ka-the former ageney one hundred and sixty-fivc miles from Cheyennc, and the latter one hundred and eight miles from Sid- ney, the nearest points the nsual ill-fortune attending the removal of these Indians was ngain exemplified in placing the agencies land, whore there was no possibility of cultivating the soil, no hope of their being cnabled to become self-supporting, and where they have of necessity been kept in the hopeless condi tion of panpers."

In the hope of placing these Indians upon arable land, where they might become civilized and self-supporting, the determina tion was hastily taken to remove then baek to the Missouri ltiv- er. This step was taken without a proper examiuation of other on their resorvation, where it is stated that "a sufficient on the Union Pacific Railroad. Here absolutely barren on points quantity of exeellent wheat lands can be found on either bank of tho White River, and where there is also timber suflicient in quantity and quality for all practical purposes, *The Indian chiefs, in their interview with the President in September last, begged that they might not be sent to the Missouri River, as whiskey-drinking and other demoralization wonld be the conse- qnence. This was the judgment of the best men of the tribe; but the necessity The provisions and supplies for the ensuing winter had boon placed, necording to law, on the Missouri, and, owing to the lateness of the season, it was old agencies. Accordingly, the necessities of the ease com- pelled the removal of these Indians in the midst of the snows and storms of early winter, which have already set in."

If there were absolutely no other rccord written of the management of Indian affairs by the Interior Departınent than this one page of the history of these two bands of the Sioux tribe, this alone would be enough to show the urgent need of an en- new system. So many and snch hasty, ill-considercd, was one that the President could not control. impossible to remove them to the tirely uninformed, capricious, and crucl decisions of arbitrary power