Special Message
02/26/1889
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The shocking features of the situation had been mitigated.
The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Governmen...