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Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.,
May 20, 1924.

Hon. Homer P. Snyder,
Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Snyder:

The receipt is acknowledged of your letter of April 30, 1924, forwarding for a report thereon a copy of H.R.8965, being a bill for the relief of the Omaha Indians of Nebraska.

The act of June 22, 1910 (35 Stat. L. 580), conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Claims to consider and render judgment in all claims, legal and equitable, of the Omaha tribe of Indians against the United States. Under that act the Indiana filed a suit (No.31002) Court April 22, 1918, awarding the Indians $122,295.31. Interest at 5 per cent was allowed by the court on the following portions of the judgment:
   
On $94,739.54 from June 15, 1854.
On $15,068.80 from August 3, 1856.
On $3,133.30 from August 11, 1858.

Subsequently, the counsel for the Government in the case called the attention of the Court to section 1091 of the Revised Statutes (being a part of the act creating the Court of Claims) which prohibited the court from allowing interest in certain cases, and thereupon the court recalled its former judgment in so far as it related to interest. ~On appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States this action was sustained, the court having found that the jurisdictional act did not take the case out of the usual rule governing allowance of equitable claims for interest. (Sec 253 U. S. 275).

This claim was submitted to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, and by letter dated May 16, 1924, he has advised with reference thereto as follows: "I have submitted the matter to the President, who has instructed me to advise you that proposed legislation is in conflict with his financial program."

Very truly yours,
Hubert Work.

On May 22, 1924, the Committee on Indian Affairs after full consideration favorably reported the bill to the House, accompanied by House Report No. 826, which stated: "The merits of this legislation are fully set forth in the letter of the Secretary of the Interior hereto attached and made a part hereof." Subsequently the bill was