Show THE COLORADO UTES I Many Protests Against Their Removal Re-moval tQ Utah Jtah TO HAKE IHDIAKS CITIZENS I A Bill Reported for that Pnrpose The Sisseton Lands were Opened Without Any Trouble I Pensions nnd Politics S IlERAID BUREAU Cor 15th and G Streets N W WASHINGTON D CM April 10 I wish there wero no Colorado Utes I am tired of hearing their name said Representative English of tho House Indian In-dian committee t me this morning Within the last week I have received at least a hundered letters protesting against their removal Cardinal Gibbons vas one i of the protestants and other clergymen of equnl prominence were also among the number I don see continued why any objection should be made to tho proposition propo-sition The Utcs want to go over to Utah and a good many of them are already there The Influences in Utah will be beneficial to i them and as wo propose reimbursing the white settlers in southeastern Utah I dont see why any objections should be mado by them The number of these white settlers i very few I mean the bona fide settlers who were there prior to the ratification of the treaty in 1SSS The bill as amended provides that all legal residents who had secured homes there prior to that year shall bo given a fair compensation com-pensation for whatever losses may be sustained sus-tained by them but no others This compensation com-pensation will be paid out of the Uto lands in Colorado and this ought to prevent any taxpayer from complaining of the expense not 1 penny of which is borne by the federal government while we have not disregarded dis-regarded the ritrhts of the whites We bio certainly been most liberal with tho Utes Such of the number as wish to remain re-main on their present reservation and take up lands in severally may do so without losing any part of their share in the general fund accruing from the sale of their Colorado land The report re-port on the bill is now being written by Mr Rem of Nebraska As the chairman of tho subcommittee having this matter in charge his report will be referred to me at our meeting next week It will be written S on the lines I have just outlined I it isnt I shall change it to correspond to my ideas I have no doubt the committee will i I generally favor the report and 1 think it not unlikely that the oil will pass the t House I dont know what they will do with it in the Senate but Mr Dawes the I chairman of the Senate committee is not I am told favorable to the removal and If S Mils is true its fate in the Senate i rather I incertaln J A Bill to Declare Indians Citizens WASHINGTON April 16A bill was reported re-ported favorably to the House today to declare all Indians citizens who have attended at-tended school ten years at the governments govern-ments expense provided they are twenty one years of age Peaceful Opnnin of the Sl seton Lands BBQWSS VALLET Minn April 16The opening of the Sisseton reservation so far as known was accomplished without a squatters row or any trouble of a serious character Any number of broken wheels smashed axles and bruised boomers after the scramble but on the whole the opening passed off without 1 contretemps A few minutes nefore 1 oclock the leaders in the townsite race arrived on tho chosen ground Tho first caro of tho locaters was to settle sette the women Miss Burnett of Minneapolis Miss Sharpe Miss Osborne and Miss Do Hart and they were promptly installed on good lands close to the townsite Half an hour later a restaurant and grocery store was running at full blast while a dezen frame shanties were in course of construction construc-tion Plenty of water and other necessaries were Lag in reserve and there will be no suffer ingThe The military orders were carried out with praiseworthy nrecifiion and the troops aro expected to be withdrawn Monday The crowd is increasing in the townsite and other portions of the reservation A few people who became lost in the prairie and thereby lost their claims are coming in discouraged bedraggled and exhausted |