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Show 1 REPORT OF TEE ~OMMISS~ONEE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXIX Colorado reported that it would be impossible for him to keep his In-dians on the reservation with the small amouut of supplies furnished him by the Departmeut from the appropriation of $50,000 made b ~C;o n. gress for the fiscal year 1886 for all theUtes; that if additional supplies were not furnished depredations would be committed, &c. The War Department also reported that the supplies to be furnished were not sufficient,-and it was insisted on that st least 10,000 pounds of beef and 3,000 pounds of flour per week be furnished the agent. Under these cir- ' cumstances, afterusingupthesh?rebelougingto the SouthernUtes of the $25,000 per annum dtie the Utes as interest under the treaty of April 29, 1874, a request was made by this office to divert the sum of $10,000 from the ap,propriation, support of Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico, for the purchaseof additional beef and flour for the Southern Utes; and the President, on your recommeudation, having given his approval of the diversion, sufficient snpplie8 will be furnished the agent to enable him to keep his Indians on the reservation. In my estimate for the fiscal year 1887 I have asked for the sum of $60,000, the amourit formerly granted, and I hope Congress will see the necessity for this increased appropriation and will grant the same. Through similar action, distress and, as the agent reported, war was prevented at the Shoshone Agency in Wloming, where part of the Northern Cheyeunes and Arapahoes and the Shoshones are located. Under artiole 6 of the treaty of May 10,1868, and agreement with the . Sioux Indians approved February 28, 1877, Congress in former years . appropriated annually for the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes $35,000, to be expended for such article8 as from time to time the con-dition and necessities of the Indhns might indicate to be proper. The. whole amount was then expended for those located at the Shoshone Agency in Wyoming. Several years ago, a number' of Northern Cheyennes, parties to the abovg.meutioned treaty, left their agency and went to settle near the Rosebud and Tongue Rivers in Montana. Two years ago Congrees re-duced the fibove-mentioned appropriation of $35,000 to $25,000, and also provided th&t this amount should be expended pro rata, as near as might be, for the Northern Cheyennea and Arapahoes in Wyoming, and on the Tongue River in Montana. In consequence of the reduction made by Congress of the amount ?ppropriated, and the division of this amount between those in Wyoming and thosein Montana, theirra-tions had to be reduced more than one-half, and the only way to pro-vide them with the amouut of beef and flour absolutely necessary ,was again to have reoour8e to section 4, above mentioned. A divereion of $7,000 from the appropriation made for the support of the Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Apaches, Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichita8 was made, and additional supplies, which it is thought will prove sutticient, have been. ordered under existing contracts. I am happy to state that the condition of the Indians in Montana, whe no doubt, were starving during the winters of 1883and1884, especially |