The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1884-11-07

ritory by Payne ana Others, ana says there
Is no D jssiblc excuse for these repeated
lawless invasions. The lands are not public
lands In any sense as yet, whatever DISPOSE
lion may be made of them hereafter. 1t Is
manifest that without the passage of some
stringent law, intruders can only be kept
out by the troops, and should they ut any
time be temporarily withdrawn for any pur-
pose, the territory would be rapidly over
RIM. The commissioners indorses the report
OF the commission to review the award of
damages of $50, COO to the Indians on &C
count OF the construction of reservoirs at
the headwaters of the Mississippi, and says
no one can compute what evil consequences
may arise should congress ignore its duty
TO these Indians by failure TO make an APP
preparation to carry out the terms OF the
award.
GEN. HAZEN's REPORT.
Gen. Ilazen, the chief signal officer, in
his annual report, calls attention to the
crippled condition in which the service has
been left by the last two appropriation acts,
and says that as q consequence seventeen
stations of the meteorological service have
been closed in order to send men TO the tel
egraph lines. The increasing demands for
special predictions in the interests OF agri-
culture, special trades, and commerce indi
cate III measure, the report says, the value
and importance Of the indication division
OF the signal service. Gen. HaZen reports
improvement in the work of this division,
and then adds that further improvement
could be made by an increase OF stations,
especially III the west and northwest. The
report says that no general storm has pass
ed over the country during the year without
warning.
In relation TO Arctic expeditions. Gen.
IiaZen says, after referring to the depart
nre of the Yantic (after the loss of the
Proteus), from Lttleton island TO st.
Johns, without leaving provisions, that this
abandonment of inuf Grnnlv nnJ bic por-
ty to probable starvation, by officers whose
only mission in those waters was to succOr
them, displayed q lamentabie disregard OF
grave responsibility. He holds that ii Lieut.
Darlington had Insisted upon leaving ra
tons from the Yantic, or II another vesse
had been sent from st. Johns, as he says
he himself urged, loss of life and disaster
would have been avoided. Gen. Hazen
says Lieut.. Greedy carried ont his instruc-
lions literally, and the signal bureau car
ried out its preaTanged plan. He continues,
after referring to Lieut.. Greely's relief, to
Cape Sabine, and TO the success 0f the re-
lief expedition under Commander Schley,
as follows: up to the returl of the eXpe-
ditIon, this year, / had hopel there would
be no occasion for raising TIC question of
blame at this or at any future time. But
new light has been cass upon the subject,
and with it my duty becomes pain, and
truth, history, and justice to ali calls for
such impartial inquiry and authoritative
Judgment as a tribunal broad enou III to EN-
brace the whole question shall institute and
pronounce, and the congress of tre United
States is nanfestly such tribunal.
therefore trust that this whole matter of the
Lady Franklin bay expedition, and the ex-
petitions organized for its relief, will be
deemed worthy of thorough investigation
by congress-"
Gen. Hazen regards the Greedy eXpedi
ton as "among the foremost of its kind"
and insists that both Lieut.. Greedy in the
Arctic, and the signal bureau in Washing
ton, carried out their parts of the prear-
ranged plan of rescue literally and success
fully in every particular. He refers to the
failure of Lieut.. Darlington to replace
spoiled provisions at Cape Sabine, and
quotes from letter written by Lieut.. Gree
ly to him. April so, suppOsing himself at the
point of death, as follows: Had but Gar
lingtOn carried out your orders and replaced
the 240 ratiOns of rum and 100 of alcohol in
the English cache here, and 2l0 pounds OF
mOldy English bread, spoiled English choc-
olate and potatoes, melted sugar, and 2l0
pounds of rotten dog biscuits, we would
without doubt be saved"
Gen. HaZen says Darlington should have
left two-thirds of the stores rescued from
the Proteus at Cape Sabine.