New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-28
TWO BUREAU REPORTS.
IMPROVED CONDITION OF THE INDIANS.
THEIR PROGRESS TOWARD CINILZAlioN-Aii
NEEDED FOR STARVING INDIANS.

THEIR PROGRESS TOWARD CiVlliZAIloN-Aip
NEEDED FOR STARVING INDIANS.
WASHINGTON. Oct 27.-liram Price, Com
missioner OF Indian Affairs has Just made his annual re
mort to the Secretary of the Interior of the operations
of that Bureau during the fiscal year ended June oo'
1854
The Commissioner prefaces the report as follows
II will show along the pathway OF progress III inc
last twelve months some dark spots have been removed
md some broht spos made brighter More Indians are
living in houses and fewer in tepees than there were one
year ago More cultivating the sou ana fewer lp-
lowing the chase than when made my last annual re-
port There in the carpenter blacksmith anu
other cchanca shops. ryn. 10 earn an homes. hN-'
and fewer at the Tardance scapdancc and sun-dance
than i'm October 1888 There also several hundred
more Indian children In industrial agricultural ana
mechanical schools fitting themselves TO become useful
Intelligent citizens than there were twelve months
since. During the same period many lnuiahs nave s
with the proceeds of their own labor purchased Hl
proved farm machinery and agricultural implements
ami arc making lrasewOrhy efforts To take ther Plcc
among the independent aErlcultnrlsts OF me COUNT!
Taken altogether an impartial view Of the situation war
rants belief that some time in the near future is
far presume that. with the aid OF sucn nuuS.diai
mechanical aud agricultural schools as arc now penS
carried the Indian will he able to care Tor hli1e
and be no longer a burden but hep 10 inc uo'e'nich
Touching tie OF the Indian sery ice, the connis
sioneT SAYS:
Tie Indians actually get Of the money belonging to the
Government feed and clothe them only aoout - per
per capita, or traction less tuan ccnts u"'
for each Indian 1t takes from the Treasury O the Gov
ernmeut 81 900 year for each soldier In our army
whose chief business 1t Is to see that peace Is pesereu
ON the frontier while IL takes from the same source Tor
lie purr ose of conveying idea that the appro
priaon much for DO not know that II Is bIt Tor
too small do know that 1t is II II ls expected to
TRANSFORMS Indians from being wild, roVlnS nolnads
into peaceabe. industrious and selI-supporng ctlehs
In any reasonable Among tie items or winch more
liberal appropriations should be made IL the pay o.
police pay additional farmers and pay oil the oicers
cOinl the courts Of Indian offences More nf-
atty In paying Indian agents and assisting snch Indians
AS need IL and disposition To help themselves,
would he economy. and hasten the day when the
Indians would need no pccunary AID from the Govern
mcnt.
SHAVING INDIANS NEEDING AID.
Tie Commissioner dwells ar length upon the necessity
for passing the Indian Appropriation bill early in the
Congressional session. and says:
The newspapers OF country have hecI full OF com
plants mon tbs past. because certain indians at he
extreme northern agencies were suffering Tor i0od ara
The suffering OF these Indians for lax of food. at
rbu;abc directly and entirely rst 10 the act tEat ihe
months they should have been made aud second,
that when made the amount allowed was less than was
eked Tor by this Office and equenuy insufficient Tor
the absolute wants OF these Indians
The mjsiortuncs OF the Pesan, Backieet and other
Indians are described and It stated that owing to the
entire disappearance OF and the INABILITY! Of these
Indians to support themselves for the present by Ggr
culture they will be compelled 20 depend nearly alto
gether TIE Government for food for several years 10
come. These Indians, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. their iar s.' eA
perieuce checriuy ejcyoIing Ia make the best 1i
Themselves rhcrc is GOOD reason 10 hope that wta
nropcr in few years each hous mold will
a team aud have land under cultivation. which. with
few stock cattle. will bee Sufficient 10 make great la
jonty Of them nearly independent.
VALUE or The INDIAN COURTS.
The reports Of agents at agencies where courts Of In
dian offences have organized said to show very
conclusivcly the beneficial results OF the System.
Upon the subject Of leasing Indian lands, the report
states that the Department has uniformly refused 10
approve such ARRANGEMENTS ana II IS very desirable
that Congress should put this much yeXed question upon
proper basis, that Indian lands not necessary FOR
other purposes may he made OF Income 10 the
Indians.
Considerable space in the report is devoted TO state
meut OF pressing necessity Tor law providing for
the punishment OF cr mcs and offences among Indians
Themselves AID in connection with this subject. the
Commits ctks attention 10 the Importance az cstb
siu- United states court IN TIE Indian Territory IN
accordance with treaty siuula'iOns The Indian policy
orr IMITATION j. referred 10 in terms OF high cOmmcnda
ION and IL is said that the lnpartality win which the
police nave performed the duties dcvOlying upon them
l. amazing. and clitabc In the highest degree.
Attention j. called 10 the fact that the acts passed at
the last session of Congress granting right OF WAY 20 the
Gulf Colorado and Santa FL Railroad. aud The southern
Kansas Railroad through the Indian Territory practic
ally overturs the theory of construction placed By The
Department In so uuOn the extent aud meaning Of the
sewers acts of Congress and treaties OF 1867 w. that
there should re hut East AMI West. and but
North and South road through The indian Territory, and
that any al ou1l roads without the consent Of the
dau> would be violation OF treaty provisions with the