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Show \ Uinta Council, 43, allottees and their children,and none of you can sell your individual allotments during the trust period of twenty five years. Now my friends, I think we are coming nearer each other and that you understand me. The question of opening the reservation is not with you; that has been determined by the act of congress. One of your speakers said that Washington never sent out that word before. That may be true, but I am now here to announce it to you, and my friends, I wish you to understand fully and clearly the import of the words which I convey to you. We want to discontinue useless discussion as to the opening of the reservation and take up the question whOther or not you are willing to take your allotments as provided in the act. Tim Johnson; You do not talk like they talked to me in Washington, you talk as though you stole Washington's mouth. Here are men wh© were with me in Washington. The Secretary talks just the way you have been talking but the president don't talk that way. He did not talk that way when I was there. I don't believe that you come from the president. You are not from Washington; you are from where congres§ is. They should not have sent you here. They should have sent some one here to ask the Indians about this £&ing first. We did not talk about this allotment when I was there. The;?- told me "whea those fellows talk don't pay attention to them. If they talk about you land like that don't let it get into your ears". While we wepe*- talking there the secretary telephoned, and Washington, said>"I>ay no attention to him. I do not want him to come into my house. L^t him stay out there". That's the reason we are holding back on this. The secretary told U3 about this $1.25 business. That has been talked before. |