Show TRmAl AUTONOMY Of INDANS i INDICATIONS TAT IT WILL BE ABOLISHED Chief of the Creeks However HItS a I Plan For the formation of a I Indian State I I Washington Dec 11 Secretary of the Interior Bliss has telegraphed Tams I Bixby1 chairman of the Dawes Indian commission to come to Washington to confer with the Indian committees and today notified the house committee on Indian affairs that he expected the commission to be here in time for next Thursdays session This meeting will be a significant one The report that the commission makes to congress on the result oC its labors among the Five Civilized Tribes and the status of the negotiations and latitude of the tribes will largely affect legislation to be shaped to meet the problems The ultimateresult as now indicated will be an ominibus bill providing for the reorganization of the territory and the extinguishment of tribal autonomy without negotiations with the Indians negotatons Inqians St Louis Dec 11The Cherokee commission which is on its way to Washington to confer with the joint Indian committee of congress arrived here last night Speaking of their mission to Washington Wash-ington S R Walkinstick who is a Cherokee senator said We go to I Washington to uso every effort to oppose op-pose the abolishment of our tribal I courts and to head off the impending I I change by which the president of the United States will have the power to sanction or approve the acts of the Cherokee national council before they become laws > Chief Ishpechie of the Creeks has proposed a plan by which the Indians are at the same time to become part of the United States as an Indian state and I believe his Idea so far as I understand i un-derstand is a good one |