Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-26
THE UTE INQUIRY.

THE UTE INQUIRY.
WASHINGTON, jan. 24.-Miss Josephine
Meeker did not appear before the House
committee on Indian affairs to-day, and the
| investigation of the causes of the Ute
outbreak was postponed till Tuesday.
William NJ. Leeds, late chief clerk of the
Indian Office, was before the Senate select
committee to examine into the circumstances
| connected with the removal of the Northern
Cheyennes from the Sioux reservation to
Indian territory. He said the complaint of
fthese Indians that they were being starved at
their agency was true. The Indian Office
was informed by their agent of the lack of
food, and Commissioner Hayt failed to fur
nish the agent with the supplies which the
treaty called for. The actual quantity of
food dealt out to each Northern Cheyenne
for each of five weeks preceding the outbreak
in September, 1876, was as follows: For
the first week 20 ounces daily; second, II
ounces; third, II ounces; fourth, IA
ounces; fifth, Is ounces, whereas their
treaty as we'll as their necessities demanded
% ounces daily. Leeds also said Commits
sioner Hoyt's statement in his annual re-
port for 1873, referring to the food supply
for these Indians, is deceptive in several
particulars, including Ethe following, viz:
That it states the qualities which were ship
ped and delivered to the agent as the
amounts which were issued to the Indians,
and makes no allowance for loss and shrink
age, and omits the alleged fact that for some
weeks, Immediately preceding the outbreak
the starvation ration upon which they had
previously existed, was further decreased by
the non-delivery of half pound per diem of
flour, to which they were each entitled.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
Arguments in favor of a constitutional
amendment to provide for female suffrage
were made to-day by Mrs. McRay, of Iowa;
Miss White, of Illinois; Mrs. Stebbing, of
Michigan; Mrs. Sexton, of Louisiana; Miss
Phoebe Cozzens, of Missouri, and Susan B.
Anthony.
THE CoLoRED EXODUS.
The Senate committee on the colored exo-
dus to-day examined j. p. Dukehart, South
ern passenger agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad company. He testified that he
has made several visits to North Carolina in
the interests of the company and to secure
as large a share as posi-
BILE of the exodus travel, and
that he affected arrangements with local pro-
motors of the movement by which
the Baltimore d Ohio
railroad obtained the transportation
of all the calored people who had up to this
time, since Oct. -, emigrated from North
Carolina to Indiana. The through rate from
Goldsboro to indianapolis for these emil
grants was $1635 for each person above the
from five to twelve, and younger children
pany agreed to pay Secretary Taylor Evans
of Goldsboro "a colored man, who worked
up the emigration, drawback off one dollar
per head for each full fare passenger, and
fifty cents for each half ticket Sold This
was a we'll known standing inducement held
out by himself and agents of competing
roads to men like Evans and Williams to get
up as large an emigration as possible.
Mr.. Evans told tho witness he commenced
working up the exodus sixteen months
ago, by means of mass meetings,
secret societies, etc. Witness
while III North Carolina had seen many cir
culars asserting that colored people would
find plenty of work in Indiana at wages
from ST. to $1.50. Perry and Williams also
circulated report that emigrants, upon
reaching Washington, would be provided
with new clothes and transportation to In
diana or Kansas. The circulars were largely
made up of editorials from the Greencastle
Iudiana) Banner, and also included what
purported to be certificates from number
of the North Carolina colored people who
had already gone to Indiana, that they had
found work, and advised their friends to fol-
low. Perry left the State suddenly during
the winter, on account of an indictment for
forging school certificates, and had not re-
turned, but Evans and others were still at the
work, and in the opinion of the witness the
exodus would continue just az long as the
coloredpeople could raise money to pay fare,
or until checked by unfavorable reports
from friends at the other end of the line.
In this event he would go out to Indiana and
try to secure them as passengers back over
the Baltimore g. Ohio lines. Laughter.
The number of tickets sold by the Balti-
timore & Ohio railroad for transportation
of these North Carolina emigrants since the
movement first commenced, is 1853, 235
being half fare. In response to a question
by Senator Window, witness estimated that
fully one-half of the 528 full fare tickets were
for women, and agreed with the Senator
that at least Ct of the remaining 264 full
fare tickets must have been purchased for
male passengers between the age Of twelve
and twenty.
Senator Window thsreupon remarked:
cit appears there we're not more than two
hundred of the emigrants who could by any
possibility vote at the next Indiana election,
and it seemed therefore two hundred immI-
grants had created all this CONSERVATION in
Indiana"
Senator Voorhees-"Not CONSERVATION
but indignation
Windom-You should not be very indig-
nant over 200 men.
Voorhees-We are indignant at a fraud
which is being practiced upon weak, Gre
dulous people by telling them they can find
plenty of employment in Indiana, when
there is no demand for their labors.
II. w. Lindenhall, resident of Wash
ington, testified that he assisted in organic
ing an emigration aid society about year
ago. He thought the movement would be-
come quite extensive. He had stated that if
INDIANA could offer any inducements to
negro emigran.s it would be we'll to have
them go there, IS they were generally Re-
publicans and would strengthen the Repub-