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has promised to look after that point. But if you have an opportunity please use it to call attention the the [[?]] need and justice of making some arrangement for securing title in the land occupied by the missions to the Missionary Societies. A very good provision was made for this in House Severalty Bill.

What means can be used if any for pushing the Severalty bill in the House? I suppose there are only a few more weeks of this session.

Shall you go to Montreal to the Anthropological Association Meeting.

You see schemes are on foot to dismember the Sioux Reserve. And the poor Poncas are in imminent danger of losing every thing through the bill engineered by Senator Sanders for slicing off the southern part of