Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-16
THE SIOUX LAND QUESTION.
General Crooks Talks Freely on the
Subject.
SITTING BULL WOULDN'T SIGN.
He Ia no Warrior, Only n Medicine
Man and Pufred Up Old Fraud
Extra Session TaIk-The
speakership Race.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BRs,
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special from Oakland, Md, today, re-
ports that Major-General Crook arrived
there yesterday to Join Mrs, Crook aud that
he was ready TO talk about the Sioux aues.
tion. ~at' aD'
"Sttine Bull" said Genera, Crook,
"would not sign the treaty. He il too putfed
up with his own Importance tits WONDER
to me how so great fraud as Sitting B IL
could be made such hero or Why, q whito
woman from the east actually went out to
the reservation and proposed marriage TO
him, which he discreetly declined as he had
already several squaws who would probably
make 1t uncomfortable for her She Is not
the only woman, however, who has given
the fellow cause for his concert, for many
orders come for his photographs"
"But did he not really display great BRAY
cry IN the Custer fightl"
mo-" said the general, che showed 6ths
white feather ran away, ana afterwards got
all the glory among the white men. With
the Indians Sitting Bull has no reputation as
brave. BY them he is considered medi-,
cine man."
General Crook said he had done great
deal OF travelling since the 9TH Of May, when
he started for the Sioux reservation. He
says the Sioux reservation is as long as tho
state of Indiana, and is occupied by more
than Z, 800 Indians. Tho tract Is too large
for any practical purpose. They can not cul-
tivate it, and much Of IL lays in the lund OF
the Dakotas, a peculiarly rich section. !.
There are seven agencies which own the
reservation in common. What the govern
ment desired was that each agency should
take reduced reservation aud own IL inue-
pendently, and then sell the land lying be-
tween the seven reduced reservations to the
government at moderate price. The In
dians objected on the ground that If they
should sell part of the little land left them
4 b. AL n. ALL
General Crook is OF the opinion that the
Indians had been oribed not to SELL but by
whom he had no knowledge, but thought the
cattle men or railroad companies might have
had hand in it. =
AN rxrR, SESSION. 5s
T. 10 nov goner.,lv conce5ea a, ,,i e,,,a..
that thero will nn ~, ov,r" o., ,,
press Jt 10 hel;eved that tho ,,rnsidont w.
at last made nm bis mind oesni,eIy w c,ii ,ii
hoeh house. tognthnr n,, tha ams, ,,,,,,. w Si =.
Nnwemher TLesn ,,,h, ro,and - "SoA ~ ~
ins;ie ,vori,;,aS 81 ,hn nrpasiS,,, 20 W ;,M suo
the one thing ,ybicn tno5a nit, haaitata -
inng hsfora no,;n,, - ~ ,;asrita Ss,os's, ~
,vas tho nncartant5 w,h;ch am;staS az ~ tba
nnsition ,yb,cb n;1I, ha ,a, ~, s,,',. S *
the snnrhern rennhiicans ;n the ar2,ni,at;on nHu
of the house. There is no longer nnv donbt
on this score, if there ever was any at ALL
Each and every republican from the south
ern states has been heard from. Every man
among them has expressed his determiua-
tion to stand by the caucus and to vote for
the caucus nominee for the speakership.
THE spEAKrRsHIp oJrlooK. ,...
While tho ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, AZ o,,;nio, -,
:, ~ Iue plePoiuerancS Vi 'opthioh he.e
,.,nionah; 20 snao W neu e @ mas ,Its ioau ~ ING
puaa p, ~ V,e -. n1 Nus 30
49, CnS - .Ln go; w - w ~ NJ r n,s 80
Wy Mrcoi,Ion say that ,a y, w.. d,,,aIo
a ornat daoI 30 strsr ,h T.; ,,rauna,,oS p.',.
tars ,e.entiv ,nS that ,hara ~ ,,oS, .as.,
S, NJ poay5 ao az faan s' ,iu ,h, o.e fsaSon
- ~, WI NV, asoiu ;.'',.1 =" , Snan auy V.uer
Mior ie 5nos 81 .,, ssn v,aas
1vhether he ia e,ec,ed a. or not ana thst
in fact he would prefer to withdraw volnn.
tarily from the race rather than to
run the risk of defeat. McKinlsy undoubt-
edly expects that in the event of his failure
to secure the spealxership he will get the
chairmanship OF the committee on ways and
means, and there are many reasons why this
place would be more pleasing to him than
the first place. AS to the other positions,
there is nothing to be discovered a. vet. The
south will without doubt be given one of the
last. probably the speakership, not that this
Office is in itself more desirable than q clerk
ship or the position of sergeant-aturms but
there is more patronage attached to IL than
all the other places together. tf
THE coyTrsTED rIporIoN c.srs s
Tbere ia hardly chance that tba oo,
.,a,nS e,a,,i 10 a.S @ umanoo 1 ., Snat snG si
t Ss'eI 1i9c.,on Eases Eases Ga. po @ settieu ~ ~petore
~ .i 9;,i - .t ouU sin -. 'o .on,o ,.:
as nsuai. after that tho committea an rnies
has been named. By the time that the house
organizes the uplic printer will have ali
the papers and testimony in print, and moth
ing will prevent the early consideration of
the contests. But the democrats have al
ready announced their determination to fli-
buster, and unless there are radical changes
in the rules of procedure the flibusterers
will be enabled to prevent final action for
many weeks, and perhaps they may be able
to keep some oil the contests on the docket
during the entire session, IN spite OF the
extra days which VIII by gained by call
Tor the meeting OF congress In November.
HART uEsITATEs.
VIII. Hart of Frank fort. Ind. who was
RECENTLY offered the position of third auditor
of the treasury. after Mr.. Hurley DECLINED.
arrived in the city last night and visited the
third AUDITORS office to-day in company with
Congressman Cheadle. Mr.. Hart has not
yet made up his mind whether or not he will
accept the place, and will probably wait un-
Til the return OF the president and Treasurer
Mr.. Hart was canulnate Ior tne pension
agency at lhuiahhpoiis, anu nus reasons lor
heslatlhg 10 ACCEPT the place Wnlcn was
gwen MIN are purely or domestlo character.
he does not care partlcniarly Tor Ire IN
washington, ana hesltates apout bringing
MS iainlly mere. III he shali conclude 10 sou
aslue MS prelereuCo ior INC III lnuiaHa, NO