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Show tleu. Sherman Coimunnlcaies. Washington, 2. A communicat ou from General W. T. Sherman, ad dressed to Chairman Saunders, ot the joiut commission having under consideration con-sideration the question of transterring of tha Indian bureau to the war department, de-partment, was to-day laid before the commission. The general, alter stating stat-ing his readiness to respond promptly to any summons of the commission, says: "1 am sure, from official and personal intercourse, that Secretary Schurz and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Hoyt, have been 'extremely anxious to, and have labored hard for an honest administration of aflairs of the Indian bureau as organized by kw. I pnrsonelly know that Mr. Hoyt wenc ts tar as he could properly go to prevent the recent removal of lied Cloud 'a and Spotted Tail's bauds of Indians Irom the Missouri river to their present location, which must (ho thinks it certainly will) lesult in war, aud that their removal resulted principally from the president's Dromise based upou the advance of General Crook, and I further believe that both Mr. Schurz aud Mr. Hoyt have done ail that men could do Irom their quarter to remove weak and dishoneBt agents aod to replace them by honest agents. I wish you, and it proper, Ihe Dublic, to co-jstrue the present conflict or antagonism to be not personal, nor a question of honesty, hut a natural aod necesiry conflict of antagonistic eysieins." Alter commenting at considerable length upoa previous Indian wars, tue g-meral s tya it requires no prophet to foret-ee more wars near at hand, eipeeially with the Sioux recently located lo-cated on the Upper Niobrara. |