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Show . . ? ~ . . :. . . . .' : ; .. . . . , ~ . . . 1 . . , - , . >. ~, , . . . ,, <-. . . - REPORT OF~TREC O@~I~S~ONEORF - .. . , . .. I.. - &em respffit f& thdr individual rights. Nothing but the &r&C -. . -; ; necessity &n warrant the Govettinient in deviating from this -more . '; ,~:.' . ' htimahepolicy .until it shall have accomplished' iL9 benign nork of the. ' ~ . ' wniplete enJktwohisement of these people. ,~ . .. - . . . - . .~~. . .. -.- ' , . LAW .AN- D COURTS FOR INDIAN RESERVATIOX~. . . ~. *.~ . . . ,, . . ~ At its anqual meeting in Bostou on Angust 26, 1891, the &tioI&+l ; '. .I . ., Bar Association adopted the following resolution: , . . ~, ' . BesoZved, Th&t.iti s the sen& of this ~8ociationt hat the ~oveinments hould @p- , ' .: -. pide st the ewliest pbssible rnoment,fot courts and a sptatam-of law in and for the . . :. ~-. Indian reservations. , . . . . A ook~i'tteeof three mas appointed and instructed on behalf of the . ,: - , , ajlsociation to take steps a "bring to the arttention if the President. . ~ .~ c. -: a i d Congre~of the United States the expediency of legislation" such , ~.. ' , as was eqntemplaka~by this .resolgtion. According to their . .. ' instrue- , .~ ' tions, Messrs. Hitchcock, Thayer, and Hornblower, ,mmposing the '. . . . - oomittee, presented thematter to the President during the early part . - : . , , . . a . of October, 1891, in a memorial without date, a copy of which was filed . : .-.. iu the Depaktment and referred to this offie?,. . . , i.:.- _ ' ' . The question to which this- resolution relates has for, a number of, ~ ':- ' <.A years ieceivedthe serious consideration of offieers of the Government, . ' :; and I hi+e personally given it much thought, with' a view to recom-' - j:. ; mending some aotion by Congress, if it should appear expedient to-do soi ' ~'. :' :;:, I 1t for~thep arpo* of the anomalous~eonditiontsh at en- r . isted on Indian reservations by reasonof an absence of laws applic&ble . . ... , . t b radians thereon that the Indian. police were kstablished by act of - ; . . '-!I Oongres!;. thAt later the courts of Indian offenses were organized under : ; ", I: the regnl&tions'bft his Departme114; and that the b d i n a p r o r i a t i o n~. ~L act of March 3,1885,gave to Un im States.aud Tk~itoriaelo ur%sju ris- ~'~ .: ~ :-- diction of crimes wmmitted by Indians on theQ reservations. - These law8 and .regulations have operated s n e c e s ~ iyn the pro- - . . -. . . motion of peace and order on reservations, but theydo not afford a jnrisdictirm within wliieh 'the Indian can enforce his contract or be : . ., . -.. ~ . .~. - rkniretl ta liveup to his own civil obligations. It has tbeyefore see$& . -. / desirable that s&eproviSion shall he made by which the lndiani'in . '. ' the United States who have not become, or are not in process of be- ' , . ,' coming, eitizens.might be brought under the influence of some simple . . 'Ti: system of courts and laws by which they might be' instrueted'h'th'e : 1: , methods of eiail and orderly government, and be more xipidly and, - -:-' - - ~ ~ . , ~. .&itably pr+ared for the citizenship in the United States nhich is - . . ?, I . . ~urelyw ming td them under the present policy of the Government. . . .'. ~. : . Bnt-howthisshall hedone is the question which always' presents itself. . . . ,:. The difference in the status of the vasious In+in reservations, and of_ . :.:. the temper and midition of the Indians occupying them; present se~$ouw' . . .:.. I - i . .. . . . ,~. -. ' . ._. |