The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-31
The Black BILLS Commissioners.
THEIR ARRIvAL IN CHEYENNE.


The Commission recently appointed
to treat with the Sioux for the cession
of the Black Hills and for other pur-
poses, arrived in this city yesterday
afternoon. Following we give the
names of the gentlemen composing the
commission:
Ex-Governor H. c. Bulls, of Iowa;
Col Geo. w. Manypenny, of Ohio; A.
G. Boone, of Colorado; Newton Ed
munds, of Dakota; Bishop H. B. Whip
pie, of Minnesota; A. S. Gaylord, of
Michigan, Assistant Attorney General
of the Interior Department; Rev. s. d.
Hinman, Santee Agency, Dakota, In
terpreters Chas. NJ. Hendley, Washing
ton, Secretary; and DR.. J. w. Daniels, of
Minnesota, well known as an influential
Indian man. Mr.. Gaylord will act as
legal adviser to the commission and
represent the Interior Department.
Col. G. w. Manypenny is chairman of
the commission.
Major E. A. Howard, late agent at
Spotted Tail has been requested to ac-
company the commission, and is here,
as is also VIM. Vandever, the Indian
apologist and varlet of the Indian ring.
The principal object of the commits
sion is to have the Indians relinquish
their right to the Black Hills. The
western line of the reservation proper
is the 104th meridian. The government
desires that the Indians consent to a
change of this boundary, so that the
103d meridian will be the western boun-
Diary Of the reserve. This will leave
the mining country entirely outside.
1t has been stated that the commits
sion will endeavor to make a treaty of
peace with Sitting Bull, but this is en-
tirely erroneous, although should that
great redskin make any overtures the
commission would notify the proper
authorities and ask for instructions.
The instructions under which the com
mission is acting, after providing an
appropriation of $1,000, 600 for the In
|dians, read as follows:
Prorided.-That none of said sums
appropriated for said Sioux Indians
shall be paid to any band thereof while
said band is engaged in hostilities
against the white people; and hereafter
there shall be no appropriation made
for the subsistence of said Indians un-
less they shall have first agreed to re-
linquish all right and claim to any coun-
frxr nttfcs6n fna 1o,,,J :, .o, 49,
manent reservation established by the
treaty of 1868 for said Indians, and
also SO much of their said permanent
reservation as lies west of the 1O3d me-
ridian of longitude, and shall also grant
the right of way over the said reserva-
tion to the country thus coded for wag-
on or other roads from convenient and
accessible points IN the Missouri river,
in all not more h three in number,
and unless they will receive all such
supplies herein provided for and pro-
vided for by said treaty of 1868, at such
points and places on their said reserva-
tion and in the vicinity of the Missouri
river as the President may designate;
and provided also, that no further ap-
preparation for said Sioux Indians for
subsistence shall be made until some
stipulation o. agreement have been
entered into by said Indians with the
President of the. United States, which
is calculated and designed to enable
said Indians to become self supporting.
The matter of removing the Indians
to the Missouri river or the Indian Ter
ritory is left to the discretion Of the
commissioners, but they will remove
them to n place or the other. They
will make no overtures.to Sitting Bull,
but will let the present commission led
by Generals Crook and Terry take care
Of s. B. and his murderous cohorts.
The entire commission is composed of
practical men, every one of whom has
lived among the Indians in official
capacity for years. Col. Manypenny
was commissioner of Indian affairs
under President Pierce. Several of the
commissioners are men in the decline
of life, and all of them are men Of
marked ability, hence no such farcical
proceedings as characterized the COM
mission of last year, will disgrace this.
These gentlemen are earnest and prac-
tical, evidently actuated by a conscien-
tious desire to fulfill the responsible
duties which have been assigned them
and the country has reason to hope
that much good will result from their
labors. Mr.. Hendley, the secretary of
the commission, is connected with the
Interior Department at Washington,
and is eminently fitted for the place to
which he has been appointed.
The commissioners leave early this
morning for the Agencies, and will be-
gin their important work as soon as
possible.
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