Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 20, 1882, Page 4

S — e v, \ { | [ HA, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20 i~» % PUR— .- L ) —_— — —— —_— ——— . . waa fiest Jet it crept up to $100,006, | pocketed his share of the "swag, that The omaha Bee each increase boing recommonded and | his advocacy of these ratds upon the S yvery ovsieg, ¢ K. Vi id one, and that nday | OrZed by K K. Valentine as necessary | government was s pai , and e ey Tt o 7 | (o the growing country through which | his defence of the job as done in the the stage line passed, when the fact|interests of his dear ocon- TERMB Y MATL = @ che.88.00 | ¥a# that three military poate, & conple | stitnents i # shallow plea ~-"2;gf, Onpve Houthe.81.00 | of dozen ranches and a few perambu- | which wili deceive no ome, THE WEEKLY BER, publishod ev. ry Wedi.eaday. TEOMS POST PAID:~ — Three Monthe. . One . AuERIoAN News CoMpANy, Sole Agents or Newsdealors in the United States. OORRESPONDENCE—All Communi. astions relating to News and Editorial mat- should be addrassed to the Epiron or Tae Brr. BUSINKS8 LETTERS—Al Ensines etters and Remittances ahould be reseed to THE Bre Pubumhive Oow. any, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. fce Orders to be made paysble to the wier of the Compsnyy £he BEE POBLISHING 00., Props ROSEWATER, Editor. THE CAMPAIGN. We are authorized to announce Senator Van Wyck to address the citizens of the Third district ou the tssues of the hour at the following named places : Blair, Friday, Ostober 20. Tekamah, Saturday, Ostober 21, 0’Neil, Monday, Ostobor 23. Norfolk, Tuesday, October 24 Hon. M. K. Tarner will speak with Benator VanWyck at each of his appolntments. VALENTINE AND THE STAR ROUTE THIEVES. The exposure of the villanies cf the contract office in the postal Jepart- ment was one of the most triumphant reforms of General Garfiold’s adminis- tration. A bold and experienced postmaster-general, a fearless and do- termined attorney and an administra- tion pledged in advance to purify if possible the public service were alone responsible for the sweeping disclos- ures which revolutionized our postal service, hurled from office General Brady, and saved in a single year $2,- 000,00 to the governmnent. With so much of the story of the star routes as hasbeen published in connection with the indictments and trials at ‘Washington, the public is already familiar. It knows that for years a corrupt ring existed in the national capital, composed of government of. ticials in the contract office, contract- ors who lived like leeches on tho treas- ury, and senatogs and representatives who assisted in lobbying their steals through congress. Of theae the most prominent in the senate wax Dorsey, of Arkansas, now under infictment for robbing the government, 'Im. E. K. Valentine, of Nebrasks, who if he received his rightful dosertd would stand in the ssme position. Valentine's connection with the star route contractors dates from his first election to congress. As a western representative, from & atate in which many of the stage routes were situ- ated, and adjacent to the territories, which were favorite stamping grounds of the swindling contractors, Valen- tine's services in signing petitions for Increase of service and expedition of time were at once in demaud. Hie signature 18 & familiar one at the con- | tract office, and General Brady soon found him hand in glove with his pals. | Valentine’s earliest affiliations were with the Patricks, of Omahs, but he soon assisted Gilmau and Balisbury, and undoubtedly drew his share in the divides which were made by theso enterprising contractors, Up to thoj time of Mr, James’ accession to cfil e, everything went on awimmingly. Pe- titions for mail service, for increase und expedition multiplied, and wero granted through the famous blue pon- cil “do this” of Genera! Bragy. Re- port after report of inspectors in the west, decouncing the frauds com- mitted under the eanction of the postoffie department, were pigeonholed, and all the at- tempts at investigation by con- gress were smothered through the lobby, of which E. K, Valentine was an active member, ‘‘If Valentine's record in connection with tite star routes was fully disclosed,” said a Missourt congressman a few days since, ‘it would damn him in any state of the union.” That record in connection with » aingle route Tuxr BrE now gives to its readers, The first star route thoroughly investigated by the department was No. 47,710, from Rock Creek, Wyo., to Etchetah, Mont, Postmaster Gen- eral James, in an interview published in the New York 7'imes, characterized itas “the rottonest iu the service,” and the exposure, which was wade by Tunspector John B. Furay aud pub- lished in the same journal, crested the first great sensation 1n star route cireles, The contract for the Rock Creck route was originally let on a| ad. | him