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Show 40 REPORT OF THE COM~~ISS~ONOEFR INDUN APFAIR8. bration, to secure about 30 Indians from the Shoshone Agency, Wyo., to participate in the celebration to be held in Cheyenne, Wyo., August 23 and 24,1899. In this case satisfactory arrangements were made by the authorities having the celebration in charge for the care, protec-tion, and expenses of the Indians. In this, 's well as in similar cases in which Indians have been permitted to attend industrial exhibitions and local celebrations, permission has been granted upon condition that the Government was to be at no expense whatever, and that the Indians could be spared from their homes without detriment to their interests. As stated in previous reports, whenever engagements with Indians for general exhibition purposes are made, their employers are required to enter into written contracts with the individual Indians, obligating themselves to pay such Indians fair stipulated salaries for their services; to supply them with snitable food and clothing; to meet their traveling and needful incidental expenses, including medical attendance, etc., from the date of leaving their homes until their return thither; to pro-teot them from immoral influences and surroundings; to employ a white man of good character to look after their welfare, and to return them to their reservation without cost to themselves within a certain specified time. They are also required to execute bond for the faithful fulfillment of such contracts. June 20,1899, the Secretary of State advised the Department that a dispatch had been received from John B. Jackson, secretary to the United States embassy at Berlin, asking instructions concerning a party of 13 Sioux from the Rosebud Agency, S. Dak., who were with a Wild West" show in Germany, and likely to be abandoned there to their own resonrees. Mr. Jackson reported that he had been informed by United States Consul Pettit, of Dusseldorf, Germany, that the Indians were at Duisburg, where they were practically held as prison-ers, mere not properly provided for, and were without passports, and that he had advised the consul of Dusseldorf that American Indians, unless naturali~edc,o uld not receive passportu, though they were enti-tled to some protaction as citizens, being wards of the United States. Mr. Jackson stated further that he had learned that one Giles Pull-man was in charge of the Iodians, and had boasted of having smug-gled them out of the United States, via Montreal, Canada, without giv-ing bond for their good treatment or return to their homes, but claimed that he and another showman, William Casper (who has been in Ger-many for several years with sundry "Wild West" shows, most of vhich have turned out disastrously), were making comfort.able provision for the In~lians. The office was aware £601u~n official sources that a small party of Sioux had surreptitiously left the Rosebud Reservation and had been taken to Europefor show purposes by unknown and unauthorized per-song. It could be under no obligations, save those of hulllanity, to pay |