60TH CONGRESS,
1st Session.

100

SENATE.

DOCUMENT
No. 482.

JOINT RESOLUTION FOR THE ENROLLMENT
OF CERTAIN PERSONS AS MEMBERS OF
THE OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS, AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES

769

MAY 15, 1908.-Presented by Mr. Clapp and ordered to be printed.

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1908

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JOINT RESOLUTION FOR THE ENROLLMENT OF CERTAIN PERSONS AS MEMBERS OF THE OSAGE TRIBE OF INDIANS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS,
UNITED STATES SENATE,

April 29, 1908.

The committee met at 1.30 p. m. Present: Senators Clapp (chairman), Gamble, Sutherland, Brandegee, Curtis, Brown, Dixon, Paynter, Taylor, Owen, and Bankhead. Messrs. L. J. Miles, J. J. Hemphill, T. J. Leahy, Charles J. Kappler, and Charles H. Merillat were in attendance.

The CHAIRMAN. This hearing is in regard to Senate resolution 70, introduced by Mr. Gore, of Oklahoma.

Senator OWEN. Mr. Chairman, I have the resolution and the report from the Department concerning the same, and all the Department papers, and I ask that they be printed at the beginning of the record. The CHAIRMAN. They will be received and printed as requested. The papers referred to are as follows:

Hon. MOSES E. CLAPP,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, March 31, 1908.

Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate.

SIR: I am in receipt of your letter referring for a report a copy of S. R. 70, being a "Joint resolution for the enrollment of certain persons as members of the Osage tribe of Indians, and for other purposes.' You request a report thereon for the information

of your committee.

The resolution authorizes and directs the Secretary of the Interior to cause to be placed on the roll of the Osage tribe of Indians, provided for in the act of June 28, 1906 (34 Stat.L., 539), known as the Osage allotment act, the names of 37 persons, as follows:

1. Mrs. Jane Appleby.

2. Addie May Auld.

3. Archie William Auld.

4. Harry Auld.

5. Flora Auld.

6. Pearl Callahan.

7. Simon Clavier.

8. Mary J. R. Crump.

9. Pauline Crump.

10. Edward R. Crump.
11. Maudie Fronkier.
12. Panzy Fronkier.
13. Virgil Herrard.
14. George Arthur Hunt.
15. John Thomas Hunt.
16. Thomas John Hunt.

17. Mary Elizabeth Hunt.

18. Rhody May Hunt.

19. William T. Hunt.

The resolution provides further:

20. Angeline James.
21. Nora James.

22. Chlora Loveland.
23. Hattie McCrary.
24. Mamie McCrary.
25. Rosa Marr.
26. Ola Martin.

27. Blon Pappan.
28. Justin Pappan.
29. Moses Plomondon.
30. Peter M. Revard.
31. G. J. Stratton.
32. Jerald Stratton.
33. Theresa Stratton.
34. Therma Stratton.
35. Floyd Stratton.
36. Grace Stratton.
37. Thelma Stratton.

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"And in order that said persons may receive benefits from the Osage lands equal to other members of the tribe, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to ascertain and pay to each of them the difference in value between the allotments they