The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-25
TOM RYAN's PAY.
Sec'y Hitchcock Says His Assis-
tant Doesn't Get Enough.

Washington, Nov. 25.-The annual re-
port of the secretary of the interior IS
made public today.
On the very first of the nearly 300
pages which make up the report Mr..
Hitchcock calls attention to the fact
that Thomas Ryan, of Kansas, assist
ant secretary of the interior. does not
get nearly enough money for the work
he does.s His salary, says the secretary,
is not an adequate compensate for the
exacting duties to be performed by him,
and Mr.. Hitchcock further declares that
his assistant ought to get a raise lat
the earliest practicable date"
The Indian question remains in its
position of prominence as essentially
the leading topic of the departmental
discussion. The conclusion is reached
that non-reservation schools have full
ly served their purpose, and that fur
Their extension of these schools should
not be permitted"
Moreover, the secretary asserts that
for some time he has been of the opin-
ion that the curriculum should not be
restricted to the common school course.
Industrial training should and will be
inaugurated in both the non-reservation
and reservation boarding schools, where
not already tabliShed, to consist of
carpentry. blacxsmithing, harness, shoe
and wagOnmaking, and such other in
dustries trades as males may be
adapted tO,and females should be train
ed especially in laundering, cookery,
tailoring, dressmaking and the arts of
housekeeping, to which more than ordi-
nary attention should be paid"
1t is, however, when the secretary
considers in detail the condition of the
Indian Territory under the Curtis act
and other legislation that his conclu-
sions become of the greatest immedia tie
interest to the southwestern states. The
earlier treaties are reviewed, and the
several acts under which the jurisdic-
ton of the United States territorial
courts were extended are recited his
torically with this conclusive comment:
Notwithstanding the enlargement of
the jurisdiction of the United States
courts in the Indian Territory, the con-
ditions therein continued to be unsatis-
factory and subsequent legislation was
had with a view of remedying the de-
fects and issuing a proclamation to the
persons residing in said Territory"
The consequent creation of the Dawes
commission under the act of March 3,
1898, it's duties as originally constituted
and as subsequently modified and ex-
tended by additional legislation are pre-
scented with some attention to detail
and the whole legislative purpose of the
government is reviewed as it was final
ly crystalized in the act of June %,
1898, commonly called the Curtis act,
after the Kansas congressman.
The secretary then states: "It was
expressly provided in the agreement
contained in section 20 of the Curtis act
that the tribal government, as modified
therein, should be continued until March
4, 1906. and it is stated that said stipu-
lation was made in the belief that said
governments, modified, will prove
SO satisfactory that there will be no
desire for further change until the lands
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shall, in the opinion of congress be
prepared for admission as a state to the
Union, but these provisions shall not
be construed to be in any respect an
abdica ton by congress of power at any
time to make needful rules and regula-
lions respecting said tribes"