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Show REPORT OF TEE C O M M I S S I O N E R O F I?4 D I A N A F F A I R S . I)EPARTDNT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF I m r m AFFAIRS, Washington, September 14,1894. SIR: The sixty-third annual report of the Iudian Bureau, herewith submitted, aims only to give a rbsum6 of noteworthy events which have ocolirred in the Iudian service during the year and of the work for Indian civilization which has been in progress. No attempt is made to theorize upon the Indian questiuu or to point out a way by whichto 'Laolve the Indian problem." It is a plain recital of facts, accompa-nied by the report of the superintendent of Indian schools aud reports of agents and school superintendents, tables giving educational, agri. cultural, industrial, and financial statistics of general interest, with, other information required by law to be embodied in this report. From all these it will appear that the year has been one unmarked by outbreak or disturbance of any kind, and one in which the steady prassnre of earnest work along all lines has produced satisfactory results in general, with an occasional instance of unusual hopefulness and encouragement. APPROPRIATIONS. The amount appropriated for the Indian service by the Indian appro-priation act for the fiscal year just begun is less by $663,240.64 than the amount appropriated by the Indian act for the last fiscal year, as far as the actual expenses of the service are concerned, notwithstand-ing the fact that the aggregate of the :act for 1595 is greater than the 1 6655 I A-1 |