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Show NEZ PERCK AGENT IS TOO ARBITRARY WASHINGTON. V. C.. Jui SJ. Charto O. Whit ma . a Not Pare. In?, dlan, who cam ta Washington te testify tes-tify befor tha houa fommtttM that la fnvastiffatlna; Indian affalra. raturnM to Idaho yatrt1ay In response to a tela-aram tela-aram to gather ovfaanca of alttxj abuaea on tho Vet Perre reservation. Bfor leavtna; Whitman made a state mtnt tn th commit l In which ha r ha rel rallf toua discrimination on the reservation and declared the acent waa too arhltrary tn hla conduct of th affairs af-fairs of the Indiana. He aaid he waa unable to recover for hla wife WiO comlnf tn her throua;h the aale of her lend. "Th money waa nid to th agent." aaid Whitman, "and I have never been able to tet It. I waa Informed In-formed that It was deposited la a bank to m v wlfe'a credit, but I could not at anythtra to ahow thia waa the caae. 1 wrote to the department at Washington and aa a reautt found mvelf la disfavor dis-favor with the agent. My wife was taken HI several month , aro and I asked for 1200 10 pav her hospital hilla. This 1 nnallv obtained. Hut It ha been hiMaIM to ret the hwlance. |