a8 an [accomplice lating cow bogs were the entire con- | stitnency served. No member of con- gress who listened to Valentine's brazen-faced defense of this out- rageous awindle ever doubted that he divided with the contractors the re- sulta of their plunder. His speech in the house of representatives when that body had decided to cut down the ser- | vice on the Rock Creekfroute damne and cannot be explained on any other ground than that he shared the £80,000 clear profit | which Matt Patrick bonsted that he made this single Latage);line, Hero is an extract There is one point that no gentle- man, s I now recollect, has yet un- dertaken to explain, For instanca, take this route thay the gentleman from Tlinoie has just spoken of—the route from Rock Creek to Fort Custer. That route was originally let (and it is probable all the country demanded at that time) at a very slow schedule of onoce a week, They were eight days in making the trip from Rock Oreek to Fori Custer—one hundred and ninety-six hours, I think it was, As the country began to grow, as the wmails incrensed, pythe wants of thay country develsped, they asked ot il iideease of service, and it was granted by this much abused official, Genoral Brady, and I say rightfully granted, I say that it was rightfully grauted because I asked for it mynelf, and I stand here ready to defend what T asked for then, because I bolieved then and I believe now that it was but just and right that it should be done, when it was increased to six times, of course it was but fair and right that the time should be expedi- ted, But now, if this house stands by the sub.committee, and refuses to' stand by the senate amendment, what do we findl— Congressional Reeord, Vol 10 page 2073, Notwithstauding Valentine's etforts, the service was cut down to three trips & week on the Rick Ureek to Custer route, the pay was decreased $80,000, ond the Patricks aold out to Captain Marsh, who is now running the line on an honest schedule and & fair and above board basis. Tue Ber has not in its present is- sue the spece to expose Valentine's corrupt connection with the other atar rout s iu Wyoming and Dakota The Rock Ureck infamy confessed by his own mouth is enough to damn him in the eyes of the country as thorough- ly as Dorsey or Minor or Redell. Summarized this route which Val declared jin congress was one of the main arteries of the west, was con- fessedly the most rotten in the ser- vice, Originally let for $10,000, it was increased. to $100,006 through the «forts of E. K. Valentine and the false statements of tho contrac- tors. The report of Inspector Furay disclose the following facta: First. That leas than half the capi- tal sworn to as invested by the con- tractors was actually so invested. Second. That only 126 pounds of mail started daily from Rock (reck. @Third. That less than one ounce daily was carried on the extreme end of the route, Fourth, the route, which Val pronounced as a waa paralleled by a dircct daily line and thata single pouch with nothir to and fro to keep up appearancer, Fifth, structions {rom the contractors, false from That the northorn end of “‘main artery of trade, 0ot was carricd That in accordancs with in- returns of arrivals and departures of mails were every day made to the de- partment. 8'xth, That postmasters along the route were in collusion with the stage contractors. Seventh. That the unanimous opin- ion of army officers was that a letting of three times a week was ample. No one can read the history of route 87719 and doubt Valentino's guilty complicity in the swindle. From the moment when the expedition was first granted on his personal endorsement until the day when he stood up in congress and vainly endeavored to pre- vent any reduction in the amount out of which $80,000 was being stolen by by the contractors, Valentine was the alder, abettor and defender of the steal, He urged ita necessity, He boldly declared that the expedition whas rightfully granted. He praised Brady as & much-abused ofticial, The momenifi'uray's report was sent in, when ic was found imponsible to pur- chase him here, Valentine's servioes were besought to suppress the reports at Washiogton, and to save the line, If the odice of the second postmaster- general could speak it would tell a story of the frantic efiorts of the Ne- braska representative to save his guilty pals from exposure and to con- tinue too fraud which was rohbing the treasuiy and the tax payers of the nation | Valentine defends his course on the basis of one trip 8 week and taken on |ground that he believed the service sub-contract by Patrick, wbo ran a|necestuy for the public interest. This weekly line of stages between the Union Pacific railroad and Fort Cus ter, Mont, Soon after obtaining this contract a petition for increase of eer- vice, sigued by E K Valentine, was presented to General Bredy and the trips were increased