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Washington D.C. Nov 30th 1878

Hon Karl Schurz Secty of the Interior

 Sir
In the report of Genl Randolph B. Marcy of the Inspector Genls Office,

upon Indian Affairs - As published in the N.Y. Tribune of yesterday - I notice some statements of such an erroneous character, that I feel impelled to call attention to them.

In speaking of the present "dual management" of the Indians - as he terms it, the Genl says,

small newspaper article attached: ...military post may be established in the vicinity of an Indian agency for the protection of Indian officials and soon after the buildings are completed the agent may think proper to change the location of the agency to some smudged there? making necessary new buildings, smudged for the smudged but for the troops. A case was reported one of the smudged of my Department where smudged of the Apache in Arizona, for reasons ? known only to himself removed his agency as far ? a con?? military post as he deemed it consistent with smudged per own salary, and ordered all the buildings, valued at $20,000, to be burned to the ground as soon as the Indians left. At the same time he knew that the lumber was greatly needed for repairing the quarters at the adjacent p?t.