Viewing page 4 of 5

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Refer in reply to the following:
            Land
          29905-99
[[the information above is in the upper left-hand corner of the page in a what appears to be a stamp used to annotate information for connecting documents]]

Department of the Interior,  ^[[225 (is hand written just above and to the left of the "D" in Department)]] [[a signature or initials are written to the right of word "interior"]]
Office of Indian Affairs
Washington,  July 11, 1899.

^[[75]] Hon. John T. Morgan,
             United States Senate,
                  Washington, D. C.

Sir:

     I am in receipt, by your reference, of two communications from T. H. Tibbles, dated at the Omaha Agency; one June 12, and the other June 14, 1899, in which he makes various charges in regard to the administration of affairs at that Agency, and refers particularly to the matter of allotments now being made to the women and children of the tribe. He states that a lot of thieving white men got a law passed in 1893, but that the then Secretary of the Interior refused to make a new allotment under the law, holding that it was not only unjust to the Indians but that the law itself was unconstitutional, for under the law of 1882, the United States had agreed to hold the land that was not allotted in trust for twenty-five years, and at the end of that time to deed it to the children of the tribe then living who had received none under the first allotment.
     In regard to this point, it is remarked that a paragraph in the Indian appropriation act approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stats., 612), amended the Act of August 7, 1882 (22 Stats., 342), so as to authorize the Secretary of the Interior, [[underline]] with the consent of [[/underline]] 

Transcription Notes:
the ^[[75]] mentioned above appears to be on an oval sticker placed on the document