Year: 1873

Affairs, ordered to be printed by resoiu-

 tion of the House of March 5, lsI3' mas just been completed at the government printing office.

 The report says. By this investigation and report the Committee hope to do some thing to rid the Indian service O. the hear'- less scoundrels who infest 1t and who oo so much damage to Indians, the settlers anu Government. Summing up the nature ol the wrongs, the report says Great iraous and wrongs have been committed with lm- punity in the past oy fraudulent contracts obtained by persons more or less 1amiilar with the management of Indian anairs, either as agent or attorney, by when the Indians were sufferers, and which nave caused so much bad feeling and dlstrust between them and our government ana peo- pie. This has greatly retarded the prog ress of the Indians in civilization.

 The report of the Committee shows that there has continually been, and now IS, class of vicious and unprincipled cialm agents and middle men who, for selhsh purposes, defeat the mutual interests or the government and the Indians, bring dls- grace on the nation and our civilization, discourage and madden the Indians, ana destroy the ends of justice and faithful op- servation of our agreements with them.

 Referring to the past, the report con1in- ues, the Committee expresses its surprise and regret that the authorities controlling the Indian affairs have heretofore neither directed their own attention nor called the attention of Congress to the great and re- volting waste of the patrimony of the h. dians, and the continued and serious diffi- culties between them and the white people, caused by those corrupt and corrupting middle men who are adrOit enough to es- cape the evil results of their own villanies. IS. F. Bulletin.

 Now, we have little surprise and regret to express, but we do not ex- pect that it will do any more good or have any more influence with the Committee on Indian Affairs than their surprise and regret has had with Congress. It is a matter of surprise and regret that Indians brought upon reservations are not compelled to earn their own living by their own labor the same as those who are taxed to support them. Take 8 like number of white men and place them on reservation and support them i'll indo- fence and they will become disgrace to the race, and perfectly worthless. Can more be expected of Indians ? Oh, but they say, all this will come in time. What time! No industrial effort has been made in Arizona with a large proportion of the Apaches, though they have been on and off res ervations for years. A ditch is now being constructed at San Carlos by citizen labor for the benefit of these Indians. In this instance 1t was we'll to have the aid of citizen labor, be- cause the necessity for its immediate construction was urgent in order to plant crop this year. But not shovelful of dirt can you get these proud red men to throw. Hence they have had nothing to do but to get up raids. plot and attempt to kill their agent, and murder in cold blood the commander of the troops, who is placed there to protect them. We understand that Gen. Crook made it one of the conditions of the peace made at Verde that the Indians should work, and as soon as possible earn their own living, and that they are now preparing to do so. Practically this is the remedy that should be first applied. It will to 8 great extent prevent peculations, because the gov ernment will not be called upon to appropriate money for their support it will afford the Indians employment for their time and talents in another direction than the raising of scalps, and the excuse that it will not do to attempt it for fear that it will drive them from the reservation, is the best evidence in the world that they are not lit to live on the reservation and ought not to be supported by the gov ernment.