Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-15
A INDUSTRIOUS TEAL.
How John Logan Became ReeOneiled to
Grant.

Washington Correspondence New York sum-
The query is often made here in WASH
ingtOn, what could have induced John
A. Logan to ship so suddenly into the
IGrant fold, and become the doughty
champion of the fOriOrn and stricken
flock of offieehOlders? That question l
an able TO answer, which 1 now lay be-
fore your readers. can be sustained and
>ubsUanUiated by the strongest of proof.
About the time OF John LOgan's Grant
! CONFUSION the Indian Ring ofthe North
west managed 70 get through Congress
appropriations to the amount Of a round
million on q basis of
PURE, UNKALSO8uNED FRAUD.
The plum Of these appropriations was
a certain five hundred thousand dollars,
Ostensibly to be applied to the p~acifica-
lion of the so-caIed hostile Teton Sioux,
OF the Upper Missouri, said to be inlarge
numbers In the neighborhOOd Of Fort
| Peck, Montana Territory. Every North
western man, who has had any expe-
| rience among the Indians Of the Upper
Missouri, knows very well, that the so
/ called TetOns DO not number over thirty
lodges, and hat their reputed terrible
Chief, Sitting Bull, is nothing more than
a blatant Indian renegade, with a few
renegade followers, whose exploits cOn
sist in the theft Ofmules andpOnieS, and
an occasional raid on d~efenseless
wOodchOppers.
The appropriation Of five hundred
thousand dollars being nearly a pure.
steal, become an object Of intense inter
est to those inside the Ring II was ev-
ident that there would be at least four
hundred and fifty thousand dollars clear
plumber, even if Sitting Bull and his
whole gang were to be housed and fed
like New York merchants, end furnish
ed with rifles and clothing of the
latest fasiOn. The Indian Department
had arranged that Superintendent Nian
and A. J. Simmons, an agent On MIX
River, were to have
THE SQUEEZING OF THE PLUM.
What was the CONSERVATION Of the
watery-mOuthed wire-pullers, therefore, |
when q nonresident Of the Northwest, /
a man known to be the special pet and
cOnfidant Of John 4. Logan received
the appointment Of special Commissions
er TO disbuTse the five hundred thousand
dollars. This man was Major Wham.
To the Indian Ring and the people of
the Northwest the cause of General LO-
gan's astounding sOmersault into the
arms Of Grant wa at one apparent i'm
the appointment Of his fOvOrite in the
management Of the four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars steal.
To give character to the movements of
Major Wham, young Delano and
Assistant Secretary Of the Inter-
Tor COwan started with Major
Wham Oh a grand tour in the
Northwest, from Helena, Montana,
down the Missouri river. This tour was
unquestionably undertaken for the pur-
pose OF Forming in person a direct under
standing with the agents Of the Indian
King about the disbursement Of the sums
appropriated BY Congress for the Indian
tribes. Apart from
HALF MILLION DOLLARS TEATON
STEAL,
the various sums appropriated for the
are largely IN excess of their
actual necessities. Citizens Of the North
west, men of character and influence in
their section, have in vain petitioned for
q fair appOrtionment Of contracts. They
no show against the dishonest and
grabbing tools Of the Ring, who under
stand addition, divisionand silence.
The way in which LOgan's half mil
ion dollar appropriation was passed
through Congress IS a sad commentary
not only on the corruption but the ig- !
lorance with which our most important !
egislatiOn is conducted. On the word .
# a man named Simmons, U agent at ]
Mix river, who placed the number Of
Indians ST from twelve thousand
o fourteen thousand, the Commissioners,
Who have no personal knowledge Of the
condition Of the Northwest Indians,
'anctioned the request for this appropri-
'tion, this transferment Of at least four /
iunored and fifty thousand dollars from 1
ne peoples treasury to the peoples
'iuiderers 1t is well known to every
fausI ~ Montana and Dakota that
Wehty-nNe thousand would have been
IN amply sufficient appropriation to 0
AVE clothed and housed every man Of \
SITTING BULLS BAND 2
But e allowing the band AZ
han a hundred persons Rfty fbeusandf
what becomes ofthe remsiningF
our hundred and fifty thousand doIisrs5
AN John A. Logan, General Cover
'oung Delano, and Major Wham inform p
Is here at Washington, and the peonIe n
f the Northwest, who are very anxious /,
N this subject? n
The white men of Montana and the i
Upper Missouri are becoming Disguised r