Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-08-08
By ELEGR a PHI
SPECIAL TO THE PIoCHE DAILY BEOoBD
BY WESTERN UNION LINE.
EASTERN DISPATCHES.

CHICAGO, Aug. THE pardon of AL
derman Cullerton, convicted of neglect
Of duty as gauger and sentenced to six
months Imprisonment and to pay fine
of one thousand dollars, arrived from
Washington to-day. 1t RENTS the i'm
prisonment only.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.-Bluford Wilson
was cross.examined to-day in the whisky
committee. He did not know the Presi-
dent was angry at the publication of the
endorsement of the Bernard letter-"Let
no guilty man escape" He told Yaryan
importantly was required to procure
such endorsement; he had been told st.
Louis parties had sought the President
to make some declaration showing he
sympathized with the prosecution. Wit
ness gave reasons for believing be was
not acting in accordance with the en-
dorsement and repeated that the dis
covery of the "Sylph" telegram seemed
to have changed the Presidents mind.
The Kitchen Cabinet and BOSS
Ring" under Shepard and Babcock.
their movements being against Bristow
and Jewell.
WASHINGTON, August THE Com
missioner of Indian Affairs is of the
opinion that important changes in the
Indian service for California and other
Pacific States and Territories will be
necessary when the Indian Appropriation
Bill is finally passed. Heretofore. the
most expenses for California, Nevada,
Oregon and some other portions of the
Pacific Coast service, have been paid out
the incidental funds appropriated instead
of that for specific purposes. The ne
cessities of the service have been such as
to render it impossible to estimate the
requirements in advance, and a large dis
erection heretofore allowed to the De-
partment One half of the five million
dollars asked for by the Indian Bureau
is required to fulfill the specific demands
for treaties. The House of Represent
tatives, in attempting to reduce the In
dian appropriations fifty per cent, there.
fore have been compelled to cut that
amount out of the other half. The gen.
eral theory Of reduction was to refuse to
recognize the claims of Indians, except
ing those with whom q treaty was rat-
fed in Congress. The tribes which have
been pacified without such treaties are
not considered to have any claims for
appropriations. The public bounty is
therefore principally distributed in aid
of those who were first at war with the
whites.
1t is the general opinion that even if
Congress adjourns this week it will not
be until the latter part.
The House will, it is said, recede ulti-
mately from its PROPOSE ton to transfer
the Indian Bureau to the War Depart
ment, so that the only bill about which
there is continued trouble is the Consul
lar and Diplomatic. no effective step
having yet been taken to reconcile the
| differences between the two Houses.
CHICAGO, Aug. THE Tribune's
Washington dispatch says the Commits
sion OF Indian Affairs received dispatch
last evening from the Indian Agent at
Cheyenne agency. saying the Indians of
that place request the United States to
suspend hostile operations against the
Sioux eight weeks in order that the
Cheyenne scouts may visit the hostile
Indians and arrange peace. General
Sherman is out of town and has not seen
the dispatch, but it is not likely the re-
quest will be granted. The report, pub
lished week ago, that the Indians of
Red Cloud agency and Spotted Tail
agency had been turned over to the mill
tary authorities for management is not
true. The Commissioners of Indian AZ
fairs found it desirable to remove the