chasers were unable to meet their installments when they fell due. This eventually resulted in the cancellation of their contracts and reversion of the lands to the Government.

Under a ruling by the Department of the Interior, these lands have been held not subject to reentry. As they have been ceded to the Government, they bring no return and are not subject to allotment or other use for the benefit of the Indians. The only compensation to be received by the Indians for the cession was the proceeds derived from sales to homestead settlers or purchasers. For that reason there has been considerable agitation for their disposition by again opening them to entry under the act of May 29, 1908. Your committee believes that this should be done.

It is perhaps proper to state that since the bill was reported out by the committee but before this report could be prepared a delegation of Indians from the Cheyenne River Reservation has appeared on behalf of the general council of the tribe and has requested that the following amendment be offered to the committee amendment when the bill is reached for consideration on the floor:

Provided, That the proceeds from such entries shall be subject to disbursement for the benefit of the Indians upon such reservations in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior: Provided further, that all lands not entered or disposed of during the period herein provided for, or that may revert to the Government for any cause, shall return to their former status as tribal lands and be subject to allotment in the manner and as provided by law.

The Secretary of the Interior recommends that the bill as amended by your committee be enacted into law, as will more fully appear from his letter and the memorandum thereto attached, which are made a part of this report.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Washington, December 21, 1929.

CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS,

House of Representatives.

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: In compliance with the request contained in your letter of November 20 for a report on H. R. 4813, I transmit herewith a memorandum from Commissioner Moore, of the General Land Office, in whose recommendation as to the amendment of the bill I concur.

Reference is had to the request of Hon. Scott Leavitt, chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, House of Representatives, for a report on H. R. 4813, entitled "A bill extending the period of time for homestead entries on the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations."

Lands within the former Cheyenne River and a portion of the Standing Rock Indian Reservations were opened to homestead entry on May 2, 1910, under authority of the act of May 29, 1908 (35 Stat. 460), which provides in part 'that any lands remaining unsold after said lands have been open to entry for seven years may be sold to the highest bidder for cash without regard to the prescribed price thereof fixed under the provisions of this act under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe."

In accordance with this proviso the remaining undisposed-of lands were withdrawn from entry for the purpose of sale on May 27, 1919. A sale was held in the spring of 1920.

The bill under consideration proposes to extend the time for the filing of homestead entries on the Cheyenne River and that portion of the Standing Rock Indian Reservations in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota described in the act of May 29, 1908, supra, for a period of five years from March 1, 1930. The bill is similar to the acts of May 9, 1922 (42 Stat. 507), and May 17, 1926 (44 Stat. 558), extending the time for the filing of homestead entries on the south half of the former Colville Indian Reservation in Washington. The conditions are different, however, as the Colville lands were automatically withdrawn from entry on September 4, 1921, only a few months before the passage of the first act, while the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock lands have been withdrawn from entry for more than 10 years. Neither was there any public sale held of the Colville lands as in the case of the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock.

In view of the questions that will arise should the proposed bill be enacted into law, as to the status of lands now embraced in purchases made at the public sale and which may hereafter be canceled, I suggest that the bill be amended by striking out everything after the enacting clause and substituting therefor the following:

"That the lands within the Cheyenne River and that portion of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the States of South Dakota and North Dakota described in the act of May 29, 1908 (35 Stat. 460), and opened to homestead entry on May 2, 1910, which are now or may hereafter become vacant, be restored to homestead entry for a period of five years from and after the 1st day of March, 1930, upon the terms and conditions specified in said act and acts amendatory thereof. C. C. MOORE, Commissioner.

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HR-71-2-VOL 1-62

PRINTING OF SPECIAL REPORT ON DISEASES OF CATTLE

JANUARY 11, 1930.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed

Mr. HAUGEN, from the Committee on Agriculture, submitted the following

REPORT

[To accompany H. J. Res. 179]

The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the resolution (H. J. Res. 179) to provide for the printing with illustrations and bound in cloth 320,000 copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle, having considered the same, report thereon with a recommendation that it do pass.

The resolution reported herewith reads as follows:

[H. J. Res. 179, Seventy-first Congress, second session]

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the printing with illustrations and bound in cloth three hundred and twenty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture be, and is hereby, authorized to have printed with illustrations and bound in cloth three hundred and twenty thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle, the same to be revised and brought to date, of which two hundred and forty thousand shall be for the use of the House of Representatives, seventyfive thousand for the use of the Senate, and five thousand for the use of the Department of Agriculture; and to carry out the provisions of this resolution there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

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