Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-20
THE EVERLASTING INDIAN.
Tho civilization OF thc East aud ,he n.r.
barisam of the Wcst Meet ON Common I
Ground and lnd"igcin an Acrim onious

Dartsan OF tne West Meet ON Comma
Ground and Indulge in an Acrtm onio,
Debate.
Washington, Dec. 1S.-The house Of rel
resentatives. being IN committee of ii
, whole on the senate bill relative to neeoli
ations for the removal of the U,es, a Ion
discussion ensued.
Mr.. Springer sald the time had arrive,
when civilization had reached the bounta
ries Of the Ute reservation. All efforts +
preserve peace there would be futile in tn
future. Congress must look then at I'll,
question squarcly, fairly and plainly, ant
must decide it in the interest of justice. H,
did not believe in treating with the Indian
as with equals. He believed in the polio,
OF regarding the whole of the lands within
the limits of jurisdiction as public domain
and the Indians as citizens of the United
States, and OF teaching them to obey the Law
and to understand that when they killed in
nocent persons they were guilty of murder
Mr.. Bedford stated that the Ute reaefya
lion in Colorado consisted of 12OOO.O0(
acres, or about 1000 for every man. woman
and child in the U,e tribe. He was opposed
to b committee amendments. to the senate
bill and he predicted that if they were
adopted, next year would witness a renewal
OF the conflict which had recently attracted
the attention of the country. He challenged
Mr.. Conger or any officer of the interior
department to point his finger to a COM
against the people Of Colorado. If those
amendments were adopted as certain as God
reigned above K spring the teemins
thousands that would pour into Colorado
would erase the line of that reservation and
uvN,plH pNyocnoof fEa n,1,,ots.. e.. &c.
wealth and the government would not hav.
the power to arrest the progress of the vas,
tribes. II the government desired to prevent
wal and protect the people of Colorado i,
must provide SOME method that would Sc.
the removal of the Indians from that
state. In coming to Washington to take his
seat he had passed through five large states,
every acre of which had been stolen from
the Indians, and yet the gentleman said that
while our fathers robbed and plundered the
we want you 10 belong TO the soody
goody class of people in the west. Laugh.
:er. He called the attention of Mr.. Con
ger to the fact that the report of the COM
OF Indian affairs for 1878 showed
that more frauds had been committed agains,
The Indians in Michigan than in any other
state or territory. laughter.
Mr.. Hooker said Messrs. Bedford and
proposed, in violation of the most
solemn treaties, to rob the Indians of a ter
ritory which had been coded to them BY the
Ii they were a powerful ma.
with a great army at their backs, which
could point a aDnon at their foes and de-
mand justice, those gentlemen would no,
1sre take the position they did. TApplause. |
He held that the government was powerful
to do what was right-to see thai
'ustice was done, even though the people
who demanded it demanded it in the name
Of law and moral right-not because they
had the physical power to compel il.
Mr.. Bedford says the tide of civilization. of
Anglo Saxon civilization, is sweeping over
The country and that the Indians must weld
70 it. This proposition in an American
congress comes with bad grace from this
government, which has pledged its constitu-
:ional power by solemn amendments and
solemn laws that the recently emancipated
people Of this country belonging to the
race ehall receive forever solemn
protection in the new rights. in
he new duties and in the new powers
which they are invested as
;'t'zens, and vet the indians. who are con-
1ected with you on every page of your
whose beautiful language has
your states and rivers and territories
nd towns and hamlets and valleys, from
where the first ray of the morning SUI
the spray Of Niagara to where its
asst parting ray dashes into the golden gate
It California, is ~ be robbed OF what be
las simply because he is week, powerless
nd Incapable of protecting himself.
Mr.. Haskell said the purpose of the bill |
vas merely TO relocate the Ute Indians on
portion OF their reservation, but that il
.ttectee the whole Ute tribe and not mere.
y that portion which had not been at war.
s has been said by Mr.. Hooker.
Mr.. Cannon suggested that the Indian
should be censureG for not
report which would suit the
peech of the gentleman from Mississip-
Mr.. Scales spoke in favor of the bill,
MIR. Conger asked what sort of a bill this
'as which required for its sanction and
lpport a reference to al the world renown.
d rascalities practiced or the Indians since
discovery Of America? This great ma
had made a treaty eleven years ago
nth the mountain tribes of Indians by
these Indians were permitted TO go
IT into unknown mountains, supposed to
e almost uninhabitable by civilized men
nd remain there. They had been driven
ON the foot hills, dliven off from the
driven away from all the lands
'hich it was then thought the avarice and
reed Of the white man might desire, but
DIV the enterprise and avidity of the white
AN has discovered treasures of silver and
Did in the neighborhood ofthese mountains
I'd ore had been found within twenty-five
lies of the Ute reservation. In former
ears men bad waited until miners or agri-
llturalists had stepped over the line Of H.
an reservations, but now they were be-
'ming holder. and low as soon as they
me in sight of the mountains-as soon as
icy came to sight of the foot hills, twenty.
re miles of-the committed appointed to
'otect the Indians in their rights. brought
a bill to remove the Indians from their
and reservation before the whites
ID yet passed into the reservation.
Mr.. Haskell denied the statement and
id that already the mountains to the east
Leadville and the Ute reservation were