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Show . . ': : ,: ., .; , 76 REPORT OF. THE CO&MISSIONER OF , I P T ~ AAN~ R ~ I ~ R . . . . .. . .,. .. - . . . Special attorney Frank D. Lewis has been instructed. to obtain the _' 5 , .; - relinquishments and deeds of conveyance necessary to carry out the ' . . . - arrangements and suggestions of the commission, and reports thus far .. , ~.. . reoeived.from him indicate that he will be entirely successful. '. . When this matter shall have been completed, steps will be taken for I . , . . the isshance of patents for the wveral reservations, as authorized by ' L.... . the act. . ~. .: : The work of making allotments on certain of these re8ervatikns will .. -- , ~. be Commenced at an early day, Miss Kate Footc having been appointed ... . ... .. . a special agent for that purpose. . . UoZ&lle Reseroatia, Wash.-The agreement negotiated'by this com-r - , . ... . , - mission, to which reference was m4de in my last annual report, was . . ' transmitted to Congress at the beginning of the last session,.accom- . . I" . - . panied by the draft of a, bill to ratify the same, notwithstai~dingt he . fact that certain of the provisions of the agreement were somewhat . .. : - ' unsat~stactory. .- ' - ' . In reporting npon the bill the Sende Committee on Indian Affairs 5. r , (Senate Report 664, Fiftpsecond Congress, first session) took the i ground that as this reservation wos estiblished by executive o~deri,t c . , ~ . : : conla be restored without the codsent of theIndiaus. ~. . . Upon bit ground Corigress, instead of ratifying or rejecting the . ~ . -. agreement, passed an act vacating +nd restoring to the public domain - - that portion of the reservation which the Indians had agreed to sell, . : thelands so vacated and restored to be openedto settlement and entry : . . by,proclamation of the President. h e act provides that the net pro- ~.. . . ~, . . ~: . ceeds of the lauds shall be set apart in the Treasury of the United : .. - States, subject to further appropriation by Congress for public use, . . but untilso otherwise appropriated shall be subject toexpenditure by ;: . .. . the Secretary of the Interior in the building of s'choolhouses, the " . . . . .- . . . .. . , maintenance of schools for the Indians, the payment of such part of , . the local taxation as may be properly applied to the lands allotted to such Indians, and in such other ways as he may deem proper 'for the . % ~ . .. . promotion of cdacation, civilization, ind self-support among said In- ; .> dians. The act became a law without the approval of the President. : . It is a matter of regret that this new position wasnot'taken by Con- . . "gress before the negotiations wereauthorized, instead of after the In- .- ' . - dians had given their consent to the restoration of lands npon terms and .. r :, ' oondit,ions which have been wholly ignored in the aet. The Indians were thus led to believe that their consent was necessary and that . they.could dictate the terms, and may feel aggrieved because the nego-. . tiatfons have been repudiated and their rights denied. . . .. . . .. PuyaZlup Reservation, Wash.-The report of the PuyaUup commission, . ,; consisting of Charles D. ~ r i k eG, eorge B. Hinkead, and B. F.'Har- , . - . . ness, appointed by the President nnderauthority of a clause con. .; . , tsjned in the Indian appropriation &t approved August 19,1890 (26 *. - , : : Sbts., 354); to make full inquiry and investigazion in reference b a l l . |