| Show INDIANS AND NEGROES washington D dec ec 3 1 la n presenting a petition for an amendment to the tariff bill in relation to a rebate on manufactured tobacco allison said the conferees on the part of both houses had bad agreed to that section of the bill but that it had been omitted in enrollment cullom introduced a bill to reduce letter postage to one cent hawley from the committee on military affairs reported and asked to have put upon passage a jol joint n t revolution resolution authorizing the secretary of war to issue arms and ammunition to the states of north and south dakota manderson moved to include the I 1 state of nebraska voorhees said if the proposition were one to issue a hundred thousand RATIONS OF FOOD to the starving indians it would be more consistent with christian civilization he referred to the statement of general miles in a published interview that the indians were driven to revolt by ataria tion and said it was a crime on the part of the government to stand by and do nothing except to furnish arms to the whites the indians had bad been suffering for years in silence there was blood guiltiness somewhere in connection with it the hostilities into which the in deans in the northwest are being starved would result not merely in the destruction of thell the lives ves of many indians but the lives jives of thousands of american citizens and hundreds of american soldiers that condl condi tion of things had bad been brought about by a niggardly parsimonious or dishonest policy he h knew not which A policy had been pursued to take the lauds lands of the indians indiana and not pay enough to keep tile I 1 indians n from star starring Ying when dispossessed of their homes hawley spoke briefly saying that the remarks of the senator from I 1 indiana n were perhaps a little exaggerated dawes chairman of the committee on indian aff affairs kirs very much doubted it if shortness of food was the origin of the trouble or that a supply of food would be a cure for it arge ane difficulty with the indian service all along has been the constant change of policy heretofore for years it had been impressed upon cong congress reas that the best way to treat the indian was to starve him into self support ROOT HOG OR DIE had been the phrase put over the door of those who administered tile the affairs of the indians and the policy had been to cut down year by year the rations required by the treaties and give notice to the indians indiana that the next year they were only to have so much the difference to be bup acup plied by the labor of their own hands he thought it 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 ali 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 bad failed to keep the promises made to the indians by the sioux commission etc he said the commission had bad made all sorts of stipulations with the indians one of them written out la in plain language and enacted into a by congress and that stipulation the COMMISS commission IOD had taken out to the indians and asked them to accept it the indians had had cause of complaint because of the fulfillment non ful fill ment of other agreements and the commission told them it had bad no authority as to those matters but that it would use its influence with the government in the case when the indian representatives senta tives came to washington with the commission a full discussion was bad and the agreement was embodied in a bill which was submitted to congress by the president the bill thus framed to the complete satisfaction of the indians passed the senate but where it was now he did not know voorhees repelled a feeble ATTEMPT AT A SNEER on the part of cawes and said the latter knew the situation just as well as he did for general miles had told the pu public bile that th the e I 1 ud labs had been made hostile and preferred to die fighting than to die of starvation these red men could enter the field with fighting men well armed and with the advantage of a knowledge of bf the country could fight of the best american troops on terms of equality he asked the senator from massachusetts to state whether these indians had enough to eat whether miles was right or r wrong and whet whether lier the indians were being starved into belligerency dawes suid said the great difficulty in dealing with these indians who are rebellious Is ia that they have nothing to eat they belong to that class claes of indians who never did a days daya work in theft lives pierce N D said he had sometimes wondered that the white people in that region did not themselves go on the war path because they were hungry the indians indiana seemed to get noble as well as hungry the further people got away from them he pierce lived within a few miles of the great sioux reservation he saw indians everyday every day in the town where he I 1 lived I 1 ve J and they wore were sleeker and better fed apparently than the senator frona from indiana laughter he had no doubt but that in some of the agencies there are indians who complain of I 1 insufficient food but he questioned very much whether general miles made the statement attributed to him in the newspapers newspaper THE TROUBLE with the indians is that they are fed and clothed and allowed to live on the bounty of the government voorhees said he would take the statement of general miles far sooner than that of a senator who lived nedr near the reservation and who with the people wanted to get the indian lands 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 nob closed when at 3 oy clock the vice preal dent laid before the senate as unfinished business the elections bill turpie took the floor in opposition opposition the substitute measure he e said rested for its support on what was called the suppressed colored re publican vote in iii the south inthe in the course of his remarks he said in the northern states where all this outcry is made the colored men had no more chance of preferment than the roman catholic had in new hampshire a hundred years ago the suppression of the colored vote in the south was a thing manifestly without with question quee tion affirmed on one side denied on the other but the suppression of the colored voter of the north was a thing without with question actual absolute unconditional the supremacy of the white race was not peculiar to any portion of the united states south carolina was not more completely under its sway away than pennsylvania the man especially ally the man of the white house who sought to embroil the white man and THE BLACK RACE BACE for purposes he could not conceal and dare not avow was guilty of an c outrage tenfold ten fold greater than thai any of those he invented or described the purpose of the national E lection election bill was so far as it related to the south to wreck and destroy we this pending condition of inter racial adjustment it proposed not to maintain the will of the majority but to overthrow it on a single issue of race to make a majority of the black affie men 1 1 because they hey are black to establish tab i ish a government of complexion not of opinion pass this bill and the right of the people to choose their representatives was lost beyond recovery at the conclusion of his speech turpie received the congratulations ot his democratic colleagues and the senate adjourned |
