60TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REPORT 2d Session.

ALLOTMENT OF DOCUMENTS TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed.

Mr. PERKINS, from the Committee on Printing, submitted the following REPORT.

[To accompany H. J. Res. 263.]

The Committee on Printing report a joint resolution in lieu of resolution No. 524 with the recommendation that it be passed.

REPORT

60TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. {9774.

2d Session.

GENERAL DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. TAWNEY, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the

following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 28376.]

In presenting the bill making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year 1909 and for prior years, the Committee on Appropriations submit the following report in expla

nation thereof:

The bill it based chiefly on the deficiency estimates submitted in H. Doc. No. 1406 and in sundry other House documents, and otherwise, aggregating in all $21,217,315.51.

The amount recommended in this bill is $17,584,932.84, distributed as follows:

LANDS OF QUAPAW AGENCY, OKLA.

FEBRUARY 23, 1909.-Ordered to be printed.

Mr. SHERMAN, from the committee of conference, submitted the

following

CONFERENCE REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 16743.]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendments of the Senate to the bill (H. R. 16743) for the removal of the restrictions on alienation of lands of allottees of the Quapaw Agency, Okla., and the sale of all tribal lands, school, agency, or other buildings on any of the reservations within the jurisdiction of such agency, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendments of. the Senate, and agree to the same with an amendment as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following:

SEC. 1. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized, upon application of any adult member of either of the tribes of Indians belonging to the Quapaw Indian Agency in the State of Oklahoma, to remove the restrictions on any part of or all of the lands allotted to such applicant, and permit a sale under such terms and conditions as he may deem for the best interests of the applicant, excepting a tract of not less than forty acres, which shall be designated and held as a homestead: Provided, That this section does not apply to the Modocs.

SEC. 2. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to sell all or any of the tribal lands within the jurisdiction of the Quapaw Agency, and all agency, school, or other government buildings on any reservation within the jurisdiction of said agency, at public auction or by sealed bids, under such regulations as he may prescribe; and he is hereby authorized to convey all lands so sold to the purchaser thereof by patents in fee. And all lands within such agency which have heretofore been reserved for agency, school, or other purposes shall, on approval of this Act, revert to the tribe within whose reservation the lands are located and be sold as tribal lands as herein provided.

SEC. 3. That after the sale of all such lands as provided herein, the net proceeds of such sale, together with all funds belonging to such tribes from whatever source derived, shall be apportioned and paid pro rata, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, to the members of each of the respective tribes, in such manner as he shall prescribe.

SEC. 4. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to issue patents in fee to all religious societies and organizations, severally, for the lands occupied by them within any of such reservations and heretofore reserved to such societies, as shown on approved schedules of allotments.

SEC. 5. That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to restore to the rolls of the Klamath Agency, in Oregon, those Modoc Indians now enrolled at the Quapaw Agency, in Oklahoma, formerly Indian Territory, together with their descendants living at the date of the passage of this act, and that upon the removal of any of said Indians to the Klamath Reservation, in Oregon, they shall be allotted as other Indians on said reservation, and that upon the passage of this act they be accorded all the rights and privileges of other Indians enrolled at the Klamath Agency: Provided, That for the purposes of such removal the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, upon applica tion val any allottee, authorized to sell, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, all lands inherited and otherwise heretofore allotted to the members of said tribe in Oklahoma, and he is authorized to issue a patent in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers of said lands, and all restrictions as to the sale, incumbrance, and taxation of said land shall thereupon be removed: Provided further, That if any member of the Modoc tribe of Indians prefers not to have his or her land sold, such allottee may lease his or her land in Oklahoma for a period of not to exceed five years, the parent or next of kin having the care and custody of any minor executing the lease for such minor.

And the Senate agree to the same.