The Committee on Indian Depredations was a

standing committee A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

of the

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from 1893 to 1921. It superseded a select committee which operated from 1889 to 1893.

History

The Committee on Indian Depredations was created by a Senate resolution on March 15, 1893, and superseded a select committee on Indian depredations that had been established in 1889 to deal with the increased volume of Indian depredation claims. The committee oversaw claims under the Indian Depredation Act, which allows for citizen claims against the federal government for crimes committed by American Indians. Many committee petitioners requested that claims for crimes committed during wartime be eligible for compensation, because the act limited claims to depredations committed in times of peace with the Indians. The committee was terminated April 18, 1921, when the Senate eliminated this and several other obsolete standing and select committees.

Predecessor committees

* Select Committee on Indian Depredations (18891893)

Chairmen

Gideon C. Moody Gideon Curtis Moody (October 16, 1832March 17, 1904) was an attorney and politician, elected in 1889 as a Republican United States Senator from South Dakota. He served two years. He also had served five years as an associate justice of the Dakota ...

(R-SD) 1889–1891 * George L. Shoup (R-ID) 1891–1893 * William Lindsay (D-KY) 1893-1895 * John L. Wilson (R-WA) 1895–1899 * William Deboe (R-KY) 1899–1901 * Robert J. Gamble (R-SD) 1901–1903 *

J. Frank Allee James Frank Allee (December 2, 1857 – October 12, 1938) was an American merchant and politician from Dover, in Kent County, Delaware. He was a member of the Republican Party who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as U.S. Senator fro ...

(R-DE) 1903 – December 14, 1904 (appointed chairman of the Committee on Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Departments) * Charles Dick (R-OH) December 14, 1904December 18, 1905 * Elmer J. Burkett (R-NE) December 18, 1905 – January 31, 1907 (appointed chairman of the Committee on Pacific Railroads) *

Charles Curtis Charles Curtis (January 25, 1860 – February 8, 1936) was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Sena ...

(R-KS) 1907–1911 * Isidor Rayner (D-MD) 1911–1912 *

Robert Latham Owen Robert Latham Owen Jr. (February 2, 1856July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925. Born into affluent circumstances in antebellum Lynchburg, Virginia, the son of a railroa ...

(D-OK) 1912–1913 *

William Borah William Edgar Borah (June 29, 1865 – January 19, 1940) was an outspoken History of the United States Republican Party, Republican United States Senator, one of the best-known figures in History of Idaho, Idaho's history. A Progressivism ...

(R-ID) 1913–1917 *

Miles Poindexter Miles Poindexter (April 22, 1868September 21, 1946) was an American lawyer and politician. As a Republican Party (United States), Republican and briefly a Progressive Party 1912 (United States), Progressive, he served one term as a United States ...

(R-WA) 1917–1919 * Henry L. Myers (D-MT) 1919–1921

References

Defunct committees of the United States Senate Senate Committee on Indian Depredations {{US-Congress-stub