Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-15
Worked Up Fron, ,n. Rottom.

1 BOSTON, Sept. 14.-John Adams, general
 superintendent of the Fitchburg railroad, who has worked up from the very bottom,
 has been requested by the directors to as- 1 sume the active duties of the presidency of that road made vacant by the recent death of William B. Stearns.
 One More Steps DOwn-CharIes Francis Adams Refuses to be . Candidate.
 BOSTON, Sept 14.-In response to the voice of the citizens of his native town Quincy, in naming him as their candidate for the Republican gubernstorial nomination, Charles Francis Adams, jr., has written 8 letter positively refusing to allow his name to go before the convention. He says: '.All who feel as I do recognize but one political duty and that is to rescue Massachusetts from the hands of the political charlatans and wreckers into which it was per mitted last year to partially fall To insure this result unanimity is the one neeaful thing In entering on the campaign before us 1t is therefore especially incumbent on all favor ite sons,' dark horses and the like to get out of the way and to keep out of the way of either of the two gentlemen in themselves wholly worthy upon whom the general choice is obviously centering"
 The Indians-A Bad Clause in the Treaty.
 Provisions Which Tend to Make Them
 Shinless
 PIrTsFIELD, Sept. 14.-Senator Dawes re- turned to Pittsfield last evening having great ly improved in health by his long rides by team and on horseback in the Indian coun- try. In an interview to-day he said the committee, which consisted of Senators To- gan Cameron and himself, had interviews with the Indians at the Crow agency in Mon tana, the Sioux Standing Rock agency and the Cheyenne, Crow Greek, Lower Brule, Pineridge and Rosebud and the Sioux com- mission. ''We heard all they had to say about their present difficulties and needs, and especially about the proposed cediDg of 8 large portion of the Sioux reservation to the United States. The reservation includes eleven million acres or twice as many as the State of Massachusetts. It is bounded by the Cheyenne, White and Missouri rivers and the Black Hills. Everything said by the In- dians will be laid before Congress. The proposition involves several radical changes in the policy of the govern ment toward these Indians and entire departure from the plan of treating them which has prevailed since 1868, when they located there There are 30, 900 of them dis tributed among these agencies, all of whom have a common title to the reservation under the treaty of 1868, ratified in 1875, which unfortunately stipulates that they shall be supported by the government till such time as they are able to support themselves They understand the phraseology of the treaty perfectly, and have come to the con- clusion that they not only have no induce ment to support themselves, but that there is little encouragement for them to work for their own support, for thereby what they receive from the government is dimin- ished. The Indians were constantly remind ing us of this feature and asking us in plain English if we thought they should work when the government was bound to take care of them. This treaty and the almost irrepressible desire and clamor of western emigration for their lands are the two great difficulties to be overcome in adopting new policy toward them. They have land capable of producing the finest wheat and corn, a territory large enough to make great State. All the game has disappeared from it and they can make no use of this large territory other than that which the agriculturist or herdsman can make. They can hereafter do nothing toward their own support except that it be as herdsmen or farmers. It is with difficulty that any advantage can come to them from being one or the other, when instead he can go every Monday morning to the agency and take his supply of food for the week free of cost or labor and go home and sleep and eat it out" MT. Dawes de- cliaed to talk of politics. He will begin work on the Republican State platform, which he is to draft, tomorrow.