The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-07-24
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON ID. G. July 10. 1872.

Hon. Il. b. Roosevelt has just beer
printed. Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.
Crcbs signed q minority report on th
investigation of charges against tn
new territorial government of tn
District. This report alleges no frau'
against the authorities, hut simpl,
charged extravaganza and waste, We
this speech of Mr.. Roosevelt is pu
forth under the caption Frauds o
the District, and is manifestly gottcl
1 mp for the use of the Democratic part,
away from this latitude where tn
facts are understood. In the twenty
four pages of reply, Gen. Chipmal
has thoroughly ventilated the pueril,
character of this effort to stay enter
prise and Improvement in the nation
al metropolis. He points out th'
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt was absen
most of the time when evidence wa
being heard for the defense, and de
clared when it came to this, that h'
did not want to hear any more testi
mony." He shows by evidence co
piously quoted that the proof was ex
actly opposite to the most importan
deductions of this somewhat too easi
ly persuaded judge, and that by spec
ial pleading and the selection of gar
bled testimony from mass of 500 pa
ges Of questions ard answers not tive
hundred of which is admissible evi
dcnce, or if so is worthless upon III
face political document may be con
eocted without a modicum Of trutl
and fairness in it. He has given thu
negative to all the objections raised
against our board of Public Work.
by the testimony of witnesses belong
ing to both the Republican and Dem
ocratie parties, and has conclusively
shown that the greatest amount o
care and the strictest regard to econo
my was practised by the Government
officials that the circumstances per
mitted with the exception of the
large amount charged for advertising
by some Of the papers of the District
which was condemned by the major
ity report.
He SAYS mo man who saws tn,
improvements of this District are
more injurious than beneficial ear
find many to believe him. We heal
of the new Washington wherever We
go, and the whole people are awak
ening to n new interest in the seat o.
Government" He closes with @
suitable appeal to the obstructionists
now that they have kept the District
of Columbia in hot water for year
and incurred enormous expense by
their investigation, only to meet q
signal and utter defeat, to cease thcil
obstruction and opposition, and al
low the citizens of the nations capital
to be what its founders intended
| it should be.
GEN. SHERMAN AND THE INDIANS.
A strong effort is just now being
made to discredit the Indian policy O
the administration. Gen. Sheridan
having lost caste as hero, since his
attack upon, and massacre of, larg,
camp of Indian men women and
children, sick with the smallpox, ha.
just attempted to ride this wave O
opposition, and urged the extreme
war policy of treating Indian troub
les, in report made to the interior
Department. This determination poll
cy will no doubt prove popular with tn,
border whites whose greatest boast i.
that their women not only can, bu
do draw bead on an Indian at ST. h
with a rifle. ] had this boast mad,
10 me here in Washington only yester
day by settler from Minnesota
Not only humanity, but good policy
and economy, as all our Indian His
ory shows requires the application Of
the administration policy using wal
only as dernier resort, where the
circumstances render it imperative
The idea of Gen. Sherman that In
dians acting under bloody provoca
ton in revenging injuries are in al
cases to be treated as our own Grim
inals is simply absurd, besides being
unworthy of q Gen. Of such unaues
toned rcnown.
! CAMPAIGN SPEECH
The great speech of Secretary Bout
well, yesterday, at Morgantown n. G..
is an unanswerable argument in favOl
of the administration financial policy
He divides the objects of Presiden
Grants policy into
lst. Faithful collection of the reve
nues.
I'd. Reducing expenditures.
Sd. Establishing credit and reduc
ing interest account.
4th. Reducing taxation and prepar
ing to return to specie payments.
He shows the grand success of tn,
administration in accomplishing al
these objective desiderata. The speeef
will make an admirable political doc
ument
CAPITAL ITEMS.
Mr.. Sumner, as late as Monday tn,
18th, said to Senator Wilson that nc
one had received authority to speal
for him, or to indicate his position
What becomes of the Reavcs letter
A delegation of Chippewa and OF
tawa Indians, who are now citizens
and quite civilized and industrious
called yesterday on the Commissioner
of Indian affairs in relation to thei
lands and reservations in Michigan
Spotted Tail, chief of the Brul,
Sioux, is now on his way to Wash
ington. Under the policy of Presi
dent Grant, he has kept peace for the
past three years, and now desires tC
settle certain matters regarding hi.
agency.
Greeley rumors here are thick q:
leaves in Valambrosa. The last j.
that Fred. Douglass, editor of tn,
Washington National Era, o Gran
paper, has gone over to Greeley. Thi.
is as absurd as it is false. &. N.
SPAIN.