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sarily, but, Mr. Congressman, we try to have superintendents and employees who adapt themselves to the conditions of the tribe, and then the physician comes in contact with these, and the commissioner goes out and comes in contact with them.

Mr. SINCLAIR. Are you able to get men who will adapt themselves to these conditions at the salaries you are able to pay them?

Mr. SELLS. Not always, Mr. Congressman. We have some very splendid superintendents. We have some that are not so strong. We have some that it seems like possibly we could get along without. Of course we have to confront all the time the civil service. We can't walk up to a man and say "Good-by." But we have to have a reason for it.

Mr. ELSTON. We may go to-morrow into an analysis of your appropriation bill.

Mr. SELLS. I was impressed with something Mr. Hastings said in his remarks. I am rather inclined of the opinion that after having the historical matter before you and the organization of the Washington office if the members of the committee will read both and study perhaps rather closely the tree of the office, the divisions of the office, and something of the functions of the divisions you requested me to send you, you will then be in a position to work this out systematically, and you will be able to work at it consecutively and get more immediate results. I think you will get better and more immediate satisfaction if you will first take up the office and its divisions. Let me bring up to you the heads of my different divisions who are familiar with the detail of the work and take up, for instance, the educational division here, which comprehends in it employees, schools, law and order and history, and health instruction. Go through that. Go through the purchasing division. Having covered the ground that your subcommittee outlined, then take up with Mr. Rhodes the reimbursable funds, and the nwith Mr. Reber consolidation of schools. If you take it up that way, I think you will be gratified with the result.

Mr. ELSTON. I expect to ask a few further questions to-morrow morning. I had in my mind to take up this plan.

Mr. HASTINGS. Won't we be able to do that?

Mr. ELSTON. We have set out a 10-day course on this. That is one reason I believe we can afford to take a little time in developing a thing and then following it up later. If we had a short time we would have to hurry right down to essentials, but if we have got as long time as a week I think we can go into it as far as we please.

Mr. HASTINGS. I think we can use all the time that will be helpful. I hope that this investigation will be along systematic lines so that it can be indexed and you can turn backward and forward to certain things. For instance, you have your bureau, you have its organization and suborganization of this bureau, so that you can refer back to it, and suppose you want to know something about the Sioux Indians.. I was in hopes it would be under some sort of head-the Chickasaws. Mr. CARTER. That would be possible in the case of people who are located here. But we are going to find some fellow will be passing through town and we want his testimony. It has been just suggested here a man is going to testify before this committee, an Army officer, that knows something about Indian affairs. We are going to have to take his testimony at their convenience.

Mr. HASTINGS. It will be indexed under his name.

Mr. CARTER. But so far as the bureau is concerned we can have it in regular form.

The CHAIRMAN. I think we will be able to get it indexed as we go along.

Mr. SELLS. If you will pardon me [speaking to Mr. Reber], I think we have shot off in several directions here to-day. It has been very helpful on the whole. The tendency has been very helpful to me as well as to you.

The CHAIRMAN. The reason for that is that we are more or less impetuous and we can't wait till the fellow that has some work to do gets it all done.

In order to put a certain document in this first record, the commissioner said some time ago that the bureau has been operating at about the same expense, and in connection with that I am going to put into the record an analysis of the 1919 and 1920 appropriations in the bill, to show that there is a considerable increase. I was going to ask the commissioner if he wouldn't have prepared for the purpose of the committee here the total of the last 10 bills, just covering those four items.

ANALYSIS OF INDIAN APPROPRIATION ACTS, 1919 AND 1920.

Following is an analysis of the Indian appropriation law ending July 1, 1920, compared with the law ending July 1, 1919:

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The appropriations in the 1920 bill as it passed from the House to the Senate were as follows:

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The Senate made appropriation increases as follows:
Reimbursement Yuma County, Ariz. (gratuity).
Reimbursement John Flanigan, Arizona (gratuity) –
Investigation Salt River, Ariz. (reimbursable) ___
Fort Bidwell School, Calif. (gratuity).
Haskell Institute, Kansas (gratuity)__
Support Chippewas, Minnesota (tribal funds) ___
Reimbursement Benson County, N. Dak. (gratuity) –
Pay Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache agency, Okla.
(reimbursable)

Support and education Osages, Oklahoma (reim-
bursable)

Oil and gas production, Osages, Oklahoma (reim-
bursable)

Cherokee interest, Five Civilized Tribes (treaties).
Reimbursement G. D. Rodgers (treaties)

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5, 000. 00 27,500.00

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