REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR.

Tor Depa,ta,eut. Non. 30. 1885
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Wdr Department, .Nou. 30, 1885. To the President of the United States.

 SIR, In conformity with your instruc- tions, and with the usage of the Department, l have tine honor to lay before you state ment of it's operation during the past season, aIidd reports from the various bureaus, exhibit ing, in detail, their respective proceedings, as far as these appear to be sufficiently impor- tant fer communication in the usual annual statements.

 The general positions of the army remain the same as at the time of my last Report. Some movements however, have taken place, which 1t is proper should be specially brought before you.

 Fourteen companies have been placed un- der the command of General Clinch, in Flor ida, with view to impose a proper re- straint upon the Seminole Indians, who have occasionally evinced an unquiet spirit, and to insure the stipulations providing for the removal of these Indians. As soon as this takes place, those troops will resume their proper positions.

 The regiment of dragoons has been useful ly employed in penetrating into the Indian country; in exhibitingto the Indians force well calculated to check or to punish any hos tilities they may commit, and in adding to our geographical knowledge of those remote regions. Col. Kearney, with one detach- ment marched through the country between the Des Nioines and the Mississippi rivers; Col. Dodge with another made an excursion south of Missouri towards the Rocky Moun- tains; and Major Mason, with third, joined by detachment of Infantry, was employed in duties connected with the assem5lage of a body of Indians, at the Cross Timbers, near the Great Western Prairie, for the purposeo ol establishing permanent specific relations be- tween the remote wandering bands and the United States and the more agriculturin: In