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Show 2 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Coeur dlAl&ne Reservation, the closed half of the Colville Reserva-tion, part of the Lower Brulk Reservation, and the big pasture re-serves of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes; for the settle-ment of a number of long-standing controversies, like that between the factions of the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, between the Klamath Indians and the Government, between the same Indians and the California and Oregon Land Company, and between the Sisseton .and Wahpeton Indians and the Government; for the correction of past errors by such undertakings as giving-the Jicarilla Apaches per-mission for the sale of their timber, the establishment of an Indian town site on the Bad River Reservation, the reenrollment of the Pot-awatomies of Wisconsin, and the provision of homes for the homeless Indians in California; and measures intensely radical tho of doubtfill wisdom, like the emancipation of the White Earth mixed bloods and the emigrant Kickapoos and allied Indians. On these and other features of the session's work I shall comment in detail else-where. A BEET-FARXINQ PROJECT. While inviting your attention to this unexampled record, I can not forbear to express my great disappointment at the failure of one item of legislation, which I had earnestly recommended both in formal reports and in oral conversation with Senators and Repre-sentatives. It was a provision to authorize leases of Indian agricul-tural lands, in certain circumstances, for longer periods than the five years to which they are limited now. The leases. were to be kept still subject to the control of the Secretary of the Interior, who was, as now, to lease the tribal lands himself, and to supervise and approve the leases made by Indian allottees. The purpose underlying this amendment was to promote the train-ing of Indians in sugar-beet culture and in work in the sugar facto-ries. The Office is today in touch with men of large means and abundant business experience who are willing to set up a great sugar plant on the edge of one of the allotted reservations; take'leasas of all the tribal lands and of such parts of the allotted lands as the Depart-ment is willing to let the Indians rent out; enlarge and improve the irrigation system now in operation on the reservation till all the available land is under an adequate water service; bring i n many families of thrifty white working people, organized under super-intendents and bosses thoroly skilled in the art of sugar-beet culture; be answerablk for the moral conduct of these employees; instruct the Indians in beet culture side by side with the white working people; give Indian labor the preference wherever it can be utilized; buy at market prices the products of the parcels of land reserved by the Indians from'leasing; run their own trolley lines out to the remoter |