Deseret Evening News | 1901-05-06 | Page 3 | Indian Service

INDIAN In Many of Keen lIeen Despoiled New York May D iA A report by h the thc committee of the Nation National al nl Civil Service Reform league on conditions of ot thu Iho Indian ser service serIce I vice Ice With 1 It h particular reference to I UK appointment of oC agents un 1111 under der the present administration has hilI j been baen presented to the tho council of the tho W league The fhe facts Calls and recommendations MM contained In the result have hae also been submitted to President l The report faH In put part the system of patronage op these wards warda of ot the nation have In tn many man capos been despoiled by fraudulent contracts whereby tho have obtained large Ian minis of at money in violation 1 lution of or law while the tha morals of the Indians have been cor corrupted by the example of lit caretaker Mil MilIn who me often otten drunken brutal and In Iny the tho of ot the In Interior required the tho hula bills for of the Indian lands lunds should biJ w opened the lease awarded In Washington under the direct super supervision lit t tCo vision of ot the Indian bureau and not as II formerly Co rill lr upon the tho reservations re The Tho y fc I result of at th Ik system and of or the ex exposure of ot the fraudulent use of Indian 1 fandi already shown a n net sain to the ft Indians of ot the r 1114 part palt upon O r Nothing could better lJ illustrate the enormous waste and play la peculations have existed In the tho Ir r t tto pact PR t In rl tf III this on feature of ot to t p Indian administration