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Show THE INDIANS. Senator Morrill's resolution, to appropriate ap-propriate fifty thousand debars to pny the expenses of the Indian delegation's visit to Washington, and give them presents, has passed the Senate Had the treaty stipulations been faituiu.iy carried out with them, less than double this amount would have obviated the necessity of any such d-. legation visiting visit-ing Washington, ua-1 would most likely have pieseive-i good feelings among the I'ako'ah Indians. They are not such fools, but if they would cct more from Government for their lands than they could make by robbing and murdering desultory emigrants, or making incar.-ion on weak settls-niems, settls-niems, they would take it. But when they see their hunting grounds broken into, then-elves removed, arm the white man taking pos-Ossion while they do nut receive the stipulated price fjr wb-it they have Given up, their savage and predatory natures have the ascendant, and innocent men and women sulTer. Ited Cloud doesn't feel well. He thinks there will be trouble, and Hod Cloud knows that if he thinks so it will be. There is every likelihood of more Indian war, and the settlements of Wyoiirns and Dakota feelin? the violence of the Indian's savnin nature. Wise policy could have avoided it. |