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Show Uinta Council, 11. United States is a voter and has a voice in saying who will ba his representative and as soon as you people have your allotments, you will have a voice in saying who will be your representatives in Congress. How, Congress has enacted a law affecting you people, it says you ar e to have lands allotted to jou and I have been sent out here to explain the Act and obtain your consent to accept your allotments. My friends, I want you to understand distinctly that I am not here of my own accord. I have been sent here by the Secretary of the Interior to place before yuu the act of Congress of which I have been speaking to you. The Secretary under the law, ia required to carry this into effect* He was obliged to send myself or some other Inspector to see you people and talk to you about it, I am to ask you to accept allotments of 80 acres for each head of a family of irrigable land, that is land that can be watered, and 40 acres to each other member of the family. If the consent of you paopla cannot be obtained by June 1st, that is in eleven days from now, the Secretary must proceed to allot the lands to you under the Act,- all tha remaining land after the allotments are made, to ba opened far settlement, the titla to be acquired by homesteaders under the homestead Act, tha price to be paid by the homesteaders of $1.25 par acre. BFow my friends, I want you to understand that this is not tha action of the Secretary or the Commissioner, it is the Act of Congress . Congress does not intend to have large tracts ®f land held by Indians in future of which they maka no use. But thoy do not desire or intend to take this land from Indians without compensating them for it. Under the lata decision of tho Suprsme Court, which is the interpreter of all the laws, Congress has tha power to enact such legislation. I want you to under- |
