New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-30

The question Of Secretary Floyds complicHh
the For. Smelling speculation of bis lends Mstaer
Schell & Co, is ole which the li,use will be apt
70 ccrsider less tendeIly than did their COMMITTEE
The evidence On this head embodied in the ted
mory taken by that Committee is all the more ss-
uifcaI.t that the Committee did not try to elcitd
Let US give another specimen:
Assistant Adjutant General Thomas wa d.
patched last Sumner by Gen. Scott to the No'sA'
West On tour Of Inspection, ard made his cdda
report to Gen. Scott at West Poict some time IA
August. In that report. he could not help 'pst
ig Of Fort Snelll and its then recent safe, Shia
be did in these terms;
So org o tho InslaIs remain 10 Mnne'ta long oas
be kept In :s Ts'rES ~? s ne os S ~
ros: ,ho uid Ct have An the necessary bridins
.,e with s s4P ss n@S s be s
qoirPd They should not be given up and II possible from
Eet Or and o. no pot the amin ais b. KEPT 90 cheap n
as here Hay can be aud ked 81 per ;en :ed rs
must sh Ss ps t1.5 in s. Pau. aid s
'APIrsss o,,es ,rooo. pee.,a,v for this r.soo t.slI
he I'd BE- h.se Or four ssanis could Be kss.
Ing ess cc't than ia he aud be in high condOn 70 ns
into the Iankton du,.ng the hunting ~
en- when coed impre would be made upon 'hs ndsaa
eS MSS sold but ain PERFECTLY ccrtsin that no n,lsr
the 20; a; a. scquail tee with The d sa,is would have
econ merded me measure"
Ger. Scott of course transmitted the Report, Of
which the oregoDs is but fragment to the Wr
Department, with only this Endorsement:
"Avsvsr "a. iss'
Respectfully submitted to the Sec ;,ey 4 W.; SCOTT.
The Secretary flea it away in his archives WITH
this me ST unjust and insulting commebtary'
T,jo ,fofJb
WAR DEPARrsFSr. Aug q 1881
This report sufficiently in its statement Of ' es
Smelling its sale and the importance Of it for military ep
asfalitous I;ermeddlirs in matter sres'y disposed
"&lssyer may Sc the opinion military m.n :. et..l
%sy as The l sss I he
journey away from II man Of commsn sPPreh' .egs
ns to be- h in p.Sbseos %hea ss rsa s
my sIs ~ % ,I1f saa stacking bsy =. P.' ass
inds1 settlements troop. would need supplies.
When this Department required to report {, sueof',ses
ay other g: done, The duty stall be psrnsd but na
hen, military man win probably UNDER, and thats .u-.s
- 'D'' D'' " - B. FLOYD, secfstsry 1e Of @.s"
Gould anything be worse than the sbovs'
Who does not know that troops stationed beys5
tie bounds Of civilization nsst sometimes be sesw
cutting and stacking hay" uuless their suinsls
are TO be starved by thousands There is surely
nothing "gratutous" in an Inspector General who
is ,ent into distant region expressly to examine
ard report IN its Military condition and needs, 10
porting that post which was in fact the pse' Of
the Northwestern frontier had besn most uafofi-
nattly sold and could not well be spared. 1t maJ
be well to have forts and troops "aaong,i The Ia.
" dams TO be held 10 subjection;' but it has almost
uniformly been held better TO post them where
they m,y be easily f d, supplied ard re-enfoscsd
and whence they may be launched upon any hostile
band at pleasure. Fort Smelling, at the ccniaeacs
# the hinresCta and the Mississippi 10 the DOLLY
point from which the saysges both " Northern ard
of Western hinnesota can be conveniently Observes
Id threatened. Asd AL tie inselencr Of Floyd
bout reporting TO spJordnatss,' -" superiority
authority, explanation Of any order, Is purely
estuitOus. Nobody hsd then called on him Tot
sn exrlaIatioD;' Col. Thomr DID nothing oi sh'
sort; he simply did bis duty, as Floyd would bare
'bapsed bin for doiog had be rot beea badly com
pl.catsd in the Fort Snel'isg business Were there
nCthirg sesnst hin but this ind )rsenent, bis csc
would be bad ne.