The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-19

Dlil, anu ne prtulCleu iudl IL lucy "clt
adopted, next year would witness re-
newal of the conflict which had re-
Gently attracted the attention of the
country. He challenged Conger or any
officer of the interior department tc
point his finger to a complaint ever
made by the Ute Indians against the
people of Colorado. If those amend.
ments were adopted, as certain as God
reigned above, next spring the teeming
thousands which would pour into Col
orado would cross the line OF that res.
ervation and would prospect the noun,
tains for mineral wealth, and the gov.
ernment would not have the power to
arrest the progress of the vast tribe. II
the government desired 10 prevent a
war and protect the people of Colorado
it must provide some method that
would secure the removal of the Indi-
ans from that state. In coming to
Washington to take his seat he had
passed through FIVE large states, every
acre in which had been stolen from the
Indians, land yet, gentlemen said
he, ' while our fathers robbed and
plundered the Indians, we want you to
belong to the goody-goody class of peo-
pie in the west" Uaughter.) He
called the attention of Conger to the
fact that the report of the commits
sioner of Indian affairs for '7S showed
that more frauds had been committed
against the Indians in Michigan than
in any other s.nte or territory.
daughter
Hooker said that Belford and Sprin-
ger proposed, in violation of the most
solemn treaties, to rob the Indians of
the territory which had been conceded
to them by the government. If they
were powerful nation, with a great
army at their backs which could point
cannon at their foes and demand JUS
tice, those gentlemen would not dare to
take the position they did. (Applause:)
He held that the government was power
full enough to do what was right, to
see that justice was done, even though
the people who demanded it, demanded
it in the name of law and moral right,
and not because they had physical
power to compel it. He said the tide
of civilization, of the Anglo Saxon civ
ilization is sweeping over, the country,
and that the Indians must yield to it.
This proposition in an American con-
gress comes with bad grace from this
government, which has pledged its
constitutional power by solemn anne nd
ments and solemn laws that recently
the people of this country
belonging to the Africa an race, who
shall receive forever its solemn protec-
tion in new rights, in new duties, and
in new powers, with which they are in
vested as citizens, and yet the Indians,
though connected with you on every
page of your history, whose beautiful
language has named your states, rivers
and territories, towns, hamlets, and
valleys, from where the first rays of the
morning sun catches the spray of the
Niagara, to where its last parting ray
dashes in the golden gate of California
is to be robbed of what he has, simply
because he is weak, powerless and in
capable of protecting himself.
Haskell said the purpose of the bill
was merely to relocate the Ute Indians
on portion of their reservation, but
that it affected the whole Ute tribe and
not merely that portion which had not
been at war, as had been said by Mr..
Hooker.
Conger asked what sort of bill this
was, which required for its sanction
and support reference to all the world
renowned rascalities practiced ON Indi-
ans since the discovery of America.
This great nation had made treaty
eleven years ago with the mountain
tribes of Indians, by which those Indi-
ans were permitted to go far in the un-
known mountains, supposed to be
almost uninhabitable by civilized man,
and remain there. They had been
driven from the foot hills, driven up
from plains, driven away from all lands
which it was then thought the avarice
and greed of white men might desire.
But now the enterprise and avidity Of
the white man had discovered treas
ure of silver and gold in the neighbor-
hood Of these mountains, and ore had
been found within 25 miles of the Ute
reservation. In former years men had
waited until the miners or agricultur-
lists had stepped over the line of the
Indian reservation, but now they were
becoming bolder, and now, as soon as
they come in sight of mountains, and
as soon as they come in sight of the
foot hills, 20 miles off, u committee is
appointed to protect the Indians in
their rights and bill brought in to
remove the Indians from their territory
and reservation. The whites had not
yet passed into the reservation. S
Nominations.
Washington, Dec. 1S-The presi-
dent has sent the nomination to the
senate of Colone c. Williams, for con