Show INDIANS CLAIM THEIR RIGHTS Senate Committee Listen to Arguments Argu-ments Against Present System Muskogee I1fhe entire time on Friday of the senate Indian committee was devoted to hearing arguments In favor of removing the restrictions placed on the sale of Indian lands The morning session was productive of much feeling Colonel Robert L Owen a Cherokee by blood a prominent attorney and a candidate for the United States senate sen-ate said In reply to a question as to whether he had ever had his restrictions restric-tions removed 1 am as free a citizen citi-zen as any man on this senate committee com-mittee 1 am a free man I will not bow mj head to the Interior department depart-ment I have no personal restrictions restric-tions 1 have never made and will never make application for tho removal remov-al of my restrictions The fault of this government which controls the Indian Territory lies In the frailty of human nature which leads a man to believe that ho can govern a people better than they can govern themselves |