first to three and laterto six times s week, whilethe time was expedited from 196 hours to 83} The compensation was of course in- creased to correspoud. Krom the original $10,000 at which the route | bas beon his favorite plea for all his [ fraudulent actions. He robbed John Raeh of his homestead *for ihe public |interest.”” Ho grabbed §1 800 back pay “for the public interest.” His vote iu favor of the river and harbor steal was given ‘‘for the public inter est.” We believe from the facts given that Edward K. Valentine wasa co- parcener and co-conspirator with the star route swivdlers against the ua- tional treasury; that he received and This is the man whom a pecked con- vention of republicans have foisted upon the party in the Third district a8 o candidate fcr a scoond re-election to congress. Twenty years ago the good republi- cans of the Wostern Reserve called hafore them that staunch abolitionist and brave old man, Joshua Giddings, They accused him of having returaed to Washington by » route which in- creased by a few dollars his mileage, and asked him to explain what they called a dishonest raid upon the public treasur His defense not proving eatisfactory, he was de- feated for congress, and his place was filled by e less able man, but one in whom his constituents had con- fidence. Mr. Gidding'’s republicanism was undoubted. His services to his party were ur.quoationed, His offense was a tnfling one. But neither record nor republicanism atood in the way of justice. Can the republicans of Ne- braska afford te be represented by a dishonest land register, a judicial back pay grabber and a corrupt and inethi- olent ¢ougressmen like Valeutine Are not any one of the weighty charges brought against his record enough to bar him «ut from receiving the suffrage of the peonle of the miles this ponch contains just -all matter as is addressed to Etobetah only this and nothing riore. Amd in goirg from Junction to Etchetah, the stages of these contzactors and the stages of the Miles City and Bozeman route, both seven timee & week routes traverse the same track and route, being with one single exception, one of the most bold jravds in t nes of the wot tafliee department I have witness. ed inin my experience of elevon yoars While upon this branch of the case, I will add that Paul McCormick, the former postmaster at Juyction re. peatedlycalled the at ention of the eon- tract oftice to this swindle, but with- out succese, and after Mr, McCormick retired, as wlll be seen by the enclosed letter of Henry Kaise, postmaster at Junotion postoftice to me (inclosnre *‘B") his (MeCormick’e) successor, as he states in his letter and stated to me verbally, formally reported the fraud not less than twice, and, as he thinks, several times to the seonnd assistant postmaster genersal, withuuy being able to elicit a rcspouse or any action, Hie parcuer, Harold Borup, stated 10 e that had I not so oppor- tunely came along, he certainly should have exposed it through The Chicago Times." H Etchetah, Miles City, € g 3 = © Bozeman. ———— ) O ° T ! | Fort Custer. Tho above sketch will serve to show Third district, especially when an honest capable and eflicient man like M. K. Turner, otfers himself as a can- didate for the office, Appended is INSPECTOR FURAY'S REPORT, 1 have the honor to report that I went over route 37,110, from Rock Creok, Wyo , to Etchetah, Montana, and back again over the same route, and with reference to thesubject mat- ter of your instructions, I have re- spectfully tc state that the contrac- tors are operating the route as a daily the entire distance, having twenty- six stations, including both torminal stations, or twenty-five ‘‘routes” varying in length from nine to twent-three miles, and that they.em- ploy fourteen drivers and one hundred and twelve animals. Adding twenty more animale in use as herd ponies and upon grain teams, etc., and wn have an aggregate of ons hundred and thirty-one animals active employment on the whole route from Rock Creek to Eichetah, With regard to the weight of the mails carried out of Rock Creek I conclude, from observation and from inquiries madoe of the postal clerks of the Union Pacific railway office, that 125 to 136 pounds daily would be a large estimate of the average daily weight as far as Fort Fotterman, eighty-five miles, and from Fort Fet- terman to Fort McKinney, perhaps 100 pounds would be: a maximum | exactly how the matter atande and what reason either the contract oftice or the contractors can urge a8 to why they have run and been paid for run- ning the eight miles between Junction and Etchetah, while the same identi- cal road was covered by smother daily stage route, tor which the department was also paying, is past my compre- hension. I should, in fact, like to hear what the reason prompting the con- tract office to fail and refuse to curtail this service was? To return, however, io