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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDI.4N AFFAIRS. 23 I charged, Indians paying 25 cents and white people 50 cents. Few I outsidewhite visitors came, as the fair was not advertised sufficiently to bring them in. It.was, in fact as well as in name, a fair for and by the Crow Indians, and they are very proud of it. The receipts were. ___--_.-...--.---L- ----- $.1-,0.88..6-0 -----.------------ The disbursements were ...................................6.6.2..6.0. .. Balance in treasury 403.90 This season's fair will be held next month, after the crops are har-vested. The Indians will have entire charge and are now completing their arrangements. No form of gambling will be permitted, and none of the usual wild west performances will be on the program. In addition to the big vermilion and white posters of. last year, the committee have got out a brilliant green one, reading: GROWS, WAKE UP! Your Big Fair Will Take Place Early in October. Begin Planning for it Now. Plant a Good Garden. Put in Wheat and Oats. Get Your Horses, Cattle, Pigs, and Chieens in Shape to Bring to the Fair. Cash Prizes and Badgws will be Awarded to Indians Making Best Exhibits. Get Busy. Tell Your Neighbor to Go Home and Get Busy, too. CommAttee. The Crows, tho their character and conduct in some respects leave much to be desired, are not drawing rations,. and have not been for nearly two yeaks. A good part of them really believe that a man ought to work for wkat he enjoys of the pleasant things of life. The fair proved that many of these Crows are anxious by their own example to'show their neighbors that it is not impossible for an In-dian to make a living for liimself and family from the farm the Gov-ernment has provided for him. ALLOTXENT OF T-AL PUNDS. In my last annual report I referred in hopeful terms to the outlook for legislation for the allotment of Indian tribal funds. At that time the original Lacey bill had been before the Congress and received such treatment as to lead to the belief that its enactment into law was simply deferred for a little. In t'he first session of the Fifty-ninth Congress, however, some opposition was developed in unlookt-for quarters, and the bill had to undergo a number of modifications in terms in orderto be made acceptable to its critics. In the altered shape in which it is now pending in the Senate, in-stead of authorizing the president in his discretion to allot the funds of any tribe and open separate accounts with the individual members of such tribe, it provides that from time to time individual members |
