The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-19
We ask for lnforma ton.

bounced:
n collector for San Francisco California.
IN Indian agent for the Salt Lake agency California.
da Indian agent for Santa Fs, NsV Merico.
These apponees are to be escorted TO their respect
we destinations by United States troops To this ar.
lrangement we offer no objection, if the public service
]requlred that those troops should go to California. BuI
I'VE understand further that orders have been issued by
the government directing the Quartemasters and Com
|nssarys departments to transport those gentlemen and
their families to New Mexico and California, and sub
1sst them at the public expense while on their Journey
III the law authorizes such of the public money,
1--WE have nothing to say against the action of the gov
|enment in this behalf But we have reason to believe
THAT no such law exists, and that heretofore such officers
have been required to reach the field of their duties
Their own charge. If mistaken, we respectfully
TASK 10 be corrected
We understand further that under the petence of be-
longing to their families large number of persons have
permitted to join the parties of the three
Iappointees for New Mexico and California, and will be
transported and subssed to the gold regions at the OK
pense OF the United States. And in proof of the fact as
wel of criminal knowledge of the fact in high places
1--WE informed that the OUTFIT furnished alone to the col
ector for San Francisco and his party or family, by the
aforesaid, consists of Mtytpo horses, and fourteen
lDdgoas, each drawn by sr mules making, in all, one
HUNDRED and sixteen horses and mules furnished by the
government to transport sing Gle officer and his amy"
Ito California. We know old negro, who when he
wishes to pay special compliment to gentleman,
3designates him "hsavy dovn-man." We rather
think that the collector for San Francisco Judging
srom the force it takes to move him. would be special
favote with the old negro We understand further that
both of the Indian agents mentioned above have with
them fifteen tueny persons their families TO be
transported and subssted by the Quartemastefs and
Commissarys departments; and that the expense to the
treasury of this illegal exercise of authority will not fall
1ar short of seventy fce thousand dollars We respect
fully ask if these statements true' And when the
ogans of the administration engaged in framing their
answers, would thank them to point out the of
Congress which authorizes the appointment of Indian
agen either for the Salt Lake agency that Santa Fe
I'VE find such power in the Indian appropriation
| bill of last session.
We have also been informed that the Indian agent for
2Sat Lake has amassed large fortune by specializing
Spanish and other land titles. If SO, his large
forbid the idea that he goes to California to look after
ethe Indians in the neghborhood of the Salt Lake for
Fifteen hundred dollars yearthe salary of Indian
eeagen The Indian agent for Santa Fe many years
snce consul Havana and is ncapacitaed both by his
habits and his age for frontier life and the control Of
3he savages OF New Mexico So says correspondent
IA Trustworthy and reliable And unless he has
made mistake not to be accounted for, must think
ESPECIALLY if it should turn out that Congress ha,
established Indian agencies in the country to which
ghese agents have been sent--that these movement.
Hook more like gold-mning enterprise, fitted out
4 the public expense, under the auspices of mem
Sber of the cabinet, and guarded by United State,
Stroops, than Hamet's cloud looked like weasel,
4camel, or whale We therefore ask, Is informa
en correct If it is, TIE people readily understand
Hwhy the Secretary of the Interior does wish that thu
head of any bureau in his department shall be other thar
"a man of his choosing