The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-05
CUR wAsHExGroN LETTER.

0 Sontlte,a people IN WaH.ingtoa-Dec-
0 orGtion of snl3iiegts .grares at Arliagton-
0 Speaker Blaine Us Brigham Koung-
. . John C. Latrobe. q ,rnlt'ii sheep's cloth
: ing-He japanese aaission-T The stats
: ciaa Of the agricultural Dept. en- route to
Tiienna- Chinese Capitdl, &c
There are large number of southern
people here at present. The severe not
weather of late is Fastening thousands
from the sou;h to the summer resorts of
the north. Those who can make it con-
venient to go cid Washington north gem
orally do so. and tarry few days visiting
public buildings and ether points of in
terest.
Never before has there been such pre-
paration made for the decoration of SOL
diers' graves at Arlington as this year
| There has been no labor or money spared
by the Grand Army of the Republic and
the friends of the buried dead there. to
make the decoration of the graves an i'm
/ posing scene. 1t is exceedingly unfortu-
with the union dead The sympathisers
with the rebels each year claim the right
to pay the same honors to the cause
which their friends have died for, by
strewing flowers over their graves as the |
union people, and it is expected that on |
Friday an attempt will be made by their |
friends to decorate the rebel graves.
The interview of Speaker Blaine with
Brigham Young. has developed the
aainaus of the great saint. Bringham
is put down here as a politician, and
selfish one at that His course last year,
when he expected at any moment the
strong arm of the Government would
crush his iittle empire to pieces, skulked
away like frightened hound When he
he resumed his dictatorship, and when
Mr.. Blaine does him the honor of yisi-
ting him, he assumes the air Of a mastiff
and questions the right of Uncle Sam to
interfere with the local affairs of the gov
ernment Of Utah The reply of Mr. B.,
all concede, was correct and to the point,
viz: that Lincoln vas elected by virtue
of the avowed principle that Congress
had the right to control the domestic in
stitutions of the territories, and which
principle was at that time. as is now, in
direct opposition to the expressed .opin-
ion of Brigham. +
1t is understood here that if there is
not another Credit Mobilier investigation
next session, Congress VIII, by proper
legislation, grant poligamy very short
lease of power.
Hon. J. P. G. Shanks of Indiana, the
Chairman of the Committee of Indian
Affairs, in his report on indian frauds
has done work long since needed. AL
though the country has been told repeat
edly that the most gigantic frauds were,
constantly being perpetrated, the people
have all along doubtless felt that there,
was comparatively little occasion for com
TiaInt aud har,o, si~r r-.>-,s----~ 49,"
The committee reports that though osten-
sibiy the agreements were made with Mr.
John G. Latrobe, thought to be a disin-
terested party, the fact are that they were
fraudulently made in the interest OF Lat
robe, Cooper, and Cochran, who were to-
receive one-half of the delegates and secre-
taries Of the Choctaws and Chickasaws-
respectively, and to have the other half
Of all the moneys and fees provided for In !
said agreement, to be paid to Latrobe- !
In conclusion. the report asserts that /
Latrobe and his accomplices have sue
ceeded in defrauding the Choctaws $780, ]
900, and the Chickasaws over S200,0 000-
This Iantrobe was formerly we'll known !
in Baltimore as the President of the Coll |
onization society, and a great philantro-
pist. Let the Government proceed at
once against him and compel him to re-
fund to these Indian nations the amouns
stolen from them.
The Importance of the japanese miss
ion can scarcely be overestimated. and
| the President will not appoint totally
| inexperienced man to that position
knowledge ofthe eountry-of the people
and of the official representatives of the
/ Government-of Government itself, orr
entail diplomacy and policy will be we'll
considered. Among the few men men
toned for that position. the name OF
Hon. Geo S. Fisher, of Georgia, stands
first with the President. not only as
usefal, active friend of the administra-
ton and 2 representative man from the
South, but as one whose experience ard
knowledge of Japan and the japanese
people Is according to that of no other
American citizen. His former record
there being one Of the highest integrity.
sustaining the national honor and dignl-
tv during the most trying period known
there from the opening of the ports and
our first official relations with the coun-
try. II is claimed BY his friends that
the South will unite on him, and that
since the whole South has no. one for
eign mission worth the name. it is the
T duty Of the President to appoint him at
once.
Mr.. J. r. Dodge, Statistician of the
Agricultural Dept, will sail for Europe
on Saturday, on his way to Vienna, hav-
c ing been appointed special Commissioner
to the ernationalExposition in progress
asthst place M. Dodge expects to place
himself in communication with Agricul-
tural Departments. Ag'i societies, stats
5 ticians and other scientific authorizes
and to connect with them system ofin'