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through the Secretary of the Interior, for the support of schools. If 

 this legislation shall be consummated, it will not be necessary to ask 

 for an appropriation after this year. But in order to meet the pres- 

 ent demands for schools this Bureau should have the $60,000. 



I have therefore the honor to ask that you will recommend to 

 Congress for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, the following appro- 

 priations: Reindeer in Alaska, $25,000, instefid of ^^1:^,500;/ « cUication 

 in Alaska, $60,000, instead of $10,000. \ \\ V' ' v!^ (//// 



Very respectfully, your obedient servant, ' 



W. T. Harris, Omnmiftmionei'. 



The Secretary of the Interior. 



Department of the Interior, 



Washington^ UiUfrmrp 8j^ 1809. 

 Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a comnumication of this 

 date from the Conmiissioner of Education requesting that the esti- 

 mates of appropriations for 1900 for reindeer in Alaska be increased 

 from $12,500 to $25,000, and that that for education in Alaska be 

 increased from $10,000 to $60,000. The reasons given b}^ the Com- 

 missioner for requesting these increases are fully set forth in his 

 communication . 



The recommendation of the Commissioner of Education meets with 

 my approval, and the same is respectfully forwarded through your 

 Department for the appropriate action of Congress. 

 Respectfully, 



Cy. N. Bi.iss, Secretary. 

 The Secretary of the Treasury. 



INCREASED APPROPRIATION FOR REINDEER, SUNDRY CIVIL BILL, APPROVED MARCH 8, ISOf). 



Reindeer for Alaska : For support of tlie reindeer station at Port Clarence, Alaska, 

 and for the purchase and introduction of reindeer from Siberia for domestic pur- 

 poses, twenty-five thousand dollars. 



COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION REQUESTS TRANSPORTATION FOR 

 DR. SHELDON JACKSON. 



Department of the Interior, 



Bureau of Education, 

 ^VaaWrngton, D. C, Janaary '2.1^, 1899. 

 Sir: Referring to the fact that in November, 1897, on occasion of 

 the arrival in San Francisco of the report that eight whaling vessels 

 were fast in the ice near Point Barrow, and that the crews were in 

 danger of starvation, and to the action of the President and his Cabi- 

 net in sending an expedition in charge of Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, United 



