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Show TO INVESTIGATE INDIAN AfFAIRS WASHINOTOK. ay 1. Repreasnta-tJv Repreasnta-tJv Graham, chairman of the committee commit-tee on expenditures In the Interior de-department, de-department, announces that hi committee commit-tee will make a thorough Investigation of the recent administration of ths Indian affair of th country by th Indian office of-fice and th department of the Interior. Mr. Orgbaa la ef the opinion that the vaat um which hsvs been appropriated for the Indiana have not been expended wholly In their behalf and hi committee commit-tee will endeavor to find out what has become of the money. They will look Into th appropriation of 1400. 000 for Irrigating Ir-rigating the iaade of the Flathead Indians In-dians In Montana, where It I alleged RMKUlatoni end not tha Indians are get- ting the benefit of the appropriation. The committee will also Investigate the condition of the Utee of Colorado and Utah and particularly tha causes which led to the exodue eeveral yes re s go of a band of Utee from Utah to Wyoming. Mr. Oraham also believes thst the Crow Indiana of Montana have not been fairly treated and he will hsvs his a. committee probe Into charges that these 7 Indians bavs been dispossessed of their lands for tha benefit of land grabbers. |