| Show i congressman blocks an indian bill to penalize white mans livestock washington representative murdock mill dock of utah clashed recently with sith the indian bureau over a bill sent ent to congress by indian commis loner collier branded must legislation 11 which proposed to con ter fer upon inclan agents the right to impound cattle sheep or other livestock that stray upon indian reservation and exact from the owners 1 per head plus plu Us damages before the cattle may be released mr murdock rebelled against the idea edep of delegating to indian incan agents the powers no now reposed in the courts for the time and probably permanently mr air murdock has halted what he denounces as 63 another attempt to enlarge the bur au cratic powers of the indian bureau the commissioners bill has been referred to a subcommittee ol of which murdock Is charman and that committee reported bick that under existing law there Is ample authority for punishing pusi shing for wilful piss on indian lands his subcommittee found no justification whatever Ahat ever for colliers bill holding that it would gle ge dictatorial powers to indian agents and that under the aut holty to abess dim ages they could work hanec to the livestock industry Indu str in reporting to the full committee mr murdock crested su suc that thi proposal prop of collier la is a nou new justification for ling ing indian grazing crazing lands as vell veil wi as public grazing linds unar the administration adman 1 str atlon headed by F R car carpenter penter director of grazing lie he maintains that the indian bureau Is not equipped to administer indian grazing lands as efficiently as aa they be handled by the grazing administration the murdock recommended om mended that corn com collier hers B bill be rejected on the sug of one member of the coni con cittee action on the bill was aas de to glie gie commissioner collier opportunity to answer the objections raised by murdock tribune |
