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Show 28 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Apaches and other wild tribes were being gathered upon reservations iu Arizona and New Mexico. A'lotmenf of ~ ~ p l ~ r ~ p r i n l iboyr aC ongrPa*. and the di*bui.,mrntlr fhrrtfrom, davinq lht fiaeol yrum In711 1" 187U,i,tclusire; ulxn tbr dulbc~rsrn~~~ciajiis~lolcnw, nl ~~,llrcI+vdn I?,tl?on I P I ~ R I - fuatda, from y r o r rwi ~o f ~ n l r aof l r d inn l ~ ~ n darr.r l o f hvlrda sold fu,. tdc bmprit ofra~.iuua 3 " Indian tribes, and, alao, of aGunts ca~riedlo the s&plus fand. " Totals ........................ -. - - - . -- -- I .% de(irirncv 05 t~%.m1.13 lor 1874 ia brill onprovided for. la, nl*buraed in the Reeal rvar 1075 from P - f l o i r . ~a~y:p~r vpriniron for t l n fiscal sear is74 sud priasr I 9"". lbl Disborsed in the flsaal FT 1815 fmm appmpriatiooa for the Rsoal year 1816. (el Diabmements fmm Joly I to Norembar I, 1815, from approprnations for the fiscal year 1876. The expenditures of the year 1875, exclusive of expenditures of funds derived from interest of Indian stocks, and sales of bonds and lands, as compared with those of 1875, show adecrease of $1,002,947.19. The appropriations for 1876 are $5,435,627, bnd from present prospects it isconfideutly expected that the deficieneyfor this year will not exceed .$200,000, making a total of $5,635,627, and a diininution of $1,524,446.46 against the cost of 1873. This reduction of expense has occurred partly by increased cheapness of supplies and decreased cost of transportation ; but mainly by the definiteness with whioh numbers wants of In- .dians have been ascertained, whereby waste and overissue of supplies have been in a degree preveuted. The cost of maintaining all the ~ndiknse, xcept the wildeitribes, like the Sioux, Utes, Orows, and Aricliareeu, will steadily decrease from this time on until they cease to be any burden to the Goverr~meu;t and this not through an1 process of extinction, but because of their increasing self-support in a civilized mode of life. It is not improbable, however, that such additional expenditure will be required inbringing the wilder tribes through the transitiou from n state of almost e o ~ i ~ l&baer barism into the &ginning of civilization as mill make the totals of appropriations for three or four Sears to come equal to those of the last three years, and perhaps greater. The problem of the Sioux, as discussed elsewhere, involves even larger ontlajs for at least tbree years than are now required for the feeding process. The Sioux on the Upper Missouri, with the Piegans and Blackfeet, who are now procuring much the larger portion of their subsistence by hunting, will, before long, be compelled by scarcity of game to depend upon Government ratious. When this necessity comes |