Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1900-08-10

and esp0used the
image and support
r. Bryan.
costing 500. 900 is entirely the result
Df legislation procured by him.
The Indian Insane Asylum to be
built this year at Canton. at cost of
t85. 900 was authorized by congress
his unaided efforts and in the
face of opposition Of the interior de-
partment.
He secured 4 5000, 900 public building
at Sioux Falls.
All the money ever expended for the
Improvement of the Missouri river in
South Dakota was procured BY him.
All the money set apart for surveys
in South Dakota by the general govern
ment during the past six years was
appropriated at his instance.
He secured the ratification of agree.
ments to open the Sisseton and Wahpe-
ton Indian reservation, the Yankton
reservation and portions of the Great
Sioux reservation.
Afterwards the Interior Department
ruled that settlers on the ceded Sioux
lands must pay $1.35 an acre addition
to the Indian price before they could
prove up. He secured legislation
which abrogated this ruling and gave
the land to the settlers for the Indian
price alone.
He passed a bill administering and
preserving the Black Bills forest Ieser
vation in. South Dakota; also hill
allowing settlers who had already
located on land in that reservation tc
prove'np under the homestead oct.
He passed a bill giving the Nashville
N. E. church 40 acres Of public land fol
church and cemetery purposes.
Hs hss secured numerous appropri
ations for sinking artesian wells or
Indian reservations in South Dakota
thus fixing the boundaries of the
.artesian basin at the expense of the
federal government.
He caused government geological ex-
perts to investigate the South Dakota
ar,ssisn basin and publish their report
thereon making a valuable contribution
10 the geological information of the
west.
Secured appropriation for the publ
cation Of volume on the climatic con-
ditions of the two Dakotas.
He looked up all the treaties and
agreements between the general govern
ment and the various Indian tribes of
South Dako,a and secured appropri-
alton provided therein which the Eov-
ernment had before refused to pay the
Indiana, These appropriations were
largely for the construction of school
aad agency buildings on the various
reservations
He also secured to the Yankton
Indians their title to the Pipestone
quarries in Miunssota.
{ For the Lower Brule Sioux Indians
he secured legislation allowing them
70 return to their homes north Of
White river. and then procured legis-
lation opening their former reservation
south of White river to white settle
ment, thus releasing from Indian con-
troll 14S. 900 acres of land
Four times he has passed through the
senate bills for a public building in
Deadwood. and now has q bill with
that object in view pending in the
house.
Four times he has passed through the
senate bills for a National Soldlers'
Home at Hot Springs, s. D., and now
has bill of that character pending in
the house
His bill granting free homes to
settlers on ceded Indian lands has
passed the senate three times He has
prepared most Of the reports and other
literature on this subject and has kept
alive the agitation which has finv
given free homes to those settlers. n
He has csused to be enacted sEeI -
ous private bills in behalf 4fers. q
Dakota people and among II four
number of pension bills fthe pen
He has, all the whilsd pensions
hundred pension c1a multitrde
sion bureau and = =
through this edt . part Of the t
Of ex-soldierlAs which Senator