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1 An Appeal on Behalf of the Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches 1 (1899)

handle is hein.amindian/apbeki0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 51-SECOND SERIES-3000. INDIAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION, 1305 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA., February 15, 1899. An Appeal on Behalf of the Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches. On May 16, 1898, the House of Representatives passed a bill (H. R. 10,049, 55th Cong., 2d Session) providing for the allotment of eighty acres of farming and a like amount of graz- ing land to each member of the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians in Oklahoma Territory, and the sale of the surplus lands amounting to 2,509,693 acres, basing the total membership of the tribes at 2870; there being a total of 2,986,- 893 acres in the reservation of the said tribes. The Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, favorably reported said bill in the Senate without amendment on February 9, 1899 ; Mr. Platt, of Connecticut, making this statement: I desire to state that I do not concur in that re- port. This legislation is based upon a pretended agreement, entered into with said Indians, concluded October 21, 1892, at Fort Sill, Indian Territory, and set out under quotation what purports to be a copy of that agreement, wherein it is stipulated (Article VI) that- As a further and only additional consideration for the ces- sion of territory and relinquishment of title, claim, and interest in and to lands as aforesaid, the United States agrees to pay to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians, in the Indian Territory, the sum of not exceeding two million (2,000,- ooo) dollars, in manner as follows : As fast as the lands opened for settlement under this Act are sold, the money received from such sales shall be covered into the Treasury and placed to the credit of the said Comanche, I Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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