New-York tribune., 1878-11-27
TIE INDIAN OFFICE REPORT.

COMMISSIONER HAYTS STATEMENTS ON Ihb Erfi-
CIENCY OF TIE sERvICE-THE BANSACK OUT
BREAK AS VIEWED FROM THE BUREAU.
IBY TRLLoRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE.l
WASuINGToN Nov. 2G.-The report of the Indian
Commissioner has been completed. 1t opens as fol-
lows:
MANY changes have been made since my last report
IN the methods and management OF both the ofice ana
agency business. Rules previously established nave
been enforced and accountability the part OF EN-
ploves and OF those who have had business with the
office has been insisted upon. and the affairs OF the
Office generally have been put upon strictly busi-
ness basis The property and cash accounts OF
agents have been closely scrutmzcd, and the service
purified of such agents aud employees IA have been
found unfahul TO their trusts or inefficient In their
management. Claims have been critically examined
and as q result large sums Of money have been saved
70 tbe Government Contractors have been held 10 the
mhment OF their contracts and attempts TO put upon
the Government inferior goods have been met by dedue
tions which have ITS interests and servedo
deter others from making similar experiments. some
dhones, contractors and employees have been and are
uoy, belng prosecuted and convicted. Many attempted
frauds have been detected and thwarted and some
which had been successful in previous have been
discovered and It Is hoped that the perpetraiors may yet
be brought to Justice
The report contains great deal in regard to the
Banrack outbreak. Ii says:
OF July g. 1868, lack OF any sufficient appropriation
OF money and the small quantity OF supplies furnished
Indians 20 continue their nOmadlc life 10 the
present tme 1t Is not possible for them to settle
for them until such time as sufficient funds approph
ated by Congress. to suosist them while, while dong
what they heard OF the war, rritated by what they
esteemed bad faith in the issuance TO them
the whites upon their reservation, ana cherishing
.t,t.d af Eorf friendly
able character Of the latter rather aggayating their
hostility to them, they became more and more restes,
nntIl during the Summer Of 1877, Bannack Indian
under the influence OF whskeY ana war paint.
started out from the agency armed armed with
seriously wounded two unonending teamsters who
passing the agency On the 25d OF noTem6er the per
the civil authorities, through the fundamentally
OF the agent, without resistance or opposition.
Excitement and the bitter feeling resulting from
tbis arrest another Bannack friend Of the prisoner
Troops were Immediately called for. On the goth Of
December Colonel Smith, OF the 14th Infantry arrived
murderer Of Rhodsn was arrested by the military a
point some sixty miles distant from the agency. Sub
The excitement and threatening demonstrations
the part Of the Bannacks consequent upon this arrest
were such that Colonel Smith, reinforced by cavalry
the 10th OF January surrounded two Bannack villages at
the aGsney and captured SS %9.9r %a 81 g9ns ond
two brothers OF the o %t AND cTa %
turn TO their people aud April the captured ponies,
being OF hut little value, were returned 10 them.
Their best arms had been secreted, and their
valuable ponies had been moved to places Of
saiety before the military surrounded their
camp The failure OF this attempt TO disarm and DIS
nount the Bannacks served to and eIasperate
the Indians and followed, the agent predicted
that IL would be, by retaliation the grass was
in condition TO feed the Indian ponies.
This part Of the report ia followed bv number of
telegrams which passed between the Indian Office
and Indian Agent Danielson at Ross Fork, Idaho
and between the War Department aud Army Off
GERS in the field. One of them was from General
Crook saying he thought there would be no trouble.
Ii was referred to the Commissioner Of Indian Af-
fairs. indorsed as follows by General Sherman:
think the agent at the Shoshone Agency, near Fort
Hall, uuduly scared.
After giving these dispatches, the Commissioner
says:
In the light Of succeeding events. II is evident that
ncthor the military officers nj Fort Hall, nor General
Crook who made Fort Hal for the purpose Of
aecerainng whether the troops ought To remain there,
the agent because he wanted troops 10 remain
nj the agency. had q irue appreciation Of the effect
which the unsuccessful attempt to capture arms aId
ponies would have upOn tue Indians. NOtwiih-
standing the fact TINT against their VIII one Ofcrr
and twenty-five men were left NJ Tho agency. the
Indians broke out In hostie'. as The agent said
dition for their ponies Ia travel The long chase inter
tho Indians IL "A matter I record The DISPATCHES
cited prove conc.usiyey thai the agent was hnduly
scaTed and that the military were truly aud well IN
formed by the Indian agent and others OF the actual
state al affairs at Fort Hall Agency in time TO be pre-
pared for hOstlhtics.
The report gives full account Of the Northern
CHEYENNE raid, as well as the details concerning the
removal of different tribds made by orders from the
Indian Office.