agaiust this tendency, and it is useless to disguise and unwise to overlook it, if we mean to do a real service to the Indians.
For this reason I attach much more importance to the passage of legislation providing for the settlement of the Indians in sever ally, and giving them individual title in fee-simple, the residue of their lands not occupied by them to be disposed of for their ben- cfit, than to all the cfforts, however well intended, to procure ju- dicial decisions which, as I have shown, cannot be had. I am glad to say that the conversations I have had with senators and rcpresentatives in Congress on the policy of settling the Indians in severalty ave greatly eneouraged my hope of the success of the "severalty bill" during the present session
I need not repeat here what I said in a letter to Mr. Edward Atkinsou, which you may possibly have seen some time ago in thc Boston papers, about the nccessity of educating Indian chil dren. You undoubtedly understand that as well as I do, and I hope you wil concur in my recommendation that the money col lected for taking the Ponca case into tle courts, which is impos- sible of accomplishment, and as mnch more as can be added, be devoted to the support and enlargement of our Indian scho0ols, such as those at Ilamptou and Carlisle. Thus a movement whieh undoubtedly has the hearty symnpathy of many good men and women, but which at present seems in danger of being wasted on the unattainable, may be directed into a practical channel, and confer a real and lasting bencfit on the Indian race.
Very respectfally yours,
C. SCTURZ
Mrs. HELEN JACEBON, New York
MRS. JACKSON S SECOND LETTER
Brevoort louse, New York, Tharsday, Jan. 22d, 1380.
Hon. Carl Schure
DEAR SIR, Your letter of the 17th instant is at hand. If I understand this letter correctly, the position which you take is as follows: That there is in your opinion, and in the opinion of the lawyers whom you have consulted on the subject, no way of bringing before the courts the suits for the prosccution of which moncy has been and is being contributed by the friends of the Poncas; that the reason you do not approve of this mnovement is that it is evidently idle to collect money and to fee attorneys for the purpose of doing a thing which cannot be done." This is