The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-04

snser on the part of Dawes. and said the
latter knew isis sis~aGio1 lasE as well 80 hs
did, for General Miles, had toId the pabsic
tnsS The inai2ns bad been made Hostile.
ard preferred 10 die sighting taan die os
Starvation. Inese red nsen co1li enter the
heia ~lfa GOO aghtia- men. vel armed
and with tFs adv sn-aze 0s = knozlessxe
os the couhtTy. and could 6ghi $3.50 OF
the best American troops on the terms os
s9ESli.y- BE q sss the ssr a10r from Mas
sachnseffs 70 ssz'e hefass these Indians
had eisOngn 10 81 whether Miles vas
Fight or Sreng. and xb@lber the Indians
were h@sEg ststv.~3 sas0 bt8IigArencv.
Dawes ssT6 NJ Erees diEBcuitv in dealing
wItn ibos4 $50 indians. e no are rebel
ilGnS- - tnaa shsy have nothing 70 eat.
They are aEsy tFonB :hss- tepees They
beioEg 10 tsEs class % fs-GIaus who never
0lss days xork E1 tasir sfsez
EPssree - Nsstz DakDss ssi1 ne had some
tines so-dsYsa w1sy tie white people in
thai REGION aid not Fh=rnsesv-s 70 on the
w&rDash because fne~ wsre hungry. Tne
Iuoisns seemed TO get nonae as vel as
hungry. the iu-ihsr peorse gos away from
them. He tFierceg lived xiinin q few
miles OF the great SOAK rsa<rvation- He
bad been snere for the iss4 txo months
and This xAs ire fi-si f;Fue ne had heard IL
asserted that the Indian wss on the war
pa1h because ne - as hungrv He say the
Indians eve-v ssy N the sawn where be
lived. and tbes rere SEEKER ard better fed
sppa-ensly taan ihe senator from Indiana
Laughter He had no don5i ihAfin some
OF the agencies there were Indians who
complain oi insufficient food but he quss-
toned very mucn whether General Mises
msGe the statement ast-ib1feS TO hi1 in
the nex s.&pers- The t-onfle with the In
disns was that they are fed ana clothed and
allowed 10 i've on the Oou8ry OF the gov
erDmens- and .'sbe oevli fnas mischief
siiii for idle snds 70 90. /"
voorhees, said he wonid take the state
msnt Of General Niles far sooner than that
OF the senator who lised near tue reserva-
ton. and VINO, with his people. wanted 70
ges the lndlAEs lands soon ss possible.
One was reiiabse officer: the other was
the fox lying around sne pen where the
geese we're, waiting 20 get some of them.
The discussion had not closed when, a.
O'Clock, tie vice president laid before the
Senate as unfinished business the elections
bill Turp:e took the floor in opposition
The measure. he said. rested for It's support
Oh what vas called the suppressed coiored
Republican vote in the South In
the corrse of his remarks. be said
that in the Northern states
where all this oatcry was made
the colored men had no more
OF chance OF prefernsnt than
Roman Catholic had in Ser Hampshire
100 years ago. The suppression Of the COD
ored vote in she South WIS Q thing mani
fesily IN question. affirmed on one side and
denied On the other; bus the suppression
of the coiored vote OF the North was
thing without question. actual. absolute,
unconditional. The supremacy of the white
race Vas not peculiar 10 any portion OF shs
United States south Carolina was not
more completely under It's sway than Penn
sylyaniA The man Especially the man OF
the White House, -no sought 70 embro1
the white man and the hssck race for o
purpose ne could not conceal, and dared
rot aFow. ras guilty Of a. outrage tenfold
greater Than any Of those he had invented
or described Wherever people Of
different races we're living peacefuily
together with the same laws, memhers Of
the same body -polisic. withoui any oshsr
thought than that some mEst csmmand
and others obey. the race problem was
being solved The purpose OF the national
election biii wss. so far &c Il related 20 tbs
Soash. 10 wreck and destroy tnis pe1ding
condition OF intsr-rscizs Adjustment Il
proposed. not 80 maintain tie viii a the
majority, bus 10 ovsrthrow il On the SIM
PIE issue OF race; 10 make . majority Of the
black men because they are black; 10 es-
saoaish q government Of complexion. not Of
opinion The purpose OF the bill was thai
the law of the land must De suoorned 10
SET ennity between the white man and the
black man. Pass this bill. and the right Of
the people 70 choose their representatives.
that tight 50 precious and priceless 70
every lover OF liberty, Was lost beyond re-
e0vsry-
AT The conclusion OF his speech Turpie
received the congratulations OF mis- Demo-
cratic colleagues, and the Senate than ad-
iO-rreG