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agency is one of the best managed agencies in the North West and I know that these Indians have been using every endeavor for four years to get an itemized statement of expenditure, so as to hear what becomes of their money. We can't account for half of it. We know of such things as a man on the payroll as interpreter, who can't speak Omaha, and employed as a private servant to the subagent but counting all such things we can't account for more than half of the money.  We haven't the slightest doubt that all [[strikeout] balance [/strikeout]] the books balance, and if we had an itemized statement