St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-19
The INDIAN MISSIONS
Indian Commissioner Morgan
Makes a New Depart
ure.
He Refused to Receive an Of
flcer Of the Catholic
Bureau.
Cardinal Gibbons Writes q
Very Courteous Note to
Mr.. Morgan.
Replies of the Commissioner
Replies of the Commissioner
to DR.. Chappelle and the
Cardinal.

WASHINGTON, July 1S.-Commissioner
Morgan has received, under date of July
s, letter from Father Chappelle, the
vice president of the bureau of Catholic
Indian missions, in reply to that sent by
the commissioner giving notice that the
Indian Office declines to enter into
further contract with that bureau for
the education of Indian children. The
letter shows that the officer of the bur-
eau requested a personal interview with
the commissioner on the subject of the
contents of the commissioners letter,
and that the commissioner replied
that he would receive a communi-
cation in writing from the bureau, but
that he failed to see that anything
would be accomplished by a personal
interview. The letter then says in effect
that the bureau expresses its deep re-
gret, but it feels great astonishment
that the head of public Office of the
United States should decline to have an
official personal interview with persons
having important public business TO
transact. The letter then says that each
and every member of the bureau de-
clared that he had no knowledge of any
kind relative 10 the newspaper article
rejecting on the commissioner, which
the letter had said emanated from the
bureau. The article, the letter says, was
Discussed by the Bureau
in the presence of Mr.. German. an en-
plOse of the bureau, and the person
alleged to have spread it, and the con-
cluSion reached that no member or en-
plOye of it has, as such member or en-
ploye, the right to make such assaults
upon the Indian Office Or upon any other
public officer. The latter declares that
should any member of the bureau so far
forget themselves as to criticise the gov
ernment the bureau could not and
should not be held officially responsible
therefor, unless it officially indOrsed
such criticism. Mr.. German, it says,
thereupOn resigned his position in
the bureau. The letter then calls
the attention of the commits
siOner to the previous harmonious
relations existing between the bureau
and Indian office, and adds that it is the
first instance in which the commits
sIOner has felt called upon to declare
that friendly relations between it and
the bureau cannot exist; that the bu
reau is OF opinion tnaJ the causes al
legged to exist by the commissioner as
the reasons for his intention to sever
heretofore existing relations are
chiefly, if not entirely, of a
personal character on the part of
the commissioner, and that there
does not exist any valid cause to sever
official relations. In conclusion the
letter says that the bureau respect
fully submits to the commissioner that
the policy of congress, as it understands
the same to be from a careful study of
its last Indian appropriation. is to act in
perfect harmony with the objects of the
creation of this bureau and its due Or
ganization under the laws of congress,
tO-wit: TO aid in perfecting a system
of education among the Indians as here
tofore duly inaugurated by the great
soldier. pure patriot and true friend of
the Indian, and whose practical eX-
perience in Indian management was
great-President Grant-when he estab-
lished his celebrated peace policy, in
which, at his official invitation. the
friends and founders of this bureau have
been Jealous cO-laborers for the twenty
years last past.