matters un- der consideration. As will be seen, the Etchetah postmaster only receives one pouch but receipts on the mail bill for two pouches. He then bilts to Rock Oreex 7wo pouches while indeed he only forwards one pouch, and when this one pouch reaches Fort Custer (43 mites south of Erchetab) the poetmaster there puts what through mail he has and the ‘‘mail bill” into a ponch and then puts on it a brass locke and from Fort Catter this *‘through” pouch to Reck Oreek goee, accompanied by a way pouch, At Fort McKinney as they go south they pick up the additionsl pouch of the north. So much for the south end of the route during & period when the roads were just as good as they oould possibly be, being without head or any other interrupting obstacle as I of my own knowledge know. Now as to the north end. Doting the wir ter or from say November 1st to Apnil 1st, to the 15th, they had similar or ders to the the drivor to ‘‘lead away from Fort Caster ‘wtage from the south or no stage,” and similarly 1o the programme at the south, and they were thus able to score an “‘arrival on time,”’ no matter how old the ‘‘mail bill” that the stage brought in, if only the stage got in before 6;30 p. m , it was recorded as an ‘‘on time” arrival The commanding officer at Fort Caster stated to me that at one time in February last he had almost des- paired of getting any mail, and accord- ingly sent out one of his * pnck (rains” south some dislance and brovght the -{ Koasters and Grinders of Coffess and Spices, OM.ATFLA COFFEE AND SPIGE MILLS. Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDERI Clark’'s Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC. . G. CLARK & (01, Proprietora, 1403 Douglas Street, Omaha, Nob. = TSI‘E“—IHAL NOTICE TO Growers of Live Stock and Others. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR mails into his post, finding them laid iy at some point south of his pos'; and | meili the records of arrivals at Kiche- tah are all marked during the period as good ! !! Again, Walter Frewen, the brother of the postmaster at Powder River, a wealthy cattle man, stated 1o me, as nearly as his memory served him, that from February 10th to 20th last they had no mails at all from the south at Powder River, and still the records of arrivals at the terminal offices fail to ehow any such failures. In fine, the statements of citizens, of officers of the army, of the commanding officers of the three posts—Fetterman, Mo Kinney and Custer—as well as of the stage people themselves, all go to show that they had an awful time with snowe and delays, eto, none of which ¥ will presume to contradict; but then if I had only before me the racord of ‘“‘arrivals and departures” mado by the terminal postmasters, and believed the faithfulness with which it is al leged to have been kept, I should have to question the truth of these stories, because there is a fatal confliction. I am instructed to report whether failures are reported by the postmast- ers as they should be, and as stated above, I must say not, but if these postmasters have first, faithfully billed all through mails, and second, faith- fully dated all mail bills received on the days upon which the wails were actually received, and not anti-dated them, then the department has a bet- ter record on fila of the arrivals o mails, and the time occupied in tran- sit than I could possibly obtain by any means, hence my telegraphic request to you trom Fort McKinney to cause that copies of those mail bills on file for the period covering from January 1st, 1881, to April 1bth, 1881, be sent me, but which have not been re- ceived, and in their absence I cannot tell or even make a guess as to wheth- or the msil bills have boen ante-dated or not, 1f, however. they were faithfully rendered, a comparison of these with the reported record of arrivals and Fort McKinney and the Union Pa- cific railroad postoftice, and as to the weight of this daily south bound or outgoing mail, I think it would be an overestimate to say that the whole year round the mail would weigh half as much gs the leather out of which the pounches are made that in- closes the mail contained in them. B0 much thendss to the amount of daily average, although, as will be seen, (inclosure ‘‘A” the postmaster at Buffalo, ‘wo and one-half miles from Fort McKinney (south) esti- mrtes the average weight at seventy- five pounds daily, and as he sees this mail daily his observations deserve respect. Between Kort McKinney and Fort Custer, 135 miles, the daily average cannot exceed 60 pounds, and between Fort Custer and Junction (Yellowstone River) not over 20 pounds and between Junction and Etchetah (8 miler) it cannot aver- age over one owncedaily cach way in- cluded. Tam now speaking of the mals carried north from Rock Creck 10 Etchetah, from Etchetah south to Rock Creek things are different, Although Etchetah duly enters on the mail