Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-04
Indian Appropriation Bill

, where irrigation projects are being
constructed. 1t is also expected that
the information obtained from these
reports will result in procuring adj
ministrative and legislative action
which will protect more securely the
water rights of the Indians Of the
country.
There is included in the bill an APP
preparation of $85, 900 to cover salaries
and expenses of probate attorneys
under the direction of the commits
sioner in the working out of rsobate
reforms for the protection Of the
property of Indian children in Okla
homa, which will be done in harmony
with rules of probate procedure
adopted at conference of the coun-
ty judges with the commissioner OF
Indian affairs held in January and
recently adopted and promulgated by
the justices of the Supreme Court.
The bill also carries 100000 to sup
port a widespread and aggressive
campaign for the suppression of the
liquor traffic among Indians.
! The bill gives the commissioner six
| confidential inspectors with special
civil service qualifications 1t is ex-
pected that this appropriation vii!
| result in thorough Investigations be.
| ing made on Indian reservations anf
| throughout the Indian country oep-
| orally, that he may be advised of ti1s
actual conditions as a basis for their
effective reform.
/ The bill provides for the consolida-
ton of the offices of the five civilized
! tribes and the union agency and with
| it reduction of $4,000 over pre-
| vious years in the expense of con
] Quoting these two branches of the
| Indian service.
| The controversy regarding the en-
| rollment of the Mississippi Choctaws
| is compromised by emitting the
| Choctaws of oklahoma from the per
capita payment made to Chickasaw
/ and Cherokee Indians of 800 and SIS,
respectively
A long contest regarding the water
| rights of the Yakima Indians is final
| ly settled by giving these Indians a
| free water right to forty, acres OF
| their allotments in perpetuity.
| Another question which has been N
| dispute for a number of years is
settled by providing for alloting the
remaining unallotted Indians of the
| Bad River reservation and the distri-
| button per capita of the remaining
| tribal timber to the unallotted In
! dams.
| Out of the funds of the confeder-
| ated bands of Utes in Utah and Col
piduO Lnlc iDiit dppTopI1dLeS ABOUT
100000. 100000 for the purchase of
| stock for the Navajo Springs band
Of said Indians in Colorado, 100000
| for the Unitah. White River and
| Uncompagre bands in Utah and the
balance to be expended among all Of
said Indians for the promotion of
| civilization and self-support among
| them, one of the chief purposes OF
/ which is to protect the w,Ser rights
of the Ute Indians from BEING for
feited within the period fixed b. law.
| and all of which is to give them
much needed help in industrial pro
| gress.
One hundred thousand dollars is
| appropriated for determining the
! heirs of deceased Indian allot-
tees so that title to these lands
may be certain. There are now 10000
of these cases pending in the Indian
| office, in which land valued at 500
100000 is involved. The SIS charged
to each estate for the payment of this
| expense has during the past year re-
covered into the treasury $4,000
which is $4,000 more than the appro-
priation on which this work was ac-
| complished by the Commissioner OF
| Indian Affairs.