To assume that the incoming President of the United States. if this legislation should be adopted. would invite the catastrophe which we all are so anxious to prevent. is doing him injustice. This provision of the law. to which the Senator from New Jersey has alluded. makes it incum: eat upon the President within twelve months to issue his proclamation throwing open this Cherokee Strip to settlement. Now. itis true that if the President should put off that proclamation to the last twenty days of the twelve months the evils which have been discussed here. the confusion and lawlessness that would come from irrepressible immigration that must go into that Territory from the country around it. would come to pass. But certainly the incoming President would not do any such thing. He would not make it necessary of himself by his own inaction to use the military force of the United S.ates to keep these people out.
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