The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-07-31

sln. with charges OF having committed most nagfant
crime true that these charges have never TO this day
been that they were well made believe
aud the community believe, because they have never
been answered and that thus individual ihen secretly
treasured up in his heart determination to have revenge
believe, and | believe the time has now arrived. As
soon this treaty made There came direct charges
OF fraud against Mr. Med and they have been pursued
zeslousy since. think the present Commissioners
OF Indian Affairs has been forced 10 acknowledge that
there has been proof OF this fraud, and yet This appro
priaon is TO be made and not only is triumph 10 be
obtained az anst MIR Medill-perhaps by OF those
who charged by him win vlllany and crime
but one is 10 pocket $4,000 OF this money be
appropriated for the benefit oil the Indians
But sir, what you doing Tor the Indians by making
this appropriation now! II is pretty evident. for one
thing thai you filling the pockets OF Others besides
the Indians But you placing IN Their haeds yihng
that will be available to themanyhing that will prove
a benefit 10 lhem even OF temporary character Would
il not be, in fact injury 10 them' They are now liv
ing in the midst OF whites. The government al time,
and under this treaty. assigned them home west of the
Mississippi They went 10 visit II they explored and
inspected ii but they found II TO be unfit for hem-a
country where they would starye 10 death and those
who did not would be killed by the Wnnebagoes
and Chppewas, their old enemies They shrunk back 10
Wisconsin, and looked with terror back TO the place
signed TO hem where only starvation and death by the
tomakawk awaited them. And now, situated they
are the midst OF the whites, where the Maine liquor
law" does not obtain, il this appropriation is made. the
result TO them will be Drunkenness sspaon and death
and what does not get away from them in that way will
be swinded from them in various other ways SO that
by the time This money has actually reached their hands,
blankets and gone mle it will all be exhausted Is this
the way them! They in the country, com II
paratively penness; and will your furnish them with
this amount of money only be fched from them, leave
them in worse condition than before! You will do
them manifest injustice il you do No. SIT; when the time
comes Tor something TO be done with lhem--and they
must be removed for the Legislature of Wisconsin viii
consent that they shall be permanently located
ihee-lhen will be moment for the exercise OF gen
crosby by this government; then will be the time for
the government look the situation they IN and
The treaty they have made, and determine how hard the
treaty is Whatever may be justly due 10 them. give il
to them in the way of selecting home for them. and
subsisng them in that home until they have acquired
the means of subsistence themselves. That will be
that will be generous that will be honest.
But how often does happen that the claims OF Indian
tribes suppressed until some secret agent aud enemy
OF his country and enemy alike OF the Indians, has dug
il up and exposed it and then, after making the es
males OF it, we pay not what we have stipulated 10 pay
TO them but pay to citizens what they have
extorted from the government! am opposed to these
IN toto and hope and trust that the appro
pration will be stricken out OF this bill.
equally opposed to the proposition of the senator
from Arkansas, MIR. SEBAsTIAN,] for the reason as
remarked before that we do not yet know what 10 do
with them Suppose you take his proposition, what are
you going TO do Does the proposition contain any pro-
vision that the shall explore, survey, and To-
cate region for these Indians, and remove them to
Not at all 1t is appropriation made 10 them but it is
not what they are TO receive.
Mr. SEBASTIAN think the senator misundersands
what are the contents OF my amendment II provides Tor
making the payment of this very alIo fo the pro-
curing OF home for the Indians. 1t is TO pay the
prlce for it which it costs them, to pay the expenses of
their removal TO i, and TO subsist them for twelve months
embrace these objects because believe it
of the stpnlaons of the treaty OF 1885, and is
the ordinary stipulation made with all tribes with whom
we treat that we agree TO remove them and subsist them
for twelve months Ii will be recollecied that by The
treaty OF lS4S assigned territory TO them at the
West, which they did not like Now, il seems, the
choice is between going TO that or to new country pur
chased and assigned by the United States, TO occupy
portion of the ceded territory, in either of which ii
- evident must be serious pecunary charge to the
United States. II Winconsin agrees the Indians re-
main in the coded territory then the President will only
have retain the coded territory In any other case,
three things must be done--purchase new territory,
remove them TO IT, and subslst them for twelve months
My amendment provides that they shall be paid out OF
this suplus, that II will be dspensedthe bigger
part OF II suppose-for the benefit OF the lndans. The
balance is not 10 be paid 10 them until after they have
moved TO the coded territory, or TO such country shall
be provided for them by the consent oil Wisconsin, under
the direction OF the President OF the United States. As
to the balance have adopted the provisions of The orig
nal terms OF the bill, that il should be paid them in
such manner as the President OF The United States shall
direct
And while up, with the permission of the SENATOR
will say, The disposition OF this money does not satisfy
him other senator's If II is feared that it will into
the hands of persons who have not this equitable claim
you have but 10 adopt expedent twice resoed to by
the Senate with success-ihat section be added pro-
vdIng that the money be paid to the Indians IN per-
son. and 10 no one else II IS an amendment which
will offer myself, for think ii is not based upon
just principle but If any other chooses 10 offer
IT, shall not make any opposition to II, as have not IN
other cases. That amendment was made in the appro-
pauon for the Cberokees Of two millions OF dollars and
also upon subsequent Indian appropriation, for the
pose of breaking down, as II thought, the influence
of agents. and Of uprooting that influence by which
many suppose the proceedings and deliberations OF Con
gess TO be surrounded merely throw out this sugges
lion, and think il is sufficient all the gentle
has said about the hands into which this money is
to gohat ii 10 20 into the hands OF agents by whom
this claim supposed 10 be hunted up and presented 10
the consideration OF Congress.
Mr.. WALKER. Mr.. President, the explanation OF the
honorable does no, obvate the difficulty TO which
abiding when took my seat Neither the Presl.
dent any OF the executive officers of this government
would know what to do with these Indians now and TO
Tho Indians should be consulted themselves 10 where
they will go for they will go 10 the home provided
for them by the treaty, and they have not looked about
tbem-they have not determined where they will GO
AT present they most desous OF remaining in
Wisconsin; and that Sale has temporarily authorized
them 10 remain, having consented that they may To-
cate themselves in the northern portion OF the State
But II is utterly impossible that they remain there
long. Settlers now scattered the whole Me-
nomonee purchase this very sson have passed
bill giving 10 settlers upon that purchase The right OF
pre-. emption, and before long, ii there not there
will be twenty thousand settlers upon that tract and they
will mix with Indians so that before long, 60 they
must Now, where are they 10 go' Will the senator
from Arkansas Mr. SEBAsrANI please TO tell me where
he proposes locate them II he gets The money appro
paled that he asks for. will he say where proposes
locates these Indians Is there any necessity for this
before either the Indians the government
know what TO do with III Why, il seems TO me that
would be really lrining with them.
What il the gen,leman's amendment? Instead OF pay.
ing the amount that the House OF Representatives has
to in this bllviz; 1921 ,st0he proposes what