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there -- or they sent Mrs. Bronson when they became worn out. All they did, ladies and gentlemen, was to bring to public attention what might have been one of the biggest timber steals in all history. As you might guess, the intended victims were some poor Indians who happen to own part of the Tongese Forest up there. For the moment, at least, the steal has been stopped cold. Perhaps we'll have a report on that later.
I don't know how many committee meetings of our House and Senate we attended, but scarcely a week went by without hearing of one kind or another: the Appropriations committees of both houses, the Public Lands Subcommittees of both houses, the Longer Civil Service Committee which started out with an idea that it could abolish the Indians alone with the Indian Bureau. Mrs. Bronson or someone from Mr. Curry's office was present at practically all of these often to give testimony. 
It is difficult also to give a full list of all the tribal delegates who were in Washington during the year and called upon our Washington office, sometimes to get help, sometimes just to get acquainted. I mention only the first that come to mind: there were delegates representing the Haida and Tlingit tribes of Alaska, also the town of Netlakatla sent a delegation just a few days ago; Fort Berthold delegates come in during the winter; the Indians of northern California; the Pima tribe of Arizona; Eastern Cherokee called upon us early this fall; several New York tribes; Fort Peck; Pine Ridge; Crow; Blackfeet. There were others.
In our appearance before the President's Committee on Civil Rights we urged several lines of attack. We called attention to the discriminatory franchise laws of Arizona and New Mexico which keep the Indians of those states from voting, and I am happy to note that the Committee included a reference to this situation in its report. We also pointed