New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-10

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 President
was in marked contrast TO that given me at the De-
partment, to which | had gone rs a matter
of courtesy only. When l was next in Wash
ington, in May last, / again called on the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs and also upon the
acting Secretary of the Interior, Gen. Cowen. the
honorable secretary himself being then in Ohio.
During his absence saw Gen. Cowen several times
about Indian matters. He treated me COurteously,
and invited me to attend the councils with the
Sioux delegations then in Washington, and, on one
occasion, when conference was held without puD-
lie notice. he took especial pans to send me bis writ
ten invitations and hence the statement in this
official pamphlet IA. y that | went uninvited Is
untrue.
THE FALsEHoOD ABOUT DECLINING TO PRESENT
CHARGES.
Ioa-fh: The statement III Secretary Delaao's LEI
ter to the Commission IN. y, that l declined his
personal request TO furnish statements OF nv
charges, is as false as his previous statements and
is at disp!ovcd by his own witness Gen Eaton,
who, in speaking of ne in his account Of my inter
view with Secretary ID lano, says: He sad lie
had not put them in shape, but would not do it,"
IL. ~ Commissioner Smith also rcfutes THIS false
hood Of tho Secretary for lie gays on the same SUD-
jc: ITO this request Paof MTsb h3S nc net yet re-
tary Dcano knows perfectly we'll that told him
several times duiIng Our Interviews that whenever
the COMMISSION OI lNNCStlEalOn vas ftdoy Ia
| would lay before them statement enD0dying my
spccic charges. and dis gchtlCmen OF the Commas
sion. you know did at the irst hour OF your organ
lZalOn.
SPECIFIC CHARGES PRESENTED WHEN CALLED FOR.
Fin: The statement Ok 81 that l hava made no
communication TO the Commissioner of Indian Al
ilirs in reply his letter Of July u, 9 requesting
a statement of specific charges with eSidencc-ths
is wi.fui ialschool. My reply, given on page ii
of my statement, was written july 8, and mailed
1t myself. borrower showing the example of Sec
rotary Delano and COMM ssioner Smith, in their
communications concerning myself. gave tie let
ter to the Associated Press and the American Press
Association for publication, and appeared promptly
in al the prominent papers. hkcWse transmitted
tins letter III my statement TO b0th the secretary OF
the Interior ard the Counssioncr OF ihdIan Annirs
and that the former duly received II, j. admitted ~
him in his letter to YOU July 20 IL, =, which was
this falls hood Was printed Moreover, the same
document was transmitted TO him by the President
JGy -.
VARIOUS OTHER IIssTArtMrNT5 CALLED By THEIR
IEJrER NAMES.
Srth: The statement Of the Secretary III his letter
to You of July 20 (2 ~, that his entire intercourse
with NE was the biief conversation il TIE Indian
council and the interview Il which Geu. Eaton vas
present, is not only false but does NE great injus
tice. called on the Secretary with Bishop Hare
Jinc t. before the council. and the Secretary being
absent left my card. This fact | stated to him III
the council when he addressed me. Moreo1er, ON
Jule 3, three days after the interview
at which Gen. Eaton was present, l had
another long and important interview with
Secretary Delano, which, FOX some reason
he now ignores. Before this last interview had
a., eady called, and udng MIN ont, had lett on IN
pogtaut mess &c for him with Gen. COwon: In ti!s
official pan hlet there are many cher 1aise State
ment., which have mar ied, bus which will not
weary yOu row with qrotne i'll detall. There - one
statement, however, on page u, mat caorot pass
over, namely ina Ictec,iug On the sour eS OF the
information which my charges are based. Ia t.
ply 70 this have only to say tnat yon, GENT men,
are the best judges Of the character and disinte'-
esedhcSs of the fifty witnesses, whose names nave
given you t. substautiate my own observations.
THE ALLEGED BREACH or CONFIDENCE ANSWERED.
The next document to which | would call your at
terton is important being one of series. to the
continued and wide distribution of which tie ma-
chinery of the Interior Department has been dncct't
since The casc was placed in your hands. suppose
they have been duly transmitted to the Commission
However this may lie, they have been SORT to nearly
all TIE papers of the country, religious and secular
The false statements to which have already called
your attention in tho official pamphlet are here re-
peatcd with mauy variations, but ell evidently
pgo, eeding from common source. This particulai
document, which may he taken as q fair sample
of the series rs to lruthfuness have good reason
10 believe prepared III the Interior Department.
1t was first Published in The MteyOcooE of Chicago,
July q, and Tcpublished in The u Gsaingt0n Ckron
Gle, July 81 II then reprinted in separate form
from lie Chronicle type and distributed by the De-
partment at public expense. The Only point in this
document that care now to meIltonis false charGo
OF breach Of confidence, Shen was invited 70 ap-
pear before the Board of Indian Commissioners in
New-York My invitation, which | Ietair, camc
4, 10. tf,a Re- ri
April 2S.~I. contained 40 iitimation that the meet
ing was to be p.iva.e one had no reason to be;
lieye that such was, intended. ! invited Harvard
Professor interested n the subject 10 accompany
me, bur as he could not jon me took with me
another friend whom l met ut slt hoicl
on my way to the meeuT Ts, an n1,,, VINO
lie is not shorthand reporter, and took no notes oi
the meeting whatever, surprising that the Board
would publ Ia AN account the next day, az II lind
done OF other meeting; Seeing no report IT, the
next ays papers, aud thinking nv re marks OF sni-
cient imJitancs he lna,ic an abstract from memory
aud this appeared in THE igIBUNEOf April 80. N0Ob-
Io.ti0' wiatcyer YVES made at the time to the adIns
sou ot,1s friend and those gwen III the document,
from Which l now quote. are wholly imaginary.
The Chairman of tie Board Cf Indian Commission
cls Gen. Fisk has since informed mo that there was
no objection to the publication of this report. and its
Las not been questioned.
AN INSULT TO PROF. MARSH
The Only Other one OK thes, seni-Ctfciai publica-
tons which will now notice is letter which APP
pearcd in Tie Fr0rdea1 Journal July 10, sdd soon
after was repnblshed and widely distributed through
the sl1ne channels a. the documents have already
>. rtiopel 'laS ie,iei evdertiy Vas wrlttc.. by
4, end of Commissioner Smith il bis behalf, and
CODY of tie reprint, winch low exhibit, was sent
20 me. with insulting annotatons, by Government
official in Washington whose identity is fully estab-
Lsled. In this document Commissioners Smiths
friend cndeavois TO pay him high compliment, and
10 dsparage INC. by a dctI,'ons description OF ,Ae
at q certain neotD9 OF tbs Board "
Indian Conn ,issioners III New York. The truthful
ess If this document may be Judged from tho fact