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Show OOMMISSIONEB INDIAN AFFAIRS. 51 Reservation held by mixed-blood Indians, that every Chippewa k-disn with an identifiable admixture of white blood, however smaU, was a mixed-blood Indian. Johnson v. Gearlds (233 U. S.) : This case was decided by the Su-preme Court on June 8, 1914, on appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Minnesota, to review a decree enjoining Federal officers from closing the saloons in certain terri-tory ceded to the United States by Indian tribes. The case was re-versed and remanded, with directions to dismiss the bill. The Su-preme Court held : 1. That the entire ceded territory was subject to Federal laws prohibiting introduction of intoxicating liquors in the Indian country, by the Chippewa treaty of February 22, 1855 (10 Stat. I,., 1169), until otherwise provided by Congress. 2. The acts under which Minnesota was admitted to the Union did not by implication repeal the prohibition as to the introduction of intoxicants into the territory cede9 by the Chippewa treaty of 1855, supra. 3. Recession to the United States by the Chippewa treaties of May 7, 1864 (13 Stat. L., 693), and March 19, 1867 (16 Stat. L., 7191, of portions of the original cession set apart as reservations by the treaty of February 22, 1855, 8upra, did not operate to remove from the territory thus recede3 the prohibition against the introduction, manufacture, or sale of intoxicating liquors within the ceded territory until otherwise provided by Congresa A motion for re-hearing is now pending n ths case, LEGISLATION. The Indian appropriation act for the fiscal year 1915 was not ap-proved until August 1, 1914. Therefore it became necessary for the appropriation act of the previous year to be extended, which was done by joint resolutions of June 30 and July 16, 1914. For the fiscal year 1910 the Indian appropriation act carried about $11,800,000; the act of 1911 app-opriated about $9,200,000; act of 1912, $8,800,000; act of 1913, $8,900,000; and for 1914, $9,600,000; and for the fiscal.year 1915 there was appropriated $9,771,902.76. The Indian Committees of Congress, with the cooperation of this bureau, have in the Indian appropriation act for 1915 worked out constructive legislation for the Indians of the country along pro-gressive lines. There has been appropriated a large amount of money for improv-ing the health conditions of the Indians and providing hospital facil-ities for them. Three hundred thousand dollars was appropriated for this purpose, $100,000 of which will be used for constructing hospitals, to cost not to exceed $15,000 each.. In addition to this the Indian Bureau is now constructing three hospitals for the Sioux Indians, to cost approximately $25,000 each, on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Cheyenne Reservations. An appropriation was also |
