The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-06
AN Expensive INDIAN JOB,
VINO gets the Money!

AN EXPENSIVE INDIAN JOb
VINO gets the Money! =
Last spring il is we'll know that Jon" 4
A. Logan was opposed 10 Grants no"'i"S
ton He had made some very severe al '
lusions, in speech in Congress 70 uran' ; !
..,,,oo,,o,, ,v,th The seneca Sand Stone !
S,r,n,llo and was alwaysrepresented by Mast !
IN the background, peering over shoulders 5
or from behind buildings, and not in the G
front Of the fight Later in the contest !
Mast brought him 10 the front, and the !
reason assigned, then, why Logan had
taken ground in favor Of Grant was that
he had sccuredthe appointment OF rela-
tive 10 disburse some half million dol
lars 10 the Teton Sioux Indians, and that
he would make good thing out OF It,
Last summer il is well known that Logan
visited Montana, and later in the season
his wife. who Is said 10 be the smartest
one of the two, was out there also. Now,
after putting al these things together,
read the following from the Washington
correspondent of the y. Y. TriJuHs,under
date Of the LIST inst
From the regular correspondent Of the y. l. tn
hunc.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Am interesting
controversy has arisen between the Ad-
n,inistration md prominent gentlemen /
from Montana, in regard 10 the existence
of A band of Indians IN that Territory +.
known As the Teton Sioux, for whose .
benefit S6OOOOO was appropriated last |
Spring. and for whom S2OOoOO more Is
asked for in the Indian Appropriation bill
already passed by the House; Vt the
time the appropriation was made NS7U
OOO the remaining SlOO,OOO being appro-
priated in another bill, some of the older
senators desired IN know something about
this before unhCurd-uf tribe IL which u
was proposed to give two-thirds n much
rs "a all the remaining Sioux tribes tngeth-
err. and more than twice ~ much7as t0any
other single tribe.
The writer then quotes extracts from
Window and Ramseys remarks claiming
the existence Of such a tribe aud com
,nents upon thci rrcmarks as follows ;
Notwithstanding these assertions. gen
tlemen from Montana deny the existence
Of any such tribe or band. The Sioux t.
whom Mr.. Window referred, they say.
we're the well known tribes who, alter the
war of ls64-5, came under treaty stipula
tons. and are annually provided for in the
S3na.OOO appropriated for the Sioux ct
different tribes. They do not doubt that
Sitting Bull was some years ago with one
of these tribes but they never heard oi
any of them called ''Tetous south OF the
boundary Of the British Possessions until
this appropriation was asked for ana
after a careful inquiry, the mgst they have
been able 10 learn j. that there was once
"A small fragment of tribe vt that name
bur that il. was merged with others wh4
according to treaty stipulations. went upon
the Grand River Reservation, IN Dakota
Territory. after the general Sioux war.
As for Sitting Bull who is said "a havu
been at Fort Peck, last Spring, with T.,
900 Tetons. they say that he is a vagabon,
Indian who, with II followers left the re-
ervatinm az Grand River and went up int
the vicinity of Fort Peck, a small trading
post near the Milk River Reservation an
a long distance from any white settlement
There about two years aga, they kll!e
two woodchoppers, and this was the FIR
that was ever heard VI Sitting Bull. 500
after the traders sent ont and invited ~
ting Bull and his ~ followers in t. Sc
their furs and they encmnped near Oh
fort They deny the statement that thei
have ever been 10000 SiOux Indians
any or all bands together in any one phC
since lSG4-5. and the best authorti,
place the largest number that were see
at any one time then, when the whole II
ton was on the war-path. at ,OOo.
In reply t. the statement that a ari
delegation of these Teton Sioux were
Washington last summer, the gentlem'
from Montana say that the people we
deceived They accuse the agent vi
was ~ disbursc the $9OO.nOO and the tr
ders at Fort Peck with planning the vi
10 quiet any diStrust that might ha
grown out of the debate last Spring. a
TO open the way for another appropriate
th. Winter. Sitting Bull having %
away from Fort Peck he could not
reached but one or two Ut his follow,
were induced to come, and the remand
of the delegation was made up OF trienl
Indians from the Milk River Rescryatil
and possibly some from the Grand RiN
Reservation in Dakota. In conclusi'
these people say that there are no Sio
Indians in Montana who are not prOvid
for BY treaty stipulations except such
gone upon the war-path these, OF cOur
nobody expects the Government TO feed
An affidavit has been prepared, sctti
forth the facts above given, and accus
the Superintendent and Agent suppoi
10 have charge of these Indians of max
false vouchers tone of which is given
full in order to draw the money. I
affidavit will be placed before the Sen
and House ON its reasscmbhng
National Republican. which il the or
of the Kitchen Cabinet, insinuates t
Senator Harlan is in some way responsi
for this alleged swindle, as those who "
engaged in il are from Iowa and W
appointed on his nomination. There {
tainly ought to be some explanation bel
100000 more is given for this myth
tribe. IL is a remarkable cireumsta
that no appropriation for any other sin
tribe, last Spring, exceeded $25O,OOO. /
that the entire appropriation for the
malnder Of the Sioux nation was but Ii
more than million dollars
When the paragraph appropriat
100000 for these Indians for next "
was before the House, Mr.. Dunnell,
Minnesota, made some inquiries in reg
10 the existancc Of these bands Mr.
gent sent to the Clerk desk, tn be r,
a letter from the Commissioner of ln'
Affairs from which it appeared that
the Indians of these tribes actually
BY the Commission numbered only .
and as their knowledge of the remain
was based entirely on the report of
Indians themselves, it is fair to sup
that the Superintendent and Agent k
nothing Of them from personal obse
ton, and could not therefore have 81
any money upon them Surprising
money appropriated last year to be div
among 800 Indians, the largest nun
now estimated, it would give them n
than $50 each; if it was spent on Il
actually seen, the amount per capita W,
be 5000, or more per head, probably, |
is spent on any other Indians in the c,
try. Another interesting fact also app
from the report The appropriation