New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-22

| from public life, have enriched the language
with bold and vigorous characterizations OF
this offense. There have been Judges, SEN
ators and Representatives among them, and
the exceeding earnestness, freshness, and orig
inality of the remarks they made over their
shoulders as they went away would almost COM
pensate for the loss the several departments of
the public service suffered in their abrupt de-
parture Among the first OF these were the
Credit Mobilier people, and among the last
Mr. William S. King, who from Canaua
stock yard hurled condemnation by the column
and pathOs by the page at the Minnesota Leg
islature and the general public.
And now comes into this procession an In
dian Agent, j. j. Sayille by name, who writes
to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs saying,
| i'm the large and formal manner affected by
persons in official position, that his " attention
mas been called" to the statements of Prof.
Marsh regarding the quality of supplies fur
nishcd and the management OF Affairs at the
Red Cloud Agency, where he is stationed. lie
is of the OpiniOn-and the public agrees with
him perfccty-that these statements reflect
upon his ability as an agent and honor as "a
man. SO he says: 81 have awaited a time,
d" thinking this to be of the usual effer-
"vescences of the moment; but it is pushed
"with persistence and malignancy that
calls for an official notice from me-"
Cone of the usual eilervesccnces of the mo-
ment" is uncOmmonly good. No one has
ever thought to call them by that name
before. Perhaps because outside the Interior
| Department the eifcrvcscence OF explicit
| charges of corruption has generally continued
more than Il moment. But Mr.. Sayille knew
his Department and had bad experience. He
| knew that great many charges OF corrupt
and dishonest administration in that depart
ment had been made and that i'll two or
| three instances charges had been brought
against himself, but in every case he had
"awaited Il time" and they had ceased to
eiferycsce. In none of the departments are the
appliances necessary to suppress "eifervcs-
"ccncc' so perfect and complete as in Sec
rotary Delanos Wei might Mr.. Sayille sup
pose it was lone of the usual etlervescences'
and "await time until it should cease. lie
| had been there before The department files
bear witness to it, Bat what happy thought
| it was. We commend it to future statesmen
who are suspected of dishonesty and threat
cncd with nvestigation-and there bids fair to
be n considerable crop of them after next De-
cember-wayo inquiry away loftly and grandly
rs "the usual elfervcscencc of the moment"
Our Indian Agent. however, WAS disappointed
| in this case. To his surprise it was "pushed
" with persistence and malignancy that
"calcd for Off cial notice." The pushing with
persistence and malignancy consisted in the
fact that after Prof Marsh, in accordance
with his promise 70 Red Cloud, had commune
Gated the complaints of the Indians to the
Great Father, the Board of Indian Commits
sioners, at their meeting in NcwIOrk invited
the Professor to make statement of the facts
to them, which he did. They were not pleased
with his story, and much less pleased with
its being made public. But TIE TRIBUNE pub
lisled facts, and they made so much stir that Sec
rotary Delano could not avoid taking notice
of them. In Il letter to the Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs, in which ting politician Delano
undertook to discrcdit i'll advance the scholar,
| Prof. Marsh, and in the attempt only made
| himself ridiculous, that functionary ordered II
Committee to be appointed to investigate
the matters set forth in Prof Marsh's COM
municatiOn. That request TGs an eiferves-
| cence-if Mr. Savillc is looking for etfer-
vesccnces there has been no commission
and no investigation, though several weeks
have elapsed since the Secretary had his burst
of INDIGNATION on the subject. The official
"noticc" which Agent Saville says was called
for from him by the "pcr.isence and malig-
"nancy" with which the matter was pushed,
consists of a very weak attempt by falschOOd
and Misrepresentation TO explain away the
charges against him; TO which is added a re-
quest for an investigation, with the very sug-
gestivc and significant remark that If he shall
be indicated he proposes to retire from the
service. This was communicated In letter to
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs under
date of June 8. Then he sends in his
ignaton, Gin consequence" he says, of the
repeated attacks made upon me by the I'M
"warrantcd and sanlrrOuS statements of GER
"tain irresponsible and mlliciously disposed
"persons," which have destroyed his influence
with the Indians, He desires an early accept
ancc of his resi- nation unless there are charges
against him, in which case he asks that its
acceptance he deferred until he is acquitted
| The Commissioner forwarded the two cOmmu-
ncatiOns to the Secretary of the Interior, with
a recommendation that Prof. Marsh be re-
quested to put his charges formally in writing
and an investigation he lad and Mr.. Savilles
resignation b. accepted or his dismissal or
dered according to the result. And 1t Is
gravely stated that III 10 charges have been
filed by Prof Marsh the resignation will doubt
less be accepted.
There's "cfi;Iyc>cencc" for you. sure enough.
No commissions no investigation. no inquiry
whatever; but this Agent. under charges dis
tinct and definite which are known to the
President to Secretary Deano, to Commits
siOncr Smith, and 10 the public generally Is