Show A RUPTURE 0 indian commissioner morgan gets after the catholics REUSES REFUSES TO HUE FURTHER FlUT BEb with their minions di go wai was the tb subject of or unjust ventral of the bureau boren washington 18 in a letter etter to father Cb appelle vice pr president eal dent ot of the catholic missions bureau giving the reasons which influenced his action in no longer making contracts with that bureau commissioner morgan ga bays says 0 O on n entering upon my duties I 1 expressed my preference for the government rather than contract system as being more tn in harmony with the american idea ot of education at the time I 1 elated stated that maintained by the government for the education of indians indiana should be a strictly it nonsectarian non sectarian and non earliean and further that the appropriation ti of 1 public funds to nectaria n last institutions was in my opinion contrary to the spirit of the letter of the constitution an and d opposed to public policy sly illy position on the question wes v violently assailed by your baro bureau i iu li falso also charges were preferred against me moo and most determined but but futile efforts made to prevent my confirmation and to secure my displacement those of your employ in the field and others instigated apparently by the attitude attitude of the bureau have endeavored soad directly or indirectly to binder hinder the efforts of the government in its beneficent work of the educating and civilizing of the indian through its own appropriate means these influences emanating from your bureau have bare been in some respects at least hurtful and it is certainly not the bureaus fault that government schools have bave not been cri crippled plied or even destroyed while drawing fog hundreds of thousands of dollars of govern government Tent funds to build up and sustain mission schools under your charge your bureau baa has thrown the whole weight of its influence against the government upon whose bounty it subsisted farther further correspondence was made public this afternoon under date of july ath father chappelle chappell e vice vice president d but 0 of f the bareau of catholic indian mission missions replied to morgan St organ asserting that each and every mem ber of the bureau declared be he has no knowledge of any kind relative to newspaper articles reflecting on tho the eloner the article was later discussed in the presence of mr gor rubn an ernp employee loyee of the bureau and the person alleged to have inspired it and the conc conclusion lueion was reached that no member or employee of the bureau has the right to make euch such an assault upon the indian office or any public office german gorman thereupon resigned his position in the bureau in conclusion father Chappe Cb appelle 19 says bays the policy of congress so understood by the bureau is in perfect harmony with the objects of the bureau i to wit to aid in perfecting the system of education amborg the indiana inaugurated by president grant ailion hen be he estaba established s bed his bi celebrated peace po policy licy the commissioner also received a letter from cardinal gibbons dated at cape may in ehg which the cardinal cardina I 1 expresses regret at the appearance of 0 the newspaper article referred to as be says he is very much opposed to personal attacks of this character referring to commissioner morgans morgan a announced determination to sever the relations between the indian office ce and the bureau the cardinal suba submits ts bat that this is a very grave step and one be he tears fears will be fraught with much embarrassment and productive of discord and tru trouble lible the cardinal trusts the commissioner commis ioner will reconsider the matter and conclude to continue the relations heretofore existing with the bureau od july 15 h the commissioner lioner sent another letter to father Cli chappelle appelle in which he says be sees no reason for the modification of his set act he ile adds your assurance that the efforts of your bureau in the future will be saintie as in abe past they have been to cordially cooper co oper ate in harmony in every proper manner with the indian office 11 is a little too suggestive and and promises anything but friendly relations if it I 1 bad read director I 1 stephens offensive official letter of 0 april 20 29 prior to yon you that interview notwithstanding ray my sincere desire lor for friendly friend liv cooperation lon with your bureau barea ii W would never have been bought sought a and id w while bile the letter remains in the files of this office without apology and stephens remains officially connected with your bureau any official relations between it and this office will be by courtesy and not by light right I 1 have a already tready ignec several contracts with catholic schools which are apparently glad to enter into the new now order of 0 things washington july 18 in replying replying lying ti to the letter from cardinal gi gibbons reg bons the commissioner says the brief and and summary a statements of his ills two letters to the bureau can give but a faint idea of the enormity ol 01 the of fences of 0 the bureau continued through nearly two years of fences have beon been patiently endured until forbearance was no do longer a virtue the colmia stoner says the position that the bureau burean is is not to ba be held responsible for the action of its ila employees or ta chelf unless those actions are officially endorsed by tt it is is not considered tenable by the ollice office and the position of the bureau in III declara de declaring clarl that private grievances of officials should not in any cas csc a be allowed to stand in the wy way of the due administration of pubs public 1 0 o b busi incas entrusted to their charge w will 11 hardly stand the test of reason assaults upon him personally could hardly have been pleasing alt 1 it when they went forth under the sanction ol 01 a great bureau styling itself christian some of theal embodied in in an official communication to the united states senate they cannot be regarded merely trifling personalities many of them were ia laid before the preal dent by the committee of bishops and were made the basis of a demand tor for the removal of the commissioner of indian affairs the commissioner insists be he has been maliciously mill anis anil and misunderstood he lie hid bid not now and never had the slightest towards the catholics and his attitude toward ion ard the catholic contract schools he insists Is sufficiently evinced by the largely increased amounts conceded to them for next year lie ile is in prepared he aa a 0 ae as a IL I 1 government official iosub to aub ink mu lis his adminis n of the office office to the closest scrutiny and bear with equanimity the ions in separable frum public life but he lie cannot be expected to maintain harmonious relations with a great bureau subsisting upon the bounty of the go government w hose woric work 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