“_Resolved_, That before any consolidation takes place, we earnestly urge upon Congress the necessity of now, by positive act, granting to the Indians of industrious habits, on the reservations, homestead titles to their lands in severalty. “_Resolved_, That the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, that boarding schools be established among Indians for the better training of their children, meets our convictions of what is needed. “_Resolved_, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior.” —General Crook is reported to have said, recently, to a newspaper man, “It is hard to be forced to kill the Indians when they are clearly in the right.” —The question of Indian loyalty or revolt is generally decided by our treatment of them. If served by capable and faithful agents, supplied according to agreement, and protected from whiskey-dealing traders, they are peaceable and friendly. If defrauded of their rights, starved, and driven from place to place, they become “bad Indians,” and who wouldn’t? Witness the contrast between the Piutes and Shoshones, of Nevada, and the Bannocks. —The Bannock war would seem to be nearly over. An official report announces that the Bannocks and Piutes have separated, and are fleeing, apparently towards their reservations or former haunts. Wheaton, and the boats on the Columbia, with Bernard and Forsythe pressing from other points, all under the direction of General Howard, who also operated separately with a small force of cavalry, prevented the intended crossing of the Columbia, and an escape into Washington Territory and the British Provinces. Settlers in the vicinity of Camas Prairie are now in terror from the returning Bannocks. Well they may be. The war began in connection with an attempt of these Indians to go back from their Fort Hall reservation, when nearly starved, to dig the camas, a nutritious root, from which that region is named. The white inhabitants objected, as they wanted the roots for their hogs. A difficulty arose, a white man was killed, the military was called upon, and, though the tribe did not justify the killing, nor shield the murderer, yet proceeded to inflict punishment upon the whole tribe by taking their horses and guns—largely their dependence for subsistence.—_Advance._ * * * * * —The President is said to be making careful inquiries into the facts as to the immigration of Chinamen to our Pacific Coast, and to purpose a special message to the next Congress on the subject. He has been reported as favoring its limitation by modification of the Burlingame treaty.