The reason why. as I understand from this statement. is that he had. long prior to that time. made application as a citizen. but was rejected. That excluded jurisdiction from the tribd.court. If he was a noncitizen the tribalcourts could not try him. But he was arrested afterwards by Federal authorities. and thenethey called this special meeting of the council and placed his name on the roll and made him an Indian. thereby ousting the jurisdiction of the Federal court and letting the -redhanded murderer go free and unpunished by this trick. The reason was to deprive the United States courts of jurisdiction over the matter. and a friend sitting near me [ suggests veryhappily that.he was " a ltvingwhite man but a dead Indian." It is a common thing for the members of the special council and other officers in all of the branches of the government to receive bribes for the performance or nonperformance of duties and the promotion of measures of advantage to those who pay the money.
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