The Press., 1886-03-18

to be refalred so and SC, and to be printed so and so, and t. be sent so and 80. Well, l it hAdn't been sent there The question: was, where was 1t? h few weeks congress wonld jotlrll, and the time was coming when these goods could not go Ill, I so start through tine departments to find I out about it. go through the Indian bu- reau I chase it ronnd and round, and af. | ter awhile, find it in charge of q certain ! clerk who has the tstima es for deficiencies till just about the close of congress, when this will be sent thpre i'll a batch. go to him to st If some action cannot be taken lest these people starve but he cannot help me, and go back, and back, and back. Instructions are issued that this be sent over. Mr. Dawes goes around aud makes an impression on the depart ment that it is. essential that this be done. He also goes to the treasury department for action. It comes from there. Under stand that unless tho Indian has friend, it lies there. The clerk has done his duty when he has made record of it, and when, in the course of time, he has sent 1t along. I go these and find they have been sent over all in lump follow it up through three or four different rooms and at last find 1t. Estimates have been made for about $4,000,0 900 for the interior de- partment. There is nothing to indicate that 1t is a matter of pressing urgency any more than the deepening of the channel for the Podunk river. You undertake to get this detached and sent out and are ins formed that it can't be done except by a letter from the secretary of the interior. l go to him, and I go to his representative. He says there need be no trouble; just send the whole back here. I go back on fools errand he says this can't go back except in such and such way. After more than days Work I write a-letter myself asking that this be sent back, be- cause they wish to take special action, and it is sent back. It goes over; it goes through the treasury department. What is it there for? We get it over to fthe chairman If the house. He has said that when it reaches him he will in ktroduce it at once. We get it to the speakers desk, and to the committee, and finally to tic chairman of the committee of appropriations day or so before cnn- gress adJourns. It has taken It arly tive weeks, aud then he cliues to do anything about it, and congress adj0urns.
 "This Is a fair representation. l don't care ill what department it is, you will find that the man who is working for the h. dian is tied up. You must be patient with
 MT. Dawes, and with the secretary of the interior, for they are trying to do the best they Can. If you are working for any legislation in the direction of the Indian you will find, unless yon can identify 1t with the white interest so that that will carry it, that you are tied. am satisfied
 that the time has come when we should sweep this whole system away and put the Indian on the basis of a white man, abd give him mans chance in this country under the law. svsgs,ss s F-s "a --t {
 Take the Indians in California. If they have any rights they should be vindi- cated; if they have none, then do not send an agent there to look after them. The SC | Indians are just as capable of taking care of themselves as whlte men, Why pay a
 man salary to do what he cannot do?
 wish had in my pocket the epitiful appeal
 of the Indian, saving to the minister in Washington, all we want is some place on
 which we can live And to-day men are
 pushing Indians off these lands which they
 have had from lime immemorlal. Here
 IS our superintendent of schools; he IS trying to do just what we talk d of two years ago. He sees if clearly; he sees
 what these schools are. He has A good
 deal of enthusiasm, and a good deal oi I hop4,s shlt--I- E--xuhen he comes 10 the ,l poInt that he will iGd he Is tied h every , direction. Take the interest of the school
 the agent has the appointmentof the teach. : CT as an inducement to take the position of agent. Our government is so poor Il , can't pay, but tie agent puts his wife ol
 daughter or friend IF as teacher, and the : school helps out the salary. think the time has come when we should take the
 ground that we should regard the Indian
 as God regards him, and give him his , rights and mans opportunities in this country when we have done so the In } dian problem will take care of itself in z ) short time"