Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-06-22

bill, providing that the President shall. from
time to time, designate five officers who shall
examine into all complaints, charges, ETC..
against officers in the army, and report
thereon; providing that no officer whose
rank or promotion shall be affected by the
action of such board shall be a member of it.
and two OF said board shall be Of u rank
higher than that of the officer whose con-
duct may be under investigation.
The Indian appropriation bill, as finally
amended and passed by the house, provides,
the following amounts tor incidental ex-
penses of the service: In California, $4,000:
Oregon, $4,000 Washington, $4,000 Ne
vada $4,000; Idaho, $1,000 Montana, So
600; Utah, $4,000; New Mexico, $4,000;
Arizona, $4,000. No portion of these
amounts can be paid to employees, the bill
providing that they shall be detailed or ap-
pointed and paid by the War Department.
Delegate Blkins made an earnest effort to
secure an ineseasel appropriation for the
care and subsistence Of the Apaches i'll Ari-
IONA and New Mexico. but the house voted
only the $500, 900 recommended by. the ap-
preparation committee.
On motion of Maginnis of Montana a pro-
vision was inserted to break up the power
which the Indian agents now possess in con-
trolling the trade with the Indians. The
amendment provides that any person who
receives a certificate from a United States
district Judge or Territorial supreme court
judge. that he is of q good moral character
and fitness to be in the Indian country shall
receive a trading license when he presents it
to the agent, which license shall be forth
with approved by the department when for
Warded to Washington.
A very spirited discussion arose on an
amendment offered by Seelye of Massachu-
setts, to appropriate $1,000 for the support
and civilization of the Indians at Round val
ley, Hoppa valley, Tule river and Mission
agencies in California. Lutrell opposed it
us unnecessary, and denounced the manage
ment of the reservations in his district as
corrupt. He narrated charges against Agent
Buchard, and i'll reply to a question by
Page whether Inspector Van Devir had
hot exenerated Bucliard after full ~inyesti-
CATION, Luttrell iintimated that Van Devir
had made a whitewashing report to please
the department. This called out Seelye in
a1eulogy on Buchard, and Wilson of Iowa,
i'll defense of Van Devir's character, which
he warmly declared should not be aspersed
in his presence. ysH b-
The amendment was carried by a large
majority. tm .8ta.st #I
Decoration day was very generally OBJ
served throughout the country. ss##
The Dublin University crew will be rep
at Saratoga. t@8 @.@
The Martha's Vineyard camp meeting
this year opens August 21. as .a
April railway earnings are reported for
twenty-four railroads, with about one-sixth
the total mileage of the United States.
The results cannot be called favorable. as
they show but a small increase over the un-
returns of last year. This increase
nearly 8 per cent. in the total, but less
3 per cent. in receipts per mile of road,
which Were $4s2 last year, and 1896 this
year. sNe.sa45 81.
Mr.. Henry Raworth of Aiken, S. c., is in
Ill probability the Oldest locomotive engin-
'er in the United States, if not in the world.
lis first trip was made on the South Caro-
ina Railroad Qua of Charleston, in 1881, and
"a has been on the same road ever since, a
'eriod of ~forty-iye years. esa6aar
The Florida orange crop for the present
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