David Josiah Brewer

“ The fact of discrimination, and the constant disregard of section 2052 in respect to all agencies, indicates that the matter was present to the consideration of congress, and that, in naming the various amounts during these several years, it was fixing the entire compensation which it intended should be given. ”

“ A significant fact is, too, that when it first appropriated for the Mission agency, on May 27, 1878, it appropriated $3,000, but on June 14, 1878, within less than three weeks, it passed an act reducing the salary to $1,300. Still more significant is the fact that up to 1878 the appropriation for Indian agents was without individualizing the amounts for the separate agencies. ”

“ St. In the first place, the agency at Tule River is not specifically named in the section, though doubtless it would come within its description. It had been an agency existing before the Revised Statutes, and never had there been for it any appropriation over $1,500. Congress, in the 10 appropriation acts passed after the Revised Statutes, and before the close of appellant's term of service, did not recognize the salary of $1800 in respect to any one of the agencies in California. ”