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Show Ithe Indian peace Commission. The so-called Indian peace commission commis-sion is composed of the following distinguished gontUmen: Ex-Govornor II. C. li litis of Iowa; Colonel Geo. W. Main-penny of Onio; A. O. Boone of Colorado; N. Edmunds ot Dakota; lii.-hop Lt. H. Whipple of Minnesota; A. S. Gaylord of Michigan, Aiisit-iani jviiornoy uonerai oi mo interior inte-rior department; "Goneral II. li. Sibley, Kev. S. D. Hi n roan, Santco agency, Dakota; Interpreter (Jhaa. il. Llendlep, Washington city, secretary. Mr. Gay-lord Gay-lord will act as legal advisor to tho commission com-mission and represent tho interior department. de-partment. Dr. J. V. Daniels, formerly agent at old lied Cloud agency, now a resident of Minnesota, has beon instructed in-structed to accompany the commis?ion. These gentlemen were in Omaha a few dayn Bince preparatory to visiting tho Black Hills country, and were interviewed by a Herald reporter, to whom General Vaudeier said that one of their duties was not to nogotiate a peaco with Sitting Bull, which task would be left to the army. They are acting under the act ot tho last congress con-gress which appropriates to the Sioux Indiana $1,000,000, provided they relinquish their hostilities against the white people. The aet also provides . that hereafter no appropriation shall i be made for tho subsistauce of said Indians unless they BhaU have first agreed to relinquish all right and claim to any country outside the boundaries of the permanent rcser-l rcser-l ration established by tho treaty oi 0 iciio r.r DoiVl Ttnlinnn ntifl also as much of their said permanent reservation reser-vation as lies west oi the 103d meridian meri-dian of longitude. There ere also other provisions in this act in regard to the Indian reservation, supplies, etc., and ita main feature is a change of tho boundary of the Sioux reservation so that the 103d instead in-stead of the 104th meridian will be the western boundary of the reserve, which will leave the mining country entirely outside. Colonel Manypenny said that the law provides for tho removal of the Sioux to the Indian territory unless they accept the proposition to remove to the Missouri river. The entire commission is composed of practical men, every one of whom has lived among tho Indians in on official capacity for years. Colonel Manypenny was commissioner oi Indian In-dian affairs under Fresidout Tierce, j Several of the commissioners are men in the decline of lift), and all of them are men of marked ability, honcc no such farcical proceedings as characterized charac-terized the commission of last year will disgrace this. These gentlemen are earnest and practical, evidently actuated by a eonscienscious desire to fulfill the responsible duties which have been assigned them, and the country has reason to hope that much good will result from their labors. Mr. Hendlcy, tho secretary of the commusion, is connected with the interior department at Washington, and is eminently fitted for the place to which he has been appointed. |