New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-15
NEW ORLEANS THURSDAY FEBRUARY l5 1872

from being indicted for issuing thousands
of fraudulent certificates of naturalization
altering the records of the courts, extortion
in office, and other criminal conduct
TERRITORIAL APPOINTMENTS.
Some days ago a delegation from the Ter
ritories waited upon President Grant and
requested that, in making appointments to
offices in the Territories he cOhtine himself
in his selection to citizens of the Territories
in which the vacancies may occur. TO this
course, giving it his hearty approval, he
fully committed himself; and, by way of
initiating the policy, volunteered to appoint
resident of the District of Columbia to
the pension agency in Washington recently
made vacant through the defalcation of the
/ late agent. General Chapman, delegate in
Congress for this district, was accordingly
informed that the vacancy should be placed
at his disposal and requested to select a
competent person to fill it, He was not
long in finding candidate, whose appoint
ment was made, sent to the Senate and con-
tirmed yesterday. When we come to
inquire into the antecedents of the lucky
individual, we find that, contrary to the
resident of the District of Columbia, but
that he votes in Ohio and that he will be
compelled to return to his State for sure
ties on his official bond. He is the same D.
G. Cox who has figured as mem Der Of the
civil service commission.
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Another recent appointment has some in
teresting features as illustrative of the say
age aud desperate grip by which the Presi
dent clings to civil service reform; and in
this tenacity of our great reformer may be
found rebuke for those naughty poll
ticians who seek to perpetuate an adherence
to the barbarOus dogma, ''tO the victors be-
long the spoils." Some time in December
last j. Nj. Ray was appointed third deputy
commissioner OF internal revenue He pre-
sented himself at his Office yesterday for the
first time, and was assigned to the usual du-
ties of the third deputy, in charge of what
is known as the whisky division, one of the
most important branches of the bureau, de-
manding, in the person who controls it, a
knowledge of distilling. gauging, inspect
ing, etc. 1t so happened that on the very
first day of his service a committee of whisky
men called at the office for the purpose
of consulting with the commissioner in
relation to the tax on liquor, and as was
customary, the commissioner referred them
to his third deputy. The latter whispered
the confession that he was totally ignorant
of the subject about which the committee
wished to confer, and asked assistance in
disposing OF them. The clerk to whom this
appeal was made had been an unsuccessful
candidate for the position of third deputy,
though fully qualified to perform its duties.
Not wishing to assume the responsibility of
a position whose honors and emoluments
had been denied him, he went to the commits
sioner and tod the state Of the case The
latter induced him to render the assistance
asked for, which he did: After the commit
tee left. MIR. Ray turned about and coolly
how
LOBBY WARFARE.
The fight between the lobby of the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad Company and
that of the Indian interest takes prolni
ncncc among the numerous broils of the
session. The former had commenced
measures looking to the extnguishment of
the Indian title to lands in the Indian Ter
ritory granted to that company, subject,
however, to the Indian political occupancy
title when they were somewhat staggered
by a bold move Of their opponents The
Indian lobby introduced into the House of
Representatives a bill repeating acts and
parts of acts granting lands and certain
privileges in the Indian Territory to rail
road companies. In opposing this bill the
company relies of course upon the promise
of Congress in the grant made By act Of
july 27 1866, to extinguish the Indian title
under certain conditions, and upon the
faith of which promise it claims to have ex-
pended its capital in constructing the road
to a point forty miles west of the eastern
boundary of the Territory. The guaranty
to the company referred to, as contained in
the act, is as follows:
The United States shall extingsh as rap
idly as may be convenient with public
policy and Che welfare of the Indians, and
only by their voluntary cession, the Indian
title to all lands falling under the operation
OF this act. and acquired in the donation to
the road named in this act.
The Indians, on the contrary, claim a
right of occupancy based on laws and
treaties. RAD.
General CHstar.
General Custar, once known as tie Boy
General with the Golden Locks" was at
the St. Charles Theatre last evening with
the suite of the Duke. The General looks
many years older than he did when, in 1863,
he marched out under Fitzpatrick, in COM
mand of a cavalry brigade, bearing on his
,,.ur fo,n, I'll Stor til had IA ION