New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-20
ommendation Ut the Episcopal denomination,
and is upheld By Bishop Hare. TO attack

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his integrity, therefore, is equivalent to as
sailing the whole Protestant Episcopal Church,
and it is not to be thought for moment
that q man so good as to be kind OF an &C.
clesastical Indian Agent could possibly con-
rive at frauds in the issue of supplies, or re-
turn beef at thousand pounds when it only
weighed three hundred and sixty.
Besides, continues Commissioner Smith, DR..
Savile has been investigated and approved by
| commission which contained not only a
| bishop and minister, but Mr.. +. IL. Smith
| to boot, and Mr.. Smith NOW member OF the
Indian Board) is President of the Young
Mems Christian Association of Washington.
Here then is another good man concerned in
keeping up the character of the Indian SER
vice, and Of course it is out of the question
that he should have failed to detect the fraud
if there was any, or to expose whatever he
detected.
Finally comes Secretary Delano, and as no.
body seems to have offered him recommends
ton he gives one to himself. He takes Prof.
Marsh by the hand, and squeezing it in that
tender and confidential way which none but
good men understand. assures the Professor
that the one great object of his life is to save
the souls of the Indians. That is all he cares
abcut-hat and buying good beef for them ;
and if we only knew how he had lain
awake nights shedding tears over the reports
of fraud on the frontier and wondering how
he could break it up, our hearts would bleed
for him. Then he squeezed 60 Mr.. Marsh's"
hand again and said, Dear Sir, join us in
the noble work OF Christianizing the wards
"of tho nation - and tell US how much you
shave found OUT
But in spite of this imposing array of char
acters-or at least of pr0fessions-we know
that Mr.. sayil'o has been repeatedly detected
in wrong doing, and that Secretary Delano
and Commissioner f. p. Smith, though long
ago made aware of it, have refused to inter-
fcre We know that Mr.. +. II. Smith is
charged with part of the responsibility for the
cheating in the quality of the sup
plies at Red Cloud Agency. And now
it will be seen from The TRIBUNE to-day that
the recent statement by the maladrolt Commits
sioner has had the effect of waking up new
witness whose testimony the Indian. Ring will
find highly unpleasant. The writer OF the com
muncaion signed "Fidcis" has had ample
opportunities to learn how the Government is
pundcrcd, aud has seen great deal of the
inside workings of the Department. The
present letter is in part . synopsis of GER
tain official reports which Commissioner Smith
apparently forgot to mention, and in part Is a
correction OF the Commissioners msstatcments
an exercise for which it seems to us Mr.
Smith is giving altogether too much occasion.
| 1t il so terse and clear that we shall make no
further comment on it, for it carries its own.
But we should like to ask the President if it
does not seem to him that-we will not say a
Ring, but circl,--of gentlemen who enter
tain such q stout confidence III one another's
goodness while all those things are going on,
should not be implicitly trusted to investigate
enc another's conduct I