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Show and seeda are to be issued to them would be, in my judgment, Indians aa Superintendent Kneale ha3 said, pernicious. It certainly Pauperized. O'-yj. would make for the pauperization of many Indians who, otherwise, .', ! *. •• ••!.•: . Af A i would bo quite' independent and self-supporting* Thay havo been y.O ; tf/.' 5 •ty- .--._. accustcmed for years to purchase their own supplias, their own seeds and their own agricultural implements. To begin tha issue now of free fans machinery and free seeds would be an injustice to those who have purchased their machinery and paid for what-- i . , : ever of equipment they may possess. I em making no espooial criticism, either,of the action of the Congress in making an appropriation of funds under the Treaty of.1863; and I am making no particular criticism, either, of s'i tha Indian Office for carrying into effect a provision of the Indian Appropriation Act; but I sm thoroughly convinced that neither the Congress nor tha Indian Office fully realized what the situation was in the Uintah Basin when that appropriation was made and when, it was expended. Proposition .'• , I can.conceive of no reason for the expenditure of ... .y. Not Understood. • VW-, ;'•', . .-•'• Aj-.y • «y Suoh a sum as provided, and em convinced firmly that, if the A'.'•',",•• 7 , •'". R<0> f.a +c.t*a* +w.e r'e •'k n3o'wfnl to the Congress and to tho Indian Office, that '"- PW '• R ••' . : '"•:.. .fy' siraount very well'could ba saved* • -• p, : > yy,/ It Is not altcg9ther, either, tha money that is to be saved* It ia the self-respect and tho Independence of the Indians, as well. That,,,to my mind, la far more important than the money. |