The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-04-06
WHAT rs Go1Se ON IN wAsnINerov.

The President md Secretary Of the Interior
Tired OF OHfcc-The President "sick OF
Being bored by Omcc-Sockers mo Be
sispiug the Executive or Departments
Nobody TO be Allowed Counsel Hereafter.
Correspondence Of The sun.
WAsHrNGToN, April At transpires daily
that tho sovereign people who appear. in propria
personc or by counsel at the White House or tho
Executive Departments are made to feel that they
have no rights Government officer is bound to
respect. There is an old song that contains this
couplet:
ION. IL was the President Of these United states
lu cA mOlastes all tue day and swing upon the gates
This sentiment appears to have an impression
on the present Executive, and as example goes
further than preccpt Secretary Cox Of the Interior
Department, takes on imperious airs and wants
to be rid Of business. So aOpant has grown
the impotence Of certain pubic functionaries
in Washington to perform their simple duty that
bill has been prepared to regulate business in
tho Executive Departments, providing among
other things that the President and his Cabinet
Ministers shall reside d<the seat of Government,
aud not leave the same for more than two weeks
at time without the consent Of Congress; that
the Departments shall be kept open from 0 A. NJ.
till 2. NJ, and during all this time shall be ao.
cessible TO the people in person or by attorney,
who shall be entitled 10 courteous treatment.
and TO have their statements considered; and that
complaint book shall be kept in conspicuous
position near the door Of every Department,
wherein any person aggrieved may enter any
matter Of compliant.
In view Of the acephalous Government Of last
summer, and the prospect Of an early fitting Of
the President and his Cabinet this summer, some
such legislation appears to be necessary. There
is no clause ofthe Constitution which prohibits an
excursion OF the whole Government 10 Europe;
and if no law is passed, II may all go in one of
Admiral Robesons steam yachts.
The correspondence of this mornings papers
contains the following item of Presidential dis
gust, to wits
"The President has NJ length got sick OF being
bored by Oceseekers for positions, and has ordered
that no more applications for ONCE in any OF the
executive departments be received at the White
House."
lie is very much to be pitied, and it is to be
hoped may not be bored hereafter.
But as a specimen of bad temper upon qucs-
ton on which action has been assiduously asked
for three years past, the following letter of Sec
rotary Cox to Senator Harlan "takes the rag of
the bush" 1t gives a new example of what
Hamlet calls "the insolence of office, and the
spurns which patient merit Of the unworthy
takes"
DEpArTNrSr OF TIVE INTERIOR
wasmnRton n. c., March u, 1870
h H Rs fnSden ais 7 p95Rs
Sh.5osee treaty pending .efore the senate. and With.
rsen' briefly the view taken by the President
IL objects tho recognition OF the Indian treaty by
ue eLtea,ion q what known "a tho "oulict" men
drch meridian iourltnd and inclues 10 agree with
no rcS5onaoe oSnd.,on Tor hc Cherotcss claim 10
any territory west Of the one hnndrelth meridian He
thnkf, $50, that the MODIFICATION of the provisions OF
the trraN q lS6 In car 20 the price % be paid for
We eS an & S u sm. S So che p.o
TO sds Ar an,as, and east q the Mississippi river,
rotate such cha ms lie has asrced with Us the orin
Crcr0Lsr ressfyaon, and 70 lump ali aims OF every
oeserInaon whaiSye national and nd:Y lual. on the
whatever purpose into simple amount d,d b. rfi
orm- 90 That there ay be nothn ~ whatever 70
10, af agea,. e. ne Xxx =, es5,0ng s ksscmi5e
1t TIL were done ty few simple ana prorer articles
asrr SSS et s nael no
sdetation 70 wit; Ihtee n1on ave hundred thousand
o. Il pc dsinOuIei Dor capita, or toqsed eorSiiai
whole sum. a. nearly possible made educational
ST na99 sse6 Ins rs s 5 may saTe oeea'2n
amount 70 DO pad for the land would asona
.lie rrosIdent desired me to communicate 20 You
treaty fs5ud no be rallied ia iS present. shaS5 'I
wnhh'a; h9~eys eye Us gfat pleasure g eo6pcrate
herorghly satisfactory form u eG,ct The purposes
Permit nc % cypress my own Satisfaction With the
pT2V,5 esn% introduced b YOU that tls 7fsey paid
,s5SsgI@t ds5. g @;ir Jae9y ns nea2,y' Sooii
10 is@ Sy T, or Gc idS beeye he same " t5e
mg1t easily be applied 70 the whois Indian trust fahd
WIN mi g thas i, eIi,tenee 10 u present l9Tm
i,ad 81 ta De- arsns d"E'e'' '"a 'e0"'''' 10 ne
nan Re glaa @ meet YOU; Z you should think II
treaty ara shall 6e very happy 10 receive your
Very respectfully. yOur; ohedent servant,
Hon jones Harlan. Chairman OF CoIait.ec 90 Indian
Affairs.
You will observe by the foregoing that your
exposition Of Haran's little games has made it
necessary for him to draw out. His 81, oO0, 900
bill can now be let down easy but II is evident
that he and Cox have had q full understanding,
and have jointly agreed that the attorneys of the
Cherokees shall have nothing for driving them
to the performance Of duty. If the Government
had done its duty toward the Cherokees, it might
have been rid Of them long ago. and neither
they nor their attorneys would have been at the
necessity Of "btsiegiHg tie Executive or depart |
meRts." Besiege is a good military word, and |
suits the situation exactly. How Secretary Cox |
knows that the counsel for the Cherokees are |
going to charge "exorbitant fees" is question |
for Lin to answer; perhaps he judges by Har- |
lans measurement in the neutral land or the |
" loyal Choctaw" job. As every Administration |
leaves two or three Cabinet Ministers in Wash |
lngton to attend to this kind of business, per- |
haps Mr.. Cox may reconsider this proposition, |
lest he should want counsel fees himself inside |
Of year or so. He wishes to treat the enght- |
ened Cherokee Nation as children and deprive |
them of the right of employing counsel, or max
ing any contract whatever; and he does not ap-
pear to know that it is ont of his power to credit
their money on the books of the Treasury. The
ratified aud proclaimed treaty Of 1865 fixed it
10 be paid in registered bonds.
Amusements.
very pleasant concert was given last evening |
1t Apollo Hall, by the pupils OF Mr.. r. Mnlet for