MADDEN, Judge.
This case is before us on appeal from a decision of the Indian Claims Commission denying the plaintiffs' claim, Commissioner Witt dissenting. The claim is for a balance of $600,000 asserted to be owing to the Indians because of an award, which, they claim, the United States Senate, acting as an arbitrator, made to them in 1903, in the sum of $1,200,000, of which they have been paid only $600,000.
Some years before the outbreak of the Civil War...
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