One of the Senate amendments to this treaty struck out the words "by Colonel J. M. Chivington, in command of United States troops." If this were done with a view of relieving "Colonel J. M. Chivington " of obloquy, or of screening the fact that "United States troops" were the instruments by which the murders were committed, is not clear. But in either case the device was a futile one. The massacre will be known as The Chivington Massacre" as long as lhistory lasts, and the United States must bear its share of the infamy of it.

I his report for 1877 the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Dakota says: "Orders have becn received to stop cutting of wood by Indians, to pay them for wlhat they have already cut, to take possession of it and sell it. This I am advised is under a recent decision whiclı deprives Indians of any ownership in tie wood until the land is taken by them in severalty. If agents do not eu forcc these orders, they lay themselves Hable. If they do enforce them, the Indians are deprived of what little motive they have for labor. In the mean time, aliens of all nations cut wood on Indian Iands, scll to stcamboats, fill contracts for the army and for In dian agencics at igh prices.* ** Cutting wood is onc of the very few things an Indian can do in Dakota at this time."

THE history of that affair (the Walla Walla Massacre) was never written, we believe; or, if it was, the absolute facts in the casc were never-given by any unprejudiced person, and it may be interesting to not a few to give them here. The story, as told by our Washington eorrespondent, Ehbitt," who was a witness of the scenes narrated, is as follows:

"The first settlenents in Oregon, some thirty years ago, were