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Show I AMENDING THE INDIAN :- ' APPROPRIATION BILL l WASHINGTON. Fob. 20. The Senate committee on Indian Affairs oday continued con-tinued its consideration of tho Indian appropriation ap-propriation bill, but the report will not i bo concluded before next week. Amonf; the amendments' adopted were: Increasing from $25,000 to $40,000 tho 'appropriation for suppression of the traffic -in intoxicating liquors among thejndlans: making an appropriation for agricultural .experiments; to send a special agent to negotiate with various tribes with a view ' to the commutation of perpetual annuities: annui-ties: authorizing Jhe Secretary of the Treasury to expend. $50,000 for the purchase pur-chase of agricultural lands and irrigation of them for tho ueo of Indians In California Cali-fornia ; authorizing tho Secretary of tho .Interior to nay per capita to the Fox . . tribes in Oklahoma, $100,000 held as a .trust fund in th treasury, upon applies -' Hon of a maporlty of tho members of the ..' .tribe expressed in open council, nnd providing pro-viding for the payment to the wandering wander-ing IJtos' interest on four and pvc per cent trust funds, In order to prevent them from suffering while absent from tho reservation in Utah. ' |