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Show Uinta Council, 46, x Red Cap. This reservation line has been there for a long time. This what you are telling now is new. This what I am telling you is old. I an not going to throw that aside. This what you are telling about what Congress has done, is not very old. It is not old yet. We don't want it to go that way. That is what I say^that is what I think. It has been here before the white men and the Merman came. What you are telling is new. This new talk you have brought in, I want it turned aside. It has been going as it is since before I was born. Your talk is nothing, I want you to say "yes", I want you to say that it is to go the way I talk. I want you to say, "I am listening". Inspector McLaughlin: I wish to reply to my two friends who have just spoken. They have brought up a poijnt which is a 3trong argument in favor of what I am presenting to you. An old law always remains till displaced by a new one. Since the establishment of your reservation you have been governed by that old law referred to by your speakers. My friends, Governments are like people. The older the more advanced they become. Those of you now here know a great deal more than your fathers, because you have been advancing^and your children will know more of the -'diite man's ways than you do. Our Government is advancing steadily just the same as the people add our Congress has come to the conclusion that the best thing for the Indians of the country is to break up their reservations and settle them on individual allotments. T?*3^ old law which these two speakers have referred to has been abolished and this new law takes its place |