Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-01-21
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
Excerpts from the Instrument on Points of
Special Interest in This Territory.

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House bill 11217 passed by the house
at Washington. read twice in the senate
and referred to the committee on APP
preparations, has been printed in the
usual congressional folio size, and is 81
pages long. The title of the document
is "An act making appropriations for
the current and contingent expenses OF
the Indian department and for fulfilling
treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1900, and for other purposes Under
the subtitle of Current and Contingent
expenses" provision is made for paying
Sc agents of Indian affairs at agencies
named, and at rates respectively in
Dictated. Among these are sat the Mes
calero agency, New Mexico, 81, 600: at
the Navajo agency, New Mexico, 81, 500;
at the Pueblo and Jicarilla agency, New
Mexico, $500" Further on, the act
provides, ''for payment of necessary in
terpreters, to be distributed at the dis
~cretion of the secretary of the interior,
&c. but no person employed by the
United States and paid for other service
shall be paid for Interpreting" For pay
of eight Indian inspectors, one of whom
shall be an engineer, competent in the
location, construction and maintenance
of irrigation works, and one Of whom
may be located by the secretary of the
interior in the Indian territory. at 81, 800
each per annum, $50, 1000. The travelling
expenses of these inspectors is placed at
$500 per day, when actually employed
on duty in the field. For pay of n
superintendent Of Indian schools, s. 5000,
and for necessary travelling expenses.
81, 800: one clerk to the superintendent,
$l 900. For buildings and repairs at
agencies. $35, 900; for matrons to teach
Indian girls housekeeping and other
household duties, at a salary of not over
$50 per month, SIS 5000; for pure vaccine
matter and vaccination of Indians,
ISL 900; to pay expense of purchasing
goods and supplies for Indian servive,
and pay of employees, advertising, in
spection. etc, $45, 900; for the support
of civilization of the Apache and other
Indians in Arizona and New Mexico,
1925, 900, of which Sc, 500 shall be used
to support the Kaibab Indians in Utah;
for general incidental expenses of the
Indian service in New Mexico, including
travelling expenses of agents, ST. 800 is
appropriated; to enable the secretary
of the interior to employ a special
attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New
Mexico, $1 800; for the support and
education AT 800 Indian pupils at the
Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico,
at $167 each per annum, $50, 100; for
pay of superintendent at said school,
81, 700; for water supply and sewage,
SO, 900; for general repairs and improve
ments, $4,000; in all, $751;, SOC.
+ All these expenditures shall be under
the direction of the commissioner of
Indian affairs, subject to supervision
} OF the Interior. The bill gives specific
directions for necessary expenditures
at the agencies generally, provides for
an annual report from the commissioner
of Indian affairs to congress showing
the number of employees at each
agency, their capacity and salary: and
!, that hereafter, all Indians, when they
shall arrive at the age of IS, shall have
the right to receive and receipt for
all %nanuity money that may be due or be-
come due to them, if not other
wise incapacitated under the regula-
tions of the Indian Office. The bill
passed the house December II last.
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