Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-13
Report Of the Commissary and
Inspector General.
The Cotton and Sugar Crop in
Various States.
The Fate Of a Stage RObber in
Texas.
Georgia Adds Another to Her
List Of Murders.
Heavy Snow Storm in the North
west.
Steamer Brunswick Foundered on
Lake Erie.
WASHINGTON.

| News From the NatlOnaI Capital.
WASHINGTON, November 11.-Gen-
eral Raum, commissioner of internal
revenue, has accepted an invitation
to visit the Atlanta Cotton Exposi-
ton, in company with General Sher-
man. They will leave Washington
on Sunday night and remain in At
lanta Tuesday and Wednesday. Gen
eral Raum has not visited Atlanta
since November Is, 1864, at which
time he left there in command of
the 18th army corps, and he will re-
turn on the seventeenth anniversary
of that day.
WASHINGTON, Nov l2-The annual
report of the Commissary General of
Subsistence and the Inspector Gen
eral of the Army has been submitted
to the Secretary of War. The Com.
missary General says the resources
and expenditures of the subsistence
department for the past year, and
the balances remaining unexpended
on Jul3 30th, 1881, are set forth by
the Commissary General, and the
various statistics connected with the
monetary transactions of the depart
ment are also given by him.
Attention is invited to a clause
in the appropriation laws requiring 10
per cent. to be charged officers and
enlisted men in excess of the cost
price to the United States On all sub
sistence stores sold them, and le gis-
lation is recommended by which the
sales will hereafter be made to officers
and enlisted men at cost prices. Is,
sues of subsistence by the depart
ment to the Indians, during the past
year, are tabulated in the report, and
legislation is suggested which will
not leave the subsistence bureau Of
the War Departme 1T subject to coz
tribution for the maintenance of
Indians. Whenever the apppropria>
tions for the Indian bureau become
for any reason exhausted outside of
the discussion on the sufficiency Of
the army ration by the officers who
have given great attention to the
subject, it seems to indicate the in
suficiency in the present ration, as a
whole reorganization, and an in
| crease of the force of civil employees
in the office of the commanding-g gen
eral, recommended that the services
of the enlisted men in the clerical ca
pacities recommended be dispensed
with.
The Inspector General reports the
discipline of The troops good an6
constantly improving. The troops
are all we'll armed, clothed and
equipped. Great improvements have
been made during the past year in
building and renova ing barracks,
particularly in the West and South.
The amount of work done by the
troops, not military in its nature,
such as building, driving teams, etc,
is considerable, and causes mucl I
dissatisfaction and many desertions
and he recommends the employm e at
of private Gil re s for this p1rpo e.
| Recent events, he said, demonstrate
forclbly the Importance OF having a
force at or near Indian agencies of
wild Indians The inspector
General concludes with great aspect
for the force. It is suggested that
the troops in the Indian country be
collected in larger garisons. The
orders now in force preventing the
sale of liquor on the reservation
where military posts are located has
not worked satisfactorily, as many
grog shops are now located just out
side the reservation, and the soldiers
go there and drink to much greater
excess than if they purchased of the
post trader. He recommends mod
lhcation of the existing law so that
soldiers may be employed as servants
by officers, the officer to pay the sol
diers for such services, and the SOL
diers' Army pay to revert to the
Governments.