The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.119-120

Wolf Plume will tell this Commission, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the President, that his people are getting worse off each year and have been since McFatridge became superintendent; that he is mean, untruthful, immoral, dishonest, and brutal; and that he does not wish any Indians who are independent of him to come to Washington.”

The Senate Indian Committee finally dismissed Superintendent McFatridge on various charges including “accepting bribes (on grazing leases, cattle loans), selling wire from the tribal fence, embezzlement, and collusion with a select mixed-blood group to sell tribal land and rights, illegal attachment of cattle for debts, and the improper sale of horses, etc. Indian estates had been liquidated without probate or record. Between 1909 and 1917 few legal real-estate arrangements were made, if for no other reason, than allotment assignments were unclear. Private and under the table arrangements were numerous. Traders in Browning claimed with the aid of the agency ring and appointed tribal officials that Blackfeet individuals had more than $115,000 in store debts. Before allotment was approved these men moved to foreclose on fee patents, took options on oil rights, and forced many private leases.”

 The mixed-blood tribal council appointed by Superintendent McFatridge was later found guilty of “sanction of corporate privileges by bribery” by senate investigators in their dealings with the G.N.R.R. [Great Northern Rail Road] and Conrad-Valier Investment Company; as well as in their official tribal business relations with Browning trader J.L. Sherburne and other land speculators.

President Teddy Roosevelt vetoed Senator Walsh’s bill to open up the surplus reservation lands after allotment on the grounds that: “The Indians will derive no funds from the sale of their surplus land for several years if this bill becomes law. I think it will be found that a very large part of the waters of the reservation will at once or within a very short time, be appropriated by white settlers living outside thereof and that irrigation works will be constructed for their use. When the time comes when the Indian allottee is ready to appropriate water it will in all probability have been completely appropriated and fully used by white settlers who have expended large sums on their irrigation works and other improvements in making homes for themselves.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.119-120