$2,500,000 was to be held in trust, and only the interest at five per cent. to be paid to the Indians, and this only for the term of fifty years, at which time the principal to the Government, it will be easily reckoned that the Indians was to revert would receive, all told, only about six and one-quarter eents an And taking into account the great value of the relin- quished lands, and the priee the Government would undoubt edly obtain for them, it will be readily conceded that Govern- or Ramsey was not too sanguine when he stated, in his re- port to the Interior Department, that the " actual cost to the Government of this magnificent purchase is only the sum paid in hand" ($575,000)

The governor says that it was "by no means the purpose" of the commission "to act other than justly and gonerously toward the Indians;" that "a continuation of the payment of large sums of interest annually would do them no further good" after fifty years had expired, and would be "inconsist- ent with sound governmental policy." He says that the Da kota nation, although warlike, is "friendly to the whites," and that it may be reasonably expected that, "by a judicious expenditure of the civilization and improvement funds provided for in these treaties," they will soon take the lead in agri culture and other industrial pursuits." acre.

One of tho provisions of this trenty forbade the introduction of ardent spirits into the new reservation. This was put in in accordance with the "earnest desire" of the chiefs, who request- ed that "some stringent measures should be taken by the Goy ernmont to exclude all kinds of liquors from their hew home."

By this treaty the four great bands of Minnesota Sioux were all to be consolidated together on one reservation in the up- thought to remote to guarantee them against any press- per part of the Mississippi Valley." This region be "sufficiently ure from the white population for many years to come. Farms were to be opened for them, mills and schools to be established, was