U.S. Dept of the interior. REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR; BEING PART OF THE MESSAGE AND DOCUMENTS COMMUNICATED TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. IN FIVE VOLUMES. VOLUME II. WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. EXCHANGE STATE COLLEGE OF REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, SIR: The sixty-third annual report of the Indian Bureau, herewith submitted, aims only to give a résumé of noteworthy events which have occurred in the Indian service during the year and of the work for Indian civilization which has been in progress. No attempt is made to theorize upon the Indian question or to point out a way by which to "solve the Indian problem." It is a plain recital of facts, accompa nied by the report of the superintendent of Indian schools and reports of agents and school superintendents, tables giving educational, agricultural, industrial, and financial statistics of general interest, with other information required by law to be embodied in this report. From all these it will appear that the year has been one unmarked by outbreak or disturbance of any kind, and one in which the steady pressure of earnest work along all lines has produced satisfactory results in general, with an occasional instance of unusual hopefulness and encouragement. APPROPRIATIONS. The amount appropriated for the Indian service by the Ladian appropriation act for the fiscal year just begun is less by $663,240.64 than the amount appropriated by the Indian act for the last fiscal year, as far as the actual expenses of the service are concerned, notwithstanding the fact that the aggregate of the act for 1895 is greater than the INT 94-VOL II—1 |