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Show - 5- 1905, was introduced into both the House and the Senate concurrently; however, it failed to pass the House, so the bill was convert © d into a jurisdictional act. It failed to pass th © House* Hot giving up, th © bill was redrafted and one © again presented before th ® House Committee on Indi, an Affair © } it was reported out of the Committee and passed by House vote as Report Ho, 1028 of the 75th Congress, 1st session, It took until the third session of the Senate to gain their approval, and then three additional amendments were added* Of these amendments, two were broadening amendment © to th © original act and one was stating that the land in dispute was " the absolute property of the United States, » The Ut@ ® had then received permission of Congress to present their suit in the Court of Claims; however, prior to doing so th ® r ® was a n@ 9d for the President's signature to make the act a law, At this point th ® Justice Department stepped in & nd asked for a, veto by the President, as they felt, along with the Interior Department, that a favorable enactment of a 1937 bill to create an Indians Claims Commission would eliminate the need of the Jurisdictional Act, Despite the advice of these group ® , the President, Franklin D* Roosevelt, signed the act on June 28, 193$# 9 This did not m^ further legislation on the Ut ® claims as problems arose over the definition of th ® reservation, th © separation of surface and subsurface rights, and th © addition of land to the reservation of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, lach of these matters was taken care of as either a separate bin in Congress or as amendments to the original Ute Jurisdictional Act, |