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Show 2 BEPORT OR TEE COMMIBSIONEB. OF INDIAN AFBAIRB. The excess of 1903 over 1904 is $650,966.33, accounted for as follows: 1905 over 1904: Fulfilling treaty stipulations ........... $67,744.34 Miscellaneous supports, gratuities ...... 96,000.00 Support of schools ..................... 16,515.00 Capitalih%tiono f annuities ............. SSP, 368.00 $1,179,627.34 1904 over 1903: Current and contingent expensee ....... 300.00 Miscellaneaus ......................... 528,361.01 -- 528,661.01 650,966.33 Expenditures.-The expenditures on account of the Indian service for the fiscal year ended June 30,1903, were as follows: Current and contingent expen w... ................... $719,242.39 Fulfilling treaty stipulations ......... .; ............... 1,560,085.90 Miscellaneous mpporta, gratuities.. ................... 489,418.74 Truat funds .......................................... 3,578,784.65 Incidental expenses .................................. 69,836.81 Support of schools.. ................................ 3,161,438.61 Miscellaneous.. ...................................... 3,356,360.78 Total ................... .....,... .............. 12,935,168.08 The excess of this total over that of the appropriations for 1903 is accounted for by the item of "Trust funds," which are not appropriated annually, and by the item miscellaneous," which includes a number of permanent appropriations which are carried over from year to year. EDUCATION. There are only two phases of the Indian question: One, that the , American Indian shall remain in the country as a survival of the abo-riginal inhabitants, a study for the ethnologist, a toy for the tourist, . a vagrant at the mercy of the State, and a continual pensioner upon the bounty of the people; the other, that he shall be educated to work, live, and act as a reputable, moral citizen, and thus become a self-snp-porting, useful member of society. The latter is the policy of the present administration of Indian affairs, and if carried to its legitimate oonclusion will settle for all time the "Indian question." Such a settlement will be an honor to the Government and a credit to the Indian. He will then pass out of our national life as a painted, f~ather-crowned hero of the novelist to add the current of his free, original American blood to the heart of this great nation. To educate the Indian in the ways of civilized life, therefore, is to preserve Kin1 from extinction, not as an Indian, but as a human being. As a separate entity be can not exist encysted, as it were, in the body |
