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![handle is hein.amindian/telbilb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (No. 28-SECOND SERIS-3o00.]
INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION,
1305 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
THE TELLER BILL
AND ITS PROVISIONS FOR A REORGANIZATION OF
THE INDIAN BUREAU.
Not a few persons interested in Indian affairs consider Senate
Bill 1393, commonly known as the Teller Bill, in honor of
the senior Senator from Colorado, who introduced it, the most
important measure affecting Indian administration generally
which is likely to be considered by the present Congress. At the
same time, great diversity of opinion exists as to its merits,
involving, of course, the further question whether the friends of
the Indian ought to give it their support.
A complete understanding of the subject requires a recitation
of that passage in the latest annual report of the Secretary of the
Interior in which is sketched the Secretary's plan for lifting the
Indian Service wholly out of politics:-
First. That instead of a single Commissioner, the Indian
Service be placed in charge of three Commissioners, two of them
to be civilians appointed from different political parties and one
to be a detailed army officer.
Second. That the tenure of office of an Indian Agent shall be
conditioned alone upon the faithful discharge of his duties, and
that appointments and removals be made by the President upon
the recommendation of the three Commissioners of Indian
Affairs.
Third. That the classified service be extended over all the
subordinate positions, both at the agencies and at the schools.
The third of these recommendations may be met, under exist-
ing law, in the discretion of the President; and I am informed
by the Secretary of the Interior that the preliminary steps have
already been taken, and that a few weeks more, at the outside,
will see the civil-service rules extended over the subordinate
places generally in both branches of the Indian Service. The
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