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Show REPORT OF TEE COXMISSIOXER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 85 From the fact that Governor Byrd, in hisletter abovereferred to, had expressed the belief that if this office decided to adhere to the rules . ~ adopted by Agent Bennett to govern him in making his removals, the result would be to render the rnovement against the intruders uon-erect-ive, and in view of the fact that after a careful consideration of those rules in the light of the lams of the Chickasaw Nation I decided to approve them, I telegraphed Agent Bennett, July 14,1891, as follows: You are hereby authorizer1 to exorcise your own judgment with reference to thy further contint~anoe of preseut effort to expel intruders from Chickssew Nation. Wireme your deoision. This telegram was quoted in my letter to Goveruor Byrd of July 17, 1891, to which he has not replied. July 16,1891, Agent Bennett telegraphed his response to my tele-gram as follows : &ISjt ~dgrneutr egarding Chiokilsaw intruders [is that work] shonld be oaotiuued. I request authority to personally lay the faots before yon in Washington with view to specific iustructious ooveriug classes of cases to be considorad, that tho work be coutioued, be thoroughly pcrformerl, and the nation fully delivered of tllose who (are) actually iutruclers. Answer Paul's Valley. In my reply to this teleg6m, dated July 17,1891, I iuclosed a copy of tlly letter of even date to Cfover~loBr yrd (in which the rules adopted by Agent Bennett were cliseusserl and approved witl~outm aterial alter-ation), and instructe(1 the agent that if after reading that letter he still thought it clesirable for him to visit this city to telegraph for the neces-sary authority. He replied Angust 3, 1891, that the reesorls given in my letter to Goveruor Byrd for approving his rules were the same which prompted him to ailopt .them, and that his fear that I might be misled by Gover-nor Byrd's vigorous arraigument of his course into s ~uisapprehension .of the situation was his reasou for desiriug to be personally present to defend his action. As no such misapprelleusion existerl he did not thiuk it necessary to come. For further details in regard to this removal of intruders, seeagent (L - Bennett28 report herewith, page 240. TIXBER DEPREDATlOXS OX TEE POXD DU LAC RESER-VATION, IIIIXN. 111 my annual report for the year 1889 I invited Sonr attention to aertain depredatious that were committed during the season of 188SJd9 by Patrick Hines and Andrew Gowan upon the timber of tile Fond du LacReservation, in Minnesota ; also to the fact that suit had been insti-tuted against Hines for over 6,000,000 feet of timber, valued at some $43,000, and that a propos~tiou from Mr. Eines to compromise the suit was then under consideratiou by the Solicitor of the Treasnr.y, to whom it had been referred by the AttorneyG-eneral. |