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then a meeting called of the Boston Indian Citizenship committee, which body had among its members some of the most eminent citizens of New England, among them being John D. Long, Edward Everett Hale. Gov. Talbot, Mayor Prince. W. H. lincoln, President of the Merchants Exchange, Walter Allen, present editor of the Boston Herald, D.A. Goddard, at that time editor of the old Boston Advertizer, and ten or twelve more of like standing to discuss the most effective way of presenting the bill to the country. It was decided to bring it out at Worscester, Mass. Senator Hoar came all the way from Washington for the special purpose od presidening at that meeting and made a speech advocating such legislation. The bill however met opposition in unexpected quarters, and feeling that it could not pass just then, it was dropped. 
    The severalty act provides that lands shall be allotted to the Indians, held by the government in trust for twenty-five years and at the end of that time deeded to the Indians in fee simple to the allottees or their heirs according the inheritance laws of the state or territory in which the land is situate. Some of those allotments will fall in within the next three or four years and already lawyers are opening offices on the reservations expecting fat fees, and many of them, from the unending litigation that must follow. I know one shyster who has been appointed guardean for minor children and administrator for seventy-four estates, and although he has held that position in some of the cases four or five years, he has never turned over a dollar to the estates, while in the case of these estates, none of them had less than 160 and many of them