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Show UTAE. 318 of the appropriations having been exhausted, and rebuked for ex-ceeding them, they replied that they had no information from you on the subject. These communications passed through your hands, and yet you seem to have passed them by unnoticed. With a frill knowl- .e dge, then, of all the fads, you took no steps, so far as this office is % informed, to protect the public interests, or to keep your subordinates within the proper sphere of their duties. On the contrary, you seem to have been disposed to enconrage these things, as is evidenced in your orders to Agent Hurt, sending him to Carson's Valley, at a heavy expense to the government, when it was well known that the services of an agent were not required in that quarter ; and again, when you fitted out an expedition yourself, and conducted it north-ward out of your superintendency, to give presents to Indians not under your control. From all this it follows that, if your drafts are not paid, you have no right to complain, because you knew at the time that the appro-priations on which they were drawn were exhausted. But even if the money was in the treasury ready for the Indian service in Utah, I do not see how it can be applied to the payment of your drafts until they shall have first passed through the strictest scrutiny ; for the depart-ment has information from reliable sources that, so far from encour-aging amicable relations between the Indians and the people of the United States outside of your own immediate community, you have studiously endeavored to impress on the minds of the Indians that there was a difference between your own sect, usually known as Mor-mons, and the government, and other citizens of the United States ; tbat the former were their friends and the latter their enemies. In addition to this, you have been denouncing this government and threatening an armed resistance to the authorities sent out by the President. Indeed, unless you and your coadjutors are most grossly misrepresented, and your language misquoted, theappearauce of those authorities among you is all that is necessary to prompt you to an overt act of treason. It could never have been intended, when the appropriations were made by Congress, that the money should be used in arousing savages to war against our own citizens, or to enable a eubordinate officer to carry on treasonable practices against his governmeut. The rule of this office is to withhold annuities from the Indians whenever they place themselves in a hostile or antagonistic attitude towards the government, and I know of no reason why the same rule should not be applied to you at this time. But as the appropriation has been exhausted, it is not necessary to consider that question now. You say : " The troops must be kept away, for it is a prevalent fact that wherever there are the most of these, we may expect to find the greatest amount of hostile Indians, and the least security for persons and property." The troops are under the direction of the President, and it is fair to presume that he would not send them to Utah Territory unless there was a necessity for so doing ; and if it be true that wherever the reatest number of troops are, there are to be found the greatest num-fer of hostile Indians, it arises from the fact that the troops are neces- |