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Sift rer tips, oradually minutes P.O, } tibbeeaaeeee tt GRAY THE DAILY NEWS INDIANS AND Equal to Whites—Foar Loss of Lands. etpawberry Short leet shew ; " ae heehee TAWA, April 15.—Beware recipe tha eet fond suit Of the Greeks when they come bearing gifts. Such is the atti- tude of the Indians of Canada in objecting to compulsory enfran- f chisement and education. In two memorials placed before the special committee the Six Nations of Brantford, the Mohawks of Tyendinaga, Stegis and Caughna- waga, near Montreal, the Iroquois Indians of Oka, and the allied In- }] out a dian tribes of British Columbia, hot ‘) erushed|Presented arguments to show \ ; wherries. that these fair gifts would de- d sv ‘ stroy their tribes, throw their E j lands into the hands of outsiders, acific Milk Co. and scatter them through Canada ‘ ; ithout any of the economic od wit c Limite B.C. rights secured to them by treaties in earlier days. They claimed that such an act was ultra vires so far as the Par- liament of Canada is concerned, and that at Confederation no such sweeping powers were granted the Dominion Government as those assumed by the Federal authorities. A.’ KE. O'Meara ap- | peared for the British Columbia Indians, and a number of Indians were present as well. Treated as Serfs. Both the Eastern and the West- ern Indians contended that it was illogical to say that the Indians iwere sO intelligent and advanced ‘that they should have the fran- |chise and then refuse to consult ‘them about it. This was treating ithem “serfs” and that such fenfranchisement took the Indian from the community of his rela- i tives as a member of the band or troop by a simple report of an “officer or person’ who might have a dislike to him. “It is feared,” says the Eastern memorial, “that the effect will be that if an agent finds an intelli- gent Indian asserting any right the agent will be able to get rid of him by encompassing his com- pulsory enfranchisement.” By the same arbitrary process the Indians fear the lands or moneys of a band or tribe can be broken into, and that custodians of lands or moneys of the minor children may be arbitrarily se- lected. They state that under the proposed act a whole community can be compulsory enfranchised and its lands and. property sold to outsiders without any of the ‘owners being in any way con- sulted. 5 The allied Indians of British Columbia relate a history of fifty years of injustice, during which time they fought a losing battle against those who wanted to shift them to less fertile portions of the province, contract their re- serves, eliminate thein hunting and fishing privileges and deny the rights they claimed. They see in the new act an effort to “break up the tribes of British Colum- bia,’ destroying their status and preventing them obtaining recog- nition of the tribal rights guar- anteed them by Impenial enact- ment. Seeking to Take Rights. “In this bill we see no genuine attempt to build us up materially, intellectually and morally, thus placing us on our fect prepara- tory to our becoming citizens, but, instead, an unjust attempt to tear us down by a Government posing as $jas our guardian, and taking ad- PROPOSED LAW Do Not Like Idea of Being Made x { Sport Briefs | er Girls are going to take part in baseball this season. Already of them have made their; |appearance in Market Spuare in practice games. There is every Bulky Rugs Washed for you (i. rite part in athiotics as boys Laundering heavy rag and | and their participation is to be some ; some washable rugs at home is ;encouraged. In most cities now- slow work, especially in these }adays girls have baseball games uncertain spring days when and they provide excellent exhibi- the right sort of drying jtions. The old remark about weather is so seldo.n avail- | “throwing like a girl” is getting able. jout of date. In five minutes, you can A Piano er } | pack up half this heavy work The world's record for the 100 }yard dash was equalled in Berke- \ley, Calif., last week when Pad- |dock, of the University of South- jern California, did the stretch in |9 3-5 seconds in a meet with the of housecleaning, and have us do it expertly for you in our modern way. Then, too, your floor and bath mats, which soil so quickly, probably need wash- | University of California. This is ing. You can send them ithe same time as that made by along also, |D. J. Keliy who died a few days ' Let us lighten this toilsome work, and at the same time help you make your home brighter with old rugs washed to look like new. Have our driver call for your bundle. Telephone oes. . * * The American League has com- jmenced the season unusually this |year, the eight clubs opening with ith managers as they had ne same mr. It seldom happens that last yea today. {all club owners in either league jare satisfied with their managers’ CANADIAN |}work and sometimes as many as STEAM four or five have disappeared in LAUNDRY ithe off-season. The only change PHONE 8 |in either big league this winter |was when George Gibson was e : jsigned to sueceed Hugo Bezdek as * Sond! at tothe , manager of the eyebure Pirates. undry Jimmie Wilde, the English emma atom, doesn’t go much on the Se ere SS |American boxing game. He says that the real position of the Gov-/it isn’t run right. When a boxer ernment of Canada is not that of | wins a title in his class he seems a guardian protecting our rights,|to think it’s a life legacy and will but that of an interested party|not endanger it to challengers. owning greater tracts of land in!He says there should be a govern- British Columbia and controlling |ing board in America that would vast fisheries on that coast, and|/make title holders defend their because of these interests seeking | titles at least once a year. to take away our rights.” LAND ACT DEATH SENTENCES | VANCOUVER LAND DISTRICT—DISTRICT | OF COAST, RANGE II, WERE COMMUTED IN | TAKE NOTICE that J. C. Clausen of Jcean Falis, B. C., occupation superintend- | nt of logging, intends to apply for per- EVERY PROVINCE mission to lease the following described ands :— Commencing at a post planted 2% miles /n a northerly direction from the north- (Special via G. T. P. Telegrapne.) | west corner of Lot 897 on the west coast TT y ’ j q Tarty yf Calvert Island; thence north 40 chains; OTTAW A, April 17.—I orty-six hence west 40 chains; thence south 40 death sentences have been com- ‘hains; thence east 40 chains to point of feommencement and containing 160 acres, muted by the Department of Jus-| nore or less. sidan : : a So tt J. C. CLAUSEN. tice in the last four years. Forty | pate January 21st, 1920. of the condemned are now serving? | = life sentences, five are servins| terms of from ten to twenty years and one was granted a new trial which is now pending. Of the cases mentioned nire were in Manitoba, six in Quebec, é Be: ee nit +..| north-west corned of D.L. six in Alberta, five in British Co-|