Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-08-09

arose with cheers aud whoops and
yells Of determination. An inkling Of
the decision Of the Indians reached
the ears Of the commissioners and this
the impotence OF the reds
became so apparent that IL was
deemed advisable to hold n conference
to-day instead Of tomorrow, Gs they
had Intended. After calling the con-
ference to order the commissioners
again warned the Indians Of what
would follow their refusal to sign and
Informed them tia, unless they nc-
cepted this treaty their lands might
be taken from them without giving
them cent for them. But the speeches
OF the commissioners
HAD no EFFECT
and when John Grsss and Mad Bear
replied, 1t was evident that the climax
had been reached. When Grass closed
his speech by calling upon the indians
to disperse and lesye the agency, q
grand break was made and but for the
action of Agent Mclaughlin the com
mission would not have been given a
chance to adjourn, AS it was the In.
disns remained long enough TO hear
that the conference would now be ad-
journed indefinitely; thstt the commits
sioners would leave for other agencies,
and that after the other tribes had
taken action, Standing Rock would
again be visited.
The commissioners will go from
here TO the Cheyenne agency, where
it is supposed the friendly Indians re :
side. They leave here after sixteen
days work without the signature OF
an Indian and with certain defeat be.
fore them. 1t Is believed by many
that the Cheyenne Indians are ready
to sign, but reports from there to the
Indians at this agency are TO the con-
trary. Sitting Bull, Gall, John Grass
and Mad Bear are jubilsnt over their
victory ana big feast will be the re-
suit.
WHAT THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE
THISKs.
NEW YORK. Aug. I'm regard to
the peculiar manner in which the
commissioners are trying to gain the
consent" of three-fourtbs of the In
dians at Standing Rock agency to the
surrender of a large portion OF their
reservation the Tribune says.
What the commissioners are now
doing is only too apparent. They ar,
trying to bulldoze the Indians, ttyinl
to intimidste them TO consent to tn,
treaty, and what is worse than all ly-
ing to do this. " alleging the dis hon
esty and perfidy of their own govern.
ment. The Sioux are falsely told thai
they must not rely upon the good
faith OF congress nor believe that il
will keep its engagements and IN the
same breath they are chidden because
they suspect the sincerity Of the gov
ernment in its purposes of payment
for the land. Surely synicism car
hardly go beyond the exhibition thes,
commissioners are now making a
Standing Rock. This is their idea o
negotiating treaty"-to threateI
the other party with high-nandeC
confiscatioD of their lands il they re
fuse TO cell them for less than they be-
lieye them TO be worth. to govern
ment whose good faith they have al
ready had q score OF reasons TO DOUBT
We are compelled to repeat what ",
have said before, that most bruta
aud reck less seisure Of Indian land,
would be lees discreditable than tn,
methods at present being employed
II the country is not again 10 be dis
graced 10y the immortality aud base.
ness OF its Indian policy the commits
sioners at Standing Rock must be in
structed TO suspend their bulldozinI
tactics aud 10 tell the Indians tina
thy are free to decide the question 70
themselves. In q word, the countr
must compel congress to stand by II
own law; and the outrageous intim,
tion that unless the Sioux yield I
threats they will be plundered in col
blood by the people in the Unite
States must be repudiated and rebuke
emphatically.