OCR Text |
Show assign him one- undivided half interest in the Indians Contract. Justis died a few months thereafter. I knew nothing of that assignment until after the death of Justis. That Contract exoired by Statute of Limitation, as well as by the death of Justis, and so declared by the Interior Deportment. Marion Butler then tried to get the same Indians to make a Contract with him, which, they refused to do, but did make a contract with H. Rosier Dulany/ tWich was approved by* the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, but tsrtecretary of the Interior withheld his approval so no one has any with the said Indiana that has heen approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Yet, Marlon Butler after having once obtained f75,000 out of the Indians by having their fund changed from one account in the U. S. Treasury to another, and having " beon refused by the Indians, a. Contract from theia did come before the Committee on Indians Affairs, as though he had authority to represent the Indians, and, by some means has had the original bill changed or a new one introduced, as this S. 381, which wholly ignores the sacred rights of the Indians, and gives any one who has heretofore had an approved assignment to an approved Contract, however remote, the right to represent them against their expressed wish, and to take their money for it. This Bill S. 381 if allowed to pass, throws wide, for any one who once had an assignment, to represent the Indians without their knowledge or consent. How would any one of you Congressmen, like for a* Court to allow one to represent you, to whom you had refused such authority, and for that" one to take from you a fee? I can but feel convinced that you gentlemen relied on some one and did not observe this most flagrant injustice to a helpless people. With profound respect, # # » * # |