Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-12-14
LATE EASTERN TELEGRA rs


stead application and perfect his original
entry IN the land Office as Is allowed To
settlers u,'.r preem, ,tion laws. u put
their clsi.n- on record. and that such
clsins shall rela' back TO the date OF
settlement the same IS il he had settled
Under the pre-emption laws The bill also
provides that lands originally entered un.
ter the homestead laws, but not in good
faith. and lands abandoned before the
final entry, shall hc subject 10 either home
stead or cmp;ipn entry by the first
-.t'ler who has settled. ~ shall tner' T'"r
et,le upon item: provided. that n
months from the date of sett,rmr 4"
aall take the uecr>sa. steps To- har
aid Incomplete. homestead entry -
eled. and shall, pay the aud Office ic'
he contest.
Sehupz on the sndIan Question.
WASHINGTON. Dec 6-The joint com
mission for consi 'ring the transfer al
he Indian buresu the military depart
ment. heard Secretary SchuT1 today Ire
iisolaimcd any personal d,s!r, 70 rc'.'n
control Of the lnliln service under ,n'
interior department. ~ b:aacA 81 the
Departments business j. ~ Troublesome
and ihankle~s II" thought the IND rs
entitled To- human. '.'. Wr1', ami mat
this could only hc -.rGfcd through TN"
processes of civilization. education HI!
kind treatment. The military "rr" lot
fitted f,r this Wors TIC secretary q"",-
ed from the report of the Sioux c"nH;s-
sion, signed Ivy GcH>. sherman. Terry.
Aucur and Others. sitting tort IN eject
that if peace with .ntlrns was rcquIr,d,
Tie management e, ,ur.r affairs should It
placed under the civil department of the
government. Now agree with these
gentlemen on tins point. There are Il
great many officers 81 the urmY who have
excellent ideas about Indian affairs, but ii
IS another thing to bring ideas into pracii-
cal effect The military arm Of the gov
eminent he did not consider gifted with
he patient labor required to place The hoe
n the Indians hand and teach him how to
;se it, He denied very emphalicaily The
ed tape system of reporting Indian cut
lreaks which had been asserted was re-
uired under the present administration o!
indian affairs. Whenever u case arises
where prompt action is necessary, be, IN
person. communicated with the secretary
# war, or with the general OF the army,
hereby causing bu. very few hours dcI2y
n pCrfecting the necessary arrangement
y meet emergency, rather Than months,
IS intimaied by Sherman. lie claimed
hat the demand for the transfer OF the
bureau from civil to military department
vas based upon assumptions rather .ib1n
ipon facts. History will prove that the
indian bureau is credited with Indian
cars which, in reality, occurred previous
its organization under civil manage
lent. The cause of Il majority oil wars,
his opinion, is the hIeakiDg OF treaties,
L. Nm, <1,.,, At
,hites upon settlements allotted to would
re peaceful Indians. lie did not believe
UGH military officers as Gems. Sherman,
Sheridan and others, desired war, but
subordinates, who had regulations to
make. were not too keen for peace. es-
pecialiy with the Indian race. Army
officers" the secretary said in reply to Il
question by Gen. Hooker, who have been
in charge at the Indian agencies, nave
been very faithful and efficient. Their
duties were, however, in connection with
an unsettled state of affairs, and not with
view to civliZing the Indian" The
secretary advised the placing OF trouble
some Indians on reservation under mar.
tial law. and of increasing the number OF
the Indian police force rom 400 To l,00o
or 200. This force WAS very reliable and
rendered good service.
Schurz stated that he had read in the
papers statement by Gen. Marcy that
when in the war department the bureau
worked smoothly enough; that there
was no mismanagelncnt, and, in fact, no
suspicion of any. 1t was, in fact, as he
had said, as if angels had decended upon
earth doing gentle ministrations among
savages 10 lead them to n higher state of
well being 1t was easily proved that this
was far from being the case. A report of
the committee To the mouse Of representa-.
tives, made in 1912, when the war depart.
ment had charged clerks with unpardOH-
able negligence; that accounts showed an
almost total want of methods; that ac-
counts of expenditures were carelessly
kept, and that theie arc scarcely any
traces of expenditures of very large sums.
For several years entries were made in SO
slevenly manner that the very clerks
themselves could not explain them. There
was not IL single entry referring to Indian
land. and all records left by the Indian
pfiicers in the war department were scraps
IF memoranda in pencil notes, etc. To
bear out his statement with respect to this
,nalfeasance, he quoted from a report of
Lieut.. Gen. Hitchcock, and instanced the
action of the department in reference to
he removal of the Cherokees The con
tract was made at $40 per head, and 10000
'herokees were removed; but 5000 in
excess of the actual number were charged
and paid er,-making the actual payment
500, 215 in excess, or SOB per capita.
Pacific Coast Bills.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.--Lut,rell intro
luced a bill appropriating $4,000 for
lighthouse on South Farralone Island ,sthe
obstruction of which is recommended by
re report of the lighthouse board now in
he hands of the house committee on ap-
F., "opriat,ons.
Delegate Jacobs introduced bill appro-
rating 5000 for the site and fog signal
Sandy Point. Puget Sound. aad s22-
- for improvement of the Upper Coium
ia
MitChell's bill fnI me Construction OF u
aIbor Of refuge quotes the report of tine
t,ar1 af army emo neers for M show :nr