone,
Mrs. N. A. Askew, residing at
1307 W. Logan, departed this
life last Saturday night. The
deceased had been a sulferer for
a number of years from consump-
tion. Mrs. Askew was born in
Texas 4s years ago. She moved
to Guthrie in 1>s'j5, where she re-
sided until death claimed her as
its own. The deceased was a
consistent Christian following at
all times the teachings of her
Savior. Her funeral took place
Mr. last Sunday afternoon from the
First Baptist church, which was
attended by a large concourse of
people. The deceased leave1- a
husband, two daughters and thre<
sons to mourn her death, and to
whom the World extends heart-
felt sympathy.
G. G. Norris, a prominent Lo-
gan county farmer, was a pleas-
ant visitor at the World office
last Monday. Mr. Norris is
prominently spoken of as a can-
didate for assessor on the Repub-
lican ticket.
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Booth, H. A. The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 31, 1902, newspaper, May 31, 1902; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88956/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.