The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-10
STANLEY GETS GOOD POSITION.
President viii Appoint Him Member
of Dawes Commission,

Sundays Kansas City Star contained
the following dispatch from Washington:
Ex-Governor w. f. Stanley of Wichita,
Kansas. vii succeed the late ex-senator
Dawes on the commission TO the five civ
flied tribes. The Office pays salary of
s.. 900 a year. The commission is expected
to wind up the affairs of the five civilized
tribes and pave the way for either state
hood or a territorial form of government
for the Indian territory.
Chester |. Long the senator elect from
Kansas. secured the office for Mr.. Stan
ley 1t is the reward paid the ex-governor
for Withdrawing from the senatorial fight
and throwing his support to Long. The
appointment. coming il does, is abso-
lutte proof that the President was interest
ed in the election Of Long to the extent
of helping him solve the Kansas deadlock
When Stanley withdrew from the fight
the suspicion that he was in the contest
to help Long became almost a conviction.
What the bargain was no one pretended
to know. 1t was not known how far the
president would go.
MIR. longs refusal to promote the can
didacy o. Harris for place on the 18TH
milan canal commission gave rise to the
rumor that the senator-elect had Stan
ley in mind for this office. Mr. Long pos
itively denied this rumor, but stated at
the time that he had obligations to meet
which he intended to carry out. Imme-
diately upon the announcement of the
oeath of ex-senator Dawes, Mr.. Long
laid siege to the president and asked for
the place for Stanley. The influence of
the senator-elect at the white house is
shown when it is known that the place
was held by a Massachusetts man and
that Lodge and practically the entire
New England delegation was urging the
selection of a New England candidate for
the place.
The commission was the original crea-
ton of Mr.. Dawes while a senator and
chairman of the committee on Indian af-
fairs. The commission was created in
1893. with five members. and since has
been officially known as the Dawes COM
mission. The appointment of Mr.. Dawes
as chairman was from the first Satisfac-
tory to the New England settlement
which has always taken a profound in
terest in the Indians With Mr. Dawes
as head of the commission the east felt
confident that the interests of the In
dams would be well guarded and the ra-
pacity of the whites checkmated. MIR.
Stanley goes on the commission as a sec
ond edition of Dawes. MIR. Long pointe
out that Stanley was n church member
of the most intense mold. He told the
president all about Stanley's Sunday
school record. The watchful care Stanley
exercised over the eleemosynary institu-
tions of the state and his profound inter-
est in state charities were set forth with
minute detail. The result is Stanley will
get the job.
Mr.. Burton called at the white house
this morning and expressed his willing
ness to have Stanley so to Muskogee.
That means there viii be no trouble about
combinations and the compact Long
made in Topeka win glide through with
out hitch. Fully million dollars has
been spent by the Dawes commission
since its creation ten years ago. For sew
eral years ex-senator Dawes has done
little Of the work of the commission.
Governor Stanley is expected to take an
active part in winding up the allotment
OF the Indian land. Tams Bixby OF Min
nesota has ben acting chairman Of the
commission for several years. and ii is
thought he Will continue as its chairman
Other members Of the commission are c.
r. breckenridge Of Arkansas and T. B.
Needles of Illinois.
At the last session OF congress the num-
Der OF commissioners was reduced from
FIVE to four. Treaties with each OF the