Moorhead docs, is free to make
clandestine attacks upon the dele
gates of the tribe, especially in
their representative capacity, the
efficiency of the delegates can
easily be destroyed here at Wash
ington.
Mr. Moorhead, in his letter,
charires among other things that 1
am maintaining a lobby here. I
m-ike it a rule to meet openly
every charge against me, and if
the fact that I have devoted my
time here every winter for the
pist twenty years in the interests
of the Chippewas of Minnesota,
and have sought to procure such
legislation for them as seemed
best, is a matter of blame I will
willingly bear it but no member
of a committee of Congress can
say 1 have ever approached him in
behalf of any other tribe than my
o^ n, and no member of such com
mittee can say that I have misin
formed him about Chippewa mat
ters. 1 have tried to render assi-t
ance in procuring legislation for
the protection of the beat interests
of the Chippewas, and such as 1
have been directed to do by their
Councils at home.
In one case at least, the Mille
L'ic case, we succeeded in obtain
ing leave to go to the Court of
Chums and to the Supreme Courtx"
of tbe United States, and obtained
a Judgment of over $700,000.
in 1906 a law was passed which
permitted adult mixed-blood Chip
pewas of the White Earth Reser
vation to alienate their allotments
of land. As a result several hund
red thousand acres of land were
thrown upon the market.
