Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-04-21
EVENING STAR.
wAsHING TON CITY:
TUESDAY 81, 1881.
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union says of the plans for the construc-
ton of the wagon roads to thePaci6c Tin addi-
ton to information on the subject previously
published in the Starr
THE appointment of superintendent of the
road from Fort Defiance to the Colorado by a
clause in the bill left to the President and IL
is understood that the Secretary of War to whom
1t was assigned, has rendered 1t to Mr. Beale,
and that the service of the camcls will be en-
plOyed by him on his division.
For facilitating the business which these
roads will necessarily create, the Secretary of
the Interior some time since established a new
bureau for the more immediate charge of the
same and we are gratifed to learn that Mr. A
H Campbell, civil engineer, has been placed at
its head.
The Union also explains the action of the
Treasury Department upon the claim of the
Hon. K. W. Thompson, of Indiana, which
formed the basis of the late remarkable on
slaught of Geo. r. Herrick on the Secretary
and Assistant Seerstary-and publishes the
able opinion Of the Attorney General under
which Secretary Cobb acted. In the course Of
its remarks on the subject the editor saws
' The truth is, Secretary Guthrie had decided
TO pay the claim, as authorized by the law and
had referred 1t TO the Second Auditor for the ne
ceSsary action to legaliZe its payment when some
malevolent suggestions were made to the Secre
tary in regard 10 it, which caused him to suspend
it, and to procure reference to the Indians for
their consent to its payment, although the law
required no such condition precedent. but manuals.
hedly directed its payment. Congress was con
suited; the facts all presented to them, and thew
Inaue no alteration IN the law. So the matter
stood when Gov. Cobb came into office Upon
taking the case up, he Immediately referred il.
with the Questions of law involved to the Attor
ney General for his opinion and construction of
the law HisOpniOn Is lucid, clear, and explicit.
He decided that the payment was to be made I'M
der the law and that neither the Secretary of the
Treasury nor his accounting officers could go be-
hind il.
The Intslligencer, referring to the proposed
emigration of the remaining Seminoles of Flor
ida, says:
=" In August last the Government of the United
states concluded treaty, which supersedes ali
former treaties, with the Creek and Seminole In
dams residing west of the Mississippi river,
wherein provision is made for the peacea with,
drawal OF the Seminoles from the domination of
the Creeks for the settlement of eac tribe within
plainly defined territorial limits and for the ex-
ert1on OF means of advice and persuasion by all
the parties on the Seminoles vet i'm Florida to in
duce their quiet emigration to the country west
Of the Mississippi; During the winter the rela-
lions OF the United States and the Florida Indi-
ans have been unfriendly; but it is now apain
proposed by the Government, and a belief i'm the
practicability of the proposition is sincerely en-
tertalned, TO cease all hostile pressure and once
more approach them with the Olive-branch in
hand These efforts will be made under the aus
Plces OF the Department of the Interior, and the
Secretary has accordingly authorized the Super
intendent OF the Southern SUPPLEMENTARY, Mr.
Rector, and the Agent of the Creeks Mr. Garrett
soon after the stipulated money payments have
been made, to organize a delegation of Creeks
and Western SeminOles, under the 10th article OF
the treaty, and proceed to Florida to induce the
remaining SeIninoles peaceably TO ernigrate The
necessary arrangements will require several
months to mature, and thus it will not be before
Autumn that the mission can be actually underta-
Ken; Now that the Seminoies are independent
OF the Creeks, and will have a country Of their
own for their quiet and undivided possession IL
Is thought the principal objection to the removal
or the aforementioned treaty, whereby the Uni
ted States engage to furnish the reunited tribe
with liberal means to commence an improved DO
htlcal and social existence. cannot but tend also
10 have a favorable result