Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1906-12-28 | Page 2 | Says Cabinet Suspended Law

SAYS CABINET SUSPENDED LAW secretaries hitchcock and wilson grilled by special committee of senate washington admitting that they had no au authority thorit ot of law for the with drasal from allotment of nearly acres of land belonging to the five civilized silica in the indian territory for foi the purpose of creating a forest reservation two members of the presidents cabinet secretary of the tha department of the interior and wilson of the at al dep del it ament endeavored on wednesday to justify their course by stating they it id ohp lip best interests of the indians at heart elie explanation was mas made before a committee O which is Imes ing affairs in fit ti to tho the property rights of the five tribes til lien but the corn com mattee declined to accept it and ben acors dark clark ot Won wyoming aeller and Drand brandegee egee declared declai cd that the interior department has haa suspended sub a statute of the united stites authority and that eliat it was tile the duty of secre tary Ilitch cock to immediately cancel his bis order the he land from allotment