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Show LX REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. . securing some modification of the proclamation whereby they might be permitted temporarily to enter the Territory pending the negotiations authorized by Congress, but they were informed that under no circum-stances would any settlements be permitted in the Indian Territory until the negotiations with the InNan tribes had been had and author-ity from Congress obtained. Upon the return of the delegation to Arkansas City the colol~ists (April 23) passed resolutions agreeing to await the result of negotia-tions, and ad.jonrned to meet at the call of their leader. Those having homes retomed to them, about two hundred arid fifty remaining in camp, near Caldwell, on the Kansas border, wbere they appear to have since conducted themselves in an orderly manner. Recent advices received in this Department indicating an intention on the part of the colonists to disband and peacefully await fnrt.her official action in reference to the landsin question, the United States district attorney has been instructed by tbe ~ e ~ a r t m eonf tJu stice to dismiss the suits before referred to, if he is satisfied they have broken camp and retired from the border and re-. linquished their project of invasion.' INTRUDERS AND DISPUTED OITIZENSBIP IN THE INDIAN TEREITOEY. No progress ha@ been made in the adjustment of this matter since the last Alulual Report, in which it was stated that the Senate Commit-tee on Indian Aft'airs was then about to visit the Indian Territory for the purpose of investigating this subject,. among others, and that it was presumed the committee would present a report which wonlrl enable Congress to reach a satisfactory solution of the question at the then ensuing session. This expectation was not realized, the committee having praented no report of their investigations in the Territory. The several civilized nations (with the exception of the Choctaw) seem unwilling to adopt any satisfactory plan of settlement, and the matter is therefore left in the same unsettled condition that has ex-isted for many years. RESERVOIRS AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE MlSSISSXPPI. Attention is called to that portion of the An ~ ~ uRaelp ort for the year 1884 (page xlvii) on the subject of reservoirs at the headwaters of the Mississippi, in whioh recommendation was made that an appropriation of $26,800 be made by Congress as a first installment to reimburse cer-tain Chippewa Indians for tile annual damage and injury to them in-volved in the construction of those reservoirs, and that annually there-after a similar appropriation be made. Such actioi is needed to carry into effect the award of a commission, appointed December 22,1882, to review a former valuation of damages to those Chippewas by reason of the construction of reservoirs upon their reservations in Minnesota. X N ~ ~ ~ .tl-ieI laat ter part of Ootober and early in November (aince the above was written) these iovaden, headed by Coooh, again entered the Territory in large nom-bers aud oampsd on the hanks of the Canadian, near Council Grove, whence they were removed aorow the lime by the ~nilitaxyat . the request of the Interior Department. \ |