bills every day as having left that (K:chetab) ofltice **One through pouch” and *one way pouch” and ra- ceipts on the Rrock Oreek madl bills dmly for ‘“‘one through pouch” and “‘one way pouch,” the plain simple truth is that the P. M, ut Etchotah never veceived in his official life more than oune *“way pouch” that from Fort Cnster and the outry by him of hego two pouches as having boen ro- ed into his oflicg or senv out of it, is not beeauso he recqives or forwards them, bot because as the follow, the postwaster who is running the oflice, said to me, **It is the instruc- tons” 80 to do. Where he got his “Ynstructions” I could not guess, un loss it was from some one connected with and interested ia keeping up *‘che appearances” of the thing at the con- tract c flice of the department. Upon calling the Eichetah oftize to account for thus acknowledging the re- ceipt, and claiming the forwarding of a pouch’uever received and never for- warded by him, his answer suggested an incident once observed in Ogden, mail carried. Now as to the manner in which the service is performed. found that as wpon most other long routes this route has the ‘‘send away” instructions upon it to a very vigor- ous extent. To explain, stage men for some reason seem to regard that the most important thing about *un- ning a stage line is to keep the ends of astage line in proper shape, and hence the terminal drivers, or those drivers ‘‘drives” upon each terminus of a long route have instruclions to leave for the terminus at a given hour, “atago or no stage,” the purpose of course being to keep up a record of arrivals and departures and at most oflizes oven if the postmaster does not “‘stand in” with the contractors for a stage to urrive iy suflicient evidence for him as a terminal postmoster to, in his opiaion, justify his recording an “on time” arrival of the ‘‘mail,” although the &'age may not leave a singhe letter of through ma'ter be- yond the point whers the stage led away from., On_this route the orders seem to have beon that the drivers on the t r- minal drives between Puint of Rocks and Rock Creek, fifty-three milos, should “‘lead away” at 7 a. m, whether thera was a stage from the north in at that hour or not, and ar- riving thus at Rock Creek by 5 or 6 o'clock p. m., and be enabled to score an ‘‘arrival” “on time’ at ock Creek. Now I will state what I found my- self-—hence 1 know whereof 1 speak. On the 2ith day of last month (April) T left Rock Creek at 4 a. m., and wnen about thirty five miles out I met the south bound stage, being, of course, ‘‘handicapped” with a ‘‘divi- I been received. departures for the last six months will show the department coaclusively whether the through maiis have been delayed, and if 8o, to what extent, Ti, however, during that period, or preceding say April 20th ult., they show that the mails got through on anything l:ke regular time, then the wail bills have unquestionally been ante.dated. I em very sorry that tho copies of wail bills requested huve not Now a8 to the status of postmasters on this route: Firat. Rock Creek. Herbert Thayer is postmaster, and a very clever young man, & son of General John M. Thayer, late governor of Wyoming, and he and his brothers (and father), 80 far as is known, all there is to or of Rock Cre:k station on the Union Pa- cific,and hence are largely dependent, in a business way, upon the main- tenance ot this route, Tha Thayers own a store at Rock Creek, at one end of which is the postoffice, and at the | other end of the same room, on the same side of the building, is the offi ze of the stage company, and although they are separate individuals, of course, atill the thing taken as a whole 13 very suuzestive of twins in intereat, Next comes Andrew Foote, post- master at Fort Fetterman, who is also the trusted agent of the stage com- pany, and until recently evenkept his ofica in the staze comvany’s barn, i n wo have Baffalo, where the master is also the agent of tho poi good square man, At Fort ney B N. Sayder was until very re- cently not only the postmaster, but also the agent of the company, At Big Horn postoflize the postmastea, Thomas Creighton, keeps the station, and until some time since **tended” to the company's stock for them. At Biogham poetoffize B, F. Smith is the postmaster, and also the stock tender of the suage company, At Fort Cas- ter Theodore Borup, is commiseioned sion agent,” the latter asked the driver of the south bound stage in my hearing if he had ‘‘to-day connected” Utah, where a Mormon was selling “*hot v8," and wpon being remon- strated with by a purchaser who found his pie frozen solid, be justified him- self by sverring that he presumed they were all frozsn, but that **hot” pies was simply the name of the pie. The w-¥nlhe mails are pouched is as follows: he Union Pactfic railroad postofice make one pouch for Fort McKinney direct, the rest of the mall