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something to that effect.  What the Agent wrote you was what Two crow and I objected to when we were in Washington when you read the bill to us.  This is what we said: "We do not want all the money to be in the Commissioner's hands and the interest used for the educational fund."  No one had spoken about selling the land or refusing to do so.  They thought that if the Government wanted to buy the land it would do so and they were waiting for the buyers to come.  I will gather the young men together who signed

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the first bill and get them to sign over agin and try and get others to join us.  There is one thing that the Omahas may speak of and that it is that the money is in the hands of the commissioner to be used for the benefit of the tribe;  they will want to have a say in the way the money is to be used.  You know that the money which the tribe got from the first lot they sold, they could not even ask how it was to be used; most of the money, they say will go to pay the