St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-19
The AFRICAN IN The PILE.
Senator Dawes Is Not Earning Popular
ity Near the Sioux Reservation.
SLEEK LOOKING VISITORS
TO the Indian Chiefs Represented the
Railroad and Cattle Range
People.
Special to The Globe.

CDcCidl 10 the
PIERRE, Dak., Jan. 1S.-The people
of Pierre are aware from the Washing
ton dispatches printed in the GLOBE
and information obtained by private adj
vices that that they are to encounter the
active opposition of Senator Dawes in
the pending bill opening up the Sioux
reservation without the Indians con-
sent. They have known from long
and varied experience in this very mat
ter that the Massachusetts senator has
stood i'll the way of any measure that
did not come up to his standard of ideas
and the crank Indian Rights associa-
ton he represents in the treatment and
government of the Indian question, and
any plan that does not
FIT INTO THE GROOVE
he has made meets with his decided and
unyielding opposition in every case. In
fact. if Dawes had stood down and out,
none doubt but that his reservation
business would have been satisfactorily
accomplished years ago, and the North
west now be in the enjoyment of the
prosperity that would naturally ensue.
Like the dog in the manger. whom
Dawes seems striving to emulate, he
has obStructed and defeated any plan
for the opening Of the great Sioux from
time to time, and it was only by, it
seems to some, the closest shave that
his opposition unbended sufficiently to
allow the bill of the last congress to be-
come law. The inhabitants of Pierre.
in common with the people of the Black
Hills. and ali the region to be benefited
in the case, are finally growing ineffibly
TIRED OF MIR. DAWES,
his hypocritical methods and Juggling
ways of dealing with their interests,
but they can see no way out of the trap.
He seems to have them on the hip, and
though they should secure the passage
through the house of 10000 bills OPEN
ing up this reservation to settlement. if
they did not fit to a nicely with the
views held by Dawes he could kill them
without an effort by the power he holds
in the senate committee on Indian af-
fairs. Ii. as the advices state. it should
be true that Dawes has developed his
opposition to the present Dawes bill
that is on fair way to passage in the
house, the people here may we'll COM
pose themselves for other
YEARS OF WEARY WAIT,
and eXclaim. "How long, oh Lord, how
long?" For nothing will ever bring
them deliverance except it be that
Dawes is relegated to the celestial king
dom or some remote turn of events
should deprive him of his job in Uncle
Sans house of lords. The report of
the late Sioux commission unearths
and gives clue to different causes for
the defeat of the last bill, other than
the cranky notions of Dawes, the In
dian Rights association ct al Last
summer, while the commission was
making its first efforts at Standing
Rock, an officer from Pierre went over
to the Cheyenne agency to make an ar
rest, and while there learned Of the
presence of several
SLEEK PERSONAGES.
in the different camps contingent to the
agency, and that they seemed to have
no other ostensble business i'm hand
than to talk up the reservation bill, ex-,
plain its defects and incite whatever OPP
position they could to 1t. Most of their
business seemed to be done with the
different chiefs, and the belief became
generally prevalent that they were
hired emisSaries of certain railroad COM
panieS whose names have since APP
peared in the commissions report in re-
lation to this very matter. The same
report was brought from the Rosebud
and Pine Ridge agencies at about the
same time, though in these cases it was
claimed that the strangers seemed to be
cooperating
WITH CATTLEMEN
who herded over the reservation there
abouts, and it now confirms the words
of the Sioux commissioners report that
the railroad companies acted in the
same relation as the colored gentleman
in the wood-ple to the opening of the
reservation. From such opposition as
Dawes aud the railroads referred to
Pierre and her neighbors can have no
redress, and only hopes that time will
set things straight. But. nevertheless,
with a representative regularly in
Washington to stir it up each year.
Pierre yet hopes to see the Indian res
ervation matter placed out of the fogy
reach of Dawes and put in the hands of
those who will view it in the latter-day
light.