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Show tr shot and aim no better h will him-self him-self be the ons most hurt. J L "Til, Th Indian Sohoo; Jueetlon. Editor Tiuls: tiir Iu your issne of the Ifth, under tho headim;, "Morgan's Hot Shot," you give extracts by tele-grapu tele-grapu from a letter of that gentleman to rather Chappelle, vice-president of the Catlioiis mwiotis bureau, He writes: "1 express my preference for the government, rather than contract sviitam as being ruorii in harmony with tho American idea of education."" The i government established the contract ' system, aud continued it until it htp- pened to appoint (JomiuUsioncr.Morgaii to his present position. He considers ; hinisi If above the go eminent, s'nee ho ! j has plainly disrpgnrded the authority j of congress as expressed in its vote on , tho bill appropriating funds for the fi I uciition of tiie Indian children. The I isenaU added to the number of contract and sectarian schools ajiproved by the house, and for the very simple and i eutlicient reason that they were, as was testihed to by several uiambers of that body as a result of personal examination, examina-tion, some iu olliciu! capacity, too, as beiog the most economical and successful success-ful iu attaining the desired result the education and civilization of the Indians. In-dians. Commissioner Morgan, in plain disregard dis-regard ot that high authority, refused to make contracts with a number of the scliools for which appropriations had benn made, and, further, by a svstim of unwarranted interference' with oth ers, mater ally Ic-seoed their useful-nes. useful-nes. As the senate uas scarcely a single sin-gle Catholic me mher, and the house but a few, it is not at all reasonable to nop. pose that either body was influenced by any other motive than sonud public policy pol-icy in voting as it did. Jt was. as one senator during the ilisciissira on the bill in that body expressed it. simply and solely a plain business proposition, and in nowise sectarian to ant the best results for the money expended. If Uouiuiis.-iicntr Morgan can liod no hot-1 |