Show THE REMOVAL OF THE COLORADO UTES THE syracuse ne new york he heram to ie one of the public journals that are opposed to the removal of the utes from colorado into utah after stating the present status of the bill for that purpose it ic bays it seems hardly possible that the government will abandon its policy of civilizing the indians indiana by consigning consig ping them to a track of country inhabited by outlaws and murderers and beyond the reach of any humanizing influence if this was to be the final disposition of the utes the friends of the indians indiana wonder why so much money has been expended to educate them why the bills for lands in several severalty ty were passed and what har ban been the need of such extravagant legislation all that is asked for the indians indiana is that the government will protect them in the rights which are necessary to serve them from extinction no opposition is made to ottering oftering ott oft ering the surplus lands on the ute reservation to settlers under proper restrictions but the cruel amov moving on policy that has driven the indians from their fertile lands all over the northwest at the approach of the white wagon of the emigrant is in not of the kind that changes savages into peaceable citizens better the work of the missionary and the school teacher a recognition of the red mans right to standing room on the western prairies and the good faith of the government kept even with a handful of colorado indians it has baa been stated by his hie enemies that delegate caine has favored this bill when the falsity of this became apparent they changed the charge to one of negligence and indifference this IB just as untrue and unjust act the other john T caine has baa done all that lay in the power of a delegate first to prevent the contemplated removal second it if it was determined to carry the measure to secure justice to the settlers who had made farms aud and improvements upon the lands selected for the savages he has succeeded in blocking the bill for some time and who i i it reported to the house and committed to the committee of the whole he secured the opposition of a respectable minority of the committee on indian affairs who made the annexed report the undersigned undersigner under signed members of the committee committe eon on indian affairs dissenting from the views of the majority would respectfully report we object to the removal of the southern utes from colorado into utah as proposed because the removal is not nece necessary in order to secure them land suitable for their present and future use as they have an abundance both of agricultural and grad grazing ng I 1 land a nd their removal from agricultural to wild grazing lands with roaming privileges over large hunting ranges is at variance with the sound policy of the government with reference to settling indi ans on lands in sever severally alt and would indefinitely postpone any hopeful effort for their civilization it would impose upon settlers on and near the proposed reservation against their will the burden of which it is the object of this removal to free those who live on the border of their present home thus imposing an injustice upon the one that the other may be relieved of a burden of which they can not justly complain it would against the protest of utah take acres aares of her territory for occupation and more for roaming and hunting privileges that colorado may open up acres to white citizens a proposed injustice the more it flagrant ag ant bemuse because a repetition of that thai iu in flicked a lew few years since when the other bands of federated confederated con utes were forced upon utah for the relief ot of colorado to do this injustice to utah inflict grievous wrong upon these settlers seit lers abandon our policy of civilization and remit these wards of the nation to hopeless barbarism will cost for present arrangement and future control aud and support sup a large expenditure of money from tae the treasury amounting to several hundred thousand dollars the bill that we affer as a substitute provi provide dei i simply that our treat treaty obligations shall be ful fulfilled filed which win require not more than acres of their present reservation and open up the remainder to settlement under tinder provisions which will secure an ample civilization fund without the expense ot of a single dollar to the government vern ment ive we fully agree with the commissioner of indian affairs who says in his to the honorable secretary of the inget bior As a result ormy investigations I 1 feel constrained to say that I 1 can not approve the ratification of the proposed agreement for i he following reasons first prom from an examination of the records of the various councils held with the indians by the commissioners it does not seem to me that the agreement reached fairly represents the real wishes of the utes that their consent was reluctantly given and under stress of such considerations as appealed strongly to their tears fears and very largely to their pre against a civilized life second the progress already made by these indians indiana in civilization will be rudely interrupted by the removal and they will be placed amid surroundings much more hostile to their progress in learning the white mans ways than those amidst which they are now situated third it will be exceedingly difficult if not impossible for the government to out the agreement made with these indians to protect them from the intrusions of white men on the new reservation WM H BRAWLEY A 0 hopkins Hopi tiNs thoy THOS LYNCH if it is possible that in spite of all that can be done the bill will wili become a law colorado wants it if and Colo colorado fado has votes in both houses of congress and and political political oli influence in the nation while lie utah as neither but it if this event does occur it will not be the fault of the Dc delegate legate from abis Terr territory itry who has done his whole duty in relation to the matter |