St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-18
The President Orders the White Settlers to
Leave the Winnebago Reservation
Within Sixty Days.
The Solemn Pledges and Plighted Faith o.
the Government Must Be Main
tanned.
All the Power of the Government
VIII Be Employed to Execute
Its Treaties.
How the News Is Received Through
out Dakota Much Suffering
VIII Follow.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION.


WASHINGTON, April IT. = President
Cleveland to-day issued the following proc
lamation:
WHEREAS, by an executive order
bearing date the 27th day of February
| 1885, it was ordered that ''all that tract of
country in the territory of Dakota known
as the old Winnebago and the Sioux or
| Crow Creek reservation, and lying on the
east bank of the Missouri river, set apart
and reserved by executive order dated Jan.
II, 1875, and which is not covered by the
| executive order dated Aug. 9, 1879, restor-
| ing certain of the lands reserved by the
order Of Jan. Il, 1875, except the following
described tracts: Township number 10S
north, range II west, 10S north, range ~
west, fractional township 10S north, range
! 73 west, the west half of section 4, sec
tions s. 6, Z, S, 9, 16, II, IS, 10, 20, 21, 2S,
| 30, 81, 80 and SO, of township 107 north,
range 20 west, fractional township 107
north, range II west, 107 north, range 73
west, the west half of township LOG, north
range 70 west, and fractional township 1O6
north, range II west, and except also all
tracts within the limits of the aforesaid
wINNEBAGO RESERVATION
and the Sioux or Crow Creek reservation,
WIllCh d1C OuIoluc VI lllc llLlllS " tllt dUONt
described tracts, and which may have here
tofore been allotted to the Indians residing
upon said reservation, or which may have
heretofore been selected or occupied by the
said Indians under and in accordance with
the provisions of article of the treaty
! with the Sioux Indians of April 30, 1868,
be and the same is hereby restored to the
public domain, and
WHEREAS nnnn fhn claim hpiOp made
that said order is illegal and in
violation of the plighted faith and obliga-
tions of the United States contained in
sundry treaties heretofore entered into with
the Indian tribes or bands, occupants of
said reservation, and that the further exc
cutiOn Of said order will not only occasion
much
DISTRESS AND SUFFERING
to peaceable Indians, engender amongst
them distrust of the national government,
l have determined after careful examina-
ton of the several treaties, acts of con-
gress and other official data bearing on the
subject, aided and assisted therein by the
advice and opinion of the attorney general
of the United States duly rendered
| in that behalf, shat the lands so
proposed to be restored TO the public
domain by said executive order of Feb. 81,
1885, are included as existing Indian reser-
vations on the east bank of the Missouri
river by the terms of the second article of
the treaty with the Sioux Indians, cOnclu-
ded Al pril 49, 1868, and that consequently
being treaty reservations the executive was
without lawful power to restore them to the
public domain by said executive order,
which is therefore deemed and considered
to be wholly imperative and void; and
WHEREAS, the laws of the United
States provide for the removal of all persons
residing or being found upon the Indian
lands and territory without permission ex-
pressly and legally obtained of the interior
department.;
Now, therefore, in order to maintain invi-
| olate
THE SOLEMN PLEDGES
and plighted faith of the government as
given in the treaties in question and for the
purpose of properly protecting the interest
OF the Indian tribes as well as of the United
States in the premises, and that no person
or persons may be induced to enter upon
said lands, where they will not be allowed
TO remain without the permission of the au-
| thOrity aforesaid. l, Grover Cleveland, pres
ident of the United States, do hereby de-
clare and proclaim the said executive order
the treaty obligations of the United States
with the Sioux tribe of Indians, and there
| fore to be imperative and of no effect;
and | further declare that the lands
Intended to be embraced therein in existing
reservations, and as such available for In
dian purposes alone and Subject to the In
dian intercourse acts of the United States
do further warn and admonish all and
every person or persons
NOW IN THE OCCUPATION
of said lands under color of said executive
order and all such person or persons as are
intending or preparing to enter and settle
upon the same Hereunder that they will
neither be permitted to remain on or enter
upon the said lands. and such persons as
are already there are hereby requested to
vacate and remove therefrom with
! their effects within sixty (60)
days from the date hereof; and
in case due regard for and voluntary
obedience to the laws and treaties of the
/ United States and this admonitiOn and
warning be not sufficient to effect the pur-
| poses and intentions as herein declared all
| power of the government will be employed
TO carry into proper execution the treaties
and laws of the United States herein refer
red to. In testimony whereof | hereunto
set my hand and cause the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 18th
day of April one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-fve. and in the independence of
the United States of America the one hun
dred and ninth.
Signed GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President
I. F. BAYARD, Sec'y of State.
What is Thought of it in Dakota.
Special 20 the Globe.
MITCHELL. Oak. April 17-News of
the presidents proclamation vacating the
executive order of President Arthur direct
ing that the Crow Creek reservation be
opened to settlement, created profound
sensation here Hundreds Of people here
were interested and are highly indignant.
although such action was not wholly unex-
pected. The decision of the attorney gem
eral practically settled the question.
but it was hoped that the
president would take different
view OF il from the eold-blooded LAWYER in
the department of justice Many home
steaderS had spent all of their hard earn
ings of years in making their improve
ments. getting their families there. and in
preparing the ground and in getting in
crops. 1t is feared here that the settler will
resist eviction and troops viii be necessary
to secure their removal. If blood-shed
doesn't result. The marshals would be
powerieSs to enforce the order provided for
in its proclamation.
AT CHAMBERLAIN.
Special TO the Globe.
CHAMBERLATN, Oak. April 1r.-The
first news received here of the nrrsidan.-s
proclamation vacating the Arthur executive
order was received from an order for speeiaI
on the popular sentiment 1t is too late to-