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Show REPORT OF INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. LXXXIII gation of which is to expend $10,000 in building school-houses and maintaining schools. The treaty provides that annuity money may be taken to maintain schools. The Indians agree to send children to school nine months in the year or forfeit part of their annuitiw. 23. 'With the Utes, the treaty of March 2, 1868, the obligation of which is to erect a school-house, as soon as a sufficient number of chil-dren can be induced to attend school, at a cost not to exceed $5,000. The provision of the Apache, Eiqwa, and Comanche treaty of October 21,1867, requiring the Government, for twenty years, to support one school and provide a teacher for every thirty children of school age, is repeated in this treaty. 24. With the Winnebagoes, the treat.y of November 1,1837 (see also joint resolution of July 17, 1862), the obligatiou of which is the annual payment of $3,300 of interest money for purposka of erlucation. This interest accrued upon a fund, which, in 1837, was $1,100,000, but which has been reduced by a citizenship provision to $804,909.17. FAILURE TO OBSERVE OBLIQATIONS OF TREATIES. Pro*isions of other treaties imposing upon the Government the ob-ligation to build school-houses and establish and maintain schools are not referred to above, for the reason that the school provisions of the treaties not mentioned have expired by limitation j but it should be remarked in this conuection that the Government failed to give effect, in accordance with their letter, to most of the expired provisions. It may be also stat,ed here that Congress annually fails to give effect, in accordance with their letter, to most of the still vital provisions. The Secretary of the Interior has repeatedly called attention tothis fact, and in 1884 he estimated that it would require an appropriation of $4,033,700 to fulfill the educational provisions of eight of our Indian treaties. He said : This money is now due. A large part of the money so agreed to be paid was in considemtion of land oeded to the Government by the Indians. It is.not a gratnitp, hut a debt due the Indians, incurred by the Government an its own motion and not at the request of the Indians. It is true that the debt is due to fiependent and aeak people vho have but little disposition to cornplein of the neglect of the Government to fulfill its obligation, and sre wanting iu sbilit,y to compel *he performance thereof; yet their very weakness and lack of disposition to complain ought to stirno-late the Government to saoredlg perform all the provisions of treaties providinz far the edooation and advancement of these people. Not only a direct regard for our plighted faith demands this, but our interest also demands it. Acting upon this reasoning the Secretary of the Interior requested that the following appropriations should be made, and estimates there-for were submitted to Congress, one in 1884 and one in 1885, bythe Secretary of the Treasury among his estimates for deficienoiea in ap-propriatious : 1. For school supplies and teacher for every thirty children, under treaty of October 21, 1867, with Apaches, Kiowas, and Comanches, from date of treaty to June 30,1884, $249,200. |