is thrown into Rock Creck post. oftice. - 'l;l.li- llut:Tr l.nuu(urh makes uj ivst & little direct excl e pouc! with St. Clair punufliue:‘nfurll;‘-)twu miles out on the roate, second one lock, which contains all watter for Fort Custer and poiuts north, and third & **way” pouch, Beyond Fort Fettermau these two, one brass and oune iron lock, and the Fort McKiuney direct pouch are all the socket pouches carried. At Fort Custer the direct brass locked pouch, and the “way” pouch are both opened and the through or brass locked pouch is of course re. tained, and the **way" pouch and such through matter as may chance to be in itia forw:rded from Custer to Juuc tion, which is the next cflize north, and which is also a regular ‘‘way of fice” on the Miles City aud Bozeman daily route, Here this through matter (what little there is of it) is taken out by the postmaster is taken out at Junetion s as to put it into the mails carried by this last named route, sud between Junction snd Etchetah elght pouch for Fort Custer, witha brass |l with the “north etage.” The driver said that he had not, but had ‘‘ied away’ with yesterday's maill, ‘‘as usual,” upon reaching Point of Rocks station, T then found the driver of the stage which had, as he said ar- rived at Point of Rocks between 9 and 10 o'clock, and of courne his mail brought in was lying there, and would lie there until 7 & m, the next day, and thun although every awge (snve the fisc one) that wrrived ut Rock Crock was bringing in a ‘“through” iail and scoring an ‘‘on tim arrival, still as will be seen, every stage brought in a wail which was just twenty-four hours ate, hucause of its being delayed at Point of Rocks from twenty-two to twenty-three hours and this practice had been going on there at that place, a8 the division agent admitted to me for ‘‘eight or ten days,” although as I went north I never saw better roads in my life, aud why the mails failed to reach Point of Roks bofc 7 a. m, each day during those t or ten days” to save my life. I cou not ascertain snd I don't know now. Still the “‘recorda” of *‘arrivalsand de pactures” at the Rock Creek postofiice show that the mails ‘“‘arrived” on splendid time, while as stated it isa matter of fact, known to me from ac- tual observation, on one day (April 20th) and of admission by the agent of the stage company himself, that for eight of ten days prior to April 26ih thoy had uof been making ‘‘connections’ s th:‘ called it at Polut of Rocks with the stages from postmaster. He is also post trader, and his partner, Charles Winter- mute, is the husiness man of the stage people and also runs the postotlice. At Junction Harry Kaiser is postmaster, apd his business part- ner agent of the stage company, and at Etchetah J, C. Gray is postmaster, keeps the station, boards the stage people and is capable of doing juat what he is told to do, Nota very flattering “‘lay-ount,” certainly, for an inspector to obtain disinterested knowledge from, especially while they all receive free travel over the route and such other considerations in the way of salary, &oc., as makes the stage company the better master to serve, Now as to whether the service is necessary for the section of countr, supplied. Before speaking of this would say that I am not upaware of the tact that the present is a troub- the pressurc of public opinion it is Ground Qil Cake. 1t is the hest and cheapest food for stock of any kind, One pound is equal to three pounds of corn. IStock fed with Ground 0il Cake in the fall and win- ter, instead of ranning down, will increass in weight and be in good market- shle condition in the spring. Dairgmen ns weil as others who use it can tes- tify to its merits. Try it and judge for yourselves. Price $25.00 per ton; no charge for sacks. Address od-cod-me WOOODMAN LINSEED O1L CO., Omaha, Neb, LEE, FRIBD Y WIEHOLES AX.XE HARDWARE, 1108 and 1110 Harney ! t., - OMAHA, NEB. L. . HUNTINGTON & § DEALERS IN HIDES, FURS, WOOL. PELTS & TALLOW 204 North Sixteenth St OMAHA, NEB. ME I only know that whoever commanded heing a faithful record it deserves con- stage company, slthough. as T think, a | fully exp McKin- | it were either no fully advised as to! what the public needs really were, and | hence favored it ignorantly or else | they favored it from selfish motives, As1 went up the road (aorth) I first called upon Lieut. Col. ‘1. M. An- derson, Ninth infantry. commanding the post at Fort McKinuey, and he expressed to me then as' s personal opinion that 8o far as the necds of the militury department were covcerned he was of the belief that a good, hon- est tri-weekly sexvice would be quite that 1 s which I a; At Buffulo, south of Fort Mck master, H, B, Rber expresscd to me (melo it was his belief that servico was quite suflisient for the needs of the publie His lettor will n as I reiurned, two g “A") that itself, At Fort Custer 1 called upon Gen, J. W, Davidac