back to the Indians for the purposc of obtaining their sanetion to the modification, as was done in the case of the Sioux trcaty negotiated by Commissioners Ranisey and Lea. this oversight will be corrected as carly as spring, otherwise the large amounts already expended will have been usclessly wasted, and the Indians far more dissatisfied than ever."

To comment on the bad faith of this action on the part of It is hopcd practicable next Congress would be a waste of words; but its impolicy is so glaring that one's astonishment cannot keep silent-its impoliey and also its incredible niggardliness. A dollar apiece a year, "in goods, auimals," ctc., those Indians had been promised that they should have for fifty ycars. It must have bee patent to tlhe meanest intellect that this was little to pay cach year taking away, as the com to any one man from whom we were missioner said, "his means of support." But, unluckily for the Indians, there were fifty thousand of them. It entered into some fifty Congressman's head to multiply fifty by fifty, and the aggregate terrified everybody. This was mnch more likely to have been the cause of the amendment than the canse assigned by the superintendent, viz., the probable change of localitics of all the "wandering hordes" in the next fiftccn years. No doubt it would be tronblesome to the last degree to distribnte fifty thousand dollars, "in goods, animals," etc., to fifty thousand Indians wandering over the entire Upper Missouri region; but no more troublesome, surely, in the sixteenth year than in the fifteenth. The sophistry is too transparent; it does not in the least gloss over the fact that, within the first year after the making of our first treaty of any moment with these tribes-while they to a man, the whole fifty thousand of them, kept their faith with us-we broke ours with them in the meanest of ways-robbing them of more than two-thirds of the money we had promised to pay.

All the tribes pronptly" assented to this ametndment, how