The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-08
Communications.
PROPHECY, rRoDIGALIrY, AND PUBLIC
DOCUMENTS.

Governments - Harrison.
<, Look TO the expenditures Of the Indian Depart
artment where there has been fraud and rogue
n committed sc. {" One Indian treaty with al
IL attendant frauds this day, would make hundreuS
Of thousands rich are assertions made ON the moor
IL Congress, which though uttered IN reference 70
,ther facts, are abundantly indicated by Iious'
Document No 22o March l. 1883" Execution q
lrtaty with Winncbagoes,"
The fragrant abuses and neiarous prodisaites CON
,,,al with this document" mperiously call TO TINS
blrt The attention Of the people, as their cnormty
rI1at of Congress, through their Committee of In
XII, Adairs whose most able report takes wide
.r.,, mo the habitua frauds and lmpostons proc-
,,, unlcr the trcaty-making mania of this corrupt
Administrations
The party so dreaded the effects of this report
,n the country as not TO allow the ordinary number
ofcopes 10 be printed
The length anfimporiance OF the report, alter
.ho,i review Of some incidents of the document
Il. 30 and Of events subsequent TO both
rti. document contains the correspondence of the
War Department its agents, and their Official reports
LII. iscreditablc a specimen Of elimination and re-
elimination Al ever disgraced the archives OF nation
Two rewarded partisans, $ Cameron, from Penn
,,hania, and j. Murray, from Maryland were, by
direction Of the President appointed July u 1888
i, ex,mine debts due by the Winnebagocs under
treaty OF Nov. t. 1887.
rhe;r destination was Pralrie du Chen, Wisconsin,
III ,he,, uere authorized 10 draw bills ofexchange
IN tho Department for their travel, at So every 70
miles and IS per diem
On the 9th February, 1852, they are found, at
Al
WASHINGTON wranging with their nceusers, not the
Dc,artment-lor the Secretary expressly says II
was NOT the intention IN setting aside the proceedings
bc commissioners toimpeach either their integrity
their Judgment conclusion from his own premises
rather remarkable must be confessed and the
extraordinary that the first act OF the farce commenced
with Major Hitchcock military disbursing Indian
agent, who asowed himself compelled, from sense
otduly to nsinuatc charges against the commission
,rs and to suspend payments on their orders until
further instructions, the circumstances were Of a
character that required higher sanction for the pay
loent than his own and in short, that the Depart
mcnt could better bear than hmscfthc responsibility
otpyment'
New circumstances come to his knowledge. II
in vain to smother the grossness of this proceeding
He must think they were not selected at great
distance from the of their duties 50 per day
al Congress travelling days, and their expenses all
paid besides to act with two species of knowledge"
Drafts the Government, for upwards Of - 900,
texpenses,) are November s. 1885, in motion,
besides the per diem due to the commissioners "and
YET by seeming fatality the halt-brceds have been
cheated and abused under their eyes, and they don't
know It'll z Time may disclose something this
subject important To the honor Of the Government"
month afterwards the Rev. ID Lowry, superin-
cndent Winnebagoc school and farm, adds his tcsti
nony that was the general impression Of the dis
Interested part of the community of Prairie du Chen
that those halfbreeds were shameully cheated on,
their rights
The plot thckens General JOS M Street, Unite,
States Indian Agent writes from all the cacula
tons he can make of the $780, 600 the halfbreede
got about 32 900, or 35 900 nomnally, for much was
paid in merchandise, at high rates
What became Of this difference and ohe: item,
may be thus explained Mr. G A Rogers writes Il
tie Department follows Simon Cameron, one Of
Tie commissioners, boasts of having made 800 900
Justice to the red man, &c
General Street says: A lawyer named Drodhead
came along with the commissioners, and II was soon
uotsed abroad that it would greatly advance the inter
Of the claimants if Mr. Il. employed to present
lhprn
II Mr. i was wen feed to his satisfaction, the ire
aton placed IN the first class and entitled to til,
largest share, If not well feed in the second class
Nith prnporonae deduction Of dividend and if not
drl Il Ill in the third class, with the smallest dN
dcud Some too, who were informed by the com.
nssoncrs tina, most Of their claims rejected anc