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    "title": "Letter from George Cortelyou, Secretary to the President to Secretary of the Interior E. A. Hitchcock",
    "description": "This item includes a letter that encloses correspondence from Robert Owen, Attorney for the Eastern Cherokees, Senator Cockrell, and Senator Quay regarding a contract executed by T.M. Buffington, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.",
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    "ocrText": "-4-\nThe\nThe President.\nThe final hearing of our case before the Solicitor General was\nset for Saturday, January the 17th; 1903,\nthe\nOn Friday, January the 16th. 1903, the attorney of Chief Buf-\nfington's choice having been set aside, a contract was introduced\nin the Interior Department between Chief Buffington and a firm of\nSaint Louis attorneys, whose names are unknown to us. It was ex-\necuted and it was approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs\nand by the Secretary of the Interior within a few hours and one of\nthe gentlemen so employed appeared before the Solicitor General\nat the hearing accorded us to suggest that they would immediately\ntake the case to court under the au thority of the contract approved\nthe day before by the Secretary of the Interior.\nIt would thus appear that a decision by the Attorney General and\nby the President would avail us nothing\nto\nWe deem it proper to say that on December 29, 1902, in addition\nto our protest and the evidence therein contained, we submitted to\nthe Secretary a memorandum of our authority, of our organization,\nof our vast labor performed, of the disavowal of the Cherokee Na-\ntioal Council of any right to the benefit of the fund due us, with\nan earnest request to be heard on any future matter affecting our\ninterest in the Interior Department. This request was ignored in\napproving the contract of January the 16th.\nOur attorney learned at two p.m. (January 16, 1903) that the\ncontract with the Saint Louis attorneys was pending At three p.m.\nhe requested to see the Secretary and was denied. He requested\npermission to see the papers and was denied. He requested the"
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