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Fortnight ago most New Mexicans, who consider Commissioner Hagerman one of their most distinguished citizens, were astonished to hear that the U. S. Senate had amended the Interior Department appropriation bill thus brusquely...
Provided, That no part of the moneys . . . shall be used for the payment of the salary [$6,500] or expenses [$2,500] of Herbert D. [sic]Hagerman...
Sponsor of the amendment was North Dakota's broad-shouldered, bald-headed Lynn Joseph Frazier, chairman of the Indian Affairs Committee, who contended that Mr. Hagerman's duties duplicated those of the Indian superintendents, that his tribal councils were ineffective, that he had "pulled off a deal" in Navajo oil leases which disqualified him for "a job on the Government payroll...
Forthwith friends of "Governor" Hagerman created a stir in speech and writing that must have reminded him of all the Indian drums he had heard, rolling together. The New Mexican press unitedly expressed such sentiments...
Hearings in Washington disclosed that one John Collier, earnest, agitating executive of the American Indian Defense Asso ciation, had erred in informing the Senator. Members of the rival Associations on Indian Affairs showed that no official shared Mr. Hagerman's many duties, that his tribal councils were beginning to pro duce results, that the "deal" was a $1,000 sale at public auction of a lease which geologists had declared practically worth less and which the buyer, one E. S. Munoz, thought so little of that he divided it among his creditors in a poker game be fore (very much...