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Messages and Papers of William McKinley V.2. by William McKinley

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_To the People of the United States_:

Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States from 1889 to 1893,
died yesterday at 4:45 P.M., at his home in Indianapolis. In his death
the country has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens. A
brilliant soldier in his young manhood, he gained fame and rapid
advancement by his energy and valor. As a lawyer he rose to be a leader
of the bar. In the Senate he at once took and retained high rank as an
orator and legislator; and in the high office of President he displayed
extraordinary gifts as administrator and statesman. In public and in
private life he set a shining example for his countrymen.

In testimony of the respect in which his memory is held by the
Government and people of the United States, I do hereby direct that the
flags on the Executive Mansion and the several Departmental buildings be
displayed at half staff for a period of thirty days; and that suitable
military and naval honors, under the orders of the Secretaries of War
and of the Navy, be rendered on the day of the funeral.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 14th day of March, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and
twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas The Washington Forest Reserve, in the State of Washington, was
established by proclamation dated February 22d, 1897, under and by
virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved March 3d,
1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other
purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United States may,
from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory
having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or
undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations,
and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the
establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;"

And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved June
4th, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1898,
and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at any
time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be
made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may
reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may
vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;"

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress,
approved June 4th, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there
are hereby withdrawn and excluded from the aforesaid Washington Forest
Reserve and restored to the public domain all those certain tracts,
pieces or parcels of land particularly described as follows to wit:

The southwest quarter of section three (3), sections four (4) and five
(5), the east half of section nine (9), the west half of section ten
(10), the south half of section thirteen (13), the south half of section
fourteen (14), section fifteen (15), the north half and southeast
quarter of section twenty-three (23), sections twenty-four (24),
twenty-five (25) and thirty-six (36), all in township thirty-five (35)
north, range twenty (20) east, Willamette Meridian; what will be when
surveyed the south half of township thirty-two (32) north, range
twenty-one (21) east; what will be when surveyed the north half of
township thirty-three (33) north, range twenty-one (21) east; townships
thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35) north, range twenty-one (21) east;
townships thirty-one (31) to thirty-four (34), both inclusive, range
twenty-two (22) east; what will be when surveyed sections thirty (30),
thirty-one (31) and thirty-two (32) of township thirty-five (35) north,
range twenty-two (22) east.

That the lands hereby restored to the public domain shall be open to
settlement from date hereof, but shall not be subject to entry, filing
or selection until after ninety days' notice by such publication as the
Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 3rd day of April, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, by Executive Order dated December 27, 1875, sections 8 and 9,
township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, California,
were with certain other tracts of land withdrawn from the public domain
and reserved for the use of the Capitan Grande band or village of
Mission Indians; and

Whereas the Commission appointed under the provisions of the act of
Congress approved January 12, 1891, entitled "An act for the relief of
the Mission Indians in the State of California" (U.S. Statutes at Large,
vol. 26, page 712), selected for the said Capitan Grande band or village
of Indians certain tracts of land intentionally omitted and excluded
from such selection the said sections 8 and 9, township 15 south, range
2 east, and reported that the tracts thus omitted included the lands
upon which were found the claims of Arthur F. Head and others; and

Whereas, the report and recommendations of the said Commission were
approved by Executive Order dated December 29, 1891, which order also
directed that "All of the lands mentioned in said report are hereby
withdrawn from settlement and entry until patents shall have issued
for said selected reservations and until the recommendations of said
Commission shall be fully executed, and, by the proclamation of the
President of the United States, the lands or any part thereof shall
be restored to the public domain;" and

Whereas a patent was issued March 10, 1894, to the said Indians for the
lands selected by the Commission as aforesaid and which patent also
excluded the said sections 8 and 9, township 15 south, range 2 east; and

