The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-12-04

well as he did, for General Miles
bad told the public the Indians
had been made hostile and preferred to
die fighting than 10 die of starvation.
These red men could enter the field with
600 fighting men well armed, and with
the advantage Of a knowledge OF the
country could fight {. .0ooo Of the best Ameri'
can troops on terms Of equality. He
asked the senator from Massachusetts TO
state whether these Indians had enough
10 eat; whether Miles was right or wrong,
and whether the Indians were being
starved into belligerency.
Dawes said the great difficulty in deal
ing with those 5000 Indians who are re-
bellious is that they have nothing 20 eat
They are away from their teepes. They
belong 10 that class Of Indians who never
did days work in their lives.
Pierce Of North Dakota, said he
had sometimes wondered why the
white people in that region did
not themselves go on the war.
path bee use they were hungry. The In
dams seemed 10 get noble as well as
hungry the farther people got away from
them. He PIERCE lived within a few
miles OF the great Sioux reservation. He
had been there for the past two months
and this was the first time he had heard
ii asserted that the Indian was on the
warpath because he was hungw. He saw
Indians every day in the town where he
lived and they were sleeker and better
fed-apparently-t than the Senators from
Indiana. lLaughterl.
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the agencies there are Indians who COM
plain Of insufficient food. But he ques-
lioned very much whether General Miles
made the statement attributed 10 him in
the newspapers. The trouble with the
Indians is that they are fed and clothed
and allowed TO live OH the bounty Of the
government. aud "the devil finds mischief
still for idle hands TO do"
Voorhees, said he would take the state
ment Of General Miles far sooner than
that of the senator who lived near the
wanted to get the Indian lands as soon as
possible. One was a reliable officer, the
other was the fox, lying around the pen
where geese were, waiting 10 get some OF
them.
The discussion had not closed when AT
3 O'Clock, the yice-president laid before
the senate as unfinished business, the
elections bill. Turpie took the floor IN OPP
position. The substitute measure. he said,
rested for its support on what was called
the suppressed colored republican vote in
the South. In the course of his remarks
he said that in the Northern states, where
all this outcry was made, colored men had
had no more chance of preferment than
Roman Catholic had in New Hampshire a
hundred years ago. The suppression of
the colored vote in the South was the thing
manifestly in question affirmed on the
one side and denied on the other; but the
suppression OF the colored voter in the
North was thing without question-ac-
tual, absolute, unconditional. The SUI
premacy Of the white race was not pecti-
liar 10 any portion Of the United States.
South Carolina was not more completely
under its sway than Pennsylvania. The
man ESPECIALLY the man Of the White
House,, who sought TO embroil the
white man and black races for
purpose he could not conceal
and dare not avow was guilty of an out
rage tenfold greater than any of those he
had invented or described. Wherever
people Of different races were living
peacefully together under the same laws,
members of the same body polite with
out any other thought than that some
must command and others obey, the race
problem was being solved. The purpose
of the national election bill, was, SO far as
1t is related to the south, 10 wreck and de-
siroy this pending condition Of inter-
racial adjustment. Ii proposed not to
maintain the will of the majority but to
overthrow it on the single issue Of
race, TO make majority
OF black men, because they are black; TO
establish a government of complexion.
not Of opinion. The purpose of the bill
was that the law of the land must be
suborned 10 set enmIty between the white
man and black man. Pass this bill anL
the right OF the people TO chose their rep
resentatives, that right so precious and
priceless To every lover Of liberty,was lost
beyond recovery.
Al the conclusion Of his speech Turpie
received the congratulation of his demo-
cratic colleagues and the senate adj
journed.
The democratic senator's. at a caucus
this afternoon, decided to maintain op-
position TO the elections bill; seize every
opportunity TO discuss il eNhaustively and
strive TO amend every Objectionable fea-
true as reached in the detailed considera-
ton Of the measure. The caucus did not
undertake TO formulate an order of busi-
ness. as the republican senators have not
yet completed their programme.