75TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 3d Session { REPORT No. 1991 ELIMINATING SEGER SCHOOL RESERVE AND SETTING IT ASIDE FOR USE OF CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO INDIANS OF OKLAHOMA MARCH 23, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. ROGERS of Oklahoma, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 7776] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 7776) to set aside certain lands in Oklahoma for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass without amendment. This proposed bill received the unanimous vote of your committee. The following is a letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior relative to this proposed legislation: THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MY DEAR MR. SPEAKER: There is enclosed a draft of proposed legislation to set aside certain lands in Oklahoma for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. For many years an Indian boarding school was operated on the Seger Colony School Reserve. The boarding school has been discontinued and now a day school occupies the former boarding-school plant and uses a small part of the reserve. The balance of the reserve has been used for an Indian rehabilitation project. By using the school site it has not been necessary to purchase lands for this purpose. The sum of $32,000 has been expended in developing the project, which sum is to be treated as a grant to the tribe. The Indians who are settled upon the land will pay a fixed annual charge for the improvements that have been constructed from these funds, which payments will go into a tribal revolving fund. No payments are to be made for the use of the land. To date 13 families have been placed upon the land described in the proposed bill. These families, including dependents, involve a total of about 75 individuals. It is estimated that the land is capable of supporting an additional five families. The Seger Colony School Reserve is made up of approximately four sections. Three of the sections are within the former Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation, and title was transferred from the Indians to the United States by the agreement of October 1890, ratified by the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. L. 989, 1022), subject to use for Indian educational purposes. One section was reserved from the public domain. Under the 1890 agreement the Indians received only about 50 cents an acre for the lands they ceded. This was clearly much less than the actual value of the lands. By the act of June 17, 1910 (36 Stat. L. 533), Congress authorized the Secretary of the Interior to sell, at not less than $5 per acre, any lands formerly within the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation reserved for school and agency purposes, and directed that the proceeds from such sales be deposited to the credit of the Indians. By this action Congress has recognized an equity in the lands of the Indians because of their value being so greatly in excess of the price paid for them. The bill, if enacted, will leave fee title to the lands which are being used in connection with the rehabilitation project in the United States, but will impose a trust in favor of the Indians of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation, thus giving the tracts the status of other tribal lands. Title to the lands which are needed for the day school will not be affected. The land described in the bill comprises approximately 1,908 acres. The rehabilitation project is now definitely established and it is not expected that any funds outside of regular appropriations will be needed in administering it. In view of the foregoing, I recommend that the enclosed draft of proposed legislation receive favorable consideration. The Acting Director of the Bureau of the Budget has advised that there is no objection to the presentation of this report to the Congress. Sincerely yours, CHARLES WEST, Acting Secretary of the Interior. О MARCH 24, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. McREYNOLDS, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5633] The Committee on Foreign Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5633) to provide for additional funds for buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States, having considered the same, submit the following report thereon with the recommendation that it do pass. As chairman of the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, I wish to state that we do not think it will be necessary for us to call for further appropriation during this year for foreign public buildings. As you will see from letter from the Secretary of State, dated May 13, 1937, which is made a part of this report, this authorization of $5,000,000 making available $1,000,000 each year is for a long-plan program. In order for our Commission to be able to determine where these buildings should be placed and what character of buildings, this is absolutely necessary. It is our purpose now to spend a great deal of this money, when received, in the Central and South American countries where we have no buildings and where they are needed very badly. Consequently, we are asking for this authorization which you will see has been approved by the President, the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Budget. The letter from the Secretary of State, referred to above, is as follows: Hon. SAM D. McREYNOLDS, House of Representatives. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, MY DEAR MR. MCREYNOLDS: I have received your letter of March 16, 1937, and have examined with care the bill (H. R. 5633) to provide funds in addition to the amount authorized by the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926 for buildings for the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States, and it gives me pleasure to say that the measure seems admirably adapted to the pur pose of improving the effectiveness of our representation abroad. Moreover, I am pleased to say that the bill has been brought to the attention of the President, who considers that it is in harmony with his financial program. Your bill supplementing the basic Foreign Service buildings legislation will enable the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, created under the original act, to carry out a comprehensive improvement of building sites already acquired by the Government and to eliminate, by completing our capital investments, a large and recurring item for rentals. I may remark that your bill provides for the continuation of the present system of controlling the expenditure of the fund by the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, composed of four Members of Congress-two each from the Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively-and three members of the Cabinet, and I, therefore, avail myself of this opportunity to express my approval of the present arrangement. Experience has shown, I think, that before acquiring property abroad for the Government at least one member of the Commission should, as a rule, make a personal examination of the situation on the ground. As a practical matter, it is impossible for members of the Cabinet, during their incumbency, to visit any but the nearest posts to Washington. It has been possible, however, for Members of Congress, when that body is not in session, to make such journeys as will enable them to appear with a detailed personal knowledge before their fellow commissioners and, on the interchange of ideas at a meeting of the Commission, shape a policy of acquisition and construction along the lines of greatest benefit to our Government. Such has been our experience in the past, due to the unselfish interest taken in the problems of the Foreign Service by former chairmen of the Foreign Service Buildings Commission as well as by you. I desire at this time to record my apprecaition of the work performed abroad by members of the Commission in the study of the living problems, the working problems, and construction problems in various foreign posts. It is gratifying to me to regard your introduction of this bill as an approval of what has been done by the Foreign Service Buildings Commission as the result of the powers granted in the Foreign Service Buildings Act, and I trust that your bill will receive the support of your colleagues in Congress, because it will enable the Foreign Service Buildings Commission to proceed with plans already made and very carefully considered, with the assistance of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, for the improvement of the lands already acquired. I earnestly hope that this measure may receive the favorable consideration of the Congress. Sincerely yours, 75TH CONGRESS 3d Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT No. 2004 BOXING COMMISSION MARCH 25, 1938.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. McGEHEE, from the Committee on the District of Columbia, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 9227] The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 9227) to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize boxing in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes," having considered the same, report it back to the House with the following amendment and recommend that the amendment be agreed to and the bill do pass: Page 1, at the beginning of line 6, insert: In the event that the authorities in charge shall notify the Boxing Commission that they do not desire its supervision, then Collegiate boxing was established over 50 years ago. For the past 12, prior to the enactment of the law creating a boxing commission, local colleges and universities conducted this sport successfully without supervision. After the law became effective they were obliged to pay 5 percent of their gross receipts, obtain an operator's license at a fee of $10, and a license for every one of their boxers, at $1 per year. This appears to be an unnecessary financial burden on the small colleges. The committee held hearings at which athletic directors of local colleges appeared, and letters were presented from which the following is quoted: Thomas A. Storey, M. D., general director, School of Hygiene and Physical Education, Leland Stanford University: It is my personal observation that college and university sports are on a higher level of sportsmanship than those carried on through some such organization as a State boxing commission. Intercollegiate boxing is worth while because it gets away from the spirit of professional boxing, with which a State boxing commission is more familiar than it is with the spirit of college boxing. |