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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXI training and advantages which Hampton offers, and the large private 1 donations which she has secured for the furtherance of Indian educa-tion, I cannot consider this discri~ninationa gainst her as anythiug but 'I a blunder, and one too serious to be allowed to go uncorrected. General Armstroug says : The reduction is arbitrary and uncelled for. It will not seriously hinder the work, for friends will take it up, but it is humiliating to qpeal to privste charity to make ROO,! this sniall econooly of Congreen. Hamptou school hm re$matedly asked for $17.5, on the grouncl of fair troatmcnt and the gurlity of the work dona. This rsdoa-tionomnot be due toignorance, but to careleasnrss or to personal ill-will to t,hework . in which I andmv assoointea are en-ea sed for the Indian race. In hehsllfof some of the constituents of the very legislntora who did this injmstica, to whom I have applied tu make nu thi8redoctioo. I protest nnzinst theeu:tinn~lownof the per eapitnnlloa- 1 . . anoa to Rautpton school. P,upils in aorious school8 in 8tate.8.-Similar to t,raining-school work is the education of pupils in vmions schools throughout the country, which is assuming noteworthy proportions. Beginning two years ago with prorision for 100 pupils, the appropriations have so increased that during tlie last fisca,l year 565 Indian youths mere placed in 20 schools located in eleven States, from Xorth Carolina to Ualifornia. In these schools <arming, trades, and honschold industries are taoght, and solic-itous care taken of the mental, moral, and physical well-being of the pupils. As stated in my last report, the compensation allomed by the law for sur,b'admirable work i8 011l.v $167 per pupil per annum. The running expenses of such schoola, in addition to the first cost of the outfit in buildings, machinery, tools, &c., is, of conrse, much greater. The effect h a n ecessaril,~b een to enlist private benevolence and effort quite exten8ively in t h i ~w ork. Thus Coverument funds have been aupl>lemented,a l~d11 ewf orces have been brought to be:w on the nplift-ing of the Indian. The interest which thns manifests itself in, but can-not he measured by, money donations is sincere, energetic, and practical. A few other pupils have been sent away to school, who have been sup-ported by tribal funds. Seven years ago hardly an Indian child was 'receiving any other than that which could be afforded by a reservation school. During Inst year 1,754 were in the training and other schools above. described, and during the coming year the number will undoubtedly reach 2,200. The Albuquerque school migLt very properly he added to this list, and would raise the number to 2,400. This method of Indian education continued systematically cannot fail to become a powerful factor iu Indian civiliaation. Reservaticm, schools.-This special training of Indian youths away from their homes does not, however, remove, but rather increases, t,he need for more vixorous ~choowl ork on reservations. The mass of the In-dians are there, and during this school generation at least will remain there. Whether ten years from now t,he same sort of work will be needed depends largely on t l ~ esc hooling given the present generation |