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SPEAKER: I think that the stand taken by the people in the grand jury is going to result in the question of the contempt power of the court. And we have young kids in that grand jury, a boy of 11, boy of 13. There are old people-- well, up in their 70s-- we asked for permission for them not to come to Rapid City because they were sick. Mr. Clayton denied that they, therefore, must come or will be in contempt.

But I feel it's going to be a very interesting situation with that grand jury and with the growing feeling that no one's going to testify before the grand jury. I myself think they're going to be mass contempts, and then we'll have this whole question of whether we can test out, again, the 1868 treaty with those mass contempts. The people say they will testify before the headmen and chiefs, but they will not testify before the secular authorities.