About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 Carl E. Grammer, Responsibility for Indian Management 1 (1914)

handle is hein.amindian/respfoa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: No. 94, Second Series---3oool INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 995 Drexel BuilcUng, Philadelphia, April 6, 1914. RESPONSIBILITY FOR INDIAN MANAGEMENT. There is now pending in Congress a measure (S. 4164), known as the Robinson bill, which proposes to separate the management of Indian affairs from the Interior Depart- ment by creating a commission with full power to act. For years those who have made a close study of the ques- tion have been impressed with the utter helplessness of the Commissioner of Indian.Affairs beyond a given point. In many important matters he can only make recommenda- tions which must first be approved by the Secretary of the Interior before they are effective. It has not infrequently happened that the Commissioner has been at the mercy of a petty clerk in the Secretary's office, who leisurely ex- amined the papers to see if every i was dotted and every t was crossed, or who endeavored to raise hair-splitting technical objections to the recommendation under con- sideration. In this manner action has been delayed weeks and months. What great corporation would think of putting a high grade man at the head of a large and im- portant plant and expect satisfactory results if his hands were thus tied? The Commissioner of Indian Affairs controls the destiny of a race of over 300,000 people; and he has the manage- ment of an estate-including funds and properties-esti- mated to be worth nine hundred millions of dollars. If a man is considered big enough to be placed in charge of such a task, he should be given full control of the affairs he has to administer and held responsible for his acts. Otherwise, no matter how big the man, be can accomplish but little in the way of permanent results. One day would be too long to keep an incompetent or Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most