REMARKS IN THE SENATE, ON A JOINT RESOLUTION RELATING THERETO, JANUARY
13, 1865.
January 13th, the Senate considered a joint resolution reported
by Mr. Harlan, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, in
relation to the massacre of the Cheyenne Indians. It proposed
to direct the Secretary of War to cause the suspension of all
pay and allowances to each of the members of the Third Colorado
Regiment, officers, privates, and employees, and all others
engaged in the recent attack made on the Cheyenne Indians in
their village near Fort Lyon, in the Territory of Colorado,
under the command of Colonel Chivington, until the conduct of
the colonel and the regiment, and all others engaged in that
attack, should receive the approval of the Secretary of War;
and he was to cause all ponies, blankets, money, jewels, furs,
and other property captured from the Indians, to be seized and
held for the use of the United States, or for restitution to
the Indians, if it should hereafter appear that the attack was
unjustifiable.
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