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Jurisdictional Bills for Five Tribes Notable Achieve-• ***♦* % ' * •- . • )' . ' - ...... I . ■ . . •'mentVETERANS HOSP IT AL BILL LOST IN JAMn Osage Lawn. „ .» * - . - ■ . ■ * . .i' of Tribesmen to “Sunsliine R1 . - (fnmes^Democrat Special) II Washington,.. June 12. --^T’he session] lot Congress just ended” did;more ’for the Indians of the country than any \t,en (sessions .previously. .according to don- I (gressman William W, Hastings, of theSecond . Oklahoma district;y ' 1I.. The bjg achleveniend' as.far as Dkla-1jhoma, Indians are concerned, was theenactment of. bills confeiVinff jurisdic-Ition upon the*court of claims tpJadju-dicate claims of all. of the Fiye eiyil-[Ized: Tribes again*t the fedora I govern -1 ment. This; legislation will enable these tribes to ; wind up their affairs ; speedily. For more‘than; a decade the ! Oklahoma delegation had been . work-• ling for this I’egisiniidn. .'. , ' J; | - Another notable aclUevement wae the j [passage of a bill authorizing the .fed’-.'I eral purchase of the Veterans hpspi-Htal at Muskogee. The deficiency bill H item appropriating; thp $500,000 needed i 1 for this purchase failed, of passage in the, legislative, jam during .the closing hours of congress, but there is no . [doubt it wii’l pe speedily passed when f congress again,, convenes in December. H-The-item—hhd-heen-approvod-^by - the-f ]senate and the house but got lost in J the shuffle when the house began act-ijlhfe op the conferees’* repord./ Western.II congressmen personally intonested in3 reclamation projects which they were 1 press!ng at: thev last nilnute; are direct-)jy responsible for the failure of the7litem to be embraced in the deficiency a bill.b . Hi ah way BUI. Lost,.s I The; federal highway act, which nuJv thorized the ' expenditure, of $$75,000;000H for federal aid in road construction inI 1926 and a similar amount in 1927, and0 which also carried; an important sec-tItion putting non-taxable Indian lands1 in the same category as unapprppri*ltelt;l. -I public lands, thereby increasing ma-d Iterjally the amount the , federal , gov-1 ernihept would contrttjute toward Qk-By AT A LIE UNKALUNT (Sunshine Rider) /.; I am just. an., elm tree; probably very proud because I stand so neara brownsand .stpne building that holds ilie records of millions of dollars' a; .multitude- of. events, yes, and volumes aiHi pages, of records, that cause the very hair to stand pn end -Aand make . lawyprs dizzy in the IWrt^rigpmi~~^gtrmet1 rhea:. 1 wonder what it is all about wheri I see so many brightly colored' blankets, wrapped around robust: figures with sad faces, while soihe step light and gay as they ascend the steps * scarcely making a noise with their moccaslon. ed feet. Then I see young faces brisk and spry. Their jiigh heel shoes and boblted hiilr suggest the trend of modernism, . but the ; gaily colored blanket s tell me • that th oy a re: wa rd a of the government. As 1 havo wit-tiessed the years of prosperity for them, i ; recaU last year wlierf each Osage .Indian received as his share from the sale of oil and oil leases,$ii,800. * - ‘Time brings changes to all things, and I : .havo . witnessed the change's with them. As * I sway my boughs in different directions I see great oil fields; where the high, derricks outnumber the members of the Osage tribe~-the smell of the oil,, the ever cling, qllng, clang, of. ‘ the drills is their music in the modern day. The Osage Indiaris’ agreement with the
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Muskogee County Democrat
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jun 12, 1924
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