St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-01
HILL WILL PUSH IT.
OPINIONS AT VARIANCE.
Hon. A. BOyntOm and Maj. w
CIure on the Sioux.

Clure Cla the Sioux.
Special to the GLOBE.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-Concerning
the action of congress in the matter of the
opening of the Sioux reservation and the
result of the passage of the bill, Hon. A.
Boynt0n of Lincoln county says:
have been interviewed by every one from
the Hill country and along the river every time
Ihave gone home concerning that measure. 1t
is plain to me that congress will pass the bill
as now prepared and reported by the COM
mlttee. But that does not end the matter by
q great deal. The people who are interested
IL the measure have been putting up their
money and spending it freely for the purpose
OF keeping good representative men here at
the capital to push the matter for them. IT.
Is matter Of financial life and death to those
people, and they are greatly interested as a
matter of course. But they are spending all
they have or can raise in order to get the
bill passed, and they are saving nothing for
the future. You see, after the bill has
become law, the consent of three
fourths of the Indians must be OBJ
tanned, by signature, to the opening of their
lands, and to their sale and settlement. ANY
squaW-man inclined to do mischief, can de-
lay that matter longer than you imagine.
one malcontent can go among the Indians
and keep ten men busy denying his les He
will tell the Indians that they ought not to
sell their lands for % cents an acre, for if
they will wait for few months they can get
so cents. The Indians are well fed and their
backs are
WARMED BY GOVERNMENT BLANKETS,
and they can afford to wait. They prob ably
will wait. They can lOll around in the sun
all summer, and wait until cold weather
comes to bring them to their senses, and
even then they may hold out for bigger
price. 1t is a matter of self-interest to the
Indians. and they will not be gotten rid of by
''be it enacted To perfect the will of con-
gresS the people along the river and in the
hills must raise money to send men through
the reservation with presents for the bucks
and sQuaWS, to induce them to sign away
their lands. The people haven't the money
to spare, and they will be practically bank
rupted before the reservation is ever opened
For my own part, | wish them success,
but they ought not to imagine that they are
going to have picnic Immediately after the
bill is passed and signed. Moreover, there
are Intermediates here who call themselves
the friends Of the Indians, who are nagging
the president about it, and it is by no means
certain that he will sign the bill after il is
passed. l expect him to sign it, but there's
many slip between the bill and Veto
hope that the bill will become law, and that
the people will soon be swarming in there;
but 1 am not so sanguine as some others.
MAYOR MCCLURE
of Pierre, who has especial charge of that
matter for his people. came up at the close
OF Mr.. BoyntOnS remarks and was asked
his opinion of the matter as presented, and
he became quite interested and earnest in
his denial of the statements of opinion made
He said:
am tired of answering that same old ques-
ton. The people ought to understand it by
this time; but it seems that / must explain it
over and over again to the same persons. 1t
is the burden of my correspondence, and it
has been talked over by letter aud in the
papers until it would seem that everybody
ought to know all about 1t. The Indians are
not only willing but anxious to have
this proposed change in their af-
fairs made. Senator Dawes carried
our measure through the senate but he is
well-known as the champion of the rights of
the Indians, and he would do nothing in the
matter until he was satisfied that it was q
move that would be beneficial, and also salts
factory to the Indians themselves He made
no move that was not against u.s. until he
satisfied himself upon that point Bishop
Hare was here rec emily, and he explained
the matter so inteligeutly and so forcihly to
the house committee and 10 the president
that there is doubt about the passage
of the bill, and the signature of the
president. The Indians will not need to be
labored with, nor bribed, to get them to &C.
cede to the provisions of the bill. We do not
expect to bride themnor would we do so. The
idea that we cannot have the laws enforced
absurd. If congress passes the bill as it
certainly will, there will be no trouble about
the speedy transfer Of the Indians to