the Second ¢ ocoupied by seven companies, and therefore-the wost important post of the route, (w McKinney hae but fiv and Fetterman and (ian, Davidson not only said that ho regarded tri-weekly servico on this route as amply suflicient, but he asked me tc ve his name a5 endorsing a re- duction to tri-weekly service, and also of cutting off the superfiuous service from the north end of the route, ete., ete. Tt doed an inspector)a real pleasure to mect au old public servant who is 80 frank and square as T fonnd Gen, Davidson to be, He atated that he was counected by telegraph directly with his depariment headquarters that would supply the emergeucies of his post, and that an every other day's mall would, in his belief, entirely sup- ply the ofticers’ wants of the post, |" "As T returned T again saw Lieut. | Uol. Anderson, of Fort McKinney, | sud he ssemod to have heen confer- riuy with his youny wen and had somewhat inuditied his views as fol- lows: He regarded that, iu view of the direct telegraphic communication with his own department headjuar- ters, that perhaps it was not a real necessity to have wore than a tri- alry, an lous and excited time, and that under | weekly sorvice, but he feared that the cetilors, who were scowing in aite possible that the department way settlements &3., sincs have made a be led into severely curtailing service, | which when fitst placad as it now is, | day and bad & 1o was perhaps not needed, bui which | W, H rapidly, might conplain ‘At Fors Fetterman 1 spent a whole g talk with Major Powell, commanding that port, and who hes scrved in tha tvi-weekly mail | the matter I respectfully ad on, who is full culonel of | but two companies), | been e uecesaits, henco 1 have country | iy careful to ieform myself as fally as | ho expressed to me unqualificd {7: was possible upon what are the | belief that & tri-we wail was I needs of the eection supplied by this|quite all that the military routeo, as T regard thet it would be a|in'eresta required for his post, grave error in me or auy other ofticer | and e further eaid too, that of the department to make recommen- | they bad hardly received o that ice for the past several Mejor Powell gave me & datious that would do violenca to the | much s public or injustiee to ihe coutractors, Tmuu-m as & correct public sentiment will very | copy of 3 memorandum that he com- soon react and correot of its own force | menced keeping of the mail failures and justice any such spasmodic action, |at his post from Fcbruary 20th, the How this route came to be made a|repeated and coutinued lleurel rior daily route and how its service was|to that time pml}lgtiug him to do it (See enclosure He gave me the enclosed copy, al wy request, and ex ted to ite present exalted con- dition T do not kuow—nor not care— sideration. In view, therefore, of all che facte as thoy have been 1:arned by me, I am conustrained to the belief. First, the expadition of this route is excessive and not at 1)) called for by the needs of the patrons of the route. Secoud, that the frequency of the trips is vast- ly in excess of the requirements of the publ rved by the routos. As to the di routes there is but one to-wit: the vane from Fort ¥ - man via | Creck to Fort ( sotiicl s his post was conuovted |about filty miles and ihe servic by a direct wire with the deps 't | twice 2 week., There is but Jittls to hoadquartere; but Col, Andereon asked | the south as 1 learned from the post- | master ut Fort Foticy |i 10 2tated to me fo eg of mail per week one wock iz no more busiy | transacts, anc there to | recomuend. | 37,110 be ent —That route No. of Erchetan for ve, und saving there- bkt miles, : will loave the balanee of thoe ¢ atime of eghteen oud three- 1o at the presont race thevefore adviso th d bu decressed thirty | one-quarter hours, or about fo | per cent, 80 a8 to make the schedule | time from Rock Creek to Junetion | (three hundred and sixty three miles) | 0 be one hundred and twenty hours, and that the service on the route be | oustailed to three trips per weck, each | way, and that the side romte from | ¥ort Fottorman, vis Deer Crook to | Fort Casper be curiailed from twice » | weok to onee n week, | As I'said above I have in making this recomwmendation given to thir | route, its needsfand [necessities, zrave consideration, Col, Patrick, the con- tractor, is wy near neighbor and friend, and I have no desire to do him an injustice, and have not done him a0 in the ‘ foregoing recommendations, nor have T done violence to tho ueeds or inter- ests of the public as, all things having | been duly constdored, T have advised such a seryice ss will clearly b entire- | Iy adequate to their wants, and | an prepared to stand by and justify my recommendations, fully conscious as 1 | ww that the corceciness thereof will be sifacked hy those in interest. 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