Show T Tilt jj I LAND OFFICE OFFICE- 1 The report of or t the Hie J secretary shows a a. very gratifying stale of as to the condition con eon dilion of tho the general land educe The rhe work of issuing agricultural patents lH which teemed seemed to be hopelessly in arrears when the present commissioner undertook the tho duties of his office has baa been ben so ex expedited that the tho bureau U is now upon current T The o relief thus tUu afforded to honest and worth upon t the o loads laud by y giving to nn tl t to td tint tUII cf If f U ila ilane ne M T r UI t bf un aM UM f nt b hi 1110 tG fl t f n I i 1 H lf V V V 1 i land titles is Js soaking making i t progress In in U tt UK work nork rk and ll when the work Is completed completed com cons Ii a great te imo siren to th the th ut of ot those gions where unsettled unset unset- tied claims und under r ex b grants liars have BO so BOlone Ion long lone I exerted their r regressive In Influence When l to these res results nits ar are arc added tIle tbd formal of Indian n IlIn lunds have hare been beers opened to settlement e I d during tilts this 1 Sll administration It rr Neatly a acres acre find and the agreements D negotiated nn and ana 1 now pending in congress by which about acres will be opened to settlement r Urbe be cen seen how much has been heed I TUB TEll L DIA LIA fl V The e work tot lit tim the Inn bureau in Ire the time of 01 the tho f recent legislation ima has halt been largely greeted to two t chief purposes the tho allotment of lands In iii severally to the Indians Ils soil and the tho ces s lon et 1 surplus lands landa and secondly to of educating the Indians for wn protection ID la clos close contact j ji te men and for tor forthe tho the CIs f Lt J citizen citizen- shIp Allotments ha made and patents pat pat- Issued to In Indians under the tho present pres ps-es- tout Cut secretary and J lonal lUent have I been made for tor w patents are now In process pt of o The Tho school attendance at of or Indian n has been Increased In creased over OTer 13 JEc tte enroll neut for tor 1812 l beIng nearly U. U uniform system St em of school looks books t study has s been adopted and the worK Jn n these national schools brought as its n noa nj ns ts may be to the time bails of th the free freeS c common of the states sUites These an u be his tra red and merged Into the common school systems m In each state when whelm has bas fully assumed as ensued his Isis new relation tl ito to tho the organized civil community In whiz whim me e resides and the new states are arc able isble t tsumo the b burden I have hate several times een called upon to remove 1 Indian agents nj by me nie and hue hare done lone so BO promptly every eve sustained complaint of Of unfitnesS 1 misconduct p I 1 believe be be- here lieve however v t that t tEa Indian n service c at atthe atthe the agencies g has s been u improved dp and Is now now- O administered red on the Ule W 6 with a t. good decree de tIe- cree gree of effi efficiency Jf If aU an legislation is blo bio by which the el of or Indian agents can enn bo ho wholly removed from alt all partisan or ons I am sure it Ii would es be a II great reat the executive and anda a 11 treat great benefit to tie V OF pr In a a I special message ig this congress at nt atthe atthe the last session I the the- reasons why I Iliad had not approve approve ui Uio de l fot for fot this tha release to the States Plates t the Choctaws anti and of or the tile lanu embraced d In the Gh A J rest reservation an ansi and l remaIn remaining In after to that thai tribe A resolution him Ule senate expressing ex ex- pressing as the time t that body that notwithstanding the f in hi my amy special cial message nes age th the de bould be bo approved and the money 2 paid over was wat presented to me rue l lly My special message was as-as Inte d JK call the attention of congress to this s nn and in View of Ot the fact that it is On M that the proceeded tr o ft it d' d false falso basis basla as to the amount of lands lantIs t bo Jie paid pail for and is 18 isby by bj J. J in tf he h amount they are lire entitled to even I. Jf X t their claim to the theland land inu is given ven full tull re rut nit the rate tare agreed upon I haO n laz to ap ap- ap Drove prove the tho deed decor un not q so at nt least until both ss liars have acted upon Ibo bop i iti i In III for for- maUr M n. n V 0 elease t sum sum o ot of I a V l lower to Ito dei ieman Ie ie nud V if Un 1 h r fj a tili oi congress to the fact that hat n a recent a agreement concluded onel with th the Klowas lowas and Co Co- manches relates to lands which vv were ere a part lart of the leased district and to which the claim of the w and la is preferred pre The surplus JJ land to which this claim onU attach in th time the Kiowa and Comanche Camanche re reservations er is acres neres and at the same some rate the government will willbe willbe willbe be coiled called upon to pay to the tho Choctaws and Chickasaws for fOl these lan lands s 3 This sum anna will be further augmented augment ell especially if It the title of the Indians to tho the tract now Crier Grier county Texas is 19 duty devolved upon me In this connection was simply to pa pass p s upon the tho form of or the deed dee lj but as In toy roy opinion the- the thebes facts bes mentioned mentioned men men- honed In my soy special message were wert not adequately brought to the be attention of congress congress con COil gress la In connection with wills the legislation I Irue rue have felt that I I. I would not be e Justified iu hi noting without some new expression of ot the legislative will trill |