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Show C AI'M AI, ( il VI I I !t The 'I'rHiiNfer ol tho ludlnn It ur eon I improbable. N'oti'U anI otvm Irom YVaMh-1 YVaMh-1 ti k I o n . Waahitigton, 11. Among the met: active workers in congress for the-transfer the-transfer of Indians to army manage ment is Itepreaentative Scales, woo was a member of the former commission commis-sion lo examine the advisability ot the transfer and alio a leading advocate advo-cate of the change in the present commi.-sicu. Now it is said tho array of evidence against the transfer hiv-overcome hiv-overcome hia convictions as also those of Senator Saunders, and they agree that it would be unwi-e to make the change. Practically the whole commission com-mission is believed opposed to it. Secretary Sherman has appointed Wm, Fletcher, chief ol the loan division divi-sion o! tho treasury department. C. E. Coon, of the loan division succeeds suc-ceeds Fletcher as assistant chief. The Indian transfer com mission t today, to-day, heard Secretary Slickney, of the pcaco commission, give his views in ; opposi'.ioQ to the transfer. Total amount recommended by the pension appropriation bill, $29,016,-000, $29,016,-000, department estimates, and $-14,-000 more than tbe appropriation for the current year. |