Morris tribune., 1880-12-02

Number acres cultivated. ......"..... lIOo4l
Number bushels wheat raised. ....... 415,777
Number bushels corn raised ..,... 666, $50
Number bushels oats and barley 22l, 439
Number bushels vegetables raised ..... SIC, las
Number tons hay cut g. 72
Number cattle owned 7S,Sl2
Number sheep o xned s64, 1877
By tho FIVE civilized tribes:
Number acres cultivated. ............. Sl4,S9S
Number bushelS wheat raised. ........ SIT. IA
Number bushels corn raised. 2,346,O 43
Number bushels oats and barley raised 124.5 6o
Number bushels vegetables raised.... $50, 700
Number bales cotton raised. ......... 1,6OO
Number tons hay cut. 4,UOo
Number cattle owned. Z9I,U40
Number swine owned. .".. .......... 4OU,zou
During the year 60 boarding and ITO 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 zoos children and taught
by Sl6 teachers. The educational work of the
bureau could have been enlarged to much
greater extent but for the inadequate Rppro-
priatiens made by Congress for the support or
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 a6IenuauC6 OI dho StO"AAk
terest in education on the part OF the parents.
In compliancs With appeals from neglected
agencies the bureau has made arrangements
for erecting eleven boarding school buildings
during the coming season, and for the estab-
kshment 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 %, 600 Indians. At nine
other agencies where the small, irregularly at
attended day schools have hitherto
metIwith Indifferent success, and N ade little
impression on 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 Janusry 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 to
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-
tons and estimates the secretary says: THE
expenditures for all affairs under control of
this department for the fiscal year ending June
so, 1880, were $50, 924 773. Congress apprO-
prated for the service of the current fiscal
year, 4l993, $50. The estimates for the ser%ne
of the fiscal year ending June 80, 1882, ~,
S43 GIT 055. The estimates in detail were
originally submitted to me for $50, 429. no, but
on revision of the same omissions or reduction
were made as follows: In the civil estimate.
sl3 5S5; military establishments, $25O,0OO
public works, $lS5l4, 129; and in the
miscellaneous class, $4,000; making
total of Tevisory reductions
$lS. 500, ia. Some increase in the amoantl
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. I have re.
duced the estimates to accord with what I'M
derstood to be the amount required for the abb
solute necessities of the service in order to pre-
commercial interests. Beyond sui b necessities
it is submitted to the wisdom OF Congress
which may perceive that as the value of i'm.
provements surround the realty of the
government. and as 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
an act approved June %, 1879, submitted a re
port which was duly transmitted to Congress
last March, and was published by order of tn
House of Representatives. That report exhib
tied for the first time estimates q
the appropriation required TO
works OF improvement therein de
scribed, amounting to $5,113,000 and i
awaited further consideration when the session
ceased. The commission has communicated
to me its desire to renew those estimates, anG
this communication will be transmitted t.
Congress ss a matter of special Importance, no
included, however, in the annual estimates ant
expenditures for the service of this depart
ment" In regard to the Soutl
1apir iriu fIfoan QvGs
permanence of this important work seems to b
assured from the fact that there has been n
failure whatever in tue maintenance of
maximum channel during the six month
ending August LIST, last. This improvement
has opened through sands and shoals q brood
deep highway to the ocean; and is one upO
the permanent success of which congratHls
tions may be exchanged among people abroa
and at home, and especially among the COM
munities of the Mississippi valley whose CON
mefciaI exchanges float in an unobstructe
channel safely to and from the sea-"
Secretary Ramsey concurs in the recommen
dation of Gen. Sherman that Congress- be aske
to give $4,000 enlisted men specifically
troops of the line of the army, and favors th
abandonment of many small posts and th
cehcentration of larger forces at STRATEGY
points. The absence of a large number of of
GERS from regiments is alluded to, and actio
recommended leading to the relief of the sel
vice in this respect. 4s
Secretary Ramsey endorses the recommends
ton of the adiutsnt-general in relation {
same footing, i'm respect to its rules and forms
regular forces, ard calls attentio
80 the necessity of providing b
legislation for the organizetio arming an
ipline of the militia The affairs of th
Leavenworth military prison, the secretar
Said, have been capahly administered durin
the year. He suggests. huwever, that In Ordt
TO be entirely successful and to carry out 9
far as possible the original design of maxim
the institution self-sustaining, importaI
measures of legislation is necessary, which
the authority of Congress to apply the earning
of tze PRISON to its maintenance.
The secretary says: From personal Ii
spection of many Notifications referred to b
che chief of engineers. am able to emphasis
his RECOMMENDATIONS ard beg to state tn.
their incompetent and defenseless condition
discreditable to the country. Judging frol
the history OF all nations, and the experient
Ofour own, the United States will not. with i
standing, our traditional Pacific policy, 6u
itself \ sooner! or later Z at war Wit
. maritime power. When that ",
comes it will come suddenly. There will be I
time after Its declaration to construct defense
either fixed or floating. Other nations hay
been Ton some years and are now constructor
fast steamers of enormous size, encased in ire
aFmUr mp to two feet in thickness, and arme
with rihed guns weighing up to one hundre
tons, earryiDg shot of tons weight, fred wit
little short of quarter ton of poy
der. Its feared that the country does n,
appreciate the fact that after declaration
war few days or even hours might bring thel
great engines Of destruction to our coast
may beto New York, on Boston, or Portland,
Baltimore, or New Orleans, or San Francisc
or To any point the enemy may select. No Oh
can estimate the damsge which may follow
The works of river and harbor Improvement
and examinations and surveys provided for
ant nj II mVaA $50
carried on during y the fiscal We
9th satisfactory progress. The amour
es9llable, therefore, July /, 1879, was Oil
T72176; the amount expended to June 30, 1888
3d. Ia, "a; lea1ing . valuable balance of 81
1885. to be expended during the prese
fscalayear, TO which Is to be added the appr
priations By the river and harbor act of Jul
Il, 1880, amounting to s.. 95l, 500. The at
June Il. 1880 makes provision for s4S worl