St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-01
THE MILE Laos LANDS.
The Effort Being Made to Secure
Their Pine and the Counter
Movement,

It Is well known that persistent effort
has been in progress for many years to re-
move the Mile Laos Indians from
their reservation in Minnesota
in order that their lands might be put in
the market and q large amount of valuable
timber be thus secured. The Mile Laos
have persisted in refusing to give up their
reservation and in this effort to retain their
homes they have always bad the warm friend
ship aud assistance Of Aid. Joseph Robert,
of this city. Mr.. Roberts has recently spent
several weeks in Washington and as result
of his visit Judge Holman, of Indiana, on
the 18th Of March, offered the following in the
house
Resolved, That the secretary of the interior be,
and he is hereby, directed to inform the house
whether by any treaty or other act Of the govern
ment the limits of the reservation OF the branch
of Chippewas of the Mississippi known as Mile
Laos Indians, now and heretofore occupied by
them have been defined. and whether said Mile
Laos Indians have, since the goth of March 1865,
done any act violating the provisions in their be-
half contained in tho treaty ratified at said date
between the United States and the Cbippewas Of
the Mississippi and other bands of Chippewas,
which provision is as follows;
PrO6idsd That owing to the heretofore good
conduct of the Mile Laos Indians they shall not
be compelled so long as they shall not in any way
Interfere with or in any manner modest the per-
sons or property of the whites
And that he also inform the house whether
any of the lands heretofore recognized a. within
the limits Of the reservation of the said Mile
Laos band of Indians have been sold or permitted
to be entered and II any part Of the same has
been sold or entered that be inform the house in
what manner, under what right, and TO what
tent the said reservation has been permitted TO be
entered, and whether such entries are legal ana
valid and whether bona fife settlements have
been made on the lands entered or had been
prior TO are at the time of the treaty thereof, Il
This resolution was referred to the com
mittee on Indian affairs, and the next we
hear of it was on the 21st March, of when the
following appeared in the Record.
Mr.. Stephens-By direction of the committee
on Indian affairs | report back the resolution
which ] send TO the desk, and which I ask may
be Immediately considered.
The Clerk read as follows;
(Here follows the resolution quoted above.)
The report of the committee on Indian affairs,
accompanying the resolution, was as follows
The committee on Indian affairs, to which was
referred house resolution No. PAS, have had the
same under consideration, and ind that very i'm
portant questions and rights are involved that
can not be intelligently investigated and deter
mined without the information asked for in said
resolution. The committee therefore report the
same fayorably and recommend its passage.
The resolution was adopted.
Mr. Stevens moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the resolution was adopted; and also
moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on
the table,
The latter motion was agreed to.
It viii be interesting in this region to see
the report which result from this action. It
looks as though the Indians might now be
able to secure hearing, and if so they win
be indebted to the efforts in their behalf of
Mr.. Rahert.