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Show xxviii FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF abuse from his own people, and in return to offer him the thanks of the Government to the extent of $8 per month if he is a private, and of $10, per month if he has the added responsibility of being an officer. Never-theless, at many agencies, Indians have been found who meet these re-quirements with remarkable skill and fidelity, and who accept these po-sitions from a genuine'sense of loyalty to the Government and a desire for the progress of their peoplein civilized ways. The appointment has a reflex effect on the appointee. The uniform, the commission, the trust reposed in him, the faot that he is a representative of the United States. Government, develops esprit du corps, and the Indian policeman be-comes brave, efsaient, and loyal even to the extent of hazarding his life in the discharge of his duties. This spirit was strikingly manifested by severalleading Sonx policemen who, as members of the Bioux delega-tion, recently visited this city. In a conference with them held in the Indian Commissioner's room, Captain Sword said: We have a good deal of trouble among our people to get them to do what the Gov; Brnment wishes them to do. I am in the service of the Government. So matter whet oomes before me I sm willing to go ahead and do whstever t.he Government desires me to do. Fire Thunder added : What sword has said is verg true. I have foroed myself into being powerful for the Government and have worked verg hard. Of oourse, when I have this uniform onmy life is nothing, if'I have anything to do that the Government orders me to do. Anything I am told to do, I walk right into it. The same sentiments were expressed by the other policemen present, and all protested that the Government pay allowed them was altogether insufficient. In this protest the Indian agents and members of the Sioux Commission present heartily joined. It may also be stated that Captain Pratt, Snperintendent of the Car-lisle School, whose experience in both civil and military life specially qualifies him to judge of the actual and r e l a t i~eim portance and value of the work done by the Indian police, ariting upon this subject, gives the following opinion: One of the things for which agents and Iodisns would feel moat grateful just now would be a better recognition of the valneaf the Iodien police. Their pay is wretch-edly small. Knowing nly connection with their brsnoll of the Goveromeut servioa they everywhere speak to me about it. The police ought to have army pay at least. I would say, $15 5 month for privates, $17 for corporals, and $20 for sergeants, with. full rations and clothing in eaoh earre. The caotsin should hive $50 a. month, the firat lirutenant $40, unrl the aceond licateonnt 830. 1 have repeatedly tiitne$rsd fbcir loyaltj tu I:,@ Guverr~rnnnt in thn p,rforntntcee of the moat arduoas end dangerous seraioes. Espeoially has it been before me daring our present confarenoes with thesianx. Policemen or soldiers ofany other raoe cool& not ]lave performed the services t h a t the native policemen have pe~formedw ithout endangering ontbreak. Two policemen were sent by the agent 40 miles away and arrested and brol~ghbt aok to the agency Chief John Grass. A full company of sol-diem would not have been s~~ffioientftohre asme service, and in attemptingit a min-iature war might have resolted. Another argoment ie fkvor of this increased salary is that the United Strstes Gov- 'erument, thronghootthe wbolemilitsry serviae in the West, has a t al.mo st every goat |