Review of reviews and world's work . hin the pastfew weeks. Particularly interesting would be his re-port of the speed with which the allotment of landsto Indians is progressing, accompanied by the open-ing of large reserved tracts of excellent land to settle-ment by white pioneers. Never before has the ad-ministration of Indian affairs been half so compre-hensive; and it is not impossible that the revolutionaryimprovements that have been made in our treatmentof the aborigines may be accounted in history as themost creditable of the achievements of the Har-risonian peiiod. Under Mr. Nobles sup
Review of reviews and world's work . hin the pastfew weeks. Particularly interesting would be his re-port of the speed with which the allotment of landsto Indians is progressing, accompanied by the open-ing of large reserved tracts of excellent land to settle-ment by white pioneers. Never before has the ad-ministration of Indian affairs been half so compre-hensive; and it is not impossible that the revolutionaryimprovements that have been made in our treatmentof the aborigines may be accounted in history as themost creditable of the achievements of the Har-risonian peiiod. Under Mr. Nobles supervision thegeneral land office and the various other concerns ofthe great portfolio of the Interior have had prosperous THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 395 management. The flumes that have bronght thepension office under Congressional investigation af-fect minor questions, and no serious discredit has beenthro-^ni upon the general operations of that coinitry at large is entering upon a marvelousperiod of internal HON. JOHN \V. .NUBLt, sK(.Kt,lAH\ uF THE INTERIOR.(Photographed by C. M. Bell.) . ^ Our Government has restored relations ofo/p/La(/c cordiality M-ith Italy by pajing $25,000 asSkies. gj^ indemnity for the benefit of the familiesof three Itahans who were slain in the New Orleansmassacre. The act was a purely voluntary one, and itillustrates the disposition America has almost alwaysshown to be generous and forbearing in its dealingwith foreign govemments. Morally Italy had noshadow of claim. It was merely accidental that theselaborers, who were immigrant residents of New Or-leans and who had abandoned Italy forever, had nottaken out naturalization papers, as had the other \-ic-tims of the mob. No international question wa,snecessai-ily involved. Important changes in our citi-zenship laws and oiu- innnigi-ation laws are urgentlyneeded. European countries are dmnping their pau-pers and criminals upon our shores and then impu-dently undertaking to hold
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