Show ti THE HOUSE committee on Indian I t j affairs have at Iset hit upon a mea I ure which squint at getting at one ii part of the Indian question in the iL h proper way A bill has been arranged which provides for the punishment of crimes committed ou Indian reservations reser-vations exlendine the criminal laws it state and territorial over the reservations S ervations and giving the district courts original jurisdiction So long ai the government treats the ludian S al if they were a foreign and hostile 5 r nation thera will bo trouble but S T when the aborigines are made to S understand that thoy will be subjected sub-jected to the laws of the land fewer offenses will be committed by them S They have got to come to this sooner or later and the quicker the change S is mode tho better I |