Show ADENT MYTON SCORED Utah Senators Denounce Indian In-dian Officials Methods rt 1 KEARNS CLOSELY QUESTIONS FL Asks Why Ho Traveled Over Six Hundred Miles to Denver to Meet Lt1 tho Representatives of the Ploronco Mining Company Mytons Reply Wns That Ho Acted Under Instructions Ciii Instruc-tions of tho Department Secretary i Hitchcock and Commissioner Jones Favor4 notification of Lease TRIBUNE SPECIAL nt Washington Dec 12 Utah members Tri of Congress appeared before Secretary j1 Hitchcock today to protest against the ratification oC the TJInlah mineral lease i said to have been effected between a IrI few Ute Indians and Messrs Tims and lI Henderson who represented the Floi C enco Mining company AL times the hearing became acrimonious E Indian Agent Myton who was present pres-ent was scored for going from Utah H i to Denver to nieet Tims and Hender L son In j furtherance oC the leUHe In justification Myton said he acted under Instructions oi the department as he paid he did in bringing the Ules to Ti Washington The hearing made the impression upon newspaper men that both Commissioner Com-missioner Jones and Secretary Hitchcock L2 Hitch-cock favor ratification Congressman Sutherland was the first to speak He went over the situation touching the salient features and protested X3 pro-tested against granting of authority of this nature RAWILNS GOES FOP OFFICIALS J He was followed by Senator llawlins who spoke at length and scored the Indian In-dian Commissioner for favoring the ± loose He characterised it as a steal H and cited efTorLs upon the part oC other IL tt companies to obtain similar leases It a4f was by no means a new idea Congress Con-gress had asserted in no uncertain GOOD 1 terms positive disapproval of such rft t leases He made the point that the Indians hud no title to this land but were merely tenants for life and could neither sell nor otherwise dispose of theIr holdings Should such leaseholders leasehold-ers discover gold on the Indian kinds Jt would merely mean that the Indlann when the time came for opening the reservation could demand a higher ASji price for the land from the Government tci Govern-ment ele i POSITION OF OFFICIALS It was easily observable however that Secretary Hitchcock favored the granting of the lea e as Commissioner = c Jones avowedly does Senator Raw hns criticised Commissioner Jones for his attitude in the matter Senator Kearns perceiving the drift CFi of things urged further delay in order 1 t that an investigation may be had of 3i the entire subject by disinterested Inspectors In-spectors MTONS METHODS DENOUNCED During the hearing Indian Agent My 1 ton was roundly berated by the speak G E era and his methods denounced He thBiti was questioned very closely by Senator Li Sena-tor Kearns as to why he traveled over EI COO miles to Denver to meet Tims and l4Li Henderson and he replied he was ordered rc dered to do so KEARNS DESIRES TO POSTPONE PAIRI Senator Kearns wanted the hearing d postponed until after the holidays to give the special agents time to report when everybody would receive a bet ter understanding of the case He f thought the company would not suffer G suf-fer by the delay as the reservation is covered by three feet of snow and prospectors l ctil pros-pectors could do no work Mr Henderson representing the Florence Mining company confined his remarks mostly to n denunciation of I the Mormons stating the Indiana had tsr CJ no confidence in the people of Utah c and preferred to deal with Eastern people peo-ple OF6 Secretary Hitchcock finally postponed the hearing until Saturday morning |