Deseret Evening News | 1905-02-04 | Page 7 | Indian Trust Funds

INDIAN Ill US FUNDS mg Connection With Their Diversion 11 Washington Wn Feb leb 3 LAt At the cabinet meeting today Sec See Hitchcock took up i the tho subject of tilt the use lIce of Indian trust 1 funds for tor tile the benefit of oC sectarian schools FrancU U C I Loupp Leupp commis commissioner of ot Indian affairs was woe called In Into Inlo into I to lo the conference President with the tile diversion of ot Indian trust funds to tu the tho support of ot Catholic mission lo in explained amid justified In It hi n a communication to the president by Moody Moudy which was to tu today today day with on un In him than affairs by lIy William It 11 Ketcham director of ot the bureau of Catholic III him milan dlan Father I before be foro the tho committee to lQ defend his hili bureau against the tho charges that It has been using un undue undue due and political Influence to secure tile the use of trust funds for Catholic schools Mr Moodys communication dated Feb eb 2 1905 sets ts forth the time record of a IL cabinet meeting held In January 1901 1904 when the he mention of 01 the use uso of In dlan funds for tOI schools was wan and the tho president staked naked for foran foran an nn opinion as ILK to his hl authority to direct that contracts mi bo be tom for the tile use u o of ot such uch by denominational educational Institutions decided that the fic ac fiction action tion of oC Congress In tn declaring It to ho bo botho hotho tho til policy polle of ot tile the government nt not to lu I permit the use uee of oC the tho public pUblio moneys nIone 1 of ot the tho American people for sectarian purposes did not repeal repent previous laws hII 1 giving to the secretary of or the tile Interior to use Ullo the Indian funds In any uny manner hu ho saw fit tit Certain laws were cited to 10 direct attention to time the authority In imi that regard