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Show ments shove made. To illustrate, there are 36 superintendents of Indian training schools upon whom agency duties are devolved, of which number 1 entered the service in 1873, 1 in 1884, 1 in 1886,l in 1888, 1 in 1889, 2 in 1891, 4 in 1892, 12 in 1893, 2 in 1894, 5 in 1895, 2 in 1896, 1 in 1897, 1 in 1898, 1 in 1899, and 1 in 1900. Eleven Indian agents covered into the superintendents' class under the amended civil-service rules are not included in the above list, as for the purpose of this comparison it is unnecessary. There are in the service 24 bonded superintendents of nonreserva-tion training schools who have no agency duties imposed upon them, of whom 1 entered the service in 1879, 1 in 1883, 1 in 1884,l in 1886, 1 in 1887, 2 in 1889, 5 in 1890, 1 in 1891, 5 in 1892, 1 in 1893, 2in 1894, 2 in 1895, and 1 in 1896. The third class of Indian school superintendents are those who have charge of reservation hoarding schools and are not bonded, but are under the control of a bonded agent, making their reports through him to this Office. Of the 38 in this class 1 entered the service in 1882, 1 in 1884,2 in 1886,2 in 1888,l in 1889,5 in 1890,3 in 1891, 6 in 1893, 2 in 1894, 3 in 1895, 1 in 1896, 2 in 1897. 5 in 1898, 3 in 1899, and 1 in 1900. On July 1, 1903, there were in the service 29 Indian agent8 in charge of reservations, of which number 1 entered the service in 1896, 1 in 1897, 4 in 1898, 3 in 1899, 6 in 1900, 4 in 1901, 7 in 1902, and 3 in 1903. An inspection of the above tables will show that the average length of service of bonded superintendents with agency duties is ten years and three mouths; of bonded superintendents of nonreservation schools with no agency duties, eleven years eleven months and fifteen days; of reservation unhonded superintendents, ten years; in contrast with which the average length of service of the Indian agents who are not in the classified service is only three years and four months. Continuity of pdlicy seems never to have been the rule under the old agency system. At the expiration of each f@F years of service there has been a change of agents. The new offici~fkominin~t o office, with practically no knowledge of Indian matters, :is a rule, wishes to distinguish his administration by developing some new policy and making some changes from the methods of his predecessor; hut by the time such changes of methods and policies have had an opportunity of trial his four years have expired, and a new man comes on the scene to begin another series of experiments. The chief sufferer by such frequent changes is the Indian himself. As soon as the Indian begins to appreciate and to understand the new r6gime another appears, and it is a wonder that under the history of such a system for seventy-five years as much good has been accomplished as may be accredited to the Department. |
