No. 326.
Mr. Male to Mr. Nelson.
Department
of State,
Washington, July 8,
1872.
No. 265.]
Sir: I transmit a copy of a letter of the 2d
instant, addressed to this Department by the Secretary of the Interior,
and of the one to him
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from the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to which it refers. These have been
occasioned by your dispatch 557, of the 26th of April last, relative to
the removal of Kickapoo Indians from Mexico to their reservation in the
United States.
I am, &c.,
CHARLES HALE,
Acting
Secretary.
Mr. Delano to Mr.
Fish.
Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C., July 2, 1872. (Received July 3,
1872.)
Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith,
for your information, a copy of a communication from the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, dated the 15th ultimo, in relation
to the removal of certain Kickapoo Indians from Mexico to the United
States, which was the subject of your letter of the 16th May,
inclosing to this Department dispatch No. 557, from the United
States minister to Mexico, and in which you requested an expression
of opinion in regard to the measures proposed for effecting the
removal referred to.
Concerning this subject I will state that the views expressed by the
Commissioner are fully sustained by the Department; that it is
desired that these Indians return to the United States, and another
effort will be made to effect this object, at an early day, of which
action you will be duly advised.
The dispatch, as requested, is herewith returned.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Mr. Walker to Mr.
Deluno.
Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.
C., June 15,
1872.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt, by reference from the Department of a communication from
the honorable Secretary of State, of date the 16th ultimo, inclosing
a dispatch of 26th April last from Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, minister of
the United States to Mexico, covering a copy and translation of a
note from the minister of foreign affairs of that republic in
relation to the removal of certain Kickapoo Indians to the United
States.
In compliance with your instruction for an expression of the views of
this Office thereon, I have the honor to state that I deem it
desirable that the Indians in question should return to the United
States.
Another attempt will, with the sanction of the Department, be made to
effect such return at an early date, of which the honorable
Secretary of State will be duly advised. With reference to the
suggestions of the honorable minister of foreign affairs of Mexico,
that at the next effort to effect the removal of these Indians
another agent than the one formerly employed be sent by the
Government, I will add that the United? States Indian agent for the
Kickapoos in Kansas, who was sent on the previous mission referred
to in the dispatch which forms the subject of this report, is deemed
to be an eminently proper person to represent the United States in
the matter. The papers are respectfully returned herewith.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
F. A. WALKER,
Commissioner.
