Traveler39s History Of Washington PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ... no longer suffer from the cold in winter, or from hunger in the seasons when fish and game, and the roots and berries which the earth produced in season, were not abundant. They were not unwilling to give up a large part of their land to secure this desired change, and were living in anticipation of the time when it would be made. Not a few of them were beginning to doubt that it would be made--they had been hearing about it for so long a time. The settlers were coming in ever increasing numbers; were choosing such land as pleased them, building their homes and otherwise improving it; living in increasing comfort from what they got out of it, and paying them nothing. There was increasing danger that they, or some of them, might begin to be troublesome on this account, and the settlers were growing more and more anxious to have settlement made with them, so that they might be sent to their reservations, where they would no longer be subjected to their importunities, and where police regulations for their control could be established and effectively maintained. By the terms of the Organic act, the governor was also charged with the duties of superintendent of Indian affairs, and for the service to be rendered in that capacity he was to be paid an annual salary equal to his salary as governor, which was $1,500, showing that in the estimation of Congress and the president, his duties and responsibilities as superintendent would be quite as important as in his capacity as governor, as indeed they were to be. During the session of Congress recently closed, an appropriation had been made for making the necessary treaties, and to make such payments to the tribes treated with as should be required, and he was now authorized to proceed with the...