Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-15

necessary ana proper, you are authorized to
draw upon the Department for such portion of
the appropriation of the Sd of March last as
may be required
We repeat, the good people of Andrew coun-
ty will feel very foolish when they get the
documept-and especially when they find the
Commissioner himself a Nebraska man, out
andout. How wicked it was in the Commits
sioner to keep his own councils while in the
Indian country and on the frontier. How
unkind in him to pass by St. Louis without
| making his report to the Democrat of that
city. How wrong for him to hold his mouth
| shut and come all the way 10 Washington
with it shut-make his report to the Secretary
| Of the Interior on the 9th of November, and
still keep his mouth shut until the document
| goes into Congress. Cruel, Mr.. Commission
er; cruel indeed why did you not assign
reasons, and why not expend among these
aggrieyed men the whole $50 900, instead of
using in expenses and presents, &c, &C.. only
| $40 81
Appropos 1t occurs to us that these poll
ticianS and spectators on the frontier will find
| this Commissioner hard customer.
The second Q5th) resolution, we copy mere
| ly to show who it is designed shall reap the
| glory of Nebraska When did Mr. Benton
become Nebraska man? This may become
an important question yet, and we advise the
Missouri Democrat to look over the Senate
| journal and see.
| PROMPT Work BY THE COMMITTEE OF WAYS
AND MEANs.-The action of the Committee of
Ways and Means in reporting to-day two gen.
eral appropriation bills: las will be seen from
eur repOrt,) is unprecedented at so early a
period of the .ession. They were the Indian
Department and Military Academy bills This
proves two important facts: First, that the
| Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Secretary
of the Interior were ready to the instant to
meet Congress with all necessary information
for the arrangement of these bills and. next.
that the Committee of Ways and Means are
already awaiting Congress efficiently Of the
more than usual perfect preparation for push
ing ahead the important business of the Gov
eminent, with which the Executive branch of
the Government meet them Congress- at this
| session.
A REVERSAL eF AN OFFICIAL DECISION
Certain large claims against the Pottawato-
mic Indians had been acted uron by former
Commissioner of Indian Affairs. and had been
directed to be charged to the appropriation
| for fulfilling treaties with the Pottawatomics
under the act of 9th February, 1851. The
accounting officers of the Treasury being of
opinion that the policy of the Government if
not positive law, required the annuities to be
paid per capita, and not upon the order of the
chiefs and headmen of the nation, submitted
the matter to the Secretary of the Interior as
an administrative question, clearly within
his jurisdiction.
TIE PRESIDENTS POLICY BEFORE Cox.
GREss. BY way of illustrating the folly of the
calculations of the sOre-headed Democrats as
expressed in the Geographic correspondence
Of the Union Committee of Safety" as to
carrying measures before the present Con-
gress, antagon3tic to the policy of the nation
al administration, We have to call attention
to the fate of the resolution introduced into
the House by Mr.. Yates, yesterday, locking
| to heavy appropriations for rivers and har-
bors. 1t is in strict keeping with the recent
action Of the same body on the somewhat SIM
liar propositions of Messrs Washburn and
I Wentworth, colleagues of Mr. Yates It seems
to be Buncom5e in Illinois, to " 90 in for y
large expenditures of the public money.
THE EXTRADIrIoN CASE OF HE1LBuRx-
| The Secre:ery of the Interior has decided in
accordance with the advice of the Attorney
| General, that it is not his duty to employ
| Attorney on the part of the United States in
the case of - Heilburn, now in Now York,
who is claimed by Britain as fugitive from
| justice.
The WRECKED CUTTER HAMILTON Til e
! Treasury Department to-day received advices
from Charleston, rendering it certain that the
| Cutter Hamilton is totally lost. She drifted
nine miles in the breakers after being wrecked
| and now lies in nine fathoms water. 1t will
| cost more than their value to get out of her
! even her cannon, so no effort to that end will
| be made.
! HE PROPOSITION TO BUY MoUNT VERNON
| introduced into the House to-day, never can
become law until it may be known what the
proprietor may be willing to take for it. The
| estate may be worth $50 900 exclusive of the
contingent sale of the bones of Washington.
valued in this sort of trade, it seems to he
understood, at Sl7O,O 900
| If the descendants of Washington's rcla-
| tives want to get rid of the custody of those
bones, they should donate them to Virginia
or the United States-but sell them never,
GENTEEL MENDICANTs. Among the nuisan-
ces prevailing in Washington is that Of beg
sara for others mostly, who swarm the Depart
ments and the lobbies of Congress daily, ask
ing every man with a whole coat on his back
to subscribe for this or that object. We hear
too: that the President, besidcs being honored
| with twice Lis share of such personal applica-
| lions receives begging letters by each mail
asking TO- specific sums for the relief of any
and everybody and for building churches, col
lcges, to donate farms, &c, enough in the
aggregate to require the expenditure of some
| ten thousand dollars monthly if be complied
with all such requests made IF him
QUARTERMAsTEHs AND PAYMAsrEks' CLERKS.
1t is held in the Treasury Department that
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