States, I have the honor to transmit herewith, as a supplemental statement, a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated the 9th instant, containing certain information which was inadvertently omitted from his report of yesterday. In accordance with the desire of your Department I have certified to the official character of the Commissioner in the same manner as in yesterday's letter. Very respectfully, 8147, Ind. Div., 1902. 1 inclosure. E. A. HITCHCOCK, Secretary. No. 17110.] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Department of State. To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting: I certify that the document hereunto annexed is under the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States, and is entitled to full faith and credit. In testimony whereof I, John Hay, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of State to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 10 day of September, A. D. 1902, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-seventh. [SEAL DEPARTMENT OF STATE.] JOHN HAY. Refer in reply to the following: Land, 50909-1902. 52763-1902. Special. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, The honorable the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. SIR: Referring to office report of yesterday's date, in response to the inquiry of the Department of State, as to whether there are any Indians in certain Western States who are not "Christianized," or who are still free from obedience to the State authorities, I have the honor to state that the data respecting the States of Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington were inadvertently omitted from said report. The Indians who are still free from State control in Nevada are those of the Pyramid Lake, Walker River, and Western Shoshone reservations; in the State of Utah, those of the Uintah Reservation, and in the State of Washington the Indians of the Columbia and Spokan reservations, under the Colville Agency. The Indians of Oregon are all under the jurisdiction of that State. This office has no definite information that the Indians of said States are or are not "Christianized." It is requested that this statement be transmitted to the Secretary of State to be regarded as supplemental to the statement contained in office report of the 8th instant. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. A. JONES, Commissioner. E. B. F. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, I certify that W. A. Jones, who signed the foregoing communication, was at the time of such signing Commissioner of Indian Affairs. [SEAL DEPARTMENT E. A. HITCHCOCK, OF INTERIOR.] [Endorsement.] Secretary. 8147. Commr. Ind. Affrs., Sept. 9, 1902. Submits supplemental report rel. Inds. who are not Christianized or who are still free from State control in certain Western States. 1 incl. EXHIBIT A. EXHIBIT WITH RELATION TO CATHOLIC MISSION INDIAN SCHOOLS. [Submitted by the agent of the United States.] Reference to page 27 of the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1901, shows the following Catholic mission Indian schools within the limits of the territory expressly conveyed to the United States by Mexico under the provisions of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Idaho Montana Do..... Oregon Washington Do... Do.... Pinole Ukiah.. Kelseyville (St. Turibius) Catholic schools in additional territory, apparently originally claimed De Smet Blackfeet Kate Drexel's.. Colville Puyallup 183 16 li 34 98 7: 163 241 Total enrollment 244 1,177 EXHIBIT B. Indians to be found in the States and Territories embraced within the limits of Upper California, indicated by the map attached to the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Total Indian population.... 68,397 EXHIBIT C. Indians contained within additional territory believed to have been formerly claimed by Spain as part of Upper California. MEXICAN CALL FOR DISCOVERY. EMBASSY OF MEXICO, Washington, August 12, 1902. Mr. ACTING SECRETARY: By direction of my Government, and in accordance with Article IV of the protocol of arbitration between the Republic of Mexico and the United States of America for the settlement of certain questions arisen in regard to the so-called "Pious Fund of the Californias," signed on May 22, 1902, I ask that there be made known to the Government of Mexico, as part of its evidence, the following facts and documents: 1. Whether the bishops of California received the sum of $904.700.79 Mexican gold, referred to in Mixed Commission's decision of November 11, 1875. 2. To what purpose the said sum was applied. 3. Before whom were the accounts of expenditure rendered. 4. What are the documents in which the said accounts are recorded that are to be exhibited hereafter. I have to say, in addition, that the foregoing request is understood to be without prejudice to such as may be presented later regarding other facts and documents appertaining to the subject-matter. I take pleasure, etc. His Excellency A. A. ADEE, JOSÉ F. GODOY. Etc., etc., etc. SUPPLEMENTAL AFFIDAVIT OF THE MOST REVEREND PATRICK WILLIAM RIORDAN, ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO. KINGDOM OF HOLLAND, The Hague, 88: Patrick William Riordan, being first duly sworn, on oath deposes and says: I am the same Patrick William Riordan who has heretofore been sworn in this case, under date of September 16, 1902, and whose affidavit is filed herein, and I desire now to reaffirm the facts therein stated, and to make the former affidavit a part of the present one. Desiring more specifically to answer the call for discovery served upon the United States, under date of August 12, 1902, by Sr. José F. Godoy, chargé d'affaires, of the Republic of Mexico, I depose and say: 1. The bishops of California did receive the sum of $904,070.79, Mexican gold, referred to in the decision of November 11, 1875, and as corrected as to amount by the umpire on November 18, 1876. 2. The said sum, first deducting the amounts necessarily expended for costs and attorneys' fees, was applied to religious purposes by the orders to whom the same was paid, under the papal decree of distribution attached to my former deposition. The sums paid to said orders were expended within the limits of Alta California, according to the boundaries thereof as they were formerly claimed by Spain and within the territory ceded by Mexico to the United States under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The moneys S. Doc. 28--28 |