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but B.R. is defiant to both the Secretary and the tribe who are anxious to go ahead with a new election and to proceed with the business of making oil leases. The four oil companies who have been for a long time trying to force the Secretary to approve their leases with the former council have appealed to the President and he simply referred their correspondence to the Secretary who again, for the fourth time, turned them down. What they will do next is hard to tell but I think they will try to get a bill through Congress which is an uncertain proposition. These oil companies have taken a hand in the tribal election and managed to elect B.R. and R.E. through the mixed blood element, and for the purpose of using them in advancing their