The Tipton advertiser., 1876-05-04
REHABILITATION.

Iotal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. III, ON
1885, so
REcAPIrULATloN.
| Incidental and contingent expen-
| ses as above .................Sl 81 ,s3. ,5o
! Pay of agents, &c, statement L.. 5s.30
Office OF Commiss'r, statement -. U,sst
Total outside treaty stipulations 2,oi3,6sl
| APPROPRIATIONS FOR INDIAN SERVICE IN 1876
Treaty stipulatons :. ........... 81, 439, 50
Incidental and contingent. ...... ,S3' ,5G
Pay of agents, &c................ l5S,30i
Office Of Commissioners. er.......... ,i,sst
Total, al,.......,......,..,.,,. 5,5l3,5o
The gentleman from Moth Caro-
lima, Mr.. SCALES, who opened this
discussion, had great deal to say
about frauds that had been perpe
trated by Indian agents. He gave
the items in the different accounts oi
Indian agents and made some very
funny showings. He said that he
had found in looking up this matter
an item Of forty dozen pairs of elastic
garters. would not call attention
to this matter now had not reference
been made 10 it by many democratic
gentlemen during this discussion
One would think they have bad elias
tic garters as special diet, Judging
from the elasticity of their statements.
The gentleman from North Carolina,
in place Of giving it to the House as
the reports give it, forty dozen pairs,
says there were forty thousand gar
ters.
Now submit, Mr.. Speaker, that
the garters must have been number
one superb article, if they were as
elastic as the statements Of my friend
from North Carolina. As the gentle
man seems fond Of that kind Of litera.
tu-c, he will find in looking through
The itemized accounts of Indian ex.
penses in ISIS that there were some
very interesting items, that he can
carry home and show his constituents
what angelic creatures the Indian
Blreau was composed Of before it
was transferred to the Interior De-
partment. lie will find contingen-
cies, &c., sundries, &C., tavern bill,
&C., whisky, &c, furnished to the
Indians under the War Department,
before 1S49, when everything con-
nccted with the Indian service was
SO pure.
Again, in locking over the discus
sion upon this subject in the Senate
during this period, | found that cne
Senator arose il his place and charged
that one Indian account of 1000
had been paid by the Government
three times over. | will say for the
credit of the pure system under
which they were operating that an
other Senator arose in his place and,
with all the virtuouS indignation he
could command, declared that the
account had been paid but twice.
| Laughter. General MacDowell, on
his oath before the Indian Committee,
says that Indian affairs before the
transfer from the War Department
were just as corrupt as they are nov.
1t has been charged that there are
Indian rings; the chairrnan Of the
Committee on Indian AiF.irs Mr..
SCALES says that there are Indian
rings in existence. Now that gentle
man is a member of a committee Of
investigation, and if he believed the
charge he made he ought 10 have
gone before that committee and pre-
sented it to them, where the inyesti-
CATION could be carried out and the
guilty parties brought to justice.
Allow me to say that politics has
nothing TO do to-day with the ap
pointments in the Indian service; not
a single politician has been appoint
ed an Indian agent during the last
two wears. The evidence before the
Committee on Military Affairs has
been of military men, because, as the
gentleman says, they know all about
the matter. submit that it is nat
ural for every committee and for
every Department to desire to con-
troll all that they can. We sec on
the floor of this House every day al
most committees eternally quarreling
as to who shall have control Of this
matter or of that, and it is but natural
for the military to desire control of
this Bureau.
1t is said that General Sherman
and other military men are in favor
of this transfer. The fact is that at
one time the testimony of General
Sherman is one way and at another
time it is another. 1t is fact, how
ever, that there is one statement he
has never changed: He says that
If you ,oant ,nar, then turn the In
dams ouer TO the Var Department,
If you rant peace, then leace them
,chere they are. And Mr.. Walsh
says that General Sherman, whom he
knows well, has no faith VIII atever in
the policy of civilizing and christian.
izing the Indians.