Arizona citizen., 1874-02-14
THE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, - February If, 1874.
Influence of Newspaper Corres-
 pOndents.

nue and just opposite Willard's Hotel. This location is about as central as it could be with reference to all the department buildings, White House, the Capitol, and residences of leading Senators and Con- gressmen. The correspondents are much like lawyers, often opposed to each other as a matter of business and to meet the demands of their several employers, but in the main have friendly association, and when any oRe is attacked they usually make his cause a common one and rarely fail to win victories. Few men can live publicly ard oppose them-Renj. F. But tier being rare, conspicuous exception.
 They furnish the country much news but are frequently in error and unjust. They know their power and often use it in ways
 wholly inexcusable. So clannish and po
 tent have they become, that they boast of how they make and unmake men. Many instances could be cited to show how well and i'll they have acted. We are induced to make these remarks on reading a recent
 correspondence in The Alta by its Wash
 ington correspondent-C. a. Wetmore.
 He is new one in "Newspaper Row." as
 Fourteenth street is called where the big
 dallies of the country have their Wash
 ington offices. He writes like novice
 regarding the power of the correspond
 ents, which is an old and well-understood
 fact by all careful newspaper readers and
 the average public man. The correspond
 ents now claim they have made Morrison
 R. Waite, of Toledo, Ohio, chief justice of the U. 8. Supreme court. In pursuing
 subjects of this kind in & letter to The
 Alta. on Janury 21, Mir. Wetmore says: Your correspondent claims also some of the glory of success ;n securing the con- firmatiOn of General Crook to his present
 position as Brigadier General. The nOmi-
 nation was sleeping in the Committee nothing was heard of it. Anxious to find
 out what was the cause of the delay, in
 Quiries were made of the Hon. R. c. Me
 Cormick, Delegate from Arizona, who was
 known to be the particular friend and
 guardian of Crooks interest.
 Governor Mccormick then told what
 was the matter without hesitation, know
 ing that the Pacific Press Association was friendly to Crook and would not suffer him
 to be harmed by circulating gOSsipy and ill-advised reports. 4 strong feeling of op- position had been aroused against Crook, and technical stumbling blocks had been thrown in his way. Whether the OppOSi- ton came from officers in the line of pro- motion, whom Crooks nomination had overreached by the cutting of red tape and abandoning military custom, or whether it was from those unlucky volunteer Offi-
 cers who had been mustered out of the service and who are supposed to feel jealous of the success of others, it was i'm possible to tell; yet legal objection had been raised in the Senate committee of
 military sOlons, and the majority of the committee were inclined to favor 1t. Then came in Governor McCOrmick's work. He caused the question to be submitted Co the Judge Advocate General, who wrote an opinion, to the effect th2t Crooks nomina- ton was 90. k." as far as the law was con cerned. Still the committee wa inclined to report adversely on the nomination, when your correspondent, after ascertain ing from Governor Mccormick and others
 the true state of the case, published the facts.
 This movement brought to the rescue of Crook popular sentiment and judgment, and the result was that very soon the Judge Advocates opinion began to loom up as a sound document in the eyes of the committee, and they confessed him to be a better lawyer than they were.
 Meanwhile the news sent out by your correspondent, and published first in Cali | foInia, brought Captain NtckerSon, who IS
 on General Crooks staff, to Washington. | The Captain was ZealOuS, but fortunately for his time and patience, he found the
 work already accomplished. To Gov. Me | Cormick is really due the credit for pre-
 venting the slaughter of Crook in the first | instance.
 Apropos of Mccormick, a few words about his blll to declare the rights of Mex | ican citizens, whom we embraced at the l time we gobbled up MeXicO'S fairest pos sessions There has sometimes been dis
 pute concerning the rights of such citizens under the treaties, ana now 1t is, at this | late day, proposed to declare them. The bill provides that all those Mexican citi-
 zens and residents, who at the date of the treaty of Guadalupe HidalgO and the GadSden treaty, respectively, were eStab- liShed as such citizens and residents in
 any territory acquired by the United States I from Mexico through the said treaties, and who have since continued to reside in good | faith within the limits of the United States,
 are and shall be entitled to have, possess,
 exercise and enjoy all such rights, powers ! and privileges under the law as belong
 and are accorded to citizens of the United
 States that every such Mexican citizen
 and resident having continued to reside as | aforesaid, has and shall continue to have | the rights to sue and be sued, to acquire
 possess, hold, enjoy and dispose of proper | ty, whether real, personal, or mixed, as
 fully as any citizen of the United states; that any such Mexican citizen and resi- | dent having continued 10 reside as aforc-
 said, and being desirOus of actual natura- | liZation under the Constitution and the laws of the United States, shall be entitled | to the same, on proof of such residence | and other legal requisites, in any com