New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-23
WASHINGTON.
The Business Of the Departmental Fisht among the
Doctors-A Tempest in n Ten-pOt-The Mission 60
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The Business Of the Departments-A FiRht among the
DOctors-A Tempest in "A Ten-pOt-The Mission 20
France, &c. &c.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune.
WASHINGTON CITY Friday, May 90, 1853
BY way of illustrating the manner in which the bus
ness Of the Government requiring to be transacted here
Increases may mention that the Secretary OF the Treas
uy has notified the Commissioner of the General Land
Office that he must vacate the apartments in the third
story Of the Treasury building, which have been occu
pied by the Land Bureau since the building
erected Not long since he turned the Attorney General
Bis clerks and archives out in the same manner, you
seIe duly notified. The Land Office Commissioner pro-
tests against the removal of the archeves of his Office to
any but freprOOf bildng and asks to be allowed apart
ments in the new Patent Office building. This request
VII not BIO granted take it, except for temporary con-
EeneDce When the west wing Of that magnidcentstruc
ture shall be completed rthe Land Office may be
found there.
Miss Dix, the pblanthropist, and the District of Co
rmba doctors are having il hip and thigh, it were,
before the President The superintendent of the con-
amction of the mnatic asylum for this District, DIR.
Nichols, of NewYork was appointed by Mr.. Fillmore,
the solicitation of Miss Dix Our indigenous doctors
very indignant at his Importation and, subsequently,
have joined Justify in the hue and cry in which all sorts
Of extraagances have been charged in connection with
the Of the fund appropriated by Congress for the con
sructi0n of the building Failing to get Nichols out OF
Office during Fillmores time they after him again
with sharp stick recommending DR. BhOrer of George
town, Of very high character and thoroughly COM
peten TO manage any business with which he is well ac
quainted 1t is said that every District of Columbia
physician has united in asking President Pierce appoint
him. Yet the President says No; intimatng that, in
such case. he prefers be guided by the judgment of
Miss Dix rather than than that of all the doctors in crea
ton He has been firm throughout the whole OF the
test and recently very peremptoTy as the doctors have
become obstrepOrous and noisy in their solicitations
We have tempest in teapot in the streets OF Wash
ngon over difference business question between
the Second Auditor Of the Treasury MIR Clayton and
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr.. Manypenny,
both Of them being among the most stringent officials
connected with the Government. The matter IN dis
Pute is the proprety of paying the account for Mr.
John T. CorcOrans late purchase of Indian goods Of
Grant & Barton of New-York City, which Agent Fitz
patrick is TO carry out ON the Fur Companys next an
nual steamboat trip TO the head of navigation on the
Yellow Stone which he is to give to the Plumb Indians
by way Of fuflment Of the 9TH article of the Treaty of
Fort Laramie. The point in issue is whether the pur
chase made in fulhment of that treaty, or 70 be
used TO induce the Indians TO assent TO the alterations in
that treaty made by the L. s Senate at the last session
Y seems that the appropriation for the expenditure OF
he s0ey in this way passed at late period of the
ss;o - - render it impossible for the Commissioner
a. S.; " receive proposals for furnishing the
sOods in time TO en- HE them TO 60 out on the annual
steamboat trip above refel TO- So the Secretary of
the Interior Department fearing shSt lhel failure to be
on the ground at the stipulated time would result IN such
dissatisfaction on the part of the savages would induce
them to seek revenge uckess emgrans crossing the
Pains employed JnO. T. COrcOran of this city to make
the purchase in open market The reasoDableness of
the prices is not questioned is the absolute necessity
Cor getting the goods in hurry The question in issue
Is whether the purchase made in fuhlment of the
treaty the Appropriation Law declaring as 20 induce
the fEat ratification of the treaty as amended by the
Senate The law Of June 80 1884, orbids the purchase
OF any such goods to carry out treaty stipulation ex
cept AFTER one advertisement permitting at the
time similar purchases TO be made by agent in open
market when designed to be used to secure the making
of treaty on the Governments terms
In tins case the law is the side of the Commissioner
OF Indian Affairs clearly the treaty being no treaty in
fact, until the Indians shall have consented IN the San
ate's amendments thereto The amount in question is
but $4,000, the principle involved being the issue of
Importance.
We have an absurd story to-day saying that Mr. John
Van Buren, has been rendered the mission to France.
It's the work Of disappointed Union Party Democrats
Mr.. Henry A. Wise has been offered any mission he
chooses TO take, and has refused to hold Office. He
however desired the appointment of his son. j. Wise
AZ Secretary Of Legation at Berlin, which was ase
promptly granted to him.
Judge Skinner, Of Wyoming, the new District Attor-
ney ior the Northern District Of New York, was no ap
Pnesn Tor the Office being much surprised when was
Poster
have row reason to believe that the War Depart
en, vi" send out expeditions 70 survey routes
.Sr .ne racine Railroad, in addition TO the four some
ac cce announced In the papers viz those ofSteyens
uunnlson On the east side of the mountains and
~ e,enano ana Williamson on the west side The sup
M sor inc expedition Of Stevens are already on the
" Eor Union, the Fur Companys trading post
C o iesow stone-going out by the trip of the Fur
pany steamer, referred 70 In the fore part of this
o'e'ens' on setting out from Sc. Paul's, will