Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-01
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.l III
WASHINGTON, June 30.-There are two 81
strong conflicting opinions in Official circles y
:ezarding Major Bernard's recent attack -
mon the Indians. At the war department a.
no little excitement appears to prevail, WINE
at the Indian Office feeling of utter lndlf-
ference seems to reign. The feeling in each g
department is very bitter against the other G
Gen. Sherman and Adjutant Gen. Townsend v
positively refuse to say word on the sub !.
iect. During yesterday the secretary OF war; 7.
accompanied by Gen. Sherman, called on
the President, and had lengthy interview. a
prominent official Of the navy department
was approached on the subject, and he sad
this outbreak was to be regarded as
SERIOUS AFFA1R, 6
one that would last ali summer, and that in
very short time it might be expected the
Banuock. Shoshone, Piute and Klamath
tribes would be fully daubed with their war
paint. These tribes can put in the field in
few days 1900 effective young warriors He
VI Nt>NoSS>
Tail Joining the hostile Indians, and in that
event the reservation Indians would start OF
on the war path. According to this gentle
man g opinion, as well as that OF Gen. Phil.
Sheridan, the small detachment of soldiers
in that vicinity will be
UTTERLY HELPLESS.
He aays that there are not more than 300
or 400 men, all told, to operate in that imme-
date locality, and what is worse, there are
no troops that can be sent for very well. In
the department of Dakota there are 1905
men, 31e Of whom are officers
In the department OF the Platte
2,S7S men, zig OF whom ore
Officers. In the department of Missouri,
2,5l2 men, 259 of whom are officers. In the
department of Texas, 1887 men, 29S of
whom are officers, and in the department OF
Niagara, 1882 men, 103 Of whom are Off
GERS, while in the department of California
there are 9l3 men, all told, and in the de-
partment of Columbia, 1918 men. Aside
| from these there are 1868 men, distributed
(: 81 various arsenals and forts east of the Mis-
sissippi river. 1t will thus be seen, he con-
q tinues, that over five sixths of tue whole
army is stationed west of the Mississippi
= river, and there is no garrison that car ee
g any more safely removed than another. He
e expressed the
~ ~ GRAvEsr SORT OF FEARS
d as to the result, and seemed positive abou
I. the utter helplessness Of the government tt
II 1yol uho
was the cause of the outbreak, and in an
" answer, he spurted away as follows: "Why
it is all caused by bad management, of tn
c interior department
THE OTHER SIZE
The acting commissioner OF Indian affair
- looked very differently upon the matter. l
lie the first place he denied positively that an
n serious Indian outbreak was threatened, an
o. said that the trouble that recently took plat
,e was owing to the fact that little bands {
Bannocks and Shoshone Indians were in IL
sal habit of roaming about Camas prairie
to search of the Canas plant, which they u
for food, and that in the reported fight
nv, nd Bernard, he believed the Indians did n
do number more than so or 60, and were only
It's band of mischievous young Indians foragi1
not after Camas. He laughed at what the W
nd department officials had said, when told
I'm m it, and said that it was false fre
mr.. beginning to end. He denied tt
the there were 1900 Indians in the wht
10y neighborhood, and said that he had receiy
80 several dispatches from Indian agents at t
ear Hammock. Shoshone and Klamath reser,
,am tons and
got NO TROUBLE Is ANTICIPATED.
pay Heregards those exag gerated reports as o.
nv part of the programme of the war depa
ken ment to spread false reports and int1uel
- the action of the joint commission regard
,ice the question of transfer of the Indian
the reau The Bernard fight, he said,
Tho nothing more than little skirmish and
me department had not the slightest appreh
Of a sion of any serious trouble. He expires
Sp ln- a great deal of Indignation over what he
have garded as the
ugh RAISE AND LYING
,ode statements of army officials in regard
been thieving Indian agents. He said the Inc
nen' service was now run at an expense of
fire 100000, whereas it formerly cost So 900,
part or $8,OO0,O0O. He charged that the a
any was noted for its extravaganza and char
hon that it could not feed the Indians and
No, the service for double the present cost.
feeling between the two departments on
,ard count of the proposed transfer is !,
icate strong.
to ARMY OFFICIALS AND CATHOLICS.
form It is now agreed that two schemes ur
Sen lie the Catholic. proposition, and that (
oou- Sherman is the advocate of both. Firs
made provide full pay places for retired oficia
pera- the army by giving them the manager
t Is of the Indian bureau; and, second, to
esult the Catholics in a way to control the ei
ton and religion of the Indians. It is
1lsot' Gen. Sherman only a short time ago
averse to the removal of the Indian b1
littee to the war department., but that now
strongly in favor of it. This change o
,sur- opinions, it is claimed, was brought a
by Catholic influence.
this MEXICAN BORDER TROUBLES.
lbili- General CrG is still here in referey
rican Mexican frontier matters. He spent
lmer- greater part of yesterday at the war DE-
SL ~ ment in consultation with Secretary
q 70. Crary and General Sherman. Acoordi