The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-26

why the same general rules OF command and signals
should not be uniform for all arms OF the service
and this board has proceeded on this theory. Until
the text is received properly corrected AND reaa
for the adoption OF an improved system OF tactics
for all arms OF the service and, before any steps
taken for their adoption, recommend that some
compensation be given to General Upton for the use
that has been made Of his system OF infantry tactics
that has been heretofore adopted and used by the
infantry.
In conclusion, would merely renew a former
commentator, that reasonable annual appropria-
tons be asked for barracks, both to replace the un
healthy casemates of our sea-coast forts and to
shelter from the weather the men whom the ma
tional necessities force us TO station in the dreary
and inhospitabe regions OF the interior OF the con-
tinent
am, with great respect your obedient servant,
General W. W. Beknap, Secretary OF War.
Report of General Pope-Tbe Indians-The
New POlicy-Raids.
WASHINGTON Nov. 25-The report OF General
Pope. which win accompany that OF General Sheri-
dan, is dated at the Headquarters of the Depart
ment OF the Missouri, Fort Leayenworth, Kansas,
mand May B. 1870.
INDIAN RAIDS
He details at considerable length the several raids
Of the Indians on working parties on the Kansas
Pacific Railroad and elsewhere, and on settlers in
his department. He speaks in severe terms OF the
gross carelessness Of the working parties along the
railroad and attributes the raids to the fact that
they were often distributed along forty miles OF the
road without arms or preparation OF any kind. He
saws their defenseess condition. and the utter neg
lect OF every precautioR which experience should
have taught them was essential to their safety,
offered an irresistible temptation to the Indians He
thinks it hardly necessary to say to the Division
Commander that large part of these Indian raids
and murders due to this extreme reckessness and
disregard Of common-sense and everyday expert
the part OF the whites. 1t not possible to
correct these things, nor can it be expected that
troops will be found at all times, and at every point
Of this vast frontier where irresponsible and reck
the troubles with the Apaches in New Mexico are
likely to continue, and he doubts from the charac-
live upon reservation at all, unless indeed they be
furnished with everything they covet
THE NEW INDIAN POLICY.
The repert refers at some length to the relations
between the army and the Indian Bureau and saws
the relations between the army and the Indian
agents were established by the Government and
that SO long as both parties literally observe them
there need be no conflict or controversy 1t may be
safely doubted, however he says, whether such
relation is best for such Indians as the Arapa-
hoes Cheyennes, K1owas and Comanches. The coiln-
try assigned to these Indians reservations is
vations of the Kiowas and Comanches is very near
the frontier settlements Of Texas upon which these
Indians have been accustomed to depredate for
| years The military authorities having no iurisdc-
lion whatever within the reservation, are poWeress
to prevent an organization OF the Indians for hos
tile movements, or to arrest such movement until
! the parties concerned have passed beyond the
limits of the reservation. In other words, the
after council, devising means and determin-
| ing plans for raids upon the settlements north
| and south, and may accumulate everything
needfu for them, and may march or from their en-.
campment on hostile expeditions, and yet the mill
tary authorities at hand in the neghborhood fuilv
possessed of all the facts, and knowing wen the
active persons concerned in organizing the raid can
neither arrest these persons nor in any manner in
terfere with the expedition until shall have passed
beyond the limits OF the reservation. Having in this
manner prepared everything for the raid and having
the settlements horth and south to attack their rst
move must be successful and occasion severe ininry
to the places and people attacked. 1t is only then
that troops can be used and they generally too late
| In mi n,
| wholly prevented by arresting for the time the
active persons engaged, in getting them up or by
seiZing and keeping for a While the ponies of the
tribes or tribes concerned. 1t seems to me that
such obvious and peacesl means of entirely frus-
tratng hostile expeditions OF Indians, attended
with such destruction and such nameless horrors
ought to be in the power OF the military to use AT
after hostilities begin, and then it is gene
rally too late to 90 much good. | merely pre-
anything. think the common sense OF it need not
even be emphasized. / believe 1t proper to set
forth IN some detail the position Of the military
authorities in relation to these Indian reservations
as all depredations Committed by Indians are
charged to want of proper action, or the neicency
OF the military, and the commanders Of military
posts in near any of these reservations are in
variaby held responsible by public opinion for the
conduct of the Indians, over whom they have no
Jurisdiction nor control whatever Upon
being closely pursued the Indians retreat to
their reservations, where the military cannot
touch them. regret to notice that this feeling has
been manifested by the military authorities of
Texas, OF course In ignorance OF these facts.
some general orders setting forth fully the exact re-
lations between the military authorities antthe In
dians and their agents, in order that military com.
manders,a at least, might be spared misapprehensiou
and unjust censures from the members OF theil
own arm Of the public service.
THE RAIDS MADE BY THE KIowAs AND CoMANCHEs
Under present treaties all the Comanches, Kto
was Cheyennes, and Arapahoes are bound to live
upon reservations laid cut for them in the southern
part of the department. The Cheyennes and Ara
pahoes along the waters OF the Canadian; the
Kiowas and Comanches between the Canadian
and Red rivers. SO long as the Indians remain OF
these reservations they solely under
the jurisdiction OF the Interior Department WheI
they 90 beyond ii becomes the duty OF the miltar,
| TO coinpel their return The ArapahOes have almos
| to man been peaceful during this year. ThC
Cheyennes, as a body, have, believe also beer
! peaceful. The Kiowas have been altogether thC
worst IL dians we have had to deal with. | think
almost certain that near ALL II not quite ALL OF tn,
depredations and muTcers committed south of thu
Arkansas river, since May !, are to be charged Il
twenty-five years past, the most atthless cruel anC
untrustworthy OF all the Indians OF the Plains. Th
Oomanches have joined them, however il
the depredations committed in Texas which thes,
Indians can never be made TO understand is EN-
braced in any treaties with the settlements. In dan
ger from the e, S ahS are IN
along the Arkansas river, the Kansas Pacific Rail
road, the Saline, Solomon, and Republican rivers
| The eastern settlements OF Colorado and Ney
Mexico may also be said to be exposed to these In
dians, though not so much. The Utes, occupying
large part of Colorado and Northern Ney
Mexico, have always been.peaceful, and, IN
| remain so. Much the same thing may noN
be said OF the Nayajoes. The Apaches, occupyin
| all Southern New Mexico on both sides OF the Ri
! ! GIande, also Arizona, are the most squalit
coWardly, and thieying Indians know on the froI
| tier. They are divided into numerous small bandl
| recognize no general authority, and most of the
warlike operations consist in the murder OF an NJ
protected herder or two and the theft OF their herd
Of sheep. Very email, unarmed, or careless partlt
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