| Show THE YOKE OF PEACE i Manderson Would Give the Indi I ans Oxen in Place ot Ponies I I A INTERESTING DISCUSSION I the Senate in Regard to the Governments Policy Towards the Indiana Cause of the Present Alarm I WASHINGTON D C Dec 3Special telegram to TIE HERALD Senator Man derson of Nebraska will urge on Congress the advisability of the government furnishing furnish-ing the Indians oxen in future instead of ponies Said he today An Indian cannot can-not fight very much if mounted on an ox but he can plow 1 all he wants to Vo have oeen giving these Indians ponies for farm work while they have never used them except as saddle animals The oxen idea is a good one for an Indian afoot is not much of a fighter The disarmament and dismounting of the fractious tribes is necessary and should bo accomplished at once I have firmly believed that we could not possibly get through this generation without an Indian struggle At Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies four years ago the impression was made indelible that the men who fought Ouster are still active and bloodyminded as ever I saw them dance They showed us in pantomime a most expressive pantomime for they are the best natural actors in the world how they attacked at-tacked and killed and scalped those gallant soldiers whom they ambuscaded in the Little Big Horn mountains All around and eagerly drinking in the horrible inspiration inspir-ation were large numbers of young bucks every one of whom will fe2l himself as nothing until he has taken a scalp An Indian In-dian believes his highest mission to be the killing ferred of a fellow being white men pre In the Senate WASHINGTON Dec 8la presenting a petition for an amendment to the tariff Dill in relation to the rebate on5 manu factured tobacco Allison said the conferees on the part of both houses agreed to that section of the bill but that it had been omitted in the enrollment He had no doubt the matter would receive early attention at-tention Cullom introduced a bill to reduce letter postage t 1 cent Hawley from the committee on military affairs reported and asked to have put upon its passage ajointresolution authorizing authoriz-ing the secretary of war to issue arms and ammunition to the states of North and South Dakota Manderson moved to include the state of Nebraska Voorhees said if tho proposition were one to issue 100000 rations of food to the starving starv-ing Indians it would be more consistent with Christian civilization Ho referred t the statement of General Miles in a published pub-lished interview that tie Indians were driven to revolt by starvation and said it was a crime on the part of the government to stand by and do nothing except furnish arms to the whites The Indians had been suffering for years in silence There was I blood guiltiness somewhere in connection I with it The hostilities into which the Indians in thenorthwest are being starved would result not merely in the destruction destruc-tion of the lives of many Indians but the lives of thousands of American citizens and hundreds of American i Ameri-can soldiers That condition of things I had been brought about by a niggardly parsimonious or dishonest policy He knew what policy had been pursued to take the lands of the Indians and not pay enough for them to keep the Indians from starving when dispossessed of their homes Hawley spoke briefly saying ho had no objection to the remarks ofthe Senator from Indiana except they were perhaps a little exaggerated Dawes chairman of the committee on Indian affairs very much doubted i the shortness of food was the origin of the trouble or a supply of food would be the cure for it The difficulty with the Indian service all along had been a constant change of policy Heretofore for years it had been impressed im-pressed upon Congress that the best way to treat the Indian was to starve him into selfsupport Root hog or die had been the phrase put over the door of those who administered the affairs of the Indians and the policy had been u cut down year by year the rations required by treaties and give notice to the Indians that next year they were only to have so much the difference to be supplied by the labor of their own hands He thought well to hold out every inducement to the Indians to turn from dependence on the government rations and supply their own support and that it was well to resort to all devices within the limits of justice and reason to induce them to do it As to the suggestion in the public press that the government had failed to keep its promises made to the Indians by the Sioux commission etc he said the commission had made all sorts of stipuiations with the Indians One of them was written out in plain language and enacted into a law by Congress and that stipulation the commission com-mission had taken out to the Indians and asked them to accept it The Indians had had cause of complaint because of the non fulfillment of other agreements and the commission told them it had no authority a to those matters but that it would use its influence with the government in this case When the Indian representatives came to Washington with the commission commis-sion a full discussion was had and an agreement embodied in the bill which was submitted to Congress by the President Presi-dent The bill thus framed to the complete satisfaction of the Indians passed the Senate Sen-ate