Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-08
WASHINGTON.
Kelly and " Nii.On and the Radical Press
A Warning to the Confeds-DOug-
las aud PTait-The Third
Term
Indians Brought Back from Mexico
Department Reform Postponed
Unstampsd Check InVesti.
CATION.

regard to the condition Of affairs in the
south, eXcites the anger of the third
term schemers. The kitchen organ of
the White House yesterday morning
speaks very disrespectfully of Judge
| Kelley, and two mem bers of the cabinet
| in speaking of him to-day were still
more severe. But Judge Kelley is not
/ the only prominent Republican who has
returned from visit to the south with
his eyes opened, Henry Wilson bore
equally strong testimony to the loyalty
aud fealty of the southern people to the
/ Union, ami to their disposition to deal
/ justly by the colOred man. The truth is,
| the Republicans have no other issue
/ than the bloody shirt on which to make
/ the fail campaign.
THE ONLY HOPE.
The only hope the prominent leaders
| OF the party hereabouts have is that the
fifty or sixty Confederate generals elect
! ed to the fOrty-fOurth congress will make
| egregiOus asses Of themselves. This at
| the best is a very slim thread to hang
/ heavy hopes upon, for as a rule soldiers
| are not 80 radical and irTepTessible as the
| politicians, who are always valiant when
| there is no enemy in sight. The only
/ two southern men in the last congress
| who were at all indiscreet il their utter
ances were not soldiers, while every
| Confederate general in the last congress
was conspicuous for his conservatism.
DOUGLASS AND PRATT.
| WASHINGTON, May 5.-There has
| been universal talk to-day over the
| resignation OF Commissioner Douglass,
and the appointment Of Senator Pratt
/ as his successor. Whatever reasons
| have led to this change, it is impossible
at present to obtain them. The secre-
tary Of the treasury is not in the city,
and Mr.. Douglass himself seems not to
be fully aware of the causes which have
| operated it. Senator Cameron is here,
, and much stirred up on the subject
His friends argue that this was a blow
at him, because the Pennsylvania con-
ventiOn pronounced against a third
term, and is to do it again, and he is
pOwerless to prevent; and so the best
office credited to that State is taken
away from him. Others argue with as
much earnestness that this is only one
more step in the attempt to Eedeem In
diana through appointmentsyand those
of OIth, TyneT, New, Shank, and lastly
this of Pratt, are called off rapidly in
support OF this position. Another class
of thinkers have evolved this solution.
Secretary BristOw is attaching Senator
Morton and his friends to himself, 80
that in case Morton cannot secure the
nomination for President he will be
more apt to throw bis strength for Bris-
tow. The fatal facts for these last two
theories are that the President himself
selected Senator Pratt, and not on ac-
count Of locality, but because he had
before been urged, by number OF SEN
atOTs, upon him for two other offices,
both Of which he had promised. A
number OF Mr.. DeianO's friends pretend
TO see in the move blow aimed at him
by the secretary OF the treasury, they
claiming that the latter is restive under
the knowledge that so many OF the COM
binatiOns in the internal revenue office
were formed when Mr.. DelanO was COM
missioner. The absurdity of this position
appears from the fact that the President
himself selected the successor.
INDIANS BROUGHT BACK FROM MEXICO
Colonel H NJ. Atkinson, Of the Kick
apOO Indian commission, has completed
his labOTs in Mexico and has recently
returned to Washington to take charge
Of the pension bureau. The commission
to remove the different tribes of Indians
from Mexico to their respective reserva-
tions consisted Of Colonel Atkinson and
Colonel Thomas G. Williams. In divid-
ing the work, the task OF removing the
KickapOOs devolved upon Colonel At
kinsOn, and that of gathering the Lipans,
MuscelarOs, and others, upon Colonel
Williams. The former were living prin-
cipally in the State Of Santa Rosa, and
the remainder in Chihuahua. The Kick
apOOs, being the more accessible, have
been nearly all removed, the few re-
manning being go scattered through the
country as not to be easily found, and
some of them, having married Mexican
women, claim to be citizens Of that
country, and are unwilling to leave it.
DEPARTMENT REFORM.
BoutwelPs senate committee may
possibly recommend some changes and
reforms, especially in the interior de-
partment, the investigation Of which
has just closed, but both houses of con-
gress are likely to be so busy over pOliti-
cal questions next session that they will
hardly agree on any very radical sys-
tenn of civil service reform. Indeed,
the general tendency in Washington,
for the past three or four years, has been
against reform in the departments, ex-
cept in the two or three cases where the
head Of the department has, in Opposi-
ton to the general drift of the admins
traCion, undertaken to make honesty
and efficiency rather than political SER
vice the measure of q clerks standing.
THE UNsTAMPED CHECKS INVEsTIGA-
TION.
Some misapprehensiOn seems to exist
among the managers of State and pri-
vate banks in regard to the arrangement
made between the secretary OF the treas
ury and the commissioner Of internal
revenue by which the duty Of examin-
ing national banks for the discovery Of
unstamped checks was delegated to the
bank examiners. This arrangement
does not affect State or private banks,
which will still be examined by supervi-
sOrs of internal revenue, collectors or
their deputies. By the arrangement re-
ferred to the internal revenue bureau did
not relinquish its right to make the ex-
animation through its own officers, but
as the inspection of national banks could
be more economically made by the bank
examiners, and the banks themselves
could thus be saved from the visitation
OF two sets of officials, the new plan
was adopted. To impose the duty of
making this special examination OfState
and private banks upon the bank ex-
amiuers would greatly increase their
labor, while the commissioner of internal
revenue knows Of no reason why this
duty should not be as well performed by
the officers of his bureau as by those
under the direction Of the comptroller Of
the currency.