For the life of me I can not understand how the provision of the House invites them to go into that Territory. The Senator from Kansas stood here today and told us that 20.000 armed men were hovering upon the border of Oklahoma ready to go in upon the 5th of March. and yet we are to do nothing. When we say to those people there is an Indian title. when the Congress of the United States says by the House provision you must wait until we have negotiated with the Indians and purchased their title. how is it possible that we invite immigration? Does anybody suppose that if we do nothing those men will stay out of that Territory? Do we not know. did not the Senator from Kansas himself declare on this floor that unless we passed the provision of the House. thosepeople are ready and are claiming that the new administration would protect them in this lawless invasion of the territory of Oklahoma?
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