Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-12-29
Offices in Third Congress:on-
al District Have Trouble
Finding Postmasters
TO TAX INDIAN LANDS
Indian Commissioner Re.
port Will Favor Making In
dians Sef-Supporting


Representative Albert Johnson is noti-
fed by the postoffice department that
it will be necessary to hold re-exam-
nations to secure eligibles for the fol-
lowing postmasterships in his con-
gressional district: Allyn, Aloha,
Brookfield, Deep River, Elbe, Gilmer,
Heisson, Husum, Klickitat, Knappton,
Mccormick, MCGOWAN, McKenna,
Mayfield, Milton, Mora, Messy Rock,
Nasel, National, New Kamilche, North
Cove Roosevelt, Sherlock, Timber Val
ley, Tono, Trout Lake, Lake Bay, Bor-
deaux, Bucoda, Forest, Littell, Nc
Cleary Moclips, Parkland, Sequim,
Yelm.
May Discontinue Some
The following postof!ices in the
Third congressional district will be
discontinued unless eligibles can be
found for them: Allyn, Aloha, Brook
field Deep River, Elbe, Gilmer, Heis-
son, Husum, Klickitat, Knappton. Nc
Cormick, McGowan, McKenna, May
field, Milton. Mora, Messy Rock, Ma
sci, Natloual, New Kamilche, North
Cove, Roosevelt, Sherlock Timber Val
ley, Tono, Trout Lake Bay.
Concerned Over Rural Carriers
Members of congress from Washing
ton and every other state are con-
cerned over a provision which has
been inserted in the postoffice appro-
priation bill by the postoffice commit
tee giving the postoffice department
power to discharge all of the rural
carriers of one county in every state
in the Union and advertise for bid
ders to carry the rural mails under
contract in that county.
1t is a case where no member of
congress cares to have this innova.
ton wished upon him, for the rural
carriers in the counties selected for
the experiment are not going to feel
very good about it. Postmaster Gen
eral Burleson, in his annual report
recommended that all rural carriers
in the United States be taken off OF
salary basis and that contracts for
| carrying the mails on rural routes be
! let, the same as contracts fer star
route service. The pOstoffice commit
tee declined to authorize this change
but did authorize experimental rural
mail contract delivery, to be tested out
in one county in every state. The
theory is that if it proves satisfactory
and economical in the counties in
which it is tested it can be extended
generally over the country, just as the
rural delivery service branched out
from a small experimental beginning
Indians to Pay Taxes
The board of Indian commissioners
supported by Secretary of the Interior
Lane, is moving as rapidly as posi-
BILE in the direction of bringing al
Washington Indian lands under state
taxation, to the end that the Indian
ward of the nation, but as a citizen
with the responsibilities of citizenship
including the duty of paying taxes or
the land he owns.
The board of Indian commissioners
has communicated to members of con
eress frcm states where there are In
dian lands it's policy, which is in part
as follows:
I'VE believe that not only as {
matter of fundamental right, but as {
matter of sound policy, no IndiaI
funds should be used to pay admins
trative expenses without the consen
of the Indians interested.
"At the same time there shoult
be a shifting of the burden of admin
istering Indian property from the gov
ernment to the shoulders of the own
ers. Indian property should begin tt
protect and preserve itself by bearing
it's own administrative burdens. In
dian land, which has heretofore beer
free from taxation, should contribute
it's share to the support of those func
tions Of the great government from
which the Indian owners derive bene
fit"
The board Of Indian commissioner
reports that in the state of Washing
ton alone there are 2,94S,7OS acres o
Indian lands not now subject to taxa
ton to bear the burden of govern
ment.
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