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Show Uinta Council, 70. In Congress, and you ought to have told Congress that you had promised us to hold back. It seems that you had thrown Washington's mouajh away.. I am not telling you this because I am nad. I am telling you this because you are my friend. Now I want you not to say anything more. You can't gain anything by talking here any longer. Inspector Mclaughlin: I feel called upon to correct some statements of my friend, Tim Johnson. True I visited this Agency two years ago and advised you to place your children in school. I also said you need not fear anything from the Whites; that you would be protected from the White Man on your reservation. But I never said to you that you need not listen to an official of the Department who visits order? you to talk to you underA of the Government. The President has power to send his officials to any place in the United States, and when he gives them an order it has to be obeyed, and I am here under such an order. I will also say that I was not in Washington last winter when this law was enacted. I was there the winter before when they were discussing your affairs and I did what I could to have that item of $70064.48 appropriated to pay yo£ for the UncompaghJSi*. allotments (212) on your reservations and for the strip of land east of the Uinta River opposite Port Duchesne which you complained to me about when I was here two years, ago. The first Act provided for the withholding of that money until you consented to take your allotments and I spoke to the DepartmentrX officials about it, as I regarded that money due you from former agreements. The Preaideat required Congress to pass a joint resolution eliminating that clause,, before he signed the Indian Appropriation Act of last year. I did everything I could for you in that matter a year ago la3t winter. I spoke to several Senators about it when it was under consideration and told them that you ought to be paid |