The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-11


WASHINGTON, Dec. THE annual re-
port Of the Secretary of the Interior re-
| views, at great length, the relations of the
Indian tribes to the Government and the
settlers residing near their reservations.
The Indian outbreaks of the year
and the causes of them are con-
sidered. The recommendation of the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs that
the less guilty of the rebellious Chiricahuas
should be transported to an island in the
Pacific Ocean, as penal colony, to earn
their own living by fishing, stock-raiSing,
etc., or sent to the military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, is indorSed. Ii is recon-
mended that the Southern Utes be
located in Indian Territory, and that
the Piutes, of Oregon, be settled on home
steads and given farm implements and
other assistance. The subject of the leas-
ing of land by Indians to cattle companies
is taken up and the Secretary says he is
convinced that in the making of these
| leases the assistance rendered by the Indian
agents was directed more for the interests
of the cattlemen than for the Indians under
their care and supervision.
After speaking of the encroaehmentS of
railroads OH Indian rights, the Secretary
| says:
1t is evident that the Indian race has
| reached crisis in its history. The Indians
| can no longer exist in this country in u
| savage Or semi-civilized state, nor can
| they longer recede before the advancing
| march of civilization. 1t has already
| surrounded them Movements of population
| eastward and northward and southwark have
| gone on with unprecedented rapidly, until
every reservation is closed i'll and pressed
upon by colonies, settlers. miners ranch
| ing the Indian to more distant reSer-
vations can be continued no longer.
He must make his final stand for exist
ence where he is now. Unless he can adapt
| himself to the necessities of these new cOndi-
| tons and partake of this all pervading will
cation his extinction will be sure and swift.
| The neeI OF permanent scheme OF Indian
| management to meet this emergency is press
ing upon the Government with imperous
The report declares that the Indian race is
| no longer a source of danger TO the peace of
/ the Republic; neither is tany longer an obsta-
Gle to National progress or material develop
ment. 1t says: So far as the interests OF our
own people are concerned, apart from the
| needs of the Indian population the indian
problem could be easily solved by sim
| ply withdrawing all Governmental SUI
| pervisiOn over these people and confer
ring upon them the rights of Ameri-
body polite 4UOOU0O of blacks in a state of
| slavery and investing them with citizenship
| aud suffrage we need not STRAIN at the gnat
| of 260000 lndia Such Il course however,
would be more cruel and destructive to the
| Indian, i'll the helpless condition to which the
| extension of settlements will soon reduce him,
| than war of determination.
| l recommend that portion of every
| reservation be divided up into separate tracts
| of suitable size for farms, to be allotted to
| each individual as his sole and separate es-
| tate. Provision should be made against the
| power until after a time limited of selling or
| nIortgaging the same, or even leasing 1t to-
| any but Indians living within the same
| reservation. Without legislation OF this
! kind all efforts to make the indian support
| himself by his own labor will prove fruitless
and unavaling. To overcome his natural
| aversion to labor there must be the incentive
| given alone by sure guaranty that the fruits
| of his labor shall be enjoy ed i'll security. No
man will clear forests inclose fields and
| cultivate thcm and rear hOnes and barnss
when at any moment he may be removed
and carried off against his will to
some distant and unknown region. The
| ownership of land, freeholding, tends 10 in
| spire individual independence, pride of char
| acter, personal industry, and the develop
ment of the domestic virtues. Provis on
should be made that the Indian accepting u
patent for his land shall not thereby forfeit
| any of his rights as a member of bic tribe,
nor the protection and benefit which the laws
| of the United States extend to the Indians
| generally.
The Secretary recommends the appoint
ment of a commission of not more than six
men of integrity, intelligence and expert
ence, and of such ability as to be able TO
| comprehend the course of treatment and
methods of management best adapted to in
sure the speedest progress of the respective
| tribes and bands, to visit each of the reser-
| VationS, and investigate and report the con-
| ditiOn peculiar circumstances and needs of
| the Indians residing thereon. The condition
of the Indian schools is gratifying The
| story of the Oklahoma invasions is retold,
| nd 10 pfo Eod hot
mentS have rendered it unwse at present to
open negotiations with the Indians owning
the title to these lands for the purpose Of
| opening them to settlement.
Three million nine hundred and twelve
| thousand four hundred and fifty acres OF
public land have been sold for cash; 49,
| pol, 213 acres have been absorbed by public
entry, and 881, $50 acres of Indian lands
have been disposed of, making grand total
| Of 2O,995,5l Tie total receipts from
| these lands were $8619.59S. The total
urea of surveyed lands up to the 30lh of
June, 1885, is 969 400, 347. so acres. That
aDSeryeycd is estimated at S45, $50, 3905e
creS.
The establishment of court in the yell
| lOwStone National Park with exclusive jd-
| risdiction over all misdemeanOrs, and with
power to examine and to hold to bail in all
asses of felonies, to be tried in the nearest
| court having criminal jurisdiction, is rec
| )mmended. The expenses of the Park for
lext year are estimated at $4,000.
THE NAVY.
| WAsHrNGToN, Dec IA summary OF
| he principal points of interest in the report
| If Mr.. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, is
| given below:
The property of the navy-yards. valued at
ibOut $50 900 CO., is reported as falling rapidly
/ nto q condition of extreme decay, and u is
! recommended that Improvements.be made at
| once unless IT be the desire OF Congress to
baHdon the property to waste and ruin. The
| Secretary reports that excellent progress is
| being made I'm the manufacture of steel guns
or the new ships. and says that five six-ihch
| md two five-inch breech- loading high-pOweF
steel gums have been completed and satisfae-
| tOfilY tested.
The deposits from the sale of Government
| property under the control of the Navy De-
| paTtment from November ], 1884, to Novem
| DER /, 1885, amounted TO S25I,G40
The squadrons are reported as follows:
North Atlantic-Tennessee (1agship), Brock
| |, d, Galena. Swatara. Alliance and Yantic
| South Atlantic-La' caster Gfagsbip) and Nip
md Polas. Pacific : Hartford flag
adams and P.nta. The latter yes
| sci is occupied exclusively in cruising ira
| Alaskan waters European-PeDsaeOla, Gum
nebaugh and Kearsage. The vessels of the
navy on detached service are the P0whatan
| and Despatch or the Atlantic coast, the Mich
gan on the lakes, and the Ranger in survey
| ing and sounding work on the coast Of Cali
fGrnia.
The total amount of appropriations for the
Department for the last fiscal year was 3d.
| Sg3O28 and there was uneXpended balance
| from this sum of S2353,6l5 at the beginning
of the present fiscal year. The apprOpria-
tons available for the present fiscal year,
! commencing July ], 1885, are S13,5D Tp4. The
amount drawn by warrant from tie Treasury
! from July |. 1855, to November l. 1875 deduct
| ing that refunded. is $42S5, go The amount
/ drawn by warrant during the So ne period OF
/ last year was s., 1924
| The estimates for the navy for the fiscal
| year ending June -. 1851, amount to So, l04,-
1 695, in which sum are embraced estimates for
| new objects, not those ordinarily for the serV-
| ice amounting to SIG, f6a. $50. leaving for the
| customary purposes of the service So U34. IA.
| They embrace for increase of the navg &c.,
| $685. for the completion and armament Of
/ the double-turreted monitors S4,2a2, 656; and
| for public works and improvements at the
yards and stations s., 268 ;s37.
| The Secretary then goes over in detail the
| circumstances connected with the trial OF the
4 Dolphin aud the trouble had with her, with
1 which circumstances the public Is familiar.
4 The case is stil unsettled. He also refers to
the Roach trouble.
! The Secretary says Eat the present moment