Throughout this country the question of child labor and its attendant evils has become a serious problem, and in several States similar committees or organizations had been formed to deal with this question within their several State limits. The chief purpose of this national committee is to organize additional State committees and to act as a general committee with the object of securing better laws in the several States, and, if possible, more uniform laws and a more general enforcement of such legal protection for the children of this - country. To make this as widely representative as possible and to emphasize its national significance and scope of action it now seeks incorporation from Congress for the purposes set forth in this report and particularly set forth in section 2 of the act. For this reason it was not deemed expedient to attempt incorporation under the laws of any State, and the laws of the District of Columbia render it impossible to secure incorporation under the general statute now in operation for the reason that none of the incorporators are residents of the District of Columbia, and the law requires, in subchapter 3 of the Code, that a majority of the incorporators of an organization of this character shall be citizens of the District of Columbia. To conform to this requirement would destroy the widely representative character of the committee. The incorporators named in the bill constitute the board of trustees of the organization. They are all nonresidents of the District of Columbia. The purposes of this organization are purely educational and philanthropic. It conducts no business for private profit and has no other object than those set forth in section 2 of the bill under consideration. It represents a great work and strikes at a great social evil. It certainly merits favorable consideration in Congress. O REPORT 2d Session. No. 5486. INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL. DECEMBER 15, 1906.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state the Union and ordered to be printed. Mr. SHERMAN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT. [To accompany H. R. 22580.] The aggregate of the items in the accompanying bill making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, and for other purposes, is $8,203,068.23. The estimates for the Indian Service upon which the bill is based will be found in the estimates for appropriations for the fiscal year 1908, page 209 et seq. (H. Doc. No. 12, 59th Cong., 2d sess.), and aggregate The appropriations carried in the bill aggregate. $7,970, 168. 23 8, 203, 068. 23 232,900.00 Apparent excess of items carried in the bill over estimate.... The following table shows the estimates submitted for the fiscal year 1908, under the several divisions of the bill, the amounts recommended. to be appropriated, and the appropriations contained in the appropriation bill for 1907: Amount appropriated for 1907 (as per H. Doc. No. 12, Fifty-ninth Congress, second session). $9, 405, 199. 98 Amount carried in the bill for 1908. Excess of appropriations, 1907, over amount contained in bill, 1908. 8, 203, 068.23 1,202, 131.75 Colorado, Grand Junction school Excess of items estimated 1908 over items carried in bill, 1908. Minnesota, salary agent White Earth Reservation 1,000 1,800 6,800 Comparison of appropriations, 1907, with proposed appropriations, 1908. AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED FOR 1907 AND DECREASED IN ESTIMATES 1908. Clerical and other expenses, town lots, Union Agency, Ind. T. Removal of intruders, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Territory. Commission, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Territory. Fulfilling treaties with Sac and Fox of Missouri (Kansas) Support of Indian school, Pipestone, Minn.. Support of Indian school, Santa Fe, N. Mex. Support of Indian school, Chamberlain, S. Dak. AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED FOR 1907 NOT ESTIMATED FOR 1908. Irrigation, Pima Indians' lands, Arizona... $250,000.00 Drainage, Round Valley Reservation, Cal.. Lands, irrigation, etc for Indians in California Support of Indians of Lemhi Agency, Idaho... Surveying, etc., Lemhi and Fort Hall Reservations, Idaho. Removal of Lemhi Indians to Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho. Allotments, Coeur d'Alène Reservation, Idaho Sale and leasing of Creek and Cherokee lands, Indian Territory. Suppressing the spread of smallpox, Indian Territory. Public roads, Indian Territory Payment to Toney Proctor, Indian Territory. 8,000.00 100,000.00 10,000.00 25,000.00 5,000.00 8,000.00 15, 000. 00 30,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 8,000.00 1, 236.00 Payment to Margaret Bushman, Michigan.. Drainage survey, Chippewa of Minnesota (reimbursable) $547.90 15,000.00 197.50 901.23 2,200.00 2,091.92 Fulfilling treaties with Indians at Blackfeet Agency, Mont 150,000.00 Stock for Indians of Northern Cheyenne Reservation, Tongue River 30,000.00 30,000.00 Town sites Flathead Reservation, Mont. (reimbursable) 15,000.00 Fulfilling treaties with Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, Nebraska. 57,000.00 2,600.00 Purchase of land from Nevada for allotment to Pah Ute Indians (Nev.).... Indian School, Bismarck, N. Dak. Payment to Indians, Klamath Agency, Oreg Klamath fund, Oregon Artesian Wells, Yankton Reservation, S. Dak.. Surveying Pine Ridge Reservation, S. Dak.. Payment of fifteen Sioux of Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak., for property taken by the United States in 1876.. Proceeds of Lower Brulé Reservation, S. Dak Surveying and allotting Colville Reservation, Wash. (reimbursable).. Total..... 70.00 400.00 9,500.00 16, 800.00 40,000.00 350,000.00 187, 007. 20 5,000.00 4, 200.00 6, 320.00 10, 500.00 175.00 1,759, 251.75 AMOUNTS EMBRACED IN ESTIMATES FOR 1908 NOT APPROPRIATED FOR 1907. Amount of increase under Surveying and allotting Indian reservations.. Indian school transportation Indian school, Fort Mojave, Ariz.. Allotments under act of February 8, 1887 (reimbursable) $15,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 Telegraphing, transportation, etc., Indian supplies. 25,000.00 2,000.00 Fulfilling treaties with Indians formerly of Lemhi Agency, Idaho. 4,000.00 Sale of inherited and other lands, Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Territory 30,000.00 Removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes, 7,000.00 Incidental expenses of Indian Service in Indian Territory. 4,000.00 Leasing of oil, mineral, and other lands, Five Civilized Tribes, 30,000.00 Clerical and incidental expenses, inspector's office, Indian Territory Completion of Zuni dam and irrigation project, New Mexico. 500.00 3, 470.00 1,000.00 40,000.00 24, 000. 00 1,500.00 年 |