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Have but paupers bed
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For The Tribune.
The Seneca Indians and ''The Ogden L"na
Conpany.''......No. II
Ar Ed;tor. In relation to these treaties curious
Question arises which we will try TO answer " hen
the Indians had ample power TO dispose OF their
lands at their discretion and the United States had
and could have no interest In their lands or
their removal and the people OF the State had never
esired their removal where was the necessity OF a
trea,vq WHY with such undated assiduity, with
their influence, their agents, means and money,
.hon,d the limited States interfere in this affair BY
, treaty made in 1882 to which The New-York ln-
dams were not parties. aud effected without their
knowledge, 100000 acres o.. land on Green pay
were given them, TO which they were required 10
remove within three years forfeit their night 10 1t
Why aid the United States give this land 10 Indiana VINO
had never asked H. and TO whom they were unoer no
obgations Mr. Sewer in his speech before the Seoate
SAVE II was crafty this overgro"n Lsno Oonphh!
and nj their instigaton which answer seems AT least
very probable when consider 10 whom their ands IN
New York would belong in case OF their enigration anu
sold, and there could be no competition and TINT the
United States had other imaginable reason Tor max
Ing the offer and the charge made years ago mas ne
yer been denied The Senecas refused 10 accept THIS
present They did not want the land they
on their by the treaty till they should vou
tsrly renq them. They had good homes and were
fast Improving their condition and nothing good
in the Western wds why should they leave the graves
of their FalhersH They taciy refused to accept the
gift which they had never desired BY paying no aen
t!on to the treaty any OF It's acquisitions When II
hat Tho y0uit Of
three years the treaty altered giving the President
power to day, at his discretion when they must
remove forfeit the land So matters stood MI lss-
This cuDniDgly devised plan TO get lands worth IRON
two three millions of dollars for song did not work
Some other must he tried. The Compeny found
that the pocy of Government the Indiana be-
yond the Mississippi would their purpose exact
" and the plan Is hit upon OF persuadng Government
TO offer the Indians greater inducemcnt To emigrate IN
the shape of slarger quantity OF land beyond the Msi
sppi and large for this unacceplcd Green Bay
present Aud TO make the matter sure they determined
THAT the offer should not be made the other had beer
but treaty should be presented them and they should
pe brought TO the point In council where the Company
would put their machinery In operation secure its
ceptauce. The Senate suffered this Company to twist
it about TO use Senator Sewers expression, ike anose
Of wax and by these means came 70 pass that rea
~ was made The operation OF the Compenys ma
chinery we detailed in our former article. We Will
resume our narration BY resolution OF June llt!'
1893 which time the amended treaty was offered TO The
5euecas the President othe United States authorized
70 promugate it without farther action the part of the
Senate II satisfied that IL had been assencd 10 by the
Indians according to the true intent and meaning OF th
body In Jauuery 1899, the President returned the tren
ty Senate plainly declaring that he did not feel au
thorized TO proulg II, The Senate sent back 10
the President with preci.ey the Instructions The
Land Company and their numerous agents now bes"'
the President with letters urging him To ratiy the ter
ey He determined first TO satisfy himself rs 10 what was
the will of majority OF the Chiefs For this purpose he
sent the Secretary of War to the Indian country What
was the result In January lei0 6o sent the treaty
again the Senate accompanied by message in which,
after stating the measures he had adopted he adds but
no advance toward obtaining the assent of the Seneca
tribe the amended treaty in council WAS made, nor
can the assent Of majority OF them in council be now
Obtained" THAT improper means have been employ
ed to obtain tho OF the Seneca Chiefs there ID
every believe and have not been able 10 sat
sfy myself that can. consistently with the resolutions
of tho Senate OF the "a of March, 1899 the treaty
60 bs carried into effect in respect to the Seneca Tribe
The Committee on Indian Affairs TO whom the treaty
was referred reported resolution to reject IL; con-
trary resolution however adopted March % and
the 4th of April following the President issued his pro
clanaton announcing it asa treaty.
few facts connected with this transaction remain
yet to be examined Many censuses OF the Senecas
taken about this time the results of which vary
from 449 55 hut all agree in reporting only about
l40 including the infant children of parents. a.
ofemigatoD. who were willing to leave their homes
u not some outrage evident here'
And here is exhibited most curious change of place
Almost every Chief who in favor of removal the
senecas say every oue bribed with life ease
his farm, aud sometimes BY lease for his childrens
lives rent free. and in by the fee sim.
received much 1000 dollars These Chiefs did no,
intend to eigra,c They the authors of the fraud the
only ones professedly In favor Of emigration,
stay home and lay their bones with the bones
fathers while the great Of the tribe opposed to
suoysl were To be driven away To the West The Con.
stituton of the United Stqtes Art Sec. declares
He" the President shall have power TO make trca.
ties, provided two thirds of the Senators presen; con
cur" Go the resolution ray this treaty 10 Senators
voted in the affirmative and ~ in the negative 20 bein
absent and the csstug ofthe President decided the
In tha lAr9n t,n Cow
peble Of but Interpretation aud that Is that in every
step attending the making of treaty the concurrence
two thirds of the Senators preacn Ia necessary Ed
ward Everett that time Governor of Massachusetts
expresses this opinion the subject: +" The treaty.
making power granted By the Constitution in general
serms modification OF its exercise in respect 10 the
Indian tribes IL recognized Then II IL day
THAI this treaty not cons,u,ionally ratified.
The peculiar institutions Of the Indians were tram
Piled in every possible way. Among the Senecss the
acts of Chief out OF the council more bind the
don than do the of one of Legislators his
private residence bud people Yet what cared the
Commissioner Tor that Their rghtiu annuities were
withheld till they should sign the treaty She Commits
soner ceased no, through the whole transaction TO
such outrageous alsehoods these: The President
will punish you father Furnishes his disobedient
children unless you do as he desires He win your
face where he wishes before ne stops punish.
ing you" The laws of the State shall be extended
over you in punishment" The privileges which you
enjoy shall be taken away you shall lose your an
nuitcs and agent unless you sign the treaty and
ell these things shall De given the party which consents
20 emigrate" Let these be compared with the words
Of the many former treaties which promised the Indians
the peaceaoe unmolesed possession OF ther reserva
lions till they should voluntarily relinquish them, and
with the resolution Of the Senate of June ith ISIS and
who Is ed with Indignation their baseness, and
contempt for the tool OF the Company who made OF
them. have before nue. volume published by
the Society of Friends containing 10 bribery contracts
between the Compapy's scent Herman 4. Potter OF Buff
falo and 10 Seneca Chiefs and Sc sdavs made BY the
Chiefs proving other attempts at bribery and fasehood,
and the forgery OF signatures and also he oath OF
81 Chefs that six of the sgners Chiefs O, the
nation.
Under such circumstances this treaty unlswiuliy
yfo%a,gaied, unsigned and unrstihed. Let how
.ne inalsns received the intelligence. We scarcely
the as'achnen, OF the Indians the land OF
oih IA prosperity they manifest fond love for
.e soooes OF thciE kindred hold sacred the graves
OF their fathers but when sffciious come. and in
tney mourn The wreck of their pride
and the decay Of their they seen, TO cling 10 hsr
homes win more unyielding Affection and 10 regard
the scenes amid which they mingled in the pss,n,es f
youth and which listened with them TO the teachings OF
age doUoly hsowed because they hsyc yri,,ssss3
their woe. In this case when they learned The ,-o,,
CATION of the treaty. CONSERVATION AID gloom every
nhere orerspread their villages. They did no, rxn,
A. They knew that their cause wa, iu,, Tbsv 81