Arkansas intelligencer., 1843-07-01

1885, accord ng the third abstracts LOG davs
hire and agents pay. and lO3 days forage and travel
from LIST October to llh January, 1885, according to
the fourth abstract l49 days. pensaon to gents
ITO days wagon hire LOG days forage and IO7 days
travel from 18th October to % February. 1889. sc-
cording to the fifth abstract; l53 days pay to agents.
lS days wagon hire, and l27 days forage
and travel. from goth October 23d February 1889
according to the sixth abstracts is4 days pay agents
l32 days wagon hire, and forage, subsistence, and
travel for l3l days from 23d October I'd March, 1889
according to the seventh abstract 1862 days compen-
sation to agents. l2s days wagon hire, l27 days for
age and l26 days subsistence and travel from 9th
October to lst March. 1889, according to the eighth
abstract III days compensation to agents. 1873 days
hire aso days Lse and
the 9th absract s9 days pay agents. 1874 days hire
Of wagons and l3i days. forage, subsistence and
vel, from 4th NV to I4th March. 1889, according to
the tenth abstrac 1856 days compensation to ageats.
la days wagon hire and forage, and l39 days bsis
tence and travel, from 9th November to 9th March,
1882 according to the eleventh abstract l54 days
pay to agents. l41 days wagon hire and forage, and
l39 days subsistence and travel, from 7th November
to 10Th March. 1882 according to the twelfth abstract
am "hoiy at loss to see apart from the provisions
journeys were performed about the same time, and
some of them covering the identical period Of the Bell
emigration under the direction of Lieutenant Deas.
The same facilities existed for all the same difficult
ties were to be encountered by each.
The amount of expense, according to the account
now presented is equally obi ectionable. Instead Of
500 49, for which MIR. Ross and the other members of
the delegation agreed each Cherokee he asks
to be allowed SI03 25 while the treaty party al
ready referred to- removed under their agent
John A Bell with Lieutenant Dcas dsbursng agent,
at the time, under the circumstances with
the same improved ratons, (under General Scotts
ders to Lieutenant Dcas journal of the latter and
Inc same wagon and horse facilities, fraction less
than SOL TO- Why this great disparity Of expenditure
1t is in proof that considerable number of the wagons
used by the delegation drawn by oxen, but the
abstracts all made out forage ho:ses
clusively used. and, although am what
the difference in subsistng them. of opion that it
would be considers BILE: and the could not
travel fast those drawn by horses it is probable
that the great protraction OF the time beyond eighty
days was owing, in some measure, to their employ
mcnt, which General Scott could not have reckoncd
for in his letter of LIST August, 1885, he presumcs
from the amount of the estimate, that large wagons
each drawn by tive or six horses, were those intend
ed to be used in which, if he mistaken, he
not corrected The treaty party, stated by General
scott In his letter Of 2oth August 1888, to the Score
ary of War; offered to themselves if the Ross
delegation would advance them SiO head instead of
the 500 IS for ch the latter refused to
do Alfred lverson, ESQ.,, certifes that ]. G. Wat
son & Co., Of which firm he a member, proposed,
the spring of ls3s to remove the Cherokees at s32
per head travel not exceed twelve miles per day and
the estimate for Cherokee cmigrations, which the
law of 18th June, 1888, based. appropriating ST.,
O67 for the Cherokecs. $50 per head (See let
ter of the Secretary of War to General Scott of Goth
August 1887
In every view which have taken, able to take,
of this claim, it appears to it aught not to be al
lowed Respectfully submitted, &c.
+. HARTLEY CRAWFORD.
Hon. J. R. Po,SsErr, Secretary Of War.
Approved j. r. P.