Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1876-07-28
chow AGENCY SUPPLIES.
NELSON sTORY's REPLY.
Refutation Of Rails Charxes:

uO Vu0 C0ss u0v0 NY uVuUt UpOo tuC 4uCo
ton. The gentleman asks a question as
to the Agency he has named. If you take
away tile agent and leayc the Army officer
now there to do the duty you save the pay
of the agent. If you take away the sur
geon now employed by the Indian Depart
ment and leave the Army surgeon 1t that
post to ID the duty, you sate the pay Of
the surgt on now employed BY the Indian
Department. aud 90 in regard to the other
men in the Army now there:
Now, Mr.. Chairman. as to Whether this
10 economy or not, II We are here looking
1t that question I have the official repor,
|of Captain Ed: Ball, of the management
of the Crow Agency during the present
year, showing under the present manage.
ment it is not only e&travagant and waste
full but fraudulent and bad. l ask that
that report be read for the information Of
the House On this subject; and hope that
every gentleman who thinks that thi-
transfer will not be economy will listen. +"
The CLERK read as follows:
CAPTAIN BALL's REPORT.
FORT Ellis, Montana Territory.
February Is, 1876.
SIR: have the honor to report for the
information 1t the Department, that I was
1t the Grow Indian agency on the Sth,
9Th. 10th and l1th instant, making an in
spect,on of flour; bacon ard pork deliver
| ed there on contract for the Grow Indians,
and that Nelson Story, of Bozeman. Mon
ltans Territory; contractor for pork and
bacon fot the Cf6M Agency, wss present,
land presented for INSPECTION fifty seven
barrels OF pork. Fifty Of these barrels
xere of the ordinary whisky barrels, and
seven of the ordinary pork barrels. al
backed with fresh p1tk in tie to*h Of
Bozeman, Montana Territory, during the
months of December, 1875, aud January,
1870.
opened three Of these barrels, th'
|large-slze whisky barrels, and weighed
THE contents of each, one weighing two
hundred and seventy-nine pounds; one
two hundred and two pounds, aid one
two hundred and thirteen pounds, making
|xn avetdgs 6f two hundred and thirty-0n
and one-quarter pounds to the barrel.
This pork consisted of the entire hog. ham
and feet excluded; and Gould not come
fhder tie head of mess pork, - required
10y the terms of the contract, and re-
l1ecsed the fifty seven barrels. I would
here state that that portion of the pork
belonging to mess pork was Of good
duality. and Would hSve paased the In
Ispection had IL been packed separately
Ibus the 46tite head; shoulderb, backbone
and tail with all the trimmings from th'
hams, were also packed with it, which. il
lmt Judgment; Hxs good Eause for reject
ling the entire lot. The Contractor dit
mot care to hsvs me exathiee any NOR
!lharrels than those I lid examined, b.
knowing full well that they were sll alike
'|aud that Lknew It, having visited th
!. butchers estsblishment frequently duriD
1.-The packing III this pork,
: Iwould further stat6 that on the ST
instant, while II the Agency. and previou
10 lily inspection Of this pork, Mr.. Nclso
'Istory, contractor. made two proposition
Ito defraud the Government; aDd cheat th
Indians out of tkeF supplies, and In eac
-|os these proportions it was evident to %
That the Agent. Nj. Dexter E. Olspp, WI
v Is psrty to the proposed fraud. The fir
+ = fIpr6bosit,on was tins: that should ps'
the pork for HIM At four hundred and fift
mounds to the barrel, aud that be woul
live nYe $1,000. The second was tn
,f1here ~ss due on the contract for f1o'
!sfwhich he was putting in on the Kiskadde
leontract about three hundred thousar
fbbunds. and that he was expecting an .
u Vance on tho price. which, together vii
freight. would bling the -four up to
lper hundred pounds, and that this amour
-Ior portion of It, at least, should be &
Titled to - having been recsived. and tn
,elws would make . good thing Of it. othe
4, WIZ there was nothing to be made out
J! the contract. He aiso informed He th
. there was still t75.000 unexpsnded OF q
for tho Crow Indians, viii
lie Was very anxtous 70 aveexpended b
fore the end of the fiscal year, q
= lhe intimated to me that with my ass''
u.1ance the money could b expended -
j. 10 make 1t profitable to %. meaning, q
|suppose, the agents. himself. and myee
|ro this I replied that the agent nl'e
mo- ~,hanit 70 such transactionk He
|plied: Eyes hs viii; that b Ill hight vi
'pl,he agents" then asked NJ. Story Vi
=, 1.-The POOR Indian would have 70 suhsIss q
Of ahoah such tsansaceion - be propoa
Y t'tsks placs. Hs replied that there -
o,lplsnty of buffalo and they could hys
meat, - It was good enough
hslthem. Al this junetare fiaSosnAsd :
Dglseosy that I had served h 10 Army g
y thirty -oss ysAsss thst I haf never seoss
4 dollar in that Way, apd ehss -
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