The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-09-10


Cloud Agency not inspected by Major Long; and,
secondly, that part Of the -four he re-
despatch was published a reply to my first
presentation Of the subject 10 the President and is
ar sample OF all the attempts defence that have since
been issued by the Department. whether the sigma
ture Of the Secretary OF the Interior through
facile tool The documents issued by the Interior De-
pariment when the Commission began its abors have
been numerous that only refer few Of them
and out Of Difference to the high position of its acknow
edged author viii nrst take up the official pamphlet
printed for the use Of the investigating committee, and
with which you are all, of course, familiar A
very small portion Of this pamphlet
relates to the present investigation and this part
alone l propose now TO discuss In this
portion addressed especially the Commissioner there
Is hardly sentence that does not contain misreprc
sentaon, and In Of the letters from Secretary De-
lano himself to the Commissioner for your instruction
there least three distinct falsehoods single
page. Among the more important false statements in
this official pamphlet are the following
OFFICIAL PAMPHLET FALsEHooDs.
First-That was not the author OF my charges, but
that they written directly inspired in the New
York Tribune Office This statement which is reer-
ated in various forms and in different parts of the pam
phlet and other documents 10 which l shall
refer, pronounce absolutely false. My statement was
written by myself alone in New Haven aud there
printed. No person connected with the Tribune any
other paper ever saw it until it was in print
FALsEHooD NO. 2
iSecond-That my statement was published in the
Tribune before being sent to the President Pamphlet
This assertion also is wholly false. My statement
finished July 10, and it my intention to have
taken to the President that day, but having
tanned that he was absent Cape May, | awaited
his return until the 18th, and then started
TO present in person But uncertain whether he had
really returned mailed il TO him from New York so as
10 reach Long Branch that afternoon. Subsequently,
but the same day, at the same time
gave copy OF the pamphlet to the only
two New York papers that had asked for it-namey,
the Tribune and EpenRg PoSt-bu part of the docu-
ment was published until the next day. Having asccr-
tanned definitely the l4th that the President had
turned 10 Long Branch, went there ana
called on him the same evening to explain TO
| him my statement more fully and to state
why had not brought it in person. would say here
that IN none of these interviews which have had with
the President Indian affairs has the Secretary of the
interior been mentioned Hence the statement that the
President told me to go to Secretary Delano with my
| complaints is totally false.
Third-That did not make my first complaint to the
Interior Dcpartment-ths statement often repeated
by the department-is false l went first of
| all to the Interior Department the Odd
| of April and made complaint to tho Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, whom 1 then
regarded and stll regard the proper person to
ceive such information How unwelcome the facts
presented we're and how uncivily received have
already stated before the Commission. My promise to
Red Cloud to carry his message to the Great Father
fulfilled the next day, and my reception by the Pres
dent in marked with that given the de-
partment to which l had gone matter
Of courtesy only. When was next in Wash
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and also
upon the acting Secretary Of the Interior General
Ohio During his absence saw General Cowan several
times about Indian matters. He treated
me co1pSoas ana iS Sn me 10 , attend
| Washington, and occasion when conference
was held without public knowledge he took special
pains to send me his written invitation. Hence the
statement in this official pamphlet IN that
went unlimited Is untrue
FALsEHooD NO. 4.
ForthThc statement in Secretary Delano's letter to
the Commission IN y, that declined his personal
quest to furnish statements of nv charges is as false as
! his previous statements, and is at dis
proved by his own witness, General Eaton,
who, in speaking of me in his account of
my interview with Secretary Delano, says:-"He said
he had not put 1t in shape but would do it'' (i ~
Commissioner Smith also refutes this iasehood Of the
Secretary, for he says the subject ito this
quest Professor Marsh has not yet responded has
| he declined il" Or l9l. Secretary Delano knows
perfectly well that told him several times during
interviews that whenever the Commission of Investi
CATION ready to act would lay before them
ment embodylng my specific charges; and this gentle
hour of your organization
FAIsEHooD s.
| FVth-The statement (R s. that have made
| communication TO the Commissioner of Indian affairs
in reply to his letter of July (R 81 requesting state
ment Of specified charges with evidence This is wilrul
| falsehood My reply given page IL of my state
ment was written July 3, and I mailed it
Deano and Commissioner Smith in their communlca-
,ions concerning myself gave the letter to
socation for publication, and it appeared
promptly in all the prominent papers. | like
wise transmitted this letter in my statement
to both the Secretary of the Interior and the Commis-
soner of Indian Affairs and that the former duly
admitted by him his letter you Of July
20 Or. ~ which written two weeks before the pam
phet containing this aIsehood printed. Moreover
| the same document was transmitted to him by the
President July To-
Sr-The statement OF the Secretary in his letter TO
you of July 20 r. ST. that his entire intercourse with
the brief conversation i'll the Indian Council
and the interview at which General Eaton
| present is not only false, but does great
| injustice. I called on the Secretary with Bishop
Hare, June before the Council and the Secretary being
absent left my card This fact stated to him in the
| Council when he addressed me- Moveover on
June 8, three days after the interview at
which General Eaton present, l had
| other long and important interview with Secretay
Deano, which for some he ignores. Before
this last interview l had already called, and finding
him out had left an important message for him with
SOURCES OF INFORMATION.
In this official pamphlet there are many other false
! statements which have marked, but which Will not
! weary you now with quoting in detail There is one
! statement, however, on page o, that can
| not pass over-namely, that rejecting on
| the of the information which my
charges based In reply to this have only to say
that you, gentlemen, tho best judges of the char
acter and Observation-Disclosures of the fifty witnesses,
whose names l have given you, to substantiate my
! own observations. The next to which will call
| your attention is important as being one of
the continued and wide distribution of which
| the machinery of the Interior statement has been
directed since the placed in your hands
suppose they have been duly transmitted to the
| commission. However this may be, they
have been sent to nearly all the papers of the
country religious and secular The false statements to
which have already called your attention in the OFF,
cal pamphlet here repeated with many variations,
This particular document which may be taken a
fair sample of this series as to truthulness,
have good reason to believe prepared in the Int
ror Department II was first published in the Inter
Ocean, of Chicago, July ~ and republished in the
Washington Chronicle July 81 II was then reprinted
! in separate form from the ChroRicle types and
distributed by the department NJ public ex-
pense Tho only point in this document that
care now to mention is charge Of breach of con-
fdence. When / invited to appear before the
Board of Indian Commissioners in New York, my invita-
! ton, which l retain, came from General Fisk, the
Chairman, meet the Board, April2S. 1t contained
intmaton that the meeting to be private one and
had no reason to believe that such was intended
invited Harvard professor interested in the subject to
accompany me, but he could not join
/ took with me another friend, whom met
on my way to the meeting and who
is the scientific editor of the Tribune
He is shorthand reporter and took notes of the
meeting whatever, supposng that the Board would
publish account the next day, as 1t had done
Of other meetings. Seeing report in tho
next days papers, and thinking my remarks of suni-
cent importance he made abstract from memory and
and this appeared in the Tribune of April 80 No OBJ