Show HOUSE COMMITTEE SCORES VAlENTINE Ex Commissioner Accused of Deliberate Violation of Civil Service Laws i Washington Doo 19 Robert Robort Robert G. G t Valentine ValentIn who recent recently resigned as 38 r commissioner of oC Indian affairs w was s cen In a report today b by the committee com corn on expenditures In tho the Interior department after an nn Investigation of oC I charges against Mr r Valentino Tho The committees committee's report said that ho deliberately dellb- dellb violated the civil service laws The committee found Cound that Mr lr ValentIno Valentino Val Val- Valentino had caused Improper c expenditures expenditures expendi expendi- tures turea of r public funds precipitated the removal of the general superintendent of ot lo logging In the Indian service on of or criminal crimInal crim crim- false rumors and was guilty inal violation of oC the tho law In Introducing I and dl disposing of liquor on an Indian reservation res on The report will be submitted to the House Immediately after aCtor tho the holiday recess The department of or Justice after an Investigation of or some of ot th the charges against tho former elonor dismissed them The committee report cited the circumstances circumstanCes cir clr- that led to tho the charges I that Mr Ir Valentine violated the law by br Introducing liquor on the Osa Osage e lan lands 9 In Oklahoma an nn affront to the tho law lawi i ho was wac sworn to enforce as a cor- cor rolar to the case of at James Y Hamilton HamilI Hamilton Hamil Hamil- ton who was superintendent of ot tho the I Standing Rock reservation who was charged with drinking at nt Billings I Mont and at BI Bismarck alck N. N D. D 60 60 I i Tho t ort report s said ld that that tho the committee respected a telephone request froth the secretary of at tho the Interior on April 2 22 last that In view of or tho the Indian commissioners commissioner's commissioners commissioner's com com- missioners missioner's recommending Hamilton for tor dismissal It it might bo be tho the committee would not proceed further with the In Investigation In- In investigation concerning concerning- that matter Following the committees committee's Inquiry on August 9 however the first assistant secretary of oC the Interior replied April 13 that Hamilton keen een permitted to return to Standing Rock Roel on the distinct distinct dis dis- dis- dis understanding t that hat dismissal would follow tollow his indulgence In liquor The report characterized as vicious b Valentine Impropriety letters sent by as commissioner to the sup superintendent of ot the La Pointe agency oncy In Washington suggesting sUbs tho the collection and submission sion Aion to him of or material which might be used against ag J. J R. R Farr a timber Limber expert who had saved millions of ot dollars dol dol- lars Jars ars t to the Indians and to James A. A Carroll Carron a government timber Invest Invest- gator g Damn him I want to get g-et him out of oC the tho service Is a remark attributed to Valentine Valentino regarding Farr Parr after aler Farr Farrett left ett him following an Introduction In complimentary and commendatory words to Fred Freil H. H Abbott now acting corn commissioner m lesi o ncr |