Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-22

Number bushels oats and barley. 22I,4S9
Number bushels vegetables raised 80. 376, ,l45
Number tons hay cut. ................. 6,572
Number cattle owned. 7S.Sl2
Number sheep owned. S64, l37
By the five civilized tribes:
Number acres cultivated. .............. 314,39S
Number bushels wheat raised. ........ 336.424
Numte. bu- hals COIN raised. SAG, ,042
Number bushels oats and barley raised 124, ,568
Number bushels vegetables raised.... 595, 600
Number bales cotton raised. d........... 1,6O0
Number tons hay cut. 14,000
Number cattle owned. 297.040
Number swine owned 40O,2S0
During the year 60 boarding and 110 day
schools have been in operation among the diff
ferent Indian tribes, exclusive of the five civil
lied tribes in Indian Territory, which have
been attended by over 1000 children and taught
by 316 teachers. The educational work of the
bureau could have been enlarged to q much
greater extent but for the inadequate appro-
priatiens made by Congress for the support of
schools. Fifty Thousand Indians at Seventeen
agencies have no treaty school funds whatever,
and educational facilities must depend entirely
on the general appropriation for education.
Among those tribes there are at least
1000 children of school age. Reports from
schools on the various reservations are full
of encouragement, showing increased and more
regular attendance of pupils, and growing in
| terest in education on the part of the parents.
In compliance with appeals from neglected
agencies the bureau has made arrangements
for erecting eleven boarding school buildings
during the coming season, and for the estab-
lishment of thirteen new boarding schools.
These will be the first schools of any kind pro-
vided for the 5000 San Carlos, Apaches and
Western Shoshones, and the first boarding
schools opened for 25, 900 Indians. At nine
| other agencies where the small, irregularly at
attended day schools have hitherto
mettwith indifferent success, and made littl e
impression the tribes among whom they
were located. The condition of the Poncas in
the Indian Territory continues to be prosper
Gus, and they have now seventy-nine houses,
and since the first of January last over seventy
families have moved into the houses. Med
dlesome persons are still endeavoring to induce
the Poncas to abandon their present location
and return to Dakota, but the leading men of
the tribe have frequently assured the agent
that they are satisfied, and do not desire 10
return.
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.
The annual report of the secretary of war
gives general review of the various subordi-
nate reports and calls attention to their sever
al recommendations, and details at length the
operations of the department during the year.
Upon the subject of expenditures, appropria-
t1ons and estimates the secretary says: ''The
expenditures for all affairs under control of
80, 1880, were $39,924773. Congress appro-
priated for the service of the current fiscal
year, $41 993 $50. The estimates for the service
of the fiscal year ending June 80. 1882, are
| $43, ,627, ,055. The estimates in detail were
originally submitted to me for 500 429, ITO, but
| on revision of the same omissions or reduction
| were made as follows: In the civil estimate
| $l3,5 ,5S5; military establishments, $25O,OOO;
public works, $lS,5l4 1913; and in the
miscellaneous class, $4,000; making
a total OF revisory reductions
1S,S02, ,7l4. Some increase in the amounts
of interest for the year 1882 over the amounts
| appropriated for the year 1881, appears in the
civil establishment, the military establishment
and miscellaneous for public work. have re-
| duced the estimates to accord with what un-
| derstood to be the amount required for the ab-
solute necessities of the service in order to pre-
vent waste of property and damage to the
| commercial interests. Beyond such necessities
| it is submitted to the wisdom OF Congress,
which may perceive that as the value of i'm
l provements surround the realty of the
| government. and es the commerce
of the country advances in growth and pros
perity, SO should the appropriations to cover
| expenses be apportioned. The Mississippi riv-
| er commission, operating in accordance with
san act approved June %, 1879, submitted re-
port which was duly transmitted to Congress
last March, and was published by order of the
House of Representatives. That report exhib-
ited for the first time estimates of
the appropriation required fol-
| works of Improvement therein de-
scribed. amounting to $5, ,00O and II
| awaited further consideration when the session
ceased. The commission has communicated
to me its desire to renew those estimates, and
this communication will be transmitted to
Congress as matter of special Importance, not
included, however, in the annual estimates and
expenditures for the service of this depart.
ment." In regard to the South
pass, Mississippi river, the secretary says: 'The
permanence of this important work seems to be
assured from the fact that there has been nc
failure whatever in the maintenance of 9
maximum channel during the six months
ending August 1st, last. This improvement,
has opened through sands and shoals broad
deep highway to the ocean; and is ono upon
the permanent success of which congratula
tions may be exchanged among people abroad
and at home, and especially among the com.
munlties of the Mississippi valley whose com.
mercial exchanges float in an unobstructed
channel safely to and from the sea-"
Secretary Ramsey concurs in the recommen.
dation of Gen. Sherman that Congress be asked
to give 25,OOO enlisted men specifically to
troops of the line of the army, and favors the
abandonment of many small posts and the
concentration of larger forces at strategic
points. The absence of large number of Off
GERS from regiments is alluded to- and action
recommended leading to the relief of the ser.
vice in this respect.
Secretary Ramsey endorses the recommends
tion OF the adiutant-general in relation to
placing the uniformed State militia upon the
same footing, in respect to its rules and forms,
ne