The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-26
THE SOUTHERN UTES
Four Members of the House
Indian Committee
OPPOSE THEIR REMOVAL TO UTPH
1t is Against the Policy OF the G ern p-nt-
1t Would Place Burden o. Utah
Merely for ColOradO's Benefit.
HERALD BUREAU,
Cor. 18th and G Streets, N. w.
WASHINGTON. d. c.. April %.


Four members of the House committee
on Indian affairs have agreed to minority
report against the removal of the Colorado
Utes to Utah. The report was written by
Mr.. Lynch, of Wisconsin. 1t would have
been presented to the full committee at
their meeting to-day but for the fact that
Mr.. Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, who is one
of those who dissent from the views of the
majority, is absent and could not sign it.
1t will be presented to the full committee
on Thursday and it will bear the signatures
! OF Messrs. Lynch, of Wisconsin; Allen, of
Mississippi; Hopkins, of Pennsylvania,
| and Brownley. of South Carolina. Through
the courtesy of Mr.. Lynch 1 was to-day
furnished with an advance copy of the re-
ports. 1t reads as follows:
1--WE object to the removal of the south
can Utes from Colorado into Utah, as pro-
posed, as this removal is not necessary in
order to secure them land suitable for
their future use, as they have an abund-
ance of both agricultural and grazing land.
Their removal from agricultural to wild
grazing lands with roaming privileges over
large hunting ranges is at variance with
| the sound policy of the government with
reference to settling Indians on lands in
severalty, and would indefinitely postpone
| any hopeful effort for their civilization 1t
| would impose upon settlers on or near the
! reservation against their will, the burden OF
which it is the object of this removal to
free those who live ON the border of their
present home, thus imposing an injustice
| upon the one that the other may be re-
lieved OF burden of which they cannot
justly complain. 1t would be against the
protest of Utah, take three mil
lion of her territory for occu-
patton, and three million more
for roaming and hunting privileges,
that Colorado may open 1,OUO, COS to white
citizens, proposed injustice the more fla
! grant because repetition of that inflicted
a few years since when the other bands of
the confederated Utes were forced upon
| Utah for the relief of Colorado To do
| this injustice TO Utah, inflicting grievous
wrong upon these settlers, abandon our
policy OF civilization and remit these
wards Of the nation to hopeless barbarism
will close for the present arrangements for
| their future control and support 4 large
expenditure of money from the treasury,
amounting to several hundred thousand
| dollars. The bill we offer as a substitute
| provides simply that our treaty obligations
shall be fulfilled and which will not require
more than 10000 acres Of their present
reservation and open up the remainder to
| SSttI5uSuG uHU6E PROVISION WHICH Will
secure an ample civilization fund without
the expense of a single dollar to the gov
eminent. We fully agree with the com
missioner of indian affairs, who says IN his
report to the Hon. secretary of the inte-
rior:
LAS result of my investigation 1 feel
constrained to say that 1 cannot approve
the ratification of the proposed agreement,
for the following reasons:
"1-F'rom an examination of the records
of the various councils held with tho In
dams by commissioners it does not seem 10
me that the agreement reached fairly rep
resents the real wishes of the Utes; that
their consent was reluctantly given and
under stress of such considerations as ap-
peals strongly TO their fears and very
largely to their preiudices against a civil
lied life.
'2-The progress already made by these
Indians in civilization viii be rudely in
terrupted by the removal, anu they viii be
placed amid surroundings much more
hostile to their progress IN learning the
white mans ways than those amid which
they are not situated.
''3-It will be exceedingly difficult or i'm
possible for the government to carry out
the agreement made with the Indians to
protect them from the intrusions Of white
men in the new reservation"