but where it was now he did notknow He knew however the skirts of the executive I execu-tive and of the Senate were clear of anv attempt to depart one iota from tho assurances assur-ances given t the Indians by the commission commis-sion He Dawes saw the Indian troubles with full apprehension of the danger and of the necessity of some present relief to bring around composure among the Indiana 1 In-diana and extricate them from the lead of such bad Indians as Sitting Bull and Red Cloud who were the bane and curse of I the tribes Voorhees repelled the feeble attempt at a sneer on the part of Dawes and said the latter knew the situation just as well as he did for General Miles had told the public the Indians hud been made hostile and preferred pre-ferred to die fighting than die of starvation starva-tion These red men could enter the field with 6000 fighting men well armed and with the advantage of a knowledge of the country could fight 6000 of tho best American troops on terms of equality He asked the Senator from Massachusetts to state whether these Indians had enough to cat whether Miles was right or wrong and whether the Indians were being starved into beliger ancy Dawes said the great difficulty in dealing deal-ing with those 6000 Indians who are rebellions rebel-lions i that they have nothing to eat They are away from their tepees they belong to that class of Indians who never did a days work in their UVQS Pierce of North Dakota said he had sometimes wondered the white people in that region did not themselves go on the warpathbecause they were hungry The Indians seemed to got noble zz well as II h < < hungry the further people got away from them Ho Pierce lived within a few miles of the great Sioux reservation He had been there for the last two months and this was the first time tme he had heard it asserted the Indian In-dian was on the warpath because he was hungry He saw Indians every day in the town where he lived and they were sleeker and better fed apparently than the Senator from Indiana Laughter Ho had no doubt but that in some of the agencies there are Indians who complain of insufllciant food But he questioned very much whether General Miles made the statement attributed to him in the newspapers news-papers The trouble with the Indians is they are fed and clothed and allowed to live on the bounty of the government and to lthe do devil finds mischielstill for idle hands Voorhees said ho would take the statement state-ment of General Miles far sooner than that of the Senator WhO lived near the reservation reserva-tion and who with his people wanted to get the Indians land as soon as possible One was a reliable officer the other was the fox lying around the pen where the geese were waiting to get some of them The discussion had not closed when at 3 oclocktho VicePresident laid before the Senate as unfinishedbusiness the election bill jurpie too tne noor in opposition xnu I substitute measure he sate rested for its support on what was called the suppressed colored Republican vote in the south In the course of his remarks ho said in the remaris northern states where all this outcry was made the colored men had no more chance of preferment than a Roman Catholic had in New Hampshire I hundred years ago The suppression of the colored vote in ho south was the thing manifestly in question affirmed on tho one side and denied un the other but the suppression of the colored votr of the north was a thing without question actual absolute unconditional The supremacy su-premacy ot the white race was not peculiar to any portion of the United States South Carolina was not more completely under its sway than Pennsylvania The man especially the man of the White House who sought emoroil the white man and black races for I purpose ho could not conceal con-ceal and dare not avow was guilty of an outrage tenfold greater than any of those ho invented or described Whenever people of different races were living peacefully peace-fully together under the same laws members mem-bers ot the same body politic without any other thought than that some must command and others obey the race problem was being solved The purpose of the national election bill was so far as it related to the south to wreck and destroy this pending condition of intersocml adjustment I proposed not to maintain the will of the majority but to overthrow it on the single issue of race and to make a majority of black men because they are black to establish a government of complexion not of opinion The purpose pur-pose of tho bill was that the law of the land must bo suborned tosetup enmity between the white manand lack man Pass this bill and the right of the people to choose their representatives that right so precious and priceless to every lover of liberty was lost beyond recovery At the conclusion 6f his speech Turpie received the congratulations of his Democratic Demo-cratic colleagues and the Senate adjourned The Democratic Senators at a caucus this afternoon decided to maintain afernoon maintin opposition opposi-tion to the elections bill seize bi every opportunity oppor-tunity to discuss it exhaustively and strive to amend every objectionable feature as reached in detailed consideration of the measure Tne caucus did not undertake to formulate an order of business as the Republican Senators baVe not yet completed com-pleted their protaamme f |
