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Show The followiug statemeut shows the amoutlt of beef purchased for issue to Indians from 1886 to 1893, inclusive. The net beef is pur-chased for schools. It will be noticed that the increase in the beef required for school use, owing to increase in attendance of pupils, is offset by the reduction in the issue of gross beef to Indians for their home use. The amount of net beef purohased will doubtless be increased somewhat in the future as schools are still further enlarged, but the pur-chases of gross beef ought soon to diminish very considerably. TABLE 11.-Beef pwohaaed for the Indian smuieq by $seal yaws from 1886 fo 1893, inclusive. Tsar. / Gross. I Not. I/ Posr. / Groas. 1 Net. -- -- - - N&E.--o~ the 39,W0,000 ponndsof beef groas pnrohnsod in 1888,21,410,000 pounds were for Sioor ~ ~ d ian~d 8s,91,40 00 poonds for Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and Apaohea, Kiuwns, and Camsnohas In the ~n~ an~ a r r i t oarogd;i nl8~3,18,7a0,000p oonds werefor Sioux Indians. and 5,200,000 pounds for 0hsyennes and Ampshoes, Apaches, Kiowa, and Comanohen in the Indian Territory. The b h c e of the beef whs issued to Indians in Xootrtrq Arieonq New Moriao. Utah, eta. In 1890, owing to the rehotition by Congrgss of the appropriation for the Sioux Indians, their rations of beef were rednoed. but they were afterwards inareaas1 on accoaot of the Roux trouble in the fall of 1890. i Pm'nd8. 1886 ...................... 28,940,930 1887 ...................... 40,701,600 1888 ...................... 36,683,010 I889 ...................... 89,037,640 SALE OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS. In my last annual report I invited your attention particularly to the decision of the United States district court for the eastern district of Texas that malt liquors could be introduced into the Indian country and sold to Indians without violating the law, and to the fact that in consequence of this decision many saloons had been opened in the In-dian Territory and large quantities of beer had been shipped thereto, where it was freely sold to whites and Indians alike. I also reported that this office and the Department, ill order to prevent as far as prac-ticable the evilsof unrestricted beer kafflc in the Indian Territory, had instrnctedAgent Bennett to seize all packages of beer shipped into the Indian country and to turn them over to the United States marshal to be libeled, as provided in section 2140, Revised Statutes. In pursuance of his instructions, Agent Bennett seized a carload of beer at Lehigh, in the ChoctawNation, Indian Territory, on February I:$, 1892, and attempted to turn it over to the United States marshal fin. said Territory; but the marshal refused to accept it. This refusal was reported to theDepartment February 15,1892, with the statement that the Office was at a loss to see onwhat grounds the marshal for the Indian Territory could refuse to take charge of the car of beer pending an actio~ol f libel against i t in the proper court, in view of the law on the subject. The case was then laid before the Attorney-General, and Pomda. 491.480- 620,600 818.100 978,500 1890 ..................... lR91 ..................... 1892. .................... 1893 ..................... Pounds. 34,924,000 31,030,300 37,208,000 %6,016,000 Pormdr. 1,007,550 1,006,000 1.709.6w 1,725,000 |