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Show Uinta Council, 27. This has already been decided and cannot be changed. If a delegation was sent to Washington it would be only three or four persons with an interpreter, which would be only three or four of you people and all have an equal voice in this matter. It requires the signatures of a majority of you Uinta and White River bands to have the consent of you people acceptable to the Department. Tim Johnson: Your talk is not Washington talk. It is the Secretary'a talk. I have heard the Secretary talk, and I know what he talks, and your talk is just like his, but it is not Washington's talk. Inspector McLaughlin: What does Tim Johnson mean by Washington? If he means the President, I told you a while ago, that the Secretary of the Interior is Washington in so far as Indian matters are concerned. Tha Secretary represents the President in Indian matters. Your going to Washington would not accomplish anything with the Department. The Secretary and Indian Commissioner would tell you just what I have told you here» Remember my friends, that the Secretary of the Iaterior is represented here by me in this matter and is the same as present while I am here on this duty under his instructions. I am his mouthpiece, eyes, and ears while in the field under his orders. In having been assigned to this duty, anything you agree upon with me is the same as if you agreed with the Secretary, just the same as though you made an agreement with the President of the United States. Tfy action in all individual cases of this character to -which I am assigned is the same as if the Secretary of the Interior was present. He delegates to me |