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Show I I ev Voiitls in Iinliiiu lors. j Washington, -". A point j raked, : with reference to recent regulations . ; of Ihe treaty with the Crow Indians i j that the commissioner of Indian at"-! i fail's had overlooked a ,-cction in the ' receiiL law. whi.-h prohibits the ' recognition of an Indian tribe as a treaty-making power. Jn the general I land appropriation bill, approved J : March :;ist. 1S71, the following sec-I lion found: "Provided hereafter that no Indian tribe or nation .-hall j he aeknowledgtit or recognized a an independent nation, tribe, or powr with which the Untied States niay co tract a treaty." " 1 lt is stat'-d there is no law later than 1 tiiis mollifying or repealing this provision.- The point is made therefore there-fore thai lids act works an entire change in our tniditionai Indian poii-i poii-i cv. and that there can be no negotiation negotia-tion with the Indians on the preainnp-ion thai th-y are , an independent nntion. The point is also raised that a proper x-n-idera-. tion ot tiie Modocs places then- right ; to be regarded as prisoners of war in a new aspect: in fact, that tlie entire ; military commission which accords their rights as prisoners of w.ir is illegal. ille-gal. Another section provides that injLiiiiig m me hci o coiisti u'.vi ratifying or approving unv treaty I made vvith anv tribes Ancc July -oih, 1-?j7. It i stated that the Sherman-, Sherman-, Augiu- treaty of lioS. which has given i riitTio lroufusionhi Xtbraska, by rea- i son of p.-ecciiu cation, by settlers, o; ' lands aKiczeda reerv.v -.02 , comc-s I w itnin the provi-ions ot tais ae:. it was made since July Iro. . but ! has not been specially rat-ii-.d bv A-;t I of C'ongn ss. "it is nrgtd t'uat it is i niil unraiiii'd. and fual all prace-d- |