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Show SOUTHERN UTES. The agreement concluded with the Southern Ute tribe of Indians Xo\-,?luber 13,1888, and transmitted by the Department to Congress with draft of bill January 11,1589, has not yet been ratified. House bill Yo. 67, Fifty-second Congress, first session, to ratify and coufirm said a p e eme~~wta,s read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs, but does not appear to have received any further ac't l'o n. It bas been nearly five years since this agreement was eoncluded, and the interests of the Indians render it very important that some defirdte actiou in regard to their status be taken at an early day. The unse.ttled condition of mind collsequent upon this inaction naturally has :an unf~vorablee ffect upon the ~ndi'ansa, nd is doing more to retard t h e i ~ad vit~lcen~etnhta n any other known cause. It prevents the work of a:llotment and creates a gkneral disinclination to agricultural pur-soita or home-making, except of the most temporary character. UPPER AND MIDDLE: BANDS OF SPOKAXES. Congress, by act of July 13,1892 (27 Stats., p. 120), acceptetl, ratified, and confirmed $he agreement concluded with the Upper and Middle bmils of Spoliane Indiaus March 18,188'7, and for the purpose of carry-ing the same into erect appropriated $30,000 as the first installment of the oonsideration ($95,000) ~nentionedi n theagreement. This $30,000 mas appropriated mith the provision that it should be expended for the . benefit of those Indians who should remove to the Cceur d'Al4ne Res-ervation iu Idaho, in the erection of houses, assisting then1 in breaking land, in the purchase of cattle, seeds, agricultural implements, saw and grist; mills, clothing, subsistence, etc. Au the said agreement provides for the removal of some of these Indisns to either the Colville or Jocko reservations, at their option, Coni~ressn -as asked to amend the act so that the $30,000 appropriated might be applied to their benefit, as well as to the benefit of those removing to Ccelrr d'A16ne. Accordingly the act approved March 3, 1893 (27 Stats., 1,. 612), contain8 a clause providing that any moneys theretofore appropriated for the removal of the Spokanes to t,he Cceur d'Algne Reservatioll shall he extended to or expended for such members of the tribe as have removed or shall remove to the Colville or Jocko resei:vations. The act also appropriates $20,000 as the second of ten instzdlments, as per said agreement, to be expended in the removal of t,he L3pokanes t,o Cce~ud. 'Alene, etc. Montgomery Hardman, of Spokane, Wash., was appointed special agellt to remove these Indians to Cceur d'Al6ne. He was given full and explicit instructions in the matter September 14, 1892, and after an exauliuatiou of the situation reported that it was hardly possible to |