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The Indian apprepriatisn bill fer the fiscal year 1891, is completed by the House committee. It carries an appropriation of S6,000,000 which is somewhat below the appropriation fer the current fiscal year. Of thii sum 60,00O IS ts enable the Secretary of the Interior to employ practical far msrs in addition to those now sm- .ployed at Indian agencies; for schools and other educational purposes S772, zoo, and for tho construction of Indian sehosl buildings and repairs st build ings, Sl0O,oOo.
 The tstal cost IS not embraced within the six million figures An additional sum of twelve millions or more will Do required to herd the In. dians and even with that sum it can not be efficiently dsne. 1t is not gen orally known that many of the tribes are largely creditors of the govern msnt end it has been officially stated that they paid S755,22l,2S, in four years, to att0rniss for collecting from the government money said to Do due them.
 About & fourth of ths Indisn appro. priatisn is so subdiyided that 10 years age it appeared on the |. s, Trsasu- rsr's books under 260 different heads, and presumably is no less now, each one of which must bs used a, specially provided, and for no other purpose, although it may happen that in one place there is an abundance, while in another want and famine may prevail. The excessive cost srlnng from the prstended support for education and disciplinlns of the various mountain and plain Indians, is easily accounted for by the fact that the various agsn- cics (about l30) are away out m the woods" too far frsm tho base of sup plies for nonads, and the soldiers (whc must eat) are expected to round 'en up when they abandon the patsrnal Yiewam and cross conventional line, h quest of the whits mans scalp.
 It is not the first cost of supplies which pinch appropriations. ri, the haul from the Atlantic States wher, contracts are generally made (with the exception of those for bssf) which tell; aud renders psp,in unnecessary tc whet the capacities of wards of the government which pretsnas to feed them. A glance at the map of tho United States, specially prepared and published by direction of ths Indian Bureau, will show the Isdian reserva t,ons scattered from the British pos, sessions to the line of the republic oI Mexics, and from the Atlantic s.a. beard to the Pacific Ocean; many oI tAem containing, ip acreage, princi pahties ans where, like Sslkirk on tho Island of Juan Fernandez, they arc monarehs of all they survey; and vel Congress, in the plentltuds of it knowledge of the necessities of th, dronss whs occupy these lands, s1pec them to observe the law of nlae ant yours upon an annual appropriation of $6,000,000 which IS scarcely stuff cisnt to prevent their naysls iron coming in contact with their back bones, and as consequence they ar, forced to steal and, if necessary, il order to get away with the plumber they do not hesitate to kill.
 To render them "hewers of wooC and drawers of water, and ,msnabl' to laws that govern the white man tribal relation, should bs severed, anC families removed 10 Atlantic State, o Islands of the Pacific. It i. net Tn tn, nature of an Indian, except in rart instances, to Do contentsd. Thei ideas are opaque and they ars incapa bls of concsiving their future ssstiny and for that reason are aggressive not dreaming of their final extinction by tho fast approaching tide of smi grafton, sufficiently strong to rssis their forays upon defenceless pioneer who build school house. and plant tn standard of an advancing civilization upon virgin soil. Therefore, net t wound ths too susceptible hearts an weaker heads of Eastern Indian phil anthropists, we would adusa the gov srnnent to lnaugurate ths exodus o Indians now, for ths reason ths when the whites "break out" a hole il the ground will suffice instead of
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