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to change its mind. The Caponin case was running first. Mr. ? and filed a brief as a friend of the court in the Caponin case, a very able brief that allotment income generally to the ? was beyond tax. There is another able brief filed by a group of attorneys in Oklahoma to [[strikethrough]] xxxxxxxx [[/strikethrough]] which reference has been made. Houston Bus Bureau joined with ? Shipping and Colonel William D. Hughes of Washington filed a brief on the Supreme Court and we all pitched in for everything ? It was a nice bright and pretty and sunshiny day in Washington in April when the Chief Justice of the United States the opinion of the court, seven to one in the favor of the Indians. It was such a sweeping victory that the Bureau of Internal Revenue has given up on these cases so far as is concerned with direct allotment income. I mentioned I think, the people who participated except one and he is the poor fellow who had a lot of faith in these cases. I recall him saying "Well, I have got to show a little faith in it myself. He'd lost his tax case in the tax court. I represented [[?]] you think I don't reasonwe We lost but his case was sacrificed without a whimper on his part so that the more favorable Caponin case might go on. It was a strategic decision and one, I think, as it turned out, that he was happy about. Of course, it has cost him substantial money. I don't know that anyone ever tells you these things and [[strikethrough]] if I didn't [[/strikethrough]] I suppose that if I didn't you would find out what Joe Garry had a personal sacrifice to carry in the light of a tax which the tax court held him ? and he gave up on the appeal so that the other cases which looked more favorable could go forward. As I say, this is gratifyingto present all this, the result was gratifying to all of us and to all of you, and it is especially gratifying that you should pay tribute as you have done today. That really adds glow to a very noble situation. Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Joh Cragun. Now to go on with the program, the meaning of the tax decision by Owen Tanner, the attorney of the Warm Springs Tribe of Indians of the state of Oregon. Mr. Tanner:

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