Show APPROPRIATIONS FOR Rj I INDIANS S TillS THIS YEAR I Indian appropriation bill as asit 4 it passed the senate and wont to conference authorized appropriations to be he expended In Utah to the amount of within the next year Of ot this sum was added Inthe in inthe inthe the senate the amendments being placed in the bill on motions of Senators Sen Sea Smoot and Sutherland Tho The largest Item of Increase which was a added ded was on motion of ot Senator Smoot to be expended as the proportionate share of the amount am required to construct an Interstate interstate in In- wagon rot or highway T through the Kaibab Indian reservation reservation reservation reserva reserva- tion Utah The amendment as adopted a by the tho senate provided that this sum shall be expended under the direction of ot the secretary of or tho Interior in such manner and at such times as ho he may deem proper In tho the employment of Indian labor for the construction ot of the need The Tho citizens citizens citi citi- zens Sons of Kanab and Moccasin will wilt derive de do rive rivo much benefit from the tho construction construe construe- construe I tion Uon of a good road across the reservation reser reser- ration An item of 1684 was inserted by Senator Sutherland t to re the reimburse the hoard board of education of or Box Elder county Utah for the education of 23 Indian pupils during the year 1916 and a further item of or o 0 oas oas as much thereof as may bo to necessary ry for Cor the education of or 22 Indian pupils pupils pu pu- pu- pu pils pus at the same school during the year 1916 The fhe senate also adopted Senator Smoots Smoot's amendment appropriating 1000 to enable the secretary of tho Interior to protect tho the north abutment abutment abutment abut abut- ment of the government bridge at My Myton ton from high water the amount to be immediately The bill by Senator Smoot for entry entry entry en en- try of lands formerly embraced Inthe in tho the Uncompahgre Indian Reservation Reservation Reservation Reserva Reserva- tion In Utah which recently passed the senate was added as a rider to the Indian appropriation bill As this is general legislation on and docs does not carry an appropriation there was some doubt as to what its fate would be In the tho conference between the conferees on the part of the two houses who pass upon the amendments amendments amendments amend amend- ments and iron out the differences between the tho two branches of Congress Con Con- gress |