The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-18

| pul th' SUI
tiers and spectators would buy them
and take them ut the average of 81 .25
per acre. Some of them are worth IS
or $40 per acre. In this way the In
diaDs would have perpetual security
in the principal until congress
chooses TO give II to them, TO be
used as they may see fl. The
government could lose nothing and
the Indians would only be getting
he value of their property, safely in
vested. The Indians are not poor,
they are only incompetent, at the
present time, TO take care of their
property and therefore require lcok-
ing after. The treaties we have made
9TH them might interfere with the
condemnation and purchase of these
lands by the government but con.
gross could easily devise some
means of overcoming this difficulty
| cannot agree with General Miles IN
his recommendations regarding the
Indian Territory, or his confidence in
the ability of the Indian TO make
himself self-supporting in SO short a
time. All our experience heretofore
does not warrant such confidence, and
such opinions should be remarked rs
individual rather than representative
of the army. The processes of civil.
ization must necessarily be slow, and
will no doubt be worked out in time
If iirmness and fair treatment is OBJ
served aud steady policy be pur-
sued, but the ultimate result is still
some distance In the future. When a
tribe has become refractory or has
| worked itselfinto tate of open re-
volt, its temporary transfer to the
control of the military force for pur.
poses of discipline, as has recently
been done with the Cheyennes and
and the Apaches,wil be found of ben
eft, but the permanent control of the
Indians is not desired by the army at
large. The Seminole Indian scouts,
now in the vicinity of Fort Clark,
Texas, mentioned III my last report,
have not as yet been brought back to
the Indian Territory. sympathy for
them is very great and the injustice
they have undergone for about ten
years has often beeh referred to with
out effect. They are good people
and should be provided for in the In :,
dian Territory.
The lieutenant general commends
the recommendations of the adjulant-
general regarding promotions TO the
rank of field officer. lie calls atten-
ton to the necessity of concentrating
troops near the large cities, where
they can be more economically sup
ported and whence they can more
i raaItlNF h.A nnnUaH IN thu frnnttar
when required there. He says there
are many disabled officers for whom
no vacancies exist on the retired list
aud states that il would relieve the
service If congress would retire them.
"The status OF the national guard
he says, SHOULD be regulated by gen.
eral law of congress and the number
of officers and men be fixed and I'M
changable, except as change is necces-
STATED at stated periods by the
growth of the population. The gem
eral government could then Issue
them the best arms. and camp and
garrison eqippage, and exact a respou-
sibility which Is not now required.
The instruction of the soldier In the
use of his rifle or carbine has pro-
crossed satisfactorily and the record
for the season about to close, will
be greatly in advance of any pre-.
V iously made"
The general concludes his report as
follows: "The Discipline throughout
the army is very good, have no
recommendation TO make, except to
increase the number of men III the
companies, and to add to more com.
panies, and two majors to each rigc-
ment of infantry. | most heartily
coincide with the remarks of Gen.
Schofield on the need of military leg
islatiou. His views are of so much
importance that transfer them
them to my report. There is a great
noed in the military service of legis-
lation, under the power conferred by
| the constitution upon congress to
make rules for the governm, mt and
regulation of the land and naval
forces. II is some times of supreme
| importance that the responsibilities of
military ad ministration and command
be clearly defined by law and it's i'm
portant, at AL times, that
the rules for the govern
ment of the military service be
established, like other laws, by COM
petont authority after due considera-
ton and under oil the light which eY-
perience can bring to the aid of the
Legislature. Regulations thus estab-
lished and subject to change only by
congress, would have such adegree OF
stability as to become the basis of a
sound military system, which, up to
present time, has not existed in this
country, although the regulations
have undergone changes almost
without number. The most important
questions involved are the command
and government of the army, hich
have been source of constant EN-
barrassment and the cause OF much
controversy for many years, and re
main unsettled at the present time.
No commanding gen raj, from the
highest to the lowest, can know the
extent or limits to his authority and
no one can have any staff, RESPONSE
BILE to him for the faithful execution
of his orders. During the last
twenty-five years the coun-
try has pass d through three
mOmentous crises wherein these un
settled questions were OF vital impor-
lance to the nation and their decisions
for the occasion depended solely upon
their individual opinions. Another
such crisis may not be far distant
when such decision might not be
SO fortunate for the country, henc
while present the necessity of i
considerable increase of the army,
also suggest, as Il still greater neccs
sity, that laws be established by con
, gress for the government and regula
, ton of the military force.
National Convention of Veterinarian
: CHICAGO, November 1.-THE vete
f rinary surgeons and representau We
), of veterinary associations in mum