192 pp. 8vo. C.-Bibliography of cholera. By Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Billings, assistant surgeon, U. S. Army. 320 pp. 8 yo. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1875.. Forty-third Congress, 2d session, House of Representatives, Executive Document No. 95. Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal. General's Bureau, &c. By Colonel J. H. Baxter, Chief Medical Purveyor, U. S. Army. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1875. Vol. I, pp. lxii, 56; Vol. II, pp. xxviii, 767. Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direetion of the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army, at Washington, D. C. By Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Billings, assistant surgeon, U. S. Army. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1876. pp. 72. 4to. Pamphlets issued in connection with the exhibit in the hospital of the Medical Department U. S. Army. International Exhibition of 1876, riz: No. 1. 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Digest of opinions of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Army, containing a selection of official opinions furnished to the President, the Secretary of War, the AdjutantGeneral, heads of bureaus of the War Department, commanding officers, judge-advocates, and members of military courts, and other officers of the Army, and soldiers, between September, 1862, and July, 1868. Edited by Major W. Winthrop, judgeadvocate, United States Army, third edition. (Published by the authority of the Secretary of War.) 1868. A sketch of the history and duties of the Judge-Advocate-General's Department, United States Army, Washington, D. C. 1876. Prepared at the request of the Commission on the Reform and Reorganization of the Army. A digest of opinions of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Army, with notes by Bvt. Col. W. Winthrop, judge-advocate, United States Army, assistant to the JudgeAdvocate-General. (Published by the authority of the Secretary of War.) tember 1, 1880. Sep A communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to coal lands upon the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. APRIL 18, 1882.-Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed. To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 12th instant, with accompanying papers, in relation to coal lands upon the San Carlos Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona. The subject is presented for the consideration of Congress. EXECUTIVE MANSION, CHESTER A. ARTHUR. April 17, 1882. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith, for your consideration, a copy of a communication of the 8th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the coal beds lately discovered upon the lands of the San Carlos Indian Reservation, in the Territory of Arizona. The Commissioner, in giving the history of these coal beds, recites the efforts made by various parties to obtain control of them; calls attention to their importance to the citizens of the Territory by reason of the limited supply of fuel in said Territory, and recommends, in view of the facts in the case, that a joint resolution be adopted by Congress authorizing the department to lease the lands upon which the mines are located to different parties, after due advertisement, the revenue so derived to be applied first for the reimbursement of the funds appropriated for the care and support of the Indians upon whose lands the coal is located, and any remaining surplus to the reimbursement of moneys expended for Apaches and other Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. As to the policy of the government becoming the lessor of Indian lands for any other purpose, I am of the opinion that such a policy would be unadvisable, and the establishing of a precedent might lead to serious embarrassment; yet, in this case, it appears that these beds of coal are the only deposits in the Territory of Arizona so far discovered; and, if they should by any means pass within the control of a monopoly, the interests of the citizens of that region might be seriously affected. Further, if these deposits remain within the control of the government, and at the same time reimburse the heavy outlay of the government for the Indian service in that portion of the country, the benefit thus resulting might outweigh the objections existing as to the wisdom of the measure proposed. A draft of a joint resolution for the object indicated, prepared in the office of Indian Affairs, is respectfully submitted, with a suggestion that the subject be presented for the consideration of Congress. I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, S. J. KIRKWOOD, The PRESIDENT. Secretary. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, The honorable the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR: SIR: In submitting the inclosed draft of a joint resolution for transmission to Congress, if it shall please the department to concur in and further the measures therein proposed, I have the honor to make the following statement by way of explanation. How best to settle the somewhat perplexed questions that have grown out of the recent discovery of coal upon the San Carlos division of the White Mountain reservation in Arizona, has been a matter of no little concern to this bureau for some time. The discovery referred to, which is said to have been purely accidental, was made in the spring of last year, 1881, and owing to the very great scarcity of wood or other fuel in that section of Arizona, the knowledge of the existence of coal there, and that too of a superior quality, created intense excitement, which taking shape, as it did, in the pouring in of miners and prospecters upon the reservation, extended to the Indians, and for a time the peace and quiet of the reservation was endangered. However, no serious trouble took place, and with great and persistent effort the reservation was finally cleared of the intruders, and the excitement, on the part of the Indians at least, was thereby allayed. Numerous expedients were then resorted to to obtain lawful possession of the valuable discoveries. Appeals were made to the department for the segregation of the coalbearing lands from the reservation; requests for leases were presented, as well as propositions to exchange the coal lands for other lands to be added to the reserve in some other quarter; and, finally the agent, entirely unauthorized, though no doubt acting in good faith, and as he thought properly, called the Indians of the reservation together in open counsel, and supervised the execution by them of a lease to a single individual (for a period of fifty years, on a cash royalty basis), of all the coal beds and mineral lands of whatsoever character within the limits of the reservation. This lease was promptly and peremptorily disapproved by the department upon its presentation there for approval (August 3, 1881), of which action the Indian agent was at once advised, and at the same time informed that he had entirely overstepped his authority in the part he had taken in the matter. Congress was not in session at the date of the discoveries, but early in the present session (February 6) a bill was introduced by Mr. Oury, of Arizona (H. R. 4156), to restore to the public domain the lands embracing the coal beds, as well as a strip of country extending along the entire western boundary of said reservation. The practicability of removing the Indians of the reservation to the Indian Territory has been discussed, and the proposition presented to the Indians themselves: but they were found to be decidedly opposed to any such step. They said their women and children and old men might be removed by force, but that the others, the young and middle-aged, would never go, but rather live in the mountains as they did for years before coming in upon the reservation. |