Whereas it appears that the said Arthur F. Head cannot make the
requisite filings on the land occupied by him until it shall have been
formally restored to the public domain, and that no good reason appears
to exist for the further reservation of the said sections for the said
band of Indians;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that
the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are
so far modified as to except from their provisions sections 8 and 9 of
township 15 south, range 2 east, San Bernardino meridian, and the said
sections are hereby restored to the public domain.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 16th day of April, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
JOHN HAY,
_Secretary of State._



PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the act of Congress entitled "An act to ratify and confirm an
agreement with the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians and for other
purposes," approved on the 1st day of March, 1901, contains a provision
as follows:

That the agreement negotiated between the Commission to the Five
Civilized Tribes and the Muscogee or Creek tribe of Indians, at the
city of Washington on the 8th day of March, nineteen hundred, as
herein amended, is hereby accepted, ratified, and confirmed, and the
same shall be of full force and effect when ratified by the Creek
national council. The principal chief, as soon as practicable after
the ratification of this agreement by Congress, shall call an extra
session of the Creek national council and lay before it this agreement
and the act of Congress ratifying it, and if the agreement be ratified
by said council, as provided in the constitution of said nation, he
shall transmit to the President of the United States the act of council
ratifying the agreement, and the President of the United States shall
thereupon issue his proclamation declaring the same duly ratified, and
that all the provisions of this agreement have become law according to
the terms thereof: _Provided_, That such ratification by the Creek
national council shall be made within ninety days from the approval of
this act by the President of the United States,


And whereas the principal chief of the said tribe has transmitted to
me an act of the Creek national council entitled "An act to ratify and
confirm an agreement between the United States and the Muscogee Nation
of Indians of the Indian Territory" approved the 25th day of May, 1901,
which contains a provision as follows:

That said agreement, amended, ratified and confirmed by the Congress of
the United States, as set forth in said act of Congress approved March
1, 1901, is hereby accepted, ratified and confirmed on the part of the
Muscogee Nation and on the part of the Muscogee or Creek tribe of
Indians constituting said Nation, as provided in said act of Congress
and as provided in the Constitution of said Nation, and the Principal
Chief is hereby authorized to transmit this act of the National Council
ratifying said agreement to the President of the United States as
provided in said act of Congress.


And whereas paragraph thirty-six of said agreement contains a provision
as follows:

This provision shall not take effect until after it shall have been
separately and specifically approved by the Creek national council and
by the Seminole general council; and if not approved by either, it shall
fail altogether, and be eliminated from this agreement without impairing
any other of its provisions.


And whereas there has been presented to me an act of the Creek national
council entitled "An act to disapprove certain provisions, relating to
Seminole citizens, in the agreement between the Muscogee Nation and the
United States, ratified by Congress March 1, 1901," approved the 25th
day of May, 1901, by which the provisions of said paragraph thirty-six
are specifically disapproved:

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, do
hereby declare said agreement, except paragraph thirty-six thereof, duly
ratified and that all the provisions thereof, except said paragraph
thirty-six which failed of ratification by the Creek national council,
became law according to the terms thereof upon the 25th day of May,
1901.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington, this 25th day of June, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL,
_Acting Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the Cascade Range Forest Reserve, in the State of Oregon,
was established by proclamation dated September 28, 1893, under and
by virtue of section twenty-four of the act of Congress, approved
March 3, 1891, entitled, "An act to repeal timber-culture laws, and
for other purposes," which provides, "That the President of the United
States may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or
Territory having public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or
undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations,
and the President shall, by public proclamation, declare the
establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof;"

And whereas it is further provided by the act of Congress, approved
June 4, 1897, entitled, "An act making appropriations for sundry civil
expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898,
and for other purposes," that "The President is hereby authorized at
any time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter
be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may
reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such reserve, or may
vacate altogether any order creating such reserve;"

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States,
by virtue of the power vested in me by the aforesaid act of Congress,
approved June 4, 1897, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is
hereby reserved from entry or settlement, and added to and made a part
of the aforesaid Cascade Range Forest Reserve, all those certain tracts,
pieces or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of Oregon
and particularly described as follows, to wit:

The south half (S. 1/2) of township one (1) south, townships two (2)
south, three (3) south, and four (4) south, range eleven (11) east,
Willamette Meridian; township five (5) south, ranges nine (9) and ten
(10) east; and so much of township six (6) south, ranges nine (9) and
ten (10) east, as lies north of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation.

Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands which
may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal entry or
covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper United States
Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been made pursuant
to law, and the statutory period within which to make entry or filing of
record has not expired: _Provided_, that this exception shall not
continue to apply to any particular tract of land unless the entryman,
settler or claimant continues to comply with the law under which the
entry, filing or settlement was made.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement
upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 1st day of July, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL,
_Acting Secretary of State._



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it is provided by section twenty-four of the act of Congress,
approved March 3rd, 1891, entitled "An act to repeal timber-culture
laws, and for other purposes," "That the President of the United States
may, from time to time, set apart and reserve, in any State or Territory
having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands
wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of
commercial value or not, as public reservations, and the President
shall, by public proclamation, declare the establishment of such
reservations and the limits thereof."

And whereas the public lands in the Territory of Oklahoma, within the
limits hereinafter described, are in part covered with timber, and it
appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and
reserving said lands as a public reservation;

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by
virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the aforesaid
act of Congress, do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby
reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation
all those certain tracts, pieces or parcels of land lying and being
situate in the Territory of Oklahoma and particularly described as
follows, to wit:

Beginning at the southeast corner of township three (3) north, range
fourteen (14) west, Indian Meridian, Territory of Oklahoma; thence north
along the township line to the northeast corner of section twenty-four
(24), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence east
on the section line to the southeast corner of section thirteen (13),
township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along
the range line between ranges twelve (12) and thirteen (13) west, to
the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section twelve (12),
township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence west to
the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section twelve (12),
township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north to the
southwest corner of section one (1), township three (3) north, range
thirteen (13) west; thence west along the section line between sections
two (2) and eleven (11), to the southwest corner of section two (2),
township three (3) north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along
the section line between sections two (2) and three (3) to the southeast
corner of the northeast quarter of section three (3), township three (3)
north, range thirteen (13) west; thence west along the center line of
sections three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6), to the southwest
corner of the northwest quarter of section six (6), township three (3)
north, range thirteen (13) west; thence north along the range line
between ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) west to the northeast
corner of section one (1), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14)
west; thence west along the township line between townships three (3)
and four (4) north to the northwest corner of section two (2), township
three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence north to the northeast
corner of section thirty-four (34), township four (4) north, range
fourteen (14) west; thence west to the northwest corner of section
thirty-four (34), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west;
thence north to the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section
twenty-one (21), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west;
thence west to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section
twenty (20), township four (4) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence
north to the northeast corner of section eighteen (18), township four
(4) north, range fourteen (14) west; thence west to the northwest corner
of section seventeen (17), township four (4) north, range fifteen (15)
west; thence south to the southwest corner of section twenty-nine (29),
township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the
southeast corner of section twenty-nine (29), township four (4) north,
range fifteen (15) west; thence south to the southwest corner of section
thirty-three (33), township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west;
thence east to the southeast corner of said section thirty-three (33),
township four (4) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence south to the
southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section ten (10), township
three (3) north, range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the southeast
corner of the northeast quarter of said section ten; thence south to the
southwest corner of section twenty-six (26), township three (3) north,
range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the southeast corner of said
section twenty-six (26); thence south to the southwest corner of the
northwest quarter of section thirty-six (36), township three (3) north,
range fifteen (15) west; thence east to the center of section
thirty-three (33), township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west;
thence south to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of said
section thirty-three (33); thence east along the township line between
townships two (2) and three (3) north to the southeast corner of
township three (3) north, range fourteen (14) west, the place of
beginning.

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement
upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as the Wichita Forest
Reserve.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.

[SEAL.]

Done at the city of Washington this 4th day of July, A.D. 1901, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth.

WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By the President:
DAVID J. HILL
_Acting Secretary of State_.



BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas by an agreement between the Wichita and affiliated bands of
Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the United States
on the other part, ratified by act of Congress approved March 2, 1895
(28 Stat., 876, 894), the said Indians ceded, conveyed, transferred and
relinquished, forever and absolutely, without any reservation whatever,
unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest
of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the
following described tract of country now in the Territory of Oklahoma,
to wit:

Commencing at a point in the middle of the main channel of the Washita
River, where the ninety-eighth meridian of west longitude crosses the
same, thence up the middle of the main channel of said river to the line
of 98 deg. 40' west longitude, thence on said line of 98 deg. 40' due north to
the middle of the channel of the main Canadian River, thence down the
middle of the said main Canadian River to where it crosses the
ninety-eighth meridian, thence due south to the place of beginning.


And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying said
agreement, allotments of land in severalty have been regularly made to
each and every member of said Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians,
native and adopted, and the lands occupied by religious societies or
other organizations for religious or educational work among the Indians
have been regularly allotted and confirmed to such societies and
organizations, respectively;

And whereas, by an agreement between the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians on the one part, and certain commissioners of the
United States on the other part, amended and ratified by act of
Congress, approved June 6, 1900 (31 Stat., 672, 676), the said Indian
tribes, subject to certain conditions which have been duly performed,
ceded, conveyed, transferred, relinquished and surrendered forever and
absolutely, without any reservation whatsoever, expressed or implied,
unto the United States of America, all their claim, title and interest
of every kind and character in and to the lands embraced in the
following described tract of country now in the Territory of Oklahoma,
to wit:

Commencing at a point where the Washita River crosses the ninety-eighth
meridian west from Greenwich; thence up the Washita River, in the middle
of the main channel thereof, to a point thirty miles, by river, west of
Fort Cobb, as now established; thence due west to the north fork of Red
River, provided said line strikes said river east of the one-hundredth
meridian of west longitude; if not, then only to said meridian line, and
thence due south, on said meridian line, to the said north Fork of Red
River; thence down said north fork, in the middle of the main channel
thereof, from the point where it may be first intersected by the lines
above described, to the main Red River; thence down said Red River, in
the middle of the main channel thereof, to its intersection with the
ninety-eighth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich; thence north,
on said meridian line, to the place of beginning.


And whereas, in pursuance of said act of Congress ratifying the
agreement last named, allotments of land in severalty have been
regularly made to each member of said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians; the lands occupied by religious societies or other
organizations for religious or educational work among the Indians
have been regularly allotted and confirmed to such societies and
organizations, respectively; and the Secretary of the Interior, out of
the lands ceded by the agreement last named, has regularly selected and
set aside for the use in common for said Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
tribes of Indians, four hundred and eighty thousand acres of grazing
lands;

And whereas, in the act of Congress ratifying the said Wichita
agreement, it is provided--

That whenever any of the lands acquired by this agreement shall, by
operation of law or proclamation of the President of the United States,
be open to settlement, they shall be disposed of under the general
provisions of the homestead and townsite laws of the United States:
_Provided_, That in addition to the land-office fees prescribed by
statute for such entries the entryman shall pay one dollar and
twenty-five cents per acre for the land entered at the time of
submitting his final proof: _And provided further_, That in all
homestead entries where the entryman has resided upon and improved the
land entered in good faith for the period of fourteen months he may
commute his entry to cash upon the payment of one dollar and twenty-five
cents per acre: _And provided further_, That the rights of
honorably discharged Union soldiers and sailors of the late civil war,
as defined and described in sections twenty-three hundred and four and
twenty-three hundred and five of the Revised Statutes, shall not be
abridged: _And provided further_, That any qualified entryman
having lands adjoining the lands herein ceded, whose original entry
embraced less than one hundred and sixty acres, may take sufficient
land from said reservation to make his homestead entry not to exceed
one hundred and sixty acres in all, said land to be taken upon the
same conditions as are required of other entrymen: _Provided_, That
said lands shall be opened to settlement within one year after said
allotments are made to the Indians.

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