Genin sends McMaster the account about the affair of Standing Rock, Indian Territory . The truth is, Father Jerome, O.S.B., in charge of the Standing Rock Mission, saw the notice in the Annals that $3000 had been charged in favor of his mission post and had been paid him. He then wrote to Rev. Chrysostome Foffa, O.S.B. who had previously been stationed at Standing Rock, and asked him if he know anything of the money. Fr. Chrysostome answered that he did not and refered him to the Benedictine Superior, Abbot Martin Marty O.S.B. . The Abbot answered that he had not received one cent of the money and that the $3000 included the rations and supplies issued anually by the agent to the young indians under the care of Fr. Jerome. In a treaty in 1868, every Indian father is entitled to draw daily ration of a soldier, for each member of his family. The Benedictines of Standing Rock, without any aid from the Catholic Indian Bureau, made an understanding with the Indian Agent, U.S. Government, that those Indian parents who had children in the Benedictine School would allow the priests to draw the ration for those children, while individual parents continued to draw it for the remainder of their families. This agreement extended also to other supplies except food rations. The Indian Bureau gave them no help in this at all. When the Very Rev. J.B. Brouillet visited the Mission the priests and Indian boys lived in two houses which were like stables. Brouillet stayed with them for ten days and left without writing a word to them afterwards. Genin himself was at Standing Rock the previous week and talked for 2 days with Abbot Martin Marty and also Jerome and two Benedictines. The Abbot again repeated he had received no money but that the $3000 was the supposed value of the rations and annuity goods drawn by the Benedictines under the 1868 treaty. The priests themselves live on the self same rations-sharing with the Indians, plus a salary of $40.00 a month paid by the U.S. Govt. to but one of the brothers, as an Indian teacher. Thus they live on $40.00 a month, the 4 of them, 2 priests and 2 brothers, whiles the Annals claims they are being paid $3000 a year and promises them another $3000 for the coming year work. There are also 4 Benedictine sisters there who have set up a school for girls on the same ration plan as that for boys and they are allotted the same amount in supplies and rations, $3000. The mission is said to enjoy $6000 a year but this figure is misleading. Such things when put in the papers are really lies, creating false impressions and covering the Missions with scandal. As to the Devil's Lake Indian Agency the Annals claim that they founded this mission and secured the services of the Grey Nuns from Montreal Canada. The mission was created before the Bureau was in existence, having commenced in 1867. Bishop Grace of St. Paul and Major Forbes, the first agent, were the ones who secured the services of the Gray Nuns, and began the Mission. Because there was a Catholic priest there whom the Indians trusted, the government made it a Catholic mission and placed it under the Catholic Indian Bureau. The Devil's Lake school runs on the same ration plan as the Standing Rock schools, as suggested by Major Forbes, the agent. In spite of evidence, the Annals claim that $4000 a year is annually given to the Devil's Lake school. That sum of $4000 plus the $30000 allotted to Standing Rock totals $7000 yearly but this sum might just as well have been thrown down as well since the money has never been paid to the Missions. Genin signs himself as a Missionary to the Sioux Indians ready to prove these statements in any court of law. :: I-2-c A.L.S. 8pp. 12mo.