Arizona citizen., 1873-03-22
INDIAN sUpERINTENDENTS.

will twice each y risitevery agency in the United s It is optional with the Presiden hat superinten- dencies shall be co-. tlnued, and as the law does not go into effect until July !. l, notlinris .ou cE wlat his action will 5e1 raona The ] bill created co Iseusaon, and Of that iu tn ioaz v take ne following from s4s .il report found il The GIoI 1a-y Z9
 -... 8oo.., of LYuG1cl,y. ] notice that the Clerk in reading the amend ment recommended by the Committee on Appropriations omitted the super intendents and superintendencies. As printed, the committees amendment provides for snperintendents.
 MT. Sargent. Exactly; but the final clause aboIishes all superintend- encies. The clerk of the committee in drawing up the amendment inadvert- ently included the superintendents. The Clerk of the House has read the amendment as the committee agreed to recommend 1t.
 MT. Beck, of Kentucky. And there are to be no longer superintend- ents and superintendencies !
 Mr. Sargent. No; we intend to abolish the superintendent and su- perintendent's clerk, as we believe the business can be better done by the in spectors in the way here recom- mended.
 MT. Garfield, of Ohio. I do not wish the House to act on this mat ter without some reflection. 1 think they will see that 1t is good measure, but I want them to be advised pre- cisely what it is.
 The Indian superintan1ents. IS now established }v law, are located at fixed points in the Territories, where the superintendent has a whole Terri tory under his charge He has all office, @ clerk or clerks, and Is a sort of director or superintendent of the affairs of the different agencies through his Territory t is found ill practice that the superintendent can do but very little i'll the way of any personal superintendence of the agencies, which are at remote points. He keeps his office, and the tendency is that he be- comes a sedentary official, doing but little good anywhere. It is now pro-, posed to abolish that office after the 3Oth of June next, and to have in- stead a board of inspectors, whose business it shall be to travel from agency to agency, each taking one agency at one time and another at another time, making full and accu- rate report of those agencies.
 MT. Mccormick, of Arizona. I move to amend by striking out the last line of the amendment. I am not willing that this useless character shall be attributed to the superintend- ents of Indian affairs so far as I have known them. It is but just to say in behalf of the present superintendent in my own Territory that he has not been in the habit of remaining in his office, but two or more times each year he has visited most, if not all, of the agencles in that extensive Terri tory-an undertaking involving much hard and dangerous travel and expos- ure, as l can attest from having borne him company upon a recent official tour. l believe I may say the same of the practice of the superinten- dent for the State of California, who happens to be on this floor at this mo- ment.
 Now, it may be good thing to abolish these superintendencies, but ill the Territories farthest west, where there are most Indians, where the diff faculties, dangers, and expenditures of travel are greatest, and where the advance in the civilization of the h. dians is slow, It seems to me we should have some more direct means of com munication between the agents and their superior officers than we shall have under this new system. It Is proposed to leave the agents to report to the inspectors or directly to Wash ington. Sometimes ie takes three or four weeks for letter to reach Wash ington, where as the agents can com municate with their superintendent in a few days at farthest, and constantly there are important questions arising which the agents wish to immediately refer to some one having more power