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Show (which inoluaed the town of Wadsnorth) for a consideration of $25,MO, to be paid them in cattle; and fnrther stipulated that all other treqasserq with their stock, shoold be removed from the reservation instanter. The terms of t,he agreement pleased the Indinns, and if the agreement bad been ratified, as it should havo been and aonld have been had it not been for the stockmen on the north of Pyramid Laktr and tho Carson-,and Colorado Railroad, which passes through the Walker River Reservation, these Indians would now be the owneh of s, large hera of oattle, the oont.ention of the people of Wedaworth for title to their .(illegal) holdings would have been settled, aud the proposed legislation of Senate bill No. 99 would never hi~veb een heard of. While, in my opinion, there is no posnibi1it.y of this legislation ever becoming effectire so long as it contains the olt~usere quiriug the Indians to give their consent to its provisions, still the ennotment of the bill into n lsw is viewed with distrust by the Indians as an evidence of bad faith on the part of the Government. Mr. Albert I<. Smiley, a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners, visited this agency last spring for the sole purpose of investigating the merits of the pro-posed legislation. He thoroughly studied and investigated the present resources, atatns, and oonditirm of theae Indiana, the object and probable effect of the proposed legislation, aud seenred the opinion of over three-fourths of the Indians in regard to tho matter. The oonclusions he arrived at bear me out in my statements, and I sincerely trust that the recommendations be made in regard to Senate bill No. 99 will be duly oonsidered. If the agreementof Oetoher17,1891, eonld be revived and ratified, it would receive the full consent of these Indians, ssd be an equitable, fair, and reasonable solution of thr problem. * I recommend that the proposed legislation aontsined in Senate bill 99 be defeated; that the agreement entered into between tliose Indiana and your office on October 17,1891, be rovived, if possible, and affirmed; if necessary, a new agreement aimilar thsrnto be made with these Indima. " * " In addition to the foregoing I have little or nothing to add. Todiatnrbthepesce-ful and prosperous condition of these Indians would be s. bnrning shamo. To carry out the propositions containell in Senate bill No. 3, ~rouldb e to make these Indians forever a burden upon the Government slid subject them to poverty and eervitude the rest of their lives. It would orush ant of them the preseut spirit of progress en$ oivilization, and make them idle, worthless paupers, as are many of tho other tribes. These Indians are on the verge of self-support, andiu a. few year8 will be in n. atste of wffioient civilisation to take ,up their lands in severalty. What little these Indian8 now receive from the Government i~ solely from a charitable standuoint: but they much a.u- ~ reciatei t and are deserving of e v e n dollar muro-priated for them. he^ hme a a k d for few fwor s of the ~ovpmmrnta, nd have Gel1 merited tho few which they have been granted. To now, by a selfish piece of legis-tion solelp- to n-ratif -v the d i m s o f a few olsmorous trespsssers and the interest of a soulless corporation, undo all the good that has been aioomplished doring the past twenty years, place a chain of slavery about their loins and tell them that from now on they most livsin poverty and shsme, that the Government has been in emor in presuming them cspvble of aelf-support snd oivilization,-wonld be the blacke~t Mot on the pages of Indian history. I have thoroughly examined Senate bill No. 3, and find little or no difference betweon it and Senate bill No. 99 iotroduaed in the last Congress, so far as the interests of the Indians are concerned. Both bills aceantplish the same r e a~l tr,i z, the sbandoninent of the entire Walker River Reaerration, tbc relinquisbm~nto f portions of the Pyramid Lake Reserration, the removing of the Indians residing on the Wslker River Reservation to the diminished Pyramid Lake Reservation, and the constrootion of n canal to irrigate the relinquished and the reserv4 lands of the Pyramid Lake mema t i o n . I consider i t time thrown away to di scu~tsh e supposed |