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Show ! '' Uinta Council, 35. that the law is complied with. I hope for your own sake and the welfare of your children and those who are to come after you that you will look at this matter in a sensible light. As I said yesterday, I know very well that this being a new departure, something new, you are suspicious ©f it and very reluctant to act upon it and slow to consider it. Tim Johnsone I want you to sit down and listen to what the Indians have to say: they want to talk. Inspector McLaughlin: I know that if they talk along the lines they have been talking up to the present time it is of no U3e to listen to them, I am going to sit down when I am through with what I have to state. I wish to say though, that if they talk in the same strain they have been talking, it is useless to continue our councils longer. If they want to discuss this matter in a sensible and reasonable way, I am here for that purpose, but as to whether or not the reservation is to be opened up to settlement is not the question, and it is useless for U3 to discuss that further because that question has already been settled by Congress. The reservation will certainly be opened and it only remains for you to decide as to whether you will consent to accept allotments or not. |