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And Live on Lands Allotted to
the Various Families In
Severalty.
The Rumor That Lamar and
Phillips Will Trade Places
Is Denied.
Mississippi River Memorial
The Dakota School Lands
Capital Notes.
Special to the Globe.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-Hon. II. +.
Pettigrew, who has just returned from a
meeting at All Souls Church of the
Woman's Indian improvement associa-
ton, says: There were present Hon.
s. w. Peel, chairman OF the Indian
affairs committee of the house, who pre-
sided at the meeting and made few re-
marks; Indian Superintendent of Schools
Armstrong, Senator Dawes, Knute Mel
son, o. s. Clifford, Indian Commits
sioner McMichael and many other
prominent gentlemen. Several In
dian boys from the Carlisle
school were present, one of them max
ing good speech in English. Remarks
were also made by Cutcheon, of Michi-
gan, and Mr.. Armstrong, whose speech
accorded with the best sentiment of the
West on the Indian question. He struck
the Keynote of the whole question of
Indian civilization when he said that
the ration system, that of feeding the
Indians without obliging them to per-
form any labor, must be broken up and
the Indian taught that he must work or
Starve, and in that way alone can he
become a civilized man. He has mental
capacity and the ability to become thor
oughly civilized if once taught that he
must earn his living by the sweat of his
brow. The reservation system is per-
nlciOus, productive of evil, and inst as
fast as possible they must he allotted
lands in severalty and taught the ways
of civilization. All the speeches were
in the same line of thought, and the
Dawes bill was
UNIVERSALLY INDORSED.
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for the Dawes bill than this meeting,
which was interesting, enthusiastic,and
aroused public sentiment right here
where it will do the most good for the
measure which is of such interest to
DakotianS. The committee on Indian
affairs of the house will hold another
meeting next Tuesday, and the Clifford
bill, which is similar to the Dawes bill,
Will be referred to a subcommittee en-
tirely friendly to the measure. 1t may
safely be predicted that Knute Nelson
will be one of the subcommittee, and
his good work hitherto for the opening
of the reservation foreshadOwS the kind
of work he will do in the capacity. In
my opinion the bill will pass, and the
people of Dakota, If it does pass, will
be indebted very largely to the earnest
and active. efforts of Mr.. Clifford, who has
looked after the matter with
close attention and has more
friends in the house of
representatives than any delegate that
ever represented the territory since the
days of Kidder. That includes Ray
mond. Bennett and myself. Senator
Dawes will secure the passage Of the
bill through the senate, and he has
made such notifications as make it a
better bill, both for the settlers and In
dians, than the bill which passed last
year. There is 10 question about it
passing the senate at an early day and
being reported to the house very soon,
and
THERE IS NO QUESTION
about its passing the house if it can Sc
cure consideration. Chairman Peel is a
thorough, practical Western man, thor
Oughiy understands the situation, needs
and wants of the Indians, and is COM
pletely in sympathy with the main feat
ures of the bill. The West is very for
tunate in having him at the head of that
committee. 1t seems to me that it is the
disposition of congress to protect the
interests of railroad companies which
haue surveyed lines across portions of
the reservation which is to be opened to
settlement, and give them the right of
way and necessary terminal facil-
lite. not in excess, however, of
that which is given them under
the general law over all lands belonging
to the government. and such provision
will undoubtedly be incorporated in the
bill. l notice the comments in the
Sioux Falls Argus concerning my re-
cent interview, and that able journal
suggests to me that the Springer bill
might be amended so as to make up a
good bill. In reply to that statement
would say that l have carefully exam
ined the Springer bill and can see no
way to make a good bill of it except to
strike out all after the enacting clause
and insert a bill to create the states of
North and South Dakota, and in that
way only can it be short of political
Jugglery and knavery, and l believe the
delegation coming here from Aberdeen
is composed of gentlemen CT such sense
and Judgment that, when they arrive,
they will make a bonfire of the me-
mortal and work hard for accomplishing
the result above Indicated"