No. 278.
Mr. West to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, January 12,
1883. (Received January 15.)
Sir: Referring to your note of the 20th ultimo,
I have the honor to inclose herewith for your information extract from a
report of the committee of privy council for Canada, containing copy of
a telegram sent by General MacDougall to Colonel Irvine, the
commissioner of the northwest mounted police.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure.]
Extract from a report of a committee of the
privy council for Canada.
The right honorable Sir John MacDonald, the first minister, to whom
the dispatch and inclosures were referred, states that he has to-day
sent the telegram here underwritten to Colonel Irvine, the
commissioner of the northwest mounted police:
“United States Government have given notice of possible collision
between their troops and some bands of American Indians in the Milk
River country, and perhaps
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at our frontier. Police officer at Wood Mountain should he notified
of this and put on his guard.”
The committee submit the above for your excellency’s approval, and
they recommend that Her Majesty’s minister at Washington be informed
accordingly.
JOHN J. McGEE,
Clerk of the
Queen’s Privy Council, Canada.
