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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIOSER OF IXDIBN AFFAIRS. 61 the liquor to Indians, and impossible to secure conviction on Indian testimony before the Xexican juries that always try such cases in New Mexico. As deputy marshals and other civil officers receive pay only for arrests, that fact prevents them from devoting the necessary timeto investigating these cases of whisky se!ling to the Indians; and there-fore Lieut. Plummer stated that such work, to be succe8sfu1, must be performed I I a~ s pecial officer, aud recommended the appointment of one J. W. Green, of Gallup, N. Dies., to be a special deputy U. S. marshal for the purpose of detecting and bringing to justice the parties engaged in the nefarious traffic. As there is no authority of law for the appointment of a special officer for this purpose, the matter was sub-mitted to the ~ e ~ a r t m e bnyt office report of June 14,1894? with the recommendation that the Department of Justice be requested to send a special agent of that Department to investigate the sale of liquor to Indians at the plaees meutioned by Lieut Plummer, with a view to bringing to justice persons engaged io the traffic of whisky with the Indians of that agency, or with any other Indians rhose tribe is under the charge of a superintendent, agent, or subagent of the United States, in accordance with existing law. At the Uintah and Ouray Agency in Utah, much trouble has been experienced from the sale of liquor to Indians by certain squatters on the strip of land which was segregated from the Uintall Rese,rvatidn and restored to the public domain under the act of May 24,1888 (25 Stats., 157). The attention of the office was called to this matter by a report of September 10, 1893, from ANaj. James F. Randlett, acting agent. September 21,1893, the office instructed him to furnish the U. S. district attorney for Utah with the names of the parties who had sold or otherwise furnished liquors to Indidns of his agency, and with names and addresses of witnesses to the offense, and to request the district attorney to take the steps necessary to bring the guilty parties to punishment under the provisions of section 2139 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of July 23, 1892 (27 Stats., 260); also to consult with the local authorities of the Territory of Utah with a view to breaking up the resort of the squatters if the local laws would admit thereof. June 25,1894, the Department called the attention of this office to the fact that it had been reportedto the Secretary that the Mexicans who worked a large portion of the laud of the strip exerted a demoralizing, influence upon the Indians by gambling and selling whisky, and that there were also alarge number of squatters, equally demoralizing, from whom the local authorities received large revenues for licensing their dens; it was also stated that no power other than that of the General Government could suppress them;aud it was urged that steps be taken to abate the evil. Maj. Randlett was accordingly directed, July 12, 1894, to report to this office fully relative to these matters in order that an attempt might be made to relieve his agency of the nuisance |