Indians To Have Self-Government: Werner Seeks Revenge

A recent news dispatch, sent us through the courtesy of Miss Agnes Fredette, states that Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier told a house committee at a hearing on the Wheeler-Howard bill that, our Indians are the pawn of the enthusiams of the wickedness of changing administrations, and that the federal government should no longer have control over the land and the life of the Indians.

The bill would permit Indians to band together in chartered communities for self government and would eliminate the policy of alloting specified areas to individuals.

Representative Werner, Democrat, said that regardless of the complaints against "totally incompetent" Indian service employees it was impossible to have them removed. He mentioned, specifically, M. R. Logerwell and Wm. J. Bosel, of the Standing Rock Reservation.

We are reliably informed that Mr. Werner's chief reason for wishing the removal of these two men is because they have opposed him politically in times past when it was possible for Indian service me to take an active part in politics. Both men have been stationed on reservations where Werner has had political fights and it is said that he still holds a grudge against them.