Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-11

was que to the opposition of the Interior Depart
nlelt @ ana self TO the military control agreed
upon between the Secretary of War and the Sec
VI te Interior IN July, 1888, presents the
tuatteIs s SO unfairly as to demand statement of
lactS; It's not true that upon Crooks return to
the department. OF Arizona, in 1882 the Apaches
@ @eiJ ~ @ nuudled around the agency, with no land
ioi tnSn5 70 cultivate. II is not true that / ac-
Kn9wledged the justice of this complaint of the
Indlans. IL was imperative that the Indians
II oe WITHIN reach Of the agency so long
II II was necessary to issue food At the request of
CROOK, ana the assurance that he would become
personally responsible for their good conducc
anu Any selisupPoft, consented to the removal of
wv 70 Apacne, and at all times asked Crooks
assistance IN controlling refractory Indians
Ihere was no trouble at San Carlos until Crook
DIought 70 the reservation hostile Chiricahuas.
armed tor war, against my protest and in def
anee OF the contract with the San Carlos Indi-
ans, ana the agreement of the Secretaries of
" var ahd me interior, which was that the War
department should protect the Indian Agent in
the discharge of all his duties The Chiricahuas
were at all times under the absolute control of
Srook, VINO issued their supplies, and at no
time, from their return to the reservation TO
their departure on the war path, were they ap-
proached by an agent or employe of the Iute-
IIoF TOT department with view to influence their
actions, and not until after the appointment of
captain Price, an officer of Crooks, as Agent,
was there an outrage committed upor n white
person: since which time two herders have
been killed at Apache, at the sub-agency one
boy, and at Cow Camp, near Fort Thomas, one
man.
Snltes. states Senate.
WAsHINGToH, December 10th.-After the
reading of the Journal. Edmunds intro
duced a bill to provide for the establish
ment OF a postal telegraph. Referred 20
the Committee on Post0iliees and Post
Roads
In introducing the BILL Edmunds said it
was the same bill he had introduced at the
last session of Congress, which went to the
Committee on Postoilices and Post Roads,
and was reported upon by that committee
so late in the session that The subject could
not be considered by the Senate before the
expiration Of the session. He hoped the
committee would now take the earliest
opportunity to report it.
A resolution offered by Morrill, was
agreed to, ordering the payment from the
contingent fund of the Senate of the ac-
tual and necessary expenses of the Senate
committee appointed to attend the funeral
of General Grant.
A large number of bills were introduced
and referred and the Senate went into
executive session. When the doors were
reOpened an adjournment was taken until
Monday.
The Presidents Message.
New YORK, December 7th.-The T75-
ltHe's Washington special saws: 4 Senator
says the President told him that the mes
o'AS,S was iSICtCi III lN ldklJlR Oul Il
number of subjects. \ supplemental
message, covering these, is expected soon.
| This will quiet the general criticism here,
| which may be expressed in the Ian
guage of Il Western Senator, rs iol-
| lows: 81 regarded it as extraordinary,
| in a message of such length, that not
/ word was said about internal improvements
or education. The people of the Presidents
own State, and majority of the people of
every other State, are interested in the
passage Of national bankruptcy Act, yet
he had not word to say on the subject"
THE ABOVE coNTRADIcTED.
The Times Washington correspondent
contradicts the above rumor as follows ::
The President did not withhold any of his
message, in order to reduce its length. and
| has not laid aside the parts of it reported
to have been chopped out, to be submitted
to Congress on future occasion.
A Self-Confessed Thief.
LITTLE Rock, December 1Oth.-The Ga
zetteS Hope (Ark.) special says: T. w.
Humphrey, agent for the Southern Express
| Company, to-day confessed to Superinten-
| dent Agee that he had stolen the $4,000
! package taken from the office safe Noyem-
Der I'd, and retained the money. He was
arrested. Humphreys was formerly Post
| master at Hope, and has hitherto borne a
good character.
Stocks in New York.
New YORK, December 1Oth-Noon.-
There was a rally in the stock market soon
| after IL o'clock, the gains amounting to /
to per cent, and later the general list was
comparatively quiet and steady At noon
the market is moderately active, with a
| downward tendency.
Death of the Harvard Librarian.
BosToY, December 10th.-John Langdon
| Sibley, the venerable librarian of Harvard
| University, died at his residence in Cam
bridge yesterday, aged 81.
I Sanitary Condition OF Boston.
BosToN, December 1Oth-The Citizens
Health Committee has decided to issue a
circular, to the effect that the city has not
been in better sanitary condition for the
| past ten years than at present