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Show as not to conflict with nor overlap one another. To that end, all public funds devoted to this purpose should be appropriated by Congress to be expended upon the Indian exhibit of the Interior Department to be used , by the Indian Bureau, and by other bureaus so cooperating with it as to insure a single, clear, complete presentation of Indian advancement. The exten6 and success of an exhibit by this Bureau will depend largely upon the amount of money which can be put at its disposal for that. purpose, and steps toward preparing it can not be advantageously taken until the amount of funds which will be allowed therefor shall be . . approximately known. The attention to the Indian question which has been enlisted throughout the country in the past ten years will give to the exhibit importance and interest, and if suitably presented it will have special interest for visitors from abroad. Great care should be taken to make such a presentation as shall, be creditable to a Govern-ment which has furnished one of the rare iuatances in history of a sys-tematic attempt on the part of the conquering power to respect the rights and improve the condition of a conquered people. In spite of the blunders, failures, and disasters which can be cited in what bas been stigmatized as a L'century of dishonor," ourGovernment can claim credit and take satisfaction in what it has attempted and is now doing for its Indians, and time and money will be wisely spent in giving the results of its efforts a clear and adequate setting forth at Chicago. A meager, inadequate display will be worse than none, and it is hoped that Congress at its coming session will make just and even generous provision for the representation at the Exposition of the process of evolving United States citizens out of Alnerican savages. INTRUDERS IN THE CHICEASAW NATION. Except as to the Chickasaw Nation the situation with regard to the question of intruders in the Indian Tenritory has not materially changed doring the past year. Pursuant to instrr~ctionosf July 24,1890, Agent Bennett, of the Union Agency, in the Indian Territory, was directed, in office letter of July 28, 1890, to call on the authorities of the Chickasaw Nation for a list or lists of the names and places of abode of intruders in that Nation. These lists were transmitted with his report of November 14 and 19, 1890, and contained the names of some 6,000 persons whom the Chick-asaws claimed to be intruders. They were transmitted to the Depart-ment December 15,.1890, with a recommendation that the Secretary of War be requested to furnish troops to assist the agent in removing them. In reply, March 24, 1891, I was directed to '' proceed to have these intruders removed in such manner and witli such precautions against unnecessary severity 7' as I might deem best. No provision for the assistance of troops in execution of these in-structions had been made, and in view of the reports received in this |