St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-23
ONLY A LITTLE TIME
When the Commissioners Will Be
Named to Treat With the Sioux.

When the Commissioners Will Be
Named to Treat With the Sioux.
Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON, March 22.-The delay
in the matter of the selection of COM
missioners to treat with the BARBARA n
barrier Of aborigineS who bar the path
way of thrift is attributable rather to
stress of time than Indifference on the
part of President Harrison or his sec
rotary of the interior. 1t cannot be
said that Dakota's indefatigabie agent,
Col. John II. King, has been unmindful
of his duties, either. Although Col.
King is candidate for the most i'm
portant position of deputy commissioner
of Indian affairs, he has not allowed
the detrinent of public business. He
has daily called on the secretary, in COM
pany with other Dakotians, and has
twice seen the president concerning the
matter. He was at the interior depart
ment this afternoon with Maj. Picker
and Jim Mcdowell, of Highmore. Meet
ing him in the corridor, he responded
to inquiries for news by saying:
sit is looking brighter for us. Secre-
tary Noble is pushing his way through
an immense bulk of work. and will soon
reach our case and act upon it. He is
in earnest, and fully understands the
situation, and the need of early settle
ment of the pending appointments"
'Does he know that every day of de-
lay is dangerous?"
s'He has been fully advised He
knows considerable about Indian affairs
by experience. The squaw men and
cattle men are up to all manner of tricks,
and the secretary understands their
methods as we'll as we do. He will give
us commission at an early date, and
in plenty of time for them to obtain the
requisite signatures"
How does Senator Dawes feel about
this thing?'
He is thoroughly in sympathy with
us, and has done his best to secure
speedy appointment of the commission
erS. His views, as given in the GLOBE
last summer, seem to remain unchanged.
He would advise the Indians to accept
the terms now offered, lest they per-
chance may lose all opportunities to
benefit themselves. / think that Sen
ator Dawes understands, as fully as any
of us do, that the Sioux reservation
cannot long divide the eastern and
western portions of the sovereign state
of South Dakota, and that
THE INDIANS MUST GO,
no matter whether they accept the kind
and munifcent terms of the bill or
not"
'sDo you mean to say they will be
driven off regardless of law?'
II never said that But" and Mr..
King knowingly smiled. as he said: 81
think the Indians would consult their
own welfare and prosperity, as well for
posterity as for eXtant humanity, by ac-
cepting terms now offered to Them"
In other words, it is apparent to all
that the Sioux must, depart willy nilly.
Ever since 1862 they have been in the
way and under the feet of the progress
i've race. Old Minnesotians, who re-
member the butcherieS of the outbreak
of '62, feel that no Sioux Indian should
have been allowed to live. The horrors
of that massacre are still fresh in the
memories of thousands of readers of the
GLOBE, and many of them are now in
Dakota. The newcomers into the great
territory have not only read, but have
heard those tales of woe, and they do
| not look lovingly upon any individual
of the torturing, numbering, villainous
race. Under the benign influences of
national legislature with such chair
man of committee as Wellborn, the
Sioux have long held Dakota's fairest
acreage. But now that new state is
| beyond incubation and CESSATION, and
coming full-hedged into the world,
The sovereign suffragists will compel
the Indians to disappear as dew before
the morning sun into Infinite space. 1t
may not be known throughout the
] Northwest, but it is well understood