The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-09-20
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
Washington, September l6, 1912.

the moneys OF the individual Indians an
encourage their independence to the II
most, is keynote of an order Of Con
missioner Valentine, of the Indian But
eau, approved today by Acting Secretar
Adams, OF the Interior Department.
The order cvokeS a circular order is
! sued in April regarding the responsibilit
OF Indian superintendents for handin,
the large aggregate OF money deposited
! to the credit of individual Indians. th,
new dictum being intended to give tc
| each Indian the fullest amount of real ed
ucative responsibility.
AS fast as individual Indians give Jus
tiilcatlon for such action by shown,
their actual capacity" the new orde
reads, all of the moneys due them shal
DC turned over to them for their own use
Superintendents will ask for authority r
each particular case"
The order directs that everything DOS
sible be done to encourage ablebodiec
Indians to be independent members OF
community.
They should be given more frequently
than at present part of their funds, " the
department directs. Monthly pensions
payable from principal shall not be allow
ed except in cases of absolute necessity.
Superlntends are authorized to expend
reasonable amounts out of the individual
Indians money without authority from
Washington IN such unforeseen emergen-
cles as involve life, health. property and
pressing agricultural needs. y
Commissioner Valentine is not at all
worried about the charges on file with
the Department of Justice that he lille
gally took Intoxicating liquor into an In
dian reservation in Oklahoma. The truth
about these charges came out during the
hearings last April, before the House
Committee on Expenditures in the Inter-
ior Department Asked by Chairman
Graham if he did not know that it was
against the law to carry liquor on Indian
reservations, Commissioner Valentine re-
Piled:
Il knew it was generally against the
law to do SO, but | had this with me-"
and the Commissioner produced per.
nit issued BY the then Secretary of War
William Fl. Taft.
The witness explained that he carried
whskey for medicinal purposes under
governmental authorization. After his
fight in Minnesota against the liquor in
terests, MIR. Valentine substituted bot
tie Of ammonia and peppermint for the
whiskey finding it equally efficacous.
President TAFT has taken personal
charge of the question OF permitting re-
ligious garb to be worn in Indian schools,
and at his request Secretary Fishers an
nounced decision and accompanying pa
pers have been referred by the Interior
Department to the summer White House
at Beverly.
Commissioner Valentine directed the
discontnuance of the wearing of religious
inSignian in the Indian institutions. but on
the appeal OF Catholic authorities the or
der was held up. Secretary Fisher pre-
pared decision, the nature of which was
never made public. President Taft's call
for the papers was taken here to indicate
that decision may soon be announced
from Beverly.
Presidential candidates in the pre.con-
vention fight last spring have furnished to
Chairman Clapp, of the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee, names OF the
men who handled their campaign funds.
All financial managers have agreed to APP
pear before the committee when its hear
ingS begin, September 80.
Senator Bankhead will appear for
Oscar w. Underwood; former Senator
Dubois for Champ Clark; Representative
William B. Mckinley for President Taft;
Senator Dixon and Ormsby McHarg for
Colonel Roosevelt; Lieutenant Governor
Nichols, OF Ohio, for Governor Iudsor
Harmon, and William F. McCombs fol
Governor Wilson.
The committee will hold preliminary
meeting before the hearings open to fix
the time when each witness shall testify
All witnesses S are under instruction to ap
pear on the opening day, September 30
Members of the committee are still con
sidering plan to hold some of the hear
ings in New York. 1t has been founC
| impossible to secure the testimony c
William Rockefeller in regard to alleget
Standard Oil contributions in 1904, unles
the committee goes to his home. In cas-
New York sessions are held, I. P. Nor
gan, George w. Perkins and other finar
ciers probably will be asked to testif
about contributions they may have mad
to political funds.
1t is understood the committee wi
summon Dan r. Hanna, of Cleveland
at the instance of Senator Pomerene, t
testify to any contributions by him to tn
| Roosevelt fund this year In 1908 MI
Hanna gave $1,000 to President Taft
general campaign fund.
Captain Charles Young. Ninth Cavalr,
the only negro army officer graduate
from West Point, has been promoted t
the rank and file of Major, rank no otl
er negro has attained Young is no
military attache to Liberia and is organ
izing the army of the black republic.
Secretary Nagel of the Department
Commerce and Labor heard the plea
an Irish girl today and his heart went OF
to her. Mary Terrell, twenty-three an
pretty left fatherless boy in Ireland an
came to this country to live with her ma
risd sister at Los Angeles. August f.
the immigration officials at New Yol
turned her back to Ireland on the groun
that she might become public charg
Her child was the only bar to her admi
sion.
Secretary Nagle decided to reopen Il
case and give the girl another opportuni
to become an American. Offers fro
prominent persons to assist the your
woman and care for her and baby cause
Mr.. Nagel to act.
William H. Lewis, the negro Asslsta
I Attorney-General of the United State
{ whose admission to the American b
: Association provoked row, declared
5 a political speech that Attorney Gener
Wickersham's fight against his expulsic
! fronf the association had been conduct,
r with the advice and consent of Preside
e Taft.
4 Mr.. Lewis condemned the Progressi
: partv's refusal to receive Southern neg
delegates in its convention and endorse