, 1885-06-05
HOSTILE REDSKINS.
Impracticable to do Anything
More at Present.
Ferdinand Ward Pleads Not
Guilty in Court.
Turkey Snubbed by a Foreign
Power.
Notes From Washington.

WASHINGTON. June 4@The following
dispatches from Gen. Schofield to Adju-
tant General Drum, relative to the Indian
troubles have been received at the war
department In reply to your dispatch
OF this date please inform the secretary of
war that | do not believe it practicable to
do anything more this time than there has
been done to give protection to the settlers
in Arizona and New Mexico from marau-
ding Indians. 1t is not possible to actu-
ally guard all the frontier settlements.
That would require a force many times
larger than the United States army. Be
sides, the lamage has alreaey been done
in Arizona and New Mexico. The set
tiers who have escaped, have taken refuge
at the military postsand large settlements
| understand Gen. Crook and Col. Brad
ley have all the troops they can use in
pursuit of the Indians, but | will send
more if they can use them. In my opinion
the only way to protect scattered settlers
from marauding Indians is to keep the
savag Indians under military control and
not permit them to roam at will over a
large reservation"
The commissioner ofIndian affairs has
received the following telegram from
Agent Ford, at San Carlos reservation,
respecting the attitude towards the gov
eminent Apaches on that reservation.
San Carlos, Arizona, June IA count
shows that my bucks are all on the reser-
walton. There is perfect quiet and order
here. These Indians have commenced to
harvest their grain.
The commissioner Of pensions has
stricken of the list of pensions the names
of about 200 residents of the District of
Columbia, who were found to be not en-
titled to pensions, either because they had
recovered from their disabilities or we're
not dependent upon the government. In
some cases the parties were dead, and in
still more the widows had married again
Senior Bacerra, the Colombian minister
says that the presence in New York of
Senior Holquin, the Colombian minister
of France is not for the purpose Of aseer-
tanning the sentiment OF this government
concerning a proposition for making Pan
anna a neutral state Senior Holquin, he
says, is on his way TO Europe and has no
business whatever with this government.
By direction of the secretary of war,
and in accordance with an act Of congress,
approved July 5, 1884. the detail Of Capt.
Cyrus S. Roberts, 18th infantry, as acting
Judge advocate for the department of
Arizona, is announced, and he has been
ordered to report for duty.
The treasury inquiry commission has
concluded its investigation Of the internal
revenue bureau and made a report to the
secretary of the treasury. The commits
sion recommend reductions in the present
force in several divisions, and suggest
changes in the method of doing business,
which they think will expedite and i'm
prove the work of the bureau. The
changes recommended involve a general
reorganization of the bureau. The ON
mission will next devote its attention to
the supervising architects office.
The secretary of the treasury has called
on the board-of managers of the Worlds
Industrial Exposition, of New Orleans,
for an itemized statement Of the premi-
inns awarded exhibitors
The resignation of A. G. Thomson, in
spector of public buildings of the reasury
department, has been accepted, to take
effect June is. He resigned by request
of Secretary Manning.
The cabinet meeting was attended by
all the members except the secretary of
state, who is ont Of the city. The princi-
pal topic of discussion was the distribu-
ton of the $400. 900 appropriated at the
last session of congress in aid OF American
steamships engaged in foreign mail serv-
ice. No conclusion was reached.
1t was also decided that hereafter the
president and members of the cabinet re-
ceive no visitors on Saturdays.
A number Of inquiries have been re-
ceived from the post office department as
to whether the executive order made by
President Grant in 1873, ~forbidding Uni
ted States officials whose salaries exceed
81, 900 per annum from holding state or
municipal offices, is still in force. The
matter will be laid before the presidentfor
determination.