The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-23
From WASHINGTON.

TlOS. SC, &C.
From washln@to ton.
WASHINGTON, November 22.-In his re.
port to the War Department, General Glib
bon, commanding the Department OF the
Dakota, after describing the murder OF Ed.
ward Frazier by the Indians, tenders his
contribution to the literature OF the Indian
Department question, holding that any at.
tempt TO place the control OF two depart
ments so radically opposed in principle as
the Military and the Indian. has resulted in
clashing Of authority and state OF affairs
which is working to the detrlment OF the
Indian.
.sThe average Indian agent" he says,
s.while preparing the red man for heaven,
us he thinks, is actually making nell upon
earth FOR him by leaving him unclothed and
unied, while frequently the price OF bis
clothing Is put in the agents pocket. The
army officer, on the other hand, who mas
bcen educated to account for every cents
worth OF property received from the Gov
erpment. and is anxious, by feeding and
clothing the Indian, to keep him peaceful,
gains credit in the minds OF well-meaning
Deople. II the system OF responsibility
which prevails in the army existed in the
Indian Department, much OF the now we'll
founded charge o: looseness and fraud
would be avoided. Butt" he adds, "under
the total lack OF system III that Department.
the responsibility is so loose and fraud so
easy that the wonder is not that peculatlon
should not occur, but that it does not hap
pen In all cases."
Secretary Schurz received telegram to-
day announcing that Mccain. the con-
tractor for Indian supplies. prosecuted ny
the Department for defraudlng the Gov
ernment, has been convicted. and lodSed IN
ioil ut CHEYENNE. It is stated at the De-
nortment that this is the first instance or a
conviction in such case by 1rohtierS
jury. ;,,s,,,,o
t;on from the Denver assayer that be IS
nnrchos,nr for greenbacks hundred thou-
sand dollars worth Of gold buffion month
Iv' The purchases at Chan otte are from
three 70 five thousand per month.
The total estimates OF the Secretary OF
,he Treasury to support the Government
for the fiscal wear ending June, 1889, are
so75,l37, 250 81. The aggregate for seventy
nine years was S250,6SS, 796,3SG, showing
reduction for the next fiscal year OF S3,53l,-
5+5.44.
Secretary Evarts has instructed Bayard
TAYLOR, Minister TO Germany, TO investigate
and report the case CT the naturalzed Ger
man citizen of Wisconsin, who went to
Germany and expressed himself too freely
concerning the conduct OF that Govern
ment, with the view OF interference IN be-
half of the citizen by our Government, pro-
vided inquiry justified.
The United States Minister to Italy IN
forms the State Department that In accord
ance with instructions he has conveyed 10
King Humbert President Hnyes's congrat-
ulations upon the Kings escape from aSsas-
sination.
The commissioner Of Agriculture has re-
ceived q barrel OF celebrated PERUVIAN yell
low potatoes from the high table-lands back
OF Lima, near the Cerro De Pasco. ana mas
distributed few OF Them for planting IN
California.
The late United States Consul to Samoa is
in fine city. and is the bearer Of dispatches
from the Government OF Samoa represent
ing the people OF that country increasing In
Drosperlty under the treaty Of Samoa and
the United States.
Dr.. Scott, United States consul at Homo
lulu, has submitted to Secretary EYarts an
official communication, arguing that the
treaty OF reciprocity between the United
States and the Hawaiian Kingdom should he
amended. He says the value OF articles I'M
ported into this country from the Sandwich
Islands is SIX times that Of our exports to
them, and that we receive no adequate re-
turn for our REIMBURSEMENT OF customs
duties on Hawaiian sugar and rice pro-
ducts.
The House Appropriation Committee
commenced the preparation OF the annual
appro priation bills to-day. The impression
is that NO material reductions can be made
from the totals OF last year without detrl-
ment to the service.
An order issued to-day reduces the allot-
mcnts to be spent at the several navy-yards
twenty-five per cent, taking from Norfolk
$4,000, and from Pensacola $4,000.
A warrant for the fishery award was to-
day drawn at the Treasury for five and
half millions OF dollars and placed to the
credit OF the Secretary OF State.
William II. O'Neal has been appointed
keeper Of the life-saving station at Gamiels
Hill, North Carolina.