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1 William Steele Holman, To Provide for the Appointment of a Commission to Inspect and Report on the Condition of Indians, Indian Affairs, and for Other Purposes I (1886)

handle is hein.amindian/paofaco0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 19tH Ooxesuus, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. j RErCI'T I0 at Hession No. 1076. TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSION TO INSPECT AND BEPORT ON THE CONDITION OF IN- DIANS, INDIAN AFFAIRS, AND FOR OTJElt.J.WURPOSES. Xanon 16, 1886.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to e printed. Mr. HoLxAI, from the Committee on Expenditures for Iudians and Yellowstone Park, submitted the following REPORT: [To accompany bill H. R. 0973. The soial (Oiamittee of the Home of Reprewstatives jppointed by the on the 4th day of Marck, 1885, to inquire into the ependiture ofpubo moneys in the ladian service an6d the Yellowdone 1Pfrk, and oertai* other itters conwoed therewitk, aumit tAefollowing report: The provision of law authorizing the appointment of the comuittee is contained in the act making appropriationa for the legislative, ex- ecutive, and judicial expensea of the Government for the fiscal year end- ing on the 80th day of June, 1880, approved March 3, 1885, and is as followa: That a committee coulating of rive members elect to the House of Reprentatives of the Forty-ninth Congress to be appointed by the 8peaker of the Hnwve ot Hopre- seutatives of the Forty-eighth Congroivi shall prior to the first M1ouqty of Decomher next inquire luto and nvestigate the expendituro f appropriatious for Indians, under treaty, ibr their support, for their education, or otherwise, and whether anly chages should be made in said appropriations or'tbeir exenditum Said commuittee shall also inquire Into the expenditure of public mouey for the Yellowetouc Park and she adjuietration ir the lawd applicable to a1d Park, whether auy chauge should be made In said laws or the bounary of the Park and what stepsi if any can be taken to make of practical beneft and utility thiat portion or the public dowain That aid committee ahall have povwer to appoiut au oomuittees, and visit the places where appropriations mpntinued hereifi are expended, and in doing so they arei authorizedq to use Government conveyauces and means of transportation. Said committee or any subcommittee thereof shall have power to send for pereous and paperi and to appoint a elerk, and thocommittoe may report by bill or otherwisetotho Forty-ninth Congress. A sum sufficient to pay expou t nsofaid coianitt'e hereby authorized aud of witnesa that may li summoned before it., in hereby appropriated out -of any money in the Treasury not otherwieso appropriatod, which shall be iemediately available and pay- ble on the drat of the chairman of said committco in sume not exceediug On thU11- sand dollare at any one tiu. The committee met at Omaha, Nebr., on the 15th day of July, 1i8, and at once proceeded to OSEBUD AGENCY, on the great Sioux Reservation, in Dakota. Here they met a large number of Sioux 1 udians connected with that agoucy, inquired into the management of tie'alffir- of the agency, tie Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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