Mr. LANE, of Kansas. At the request of the delegation from the Chickasnws and Cher okees, who reside in and own the greater portion of what is kPOWn as the Indian Territory, I call the attention of the Senate to one feature of this bill. The title of the Indian country is in 5 tribes, and we are under treat obligations not to enter upon them withoutt cir consent. They are strenuously opposed, and ipro test against selling any portion of their country for white settlement. This railroad will run through the entire length, I believe, of the In dish lerritory. The 2nd section of this bill contains the following provision: That the U.S shall extinguish. as rapidly as may be consistentwith public policy and the wcl fare of the saidludians. the Indian title to all lands falling under the operation of this act and acquired in the donation to the road namedin the bill. For them, and in their name, and in behalf of the Government, I desire to have that clause stricken out, a clause compelling the Government to extinguish the Indian title so far as the Indian Territory is concerned. We are under the most solemn treaty stipulations not in any wise to intrude upon them. The title to the land is in them and they are strenuously opposing any sale of their land for white settlement. They have suggested, in the treaties they are now making, that if a railroad is to be made through that countr, each tribe having a separate government, the sale of the lands by the Government or by the railroad company shall be to some member of their tribes and not to white men. It may be well for me to state that there is now pending before the ComTerritor a bill for the organization of this Indian country. having in view the building up of an Indian Territory, excluding all white men there from. This blll if it passes will destroy the theory of that bill, and will expose these Indian tribes to the same eneroachments and the same fate that has overtaken them and other Indian tribes before. I have not the treaties with those tribes before me, but The President protsmpore of the Senate laid those treaties before this body at the last session. They are of the most solemn character. We have agreed that there shall be no government extended over them without their consent; that there shall be no eneroachments upon them; and now I submit to the Senfrom Missourias well as to other senators whether it is expedient for the Government to bind themselves to exti ish the Indian title within that Territor, which will open up that country, as I have be ore remarked, towhite settlement and drive 06the Indians as they have heretofore been driven off.