Show IRED Id RED II MEN CLASH GLASH IN BATTLE OF WORDS WORD Indian Meets Indian in Debate Dehat on Floor of United States Senate RECORD FOR INTERRUPTS INTERRUPTION Trouble Starts Over Attempt to Change Appropriation tion lion Bill Washington Feb 27 For 7 For the tho first time in the history of or tho the countr country Indian met Indian In debate dehate in the United States senate today tolay Though no tomahawks were thrown or ci scalps taken much language lan was wa wasted and numerous angry rt passages pl occurred between the representatives of oC two iO I tribes The Tho trouble arose over o the Indian appropriation bill hill just because Senator O Owen On n desired to havo the word late hate precede the clause relating lat 1 In ing ng to the five civilized tribes Senator Owen besides beside bein being a Democrat is a resident lent of oC the Cherokee Chero Chero- kee keo I ee tribe and the Cherokees are aro a apart apart apart part of the five civilized tribes of Oklahoma Senator Curtis of oC Kan Kansas 3 is a Republican and a descendent of the Kaw trIbe tilbe He Ic is a n member of the committee on Indian appropriations appropriations I and has q prided himself that the Indian appropriation bill this t oar ar arwas was about the best t over ever drawn His Ills Instincts as a warrior were rere pre aroused th the moment Senator Owen started in to punch holes in his pet p t measure and he lost no time In saying saving so Before the row was five minutes minute old Senator tor Curtis had broken all aU previous records In the number and length of Interruptions in another senators senator's speech ch Senator Owen as soon as he ho discovered this declined to yIeld to the representative of oC the Kaw tribe Later ho he saw his mistake from the manner in In which senators gathered about Senator Curtis and anno announced d that he would be 10 glad to yield This was the opportunity of or the Kaw law Temporary c Is Broken lIe He drew his Imis robe about him speaking and declined to put any an question to the Cherokee Cherol e I hiot As Ai th the tho Cherokee co went iv nt on on tg t a t Ka 1 sect t to n a 1 JI where silence vas waa no honger po possible ind mU th the was rc resumed Practically every overy member of sf tho time senate remained to lI listen ten to the tho ll de de- de Late bate Senator Owen contended that the five civilized tribes were now lull citizens of or the United States and were Verc citizens of the state of Oklahoma and no longer maintained a tribal government govern govern- ment Under these conditions he hc contended the tribes should bo boo classi bo-classi- classified classified classi classi- fied lied as the late five tribes The Tho Insertion in insertion insertion In- In of or this clause would give the five tribes full control over o tho the lands turned over to them by the government government govern govern- ment and they would he be able to lo sell seli or dispose of oC it as S they saw row ilL fit Thi land hand is valued at moro more than thon and Senator Owen himself himself him him- self has largo large holdings which cannot be sold under the terms of or the tho got gov government grant Senator Owens Owen's amendment was sas voted down Senator got Into the squabble and announced that ho he could see no reason wh why senators should waste aste their sympathies on the tho senator from OI Oklahoma lahoma or on any other oilier white man who is trying to make capital out of oC the fact that he I is ono ono- sixteenth nth or one Indian |