We consider the treatment of the Ponca Indians as one of the most heart-siekening chapters in our national record of Indian wrongs, aud we aro detcrmined to spare no effort to restore to them their stolen lhomes and rights, and to relieve the American people of the stigma of this terrible wrong.

The Senate of the United States during the past winter ap- pointed a sclcct committec to ascertain and report the circum stanecs of the removal of the Ponca Indians from their reserva tion, and whether the said Indians are not entitled to be restored thereto. Tis Benate Committee devoted a long time to a thor ough and patient investigatiom of this whole l'onca case, and re- ported that the Poncas had been forced, without anthority of law, from their homes to the Indian torritory,' and reported also a bill for their restoration to their formcr rescryalion, and recou mending that $50,000 be appropriated for the purpose of taking the Poneas back, and restoring tlieir now dilapidated homes.’

This able report of the Tnited States Senate says that in dealing with one of the most peaceable and orderly and well disposed of all the tribes of Indians, the Government has violated in the most flagrant manner their rights of property, and disre- garded their appeals to the honor and justice of the United States, and the dictates of humanity. "

The report also says that "the committee can find no language sufficiently strong to condeumn the whole procceding, and trace to it all the troubles which bave come upon the Poncas, and the bardships and sufferings which have followed them since they were taken from their old reservation and placed in their present position in the Indian Territory."

The Omaha Ponca Relief Committee need no better vindica tion of their action in behalf of this distressed and outraged pcople than these strong amd weighty words of a committee of United States Senators, composed of representative men of both political partics.

The Omaha Committce consisted of Bishop Clarkson, of No- braska, chairman; Rev. A. F. Sherrili, Rev. W. I. Harsha, Leavitt Burnham, W. M. Yates, and P. L. Perine.

At the request of this committee, Mr. T. II. Tibbles in June went to the Indian Territory to visit the Poneas (of whom only abont 400 were left alive). ITe was authorized to assure them of the interest and efforts of umanc pcople all over the country in their behalf, and to notify them that the Omaha Oommittee were ready to assist them in any practical way to return to their