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lax upon claimants never was contem- plated by the Treaty of 1903. But there were other conditions imposed

 upon the claimants by the act of 1921. When the claimants shall thef. obtain decrees in their favor, they are author- ized, in case you, sir, have sold the land

 the claim calls for, and have pocketed

 the money for it, they are authorized, ] say, to locate said claim upon-what? Upon other land which had been offer

 ed for sale, and which nobody would

 buy. Thus, sir, the Government, after taking the claimants land from him,

 after forcing him to beg you for twenty years for an equivalent, you say to him by the act of lS2f, we acknowledge

 the robbery-we have spent the plum

 der, but you may take an equal quanti- ty ot ourfsfAse land.

 This act, sir, shows both your honesty and libefality. Hear me little fur

 ther. Mir. Speaker. You showed by the act of IS24 little more of your liberality. 1t was not enough to obtain decree before your own Court, iudg- es and Jury; you reserved to yourself the right of appeal for twelve months,

 to the Supreme Court of the United States, after the final decision was made between the claimant and his govern

 ment. Well, sir, dc not complain of

 this. but will tell you what do com plain of. l complain. that offer Me tzcelye naonths. the time allowed for an appeal. had erpifed-cf1er tue rights haa1vested- afler the cla1nas had been located, and sc- vera' patents issued-that you, sir, should

 see it, upon an allegation of fraud in some Of the cases, to pass a retrospcetive

 law, and open the whole for further tri- al in your courts. This is what l com plain of: this is what l have been fight ing against for four or five years back.

 What have obtained from the com

 mittee at last? l may say nothing for

 the bill now under consideration can scarcely be called any thing else. All lit grants is postponement of further proceedings in the Courts until the case now pending for trial in the Supreme Court of the United States, which will

 settle the principle in all the cases.

 shall be tried. This is the extent to

 which theseommittee have gone. pro.

 pose te amend their bill in this partieu-

 lar: the bill proposes to postpone he

 taiai of all these cases. Sir, the cases

 houe been, or zeiH be fried, before this bill

 becomes q law. and therefore, without it is amended, it will grant nothing

 II proposes to postpone what does not exist. There are no cases that will not [ be disposed of before this bill becomes a law. The amendment l propose goes to the extent the committee designed to go. It stays all fartter proceeding ina those cases,suntil the case now pending Tn the Supreme Court, brought there by an appeal from the Arkansas Court, shall be decided. A decision in that

 case will be conclusirein all the others. My only object in proposing the pas

 sage of this bill is to save unnecessary

 costs 10 the litigants. l do not like the

 bill; but it is better than none, and therefore l desire it to be amended and passed into law.

 The rights of ali the parties are not

 to be disturbed by any thing in this bill their rights are expressly provided for.