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![handle is hein.amindian/helupe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: [No. 29-SECOND SERIES-30001.
INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION,
1305 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
(From The New York Tribune, February 24, z896.]
HELD UP BY THE SENATE.
INDIAN SERVICE SAID TO BE SUFFERING
FROM PETTY POLITICS.
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL DENOUNCES THE PRACTICE
WHICH MAKES GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS THE
PERQUISITES OF UNITED STATES SENATORS.
To the Editor of THE TRIBUNE.
SIR:-Whatever may have been the mistakes or shortcomings
of the present Administration, there is substantial agreement
among persons interested in such matters that Indian affairs have
never been so well conducted as during the last two or three
years. The Secretary of the Interior and his office and the
Indian Bureau and its office seem to have made an honest effort
toward a better treatment of the Indians and a more business-
like conduct of Indian affairs.
The aim of the present Indian administration has been to get
the best service possible out of its employees; and where an
individual in whatever position has proved himself interested
and efficient in that position, an effort has been made to con-
tinue his services and so to take advantage of the experience that he
has accumulated in his past work. Where practicable, employees
have been put under the civil service rules, and the man who has
shown himself a good farmer has been advanced to be a clerk,
or a good clerk has been advanced to be an agent. In other
words, the old practice of turning a man out just as soon as he
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