The Morning herald., 1876-03-16
WILMINGTON, MARCH le, 1875.
THE INDIAN RING.

THE INDIAN RING.
/ Notwithstanding the heads Of the lndi-
an Office and the Interior Department,
with which it is connected, have beer
changed, yet the Indian Ring that has so
lene been in the ascendant remains un-
changed in power and in practice. Al
though the officers and clerks tn the lnte-
rior Department, who assisted in or con-
nived at the fraudulent transactions with
which that department of the Govern
ment is rife, have been removed, the lndl'
An Office is still controlled by the same
political influences that have hitherto en-.
yironed it. That all powerful Indian
Ring composed of J. w. Bosler, A. h.
Wilder, De Witt Clinton Wheeler, j, I.
Baldwin, Gen Dodge, J. B. Baird and
others, who have entered into conspira-
ey to relieve the Government Of its sur
plus cash, still controls and runs this in
famous plundering machine, and will run
it until the Indian service is made an in
dependent bureau, like that Of the Agricul-
tural Department. The present House Of
Representatives will refuse to make ap-
propriations for the Indian service while
this villainous Indian Ring of thieves
control it. The want of confidence in the
Department of the Interior is we'll foun-
ded and the House of Representatives is
iusti6able in refusing to make appropria-
tions for the Indian service unless the
care Of the Indians is transferred from the
Interior Department. After years OF self
denving service, Messrs. Brunot, Bishop,
Farrell and others, who were appointed
by the President with full power and au
thority of law to stop the abuses in the In
dian service, they found it impossible TO
check the evil influences that the Indian
Ring had acquired over the officers of the
Interior Department. Vouchers to the
amount of hundreds Of thousands Of dol.
lars that the Commissioners pronounced i.
legal and fraudulent, were notwithstand-
ing paid by the Secretary Of the Interior,
and when the Commissioners reported the
fact of the payment OF these fraudulent
claims to the President of the United
States, he refused 10 sustain them, and
they resigned. But as inforners ofwrong
by Government officials are in these days
of radicalism, considered the guilty par
ties, the President did not regret
their retirement as he has on the occa.
sion of other retiring officials, Secretary
Delaao, Commodore Porter and Secretary
Belknap for instance. The Indian Rins
is rich, and will be needed in defrayins
the coming political campaign, al
it has been in previous ones. It il
to such Rings that the leaders O
the Republican party look to for th'
money needful to conduct political cam
paigns, and an assessment on the India1
Ring to aid in defraying the expenses 0
the coming Presidential campaign, whicl
it can we'll afford to contribute will be YER
great.
To longer allow the Indians to renal
with Department that has been, ard
still under the control of the Indian Rims
which is so subject to political ir
fuences, is unwarrantable, and it onl
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Of loose tobacco. The soft-shell clans ha
( often heard of the weed, of course, but th
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BILE effect of transferring the Indians
the War Department, or to an Indepent
ent Bureau like that for the Promotion
Agriculture. The House Of Represents
tives will not, and cannot be censured t
heavily taxed community, if it refus'
to appropriate money for this Departme'
until it has guaranty that the money wi
be honestly and judicious'y expende'
Mr.. William Welsh Of Philadelphia WI
knows, and is a gentleman whose wo1
cannot be doubted, says, that two-thirds
the money appropriated for the Indian
goes to defray the expenses Of tie ele
ton of United States Senators. Let us ho]
that Congress will no longer allow the Il
dians to remain under the control of IL
Indian Ring.