Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — THREE SENATORS ACCUSED. [ARTICLE]

THREE SENATORS ACCUSED.

Are Messrs. Teller, Ingalls and Plumb Grabbing Oklahoma! Washington, D. C.—Ex-Govern-or Glick, of Kansas; Col. S. 8. N. Wood, of the Kansas State Journal; J. G. Maybury, of the Osage Democrat; W. F. Toler, of Wichita, Kan., and ex-Representatives Clark and Weaver are here in the interest of the Oklahooma boomers and will to-morrow have an interview with the Lecretary of the Interior. Col. Clark, the spokesman of the delegation makes very serious charges against Senators Ingalls, Plumb and Teller and declares that these gentlemen are pecuniarily interested in the Oklahoma question; that a piece of land belonging to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes has been leased for grazing purposes to a Mr. Malaly, who represents Teller, 564,480 acres being involved. H. B. Denham, with 175,000 acres, is only another name for Senator Ingalls, while A. G. Evans and L. M. Briggs, with 456,960 and 318,723 acres respectively, are the agents of Senator Plumb. These charges they propose to lay before the President, who they say has been imposed upon by lawyers representing the cattle-raisers and induced to issue the proclamation of several days ago. It will be shown that the declaration that there are no wire fences in Oklahoma is utterly at variance with the facts, and a map has been prepared by the Kansas State Journal which gives all the information obtainable as to the men whs have cattle and land in this part of the United States. According to Col. Clark, Oklahoma is covered with wire fencing and there is not an Indian in that section of the country. It has been represented at Washington that the boomers are a mob of desperadoes whose sole aim is pillage. “Pillage!” said Col. Clark, “when the fact is that they are colonists who want to go into this country and settle it up the same as Kansas was colonized. But to this the cattlemen demur, for as soon as the question is raised as to the title of these lands it will be demonstrated that they possess them illegally and in violation of section 2,116 of the Revised Statutes, which prohibits the Indians from granting or leasing any land or lands owned by them.” Two plans are to be submitted to the proper authorities with a view to a permanent settlement of this dispute, one to have a judicial decision and the other to have the President to appoint a commission to investigate the rights of the cattlemen, if any exist. Military, the delegation say,, are not necessary, and the only question at issue is whether the lands are public or not. By the action of Secretary Teller the cattle raisers were allowed to pick up without a shadow of right about 1,609,000 acres of the best grazing land in the west. T Senator Plumb, so the delegation say, is interested in several stockrais’ng associations, but Renator Ingalls is more cautious and only

h&s’one association, while Senator Teller is continually adding to his stock. Thus far the agents of the boomers have been hampered in their efforts on account of the many officials involved, and other Senators have been 'offered blocks of stock in cattle to obtain their support A lobbv has been organized, and upward of SIOO,OOO has already been raised from the stockholders, $40,000 of which went it was said, to the Creek Indians, and the remainder was sent to this city to be judiciously applied under the direction of Senator Plumb.