the President and "all his people "just uor "equal laws forbidding them to go beyoud cer tain bounds without a pass from the agent; laws making them really just difference being that the reservation is an unwalled out-of door prison; laws giving that agent power to summon milita- ry power at any moment, to enforce any command he might choose to lay obey, The same himself and all his people cal phenomenon that four men should be found willing to leave it on rocord under their own signatures that they said this thing. Farther on in the same report there is an enumeration of some of the experiences whieh the Xez Percés who are on the Idaho Reservation have had of the advantages of living therc, were ruled," and neither as much prisoners as convicts in a prison-the only on them, and to shoot them if they refuscd to jast and equal laws by which the Prcsident are raled!" Truly it is a psychologi and of the manner in which the Government has fulfilled its pronises by which it induced thom to go thero; undoubtedly these were ali as well known to Chicf Joseph as to the com For twenty-two years he had had an opportunity to study the workings of the rescrvation poliey. They say: an interview hcld with the agent and the treaty Indians, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there were suf fieient unoceupied tillable lands for Joseph's band on the res- crvation, and for the further purpose of scenring their co-oper ation to aid us in inducing Joseph to come upon the reserva tion, facts were brouglht to our attention of a failure on the part of the Government to fulfil its treaty stipulations with these Indians. Tho commission therefore decm it their duty to call the attcntion of the Government to this subjcet. "Ist. Article second of the treaty of June 9th, 1863, provides that no white man-excepting such as may be employed by the missioners During Witness the murder of Big Snake at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, in the summer of 1879.