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Show DEVOTED TO THE INDIANS. A Resolution by the Cowboys Be gardingr the Red Men. Si. Louis, November 27. At the cattle convention to-day, the Chair announced the following committee on national legislation: Judge Hubbell, New Mexico, chairman; Judge Carroll, Texas; N. M. Curtis, New ! York; H. J. Jannison, Pennsylvania; John L. Routt, Colorado; Justus Clark, Iowa, and C. H. Hardin, California. . Harry M.. Taylor, of .New Mexico intra ducedthe following:.. .' . Resolved, That it is the sense of the National Na-tional Cattle and Horse Growers' Association Associa-tion of the United States that the true policy of the general government is to BUT ALL OF THE RESERVATIONS Now occupied by the roving and uncivilized Indians of the United States, and to open up such lands to settlement; that each individual indi-vidual be granted 320 acres of land in the unoccupied section of the Indian Territory, to be paid for by the said individual and the proceeds to be devoted to the support of Indians In-dians and educating their children; that as Indians are the best armed people on the frontier, the law against the sale of firearms and munitions of war be more strictly enforced en-forced and the penalty for its violation be largely increased; that in our judgment the whole conduct of Indian affairs should be placed in the hands of the military department depart-ment of the United States. Mercer, of Wyoming, and Cameron, of Colorado, spoke strongly in favor of the resolution. res-olution. . Maddox, of Texas, asked that the matter be referred to the committee on resolutions, owing to the absence of General Porter, the champion of the Indians. He believed in giving the Indians the right hand of fellowship. W. H. KING, OF UTAH, Made a "strong plea, for the Indian, his speech being based upon broad philanthropic philanthrop-ic grounds. President Hunter suggested that Mr. King had never been corralled by the Indians and seen the hair of his friends raised. King replied that it was because the gentlemen gen-tlemen with whom he had associated had always treated the Indians fairly and well. Judge Carroll, of Texas, favored the resolution, reso-lution, but amended it so as to strike out the reference to the unoccupied portion of the Indian Territory. T. C. Callister, of Utah, opposed the resolutions reso-lutions on the ground that the Indian has rights which the white man is bound to respect. - H. M. Maddox, of Texas, went into details of the Indian raids, attributing their forays mainly to the dishonesty of Indian agents. Stewart, of Montana, favored the amendment amend-ment holding that there is no sense in taking tak-ing the Indians from the present reservations reserva-tions and locating them in the Indian Territory. Terri-tory. He spoke of the entire Northwest which is cursed by Indian reservations as large as the States. The Crow reservation : was cited as being 100 by 300 miles, inhabited inhab-ited by 1,000 ragamuffins, j WHO DOwNOTHING BUT STEAL From their neighbors. If the gentleman, from Texas will come up to the Northwest he will hear the cry that the white man wants a fair shake. Upon behalf of the Northwest the speaker demanded that the Indian be given his land in severalty and let him be dismounted and disarmed. Maddox by this time had undergone a change of feeling and moved the adoption of the amended resolution, which motion prevailed unanimously. Adjourned till to-morrow. to day's session. St. Louis, November 28. At the sixth session ses-sion of the Cattle Men and Horse Growers' Grow-ers' Association, the committee on conference con-ference with the committee from the Cattle Growers' Association of America reported, through Simpson, of Texas, the terms of consolidation as agreed upon at the joint meeting at Springfield, HI., held yesterday. The name of the association that is to be formed is to be "The Consolidated Cattle Growers' Association of the United States. The two existing associations shall meet at the same time at Chicago, on the second Monday of November, 1886, and proceed to the election of a president, tore e vice-presidents, a secretary and a treasurer, and an executive committee of fifteen. The report, with accompanying constitution and by-laws, was adopted. The election of officers for the National Cattle and Horse Grower's association for 1886 was then proceeded with: President General J. H. Brisbin, of Idaho, the General declined with thanks. Governor Routt, of Colorado, was elected President, - but declined, on the score that private business required his entire time and attention, T. Dewitt Smith, of Chicago, was made a member mem-ber of the association and elected unanimously unani-mously under a suspension of rules. |