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Show MORGAN AND THE INDIAN. The Commissioner Say Real Progress is Being Mad In the Bight Direction. WAsniNGTON.Oct. 28. Commissioner Morgan, of the Indian bureau,, in his annual report says that for ten years there has been real progress In the right direotion in the Indian question, and that the outlook for the future is encouraging. en-couraging. It has become, be says, the settled policy of the government to breaks up revolutions and the tribal relations re-lations and settle the Indians upon their own homestead. We must incorporate them in the nation and deal with them not as nations or tribes or bands, but as individual citizens if the American Indian is to become a true American. The Indians themselves are coming to understand the present policy of the government and are showing an increasing increas-ing interest and even desire to adjust themselves to its policy. Upon the subject of the improvement of the personnel of the Indian service, Commissioner Morgan says wherever it could be done without too great harpships he has endeavored to remove those who where immoral, as incompetent, incom-petent, inefficient or unfaithful.. No one has been discharged on account of politics or religion, and in no single instance except for the improvement of service and more Improvement has been made in the government industrial schools. The commissioner says that he believe the public schools are the most effective means of Americanizing our foreign population. He is desirous of bringing the Indian school into close relation with that of the public schools. Not only so, but wherever possible he is placing Indian pupils in the public schools. He favors compulsory education educa-tion for Indian children. At the date of his last annual report there were 188 Indian reservations in the United States, having an aggregate area of 116,000,000 acres, or 101,250 square miles. During the year about one hundred and thirteen million aores have been secured by cession from the Indians and agreements by which about four and a half millions will be secured are now pending in congress. The work of making allotments of lands In severally under the several acts of congress has steadily progressed during the year. |