They agreed "to maintain peaceful rclations among themselves, and to abstain from all depredations upon whites pass ing throngh their country, and to make restitution for any damages or loss tliat a white man shall sustain by the acts of their people."

For all the damages which they had suffered up to that time in conscquenee of the passing of the whites through their coun try, they accepted the presents then reccived as payment in full

An annuity of $50,000 a year for fifty years to come was promised to them. This was the prico of the "right of way."

"Fifty thousand dollars for a limited period of years is a small amount to be distributed among at least fifty thousand Indians, especially when we consider that we have taken away, rapidly taking away from them all means of support,' or arc says one of the makers of this treaty. There wonld probably be no dissent from this opinion. A dollar a year, even assured to one for fifty years, secms hardly an for the surrender of all other means of support."

The report continues: "Viewing the treaty in all its pro- visions, I am have beeu made for both parties. I am, moreover, of the opin- ion that it will be observed and carried out in as good faith on adequate compensation clearly of opinion that it is the best that could the part of the Indians as it will on the part of the United States and the white people thereof. There was an earnest solemnity and a deep conviction of the necessity of adopting some sueh mcasures evident in the condnet and maners of the Indians throughout the whole couneil. On leaving for their respective homes, and bidding each other adiou, they gave the strongest possible evidence of their friendly intentions for the future, and the mutual confidence and good faith wbich they had in each other. Invitations were freely given and as freely accepted by caeh of the tribes to interchange visits, talk, and smoke together like brothers, upon ground where they had