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Show Kwdmoud Gant; Guilty Hall ISreedH. Washington, 26. The United States attorney telegraphs from Greenville, Green-ville, 8. 0.: "Jury rendered a verdict of guilty against the Redmond gang. Court is with me. Moral effect complete. com-plete. Redmond refuses to surren- Indian Commissioner Hoyt publishes pub-lishes a paper on the recent endorsement endorse-ment by Generals Sherman, Sheridan and Terry of a report made by Col. Carlin regarding halt breeda born at the Indian agencies, and says the paper would have appeared sooner but the secretary of tbe interior regarded re-garded it needless. The commissioner commis-sioner addresses his communication to whom it may concern, and gives the origin of the troubles: Early iu December last there was a conference confer-ence at tbe While House, intended to enable the civil and military branches of government to act in harmony and promptly ascertain what work is to be done on tbe Missouri river. After tbia business bad been disposed of, some conversation conversa-tion passed between General Sherman and myself about the demoralization caused by the proximity of the soldiers' camp to tbe Indian agencies. General Terry, sitting at some distance, made a remark that he believed the Sioux women to be exceptionally virtuous and asked me if it were not so. I said in reply that if it were so, those at tbe Standing Rook agency must be an exception, as a resident from that agency bad been in tbe Indian bureau a Bhort time previous and had stated that nearly half of the children born at that agency were half-breedtf; half-breedtf; Thia was all tbat passed between General Terry and myself my-self on the subject and was the only reference; to the Standing Rock agency. It would seem that if anything any-thing were said by me on that occasion occa-sion that would justify General Terry's subsequent letters, that waa the time and place to make an issue, as there were present the president, Secretary Schurz, Gen. Terry, Supt. Hammond and myself. Commissioner Hoyt thus closes his paper: "One effect of the publication of Iheso endorsements m be to surprise the public that officers in high positions ebouid indulge in a style of remark that at best closely resembles ihe Chinese method of warfare and has only to be persevered ia to bring honorable nmnesinto disrepute." |