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

TIE PERSISTENT ATTACKS on PROP. MARSH
Mr.. CHAIRMAN Since | met the Commission IN
Now-York and frankly laid before you my evidence
In regard to affairs at Red Cloud Agency, have
kept perfectly quiet and published nothing on the
subject directly or indirectly, considering the case
in your hands and awaiting with perfect confidence
the rcsn. of Your investigation. he Interior De-
partment however has not done this, but from the
very first has kept mp a constant attack upon me, on
account of the matters placed in your hands to in
yesticate. Not only has this Department printed,
fox the instruction of the Commission pamphlet
which purpoIts to give the history of my charges,
but it has also inspired AID dictated the dispatches
ard letters of certain Washington correspondence
and afterward caused them TO he reprinted and dis
trbued from the interior Department at the pubic
expense.
FAIsEHDODS OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
If these various publications, thus distributed TO
the country aud placed in the hands of the Commits
sion merely contained Arguments and appeals,
should have taken notice of them; bat am pre-
pared to show with few minutes indulgence Of
the Commission" that each of tn Sc publications
thus sent forth from the Interior Department con-
tans gross and willful lalsehoods TIE fact of such
ftlsehoods in documents thus prepared and circu-
lated, not merely affects the character OF high
OIL als but directly concerns the work Of this Com
mission inasmuch as it shows the spirit III which tie
interior Department and Indian Office receive in
formation of Indian frauds, and the methods to
which they resort to deceive both the Commission
and the publie. | have deliberately chosen the
word " falsohoOd," in this statement /
propose TO call things by their rg,t names / am
willing to be condemned for such harsh language,
unless can clearly show so mary and gross mis-
statements OF facts, within the knOwlede of the In
terror Department. as TO put it beyond the doubt of
any reasonable man that deception was intended.
Both the Commission and the public have been the
srbects of this deception the part of the Interior
Department and many of the falsehoOds of which
complain have been brought to the attention Of the
Commission by the Secretary Of the Interior himself
FLOUR INSPECTION AT RID CLOUD.
To come to the publications of which l complain
II the Commission will allow me. l will first how
ever refer back TO the dispatch, dictated by Com
missioner Smith 10 the agent of the Associated Press
last May, abOnt beef cattle at Red Cloud Agency
and which quote III my published statement, page22
A. show, it contains four separate faseh0ods and its
object was to destroy the effect the public of Gen.
Bradley's certificate Another equally Characteristic
dispatch of the Commissioner III regard to -four, l
quote on mage 33 of my statement This dispatch
contains to distinct false statements, the evi-
dence now in your possession, from Major \. *.
Long and Others, clearly shows, VIZ: That all the
flour sent to Red Cloud Agency was not inspected 10y
Major Long; and secondly, that part OF the flour he
rejected afierward sent there. The latter dis
patch was published as reply to my first prescrta-
ton of The subject 10 the President, and is a fair
sample Of all the attempts at defense, that have
since been issued by the Department whether over
the signature OF the Secretary OF the Interior or
through some facle tool.
Pho7 MARSH TIE AUTHOR OF HIS OWN sTATEMENrs.
The documents issued by the Interior Department
since the Commission began ts laboTs have been 50
numerous that can only refer to a few of them
and out of de{creac TO tie high position Of is
Acknowledged author, will first take up tie official
pamphlet printed for the use Of the Investigating
Committee, and with which you are all, Of course,
familiar. very small portion Ct this pamphlet
relates 70 the present investigation, and This part
alone / propose now to discuss. in L.'s portion,
addressed especially 10 the Commission, there is
hardly a senteice that does not contain nisrepre-
sentaion and in one OF the letters from Secretary
Dsano himself TO the Commission, for your instruc-
ton there are at least three distinct falsehoods OF
single page. Among the more important ialse sta'e-
ments III tins oibcia panphle. are Inc following,
First: That was not the autlioroi my charges but
that they written or directly Inspired III lh-
Nlw-Y DIRK TRiBUNE Office. This statement, which
is reiterated i'll various forms and in different parts
of the pamphlet and other documents 10 winch j
shall refer, pronounce absolutely iaise; My s'aie
luent was written ly myself alone, liz Ncw-lIaycn
and there printed. No person connected with 1uf
TRIBUNE any other paper ever saw 1t until 't was
in print.
THE PUBLICATION OF HIS FIRST STATEMENT.
Second That my statement WAS published III
The TRIBUNE before being sent TO the President
Pamphlet, p 81 This assertion also is wholly false
My statement was finished July 20, aud it WAS my
inteuton 70 have taken it tn the Pre- dent that day.
but, having ascertaincd that lie was absent at Cape
May, awaited lis return until the 18Th, and then
started to present it ia person. But, uncertain
whether lie bad really returned. ! mailed it to
hun from New-Ycrk, so as "a reach Long Branch
that afternoon. Subsequently, but the same dav,
al the sane time, gave copy Of the pamphlet ("
the only two New-Yorx papers that nd asked FOR IT,
namely, THR ThtBUYE and HE Ec7iaG Pot. l|ut
palt of the ocun-ent Was lniBlisaed anil iie
day Having aacpIta.I.l a .fiuitfl.. tIe