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Cabinet Changes--Secretary Schurz--
The Cost OF Indian Wars-~The Texas
Pacific.
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WAsH1NaToN, D. c., October 90
The last rumor as to Cabinet
changes sends Attorney General,
Dcvcns to the bench, makes Secre-
tary Thompson Attorney General,
and gives to Eugene Hale tho Navy
department. Mr.. Halo has repre- :
sented in Congress for many years
district once second to only one or
two in the number of vessels yearly
built. Ely Legislation in which he
participated, and which was entire~
~ the work of the party to which
he belonged, the ship~building in
dustry in that district, and in all
others, was practically annihilated.
1t is, so to speak, a wreck. Mr..
Hale, also, by the vote of his dis
trict at the late election, is u wreck.
1t is eminently proper that this
wrecker, now himself q wreck,
should be put in charge of navy
which is wreck, while it has cost
many hundreds Of millions since tho
war closed, has hardly any ships fit
for service. Perhaps no more vivid
idea Of what the Republican party
; has cost us can be given than by
thus mentioning a few of the ideas
this proposed change suggests By
oil means Mr.. Hayes should, if any
change is to be made in his UNIQUE
Cabinet, put Mr.. Hale in charge of
! the Navy Department.
Secretary Schurz is making the
mistake that weaker meu have made
through nll history. He violates all
the rules he has SO strenuouslv in.
sisted on, and of which he is popu-
larly supposed to be the inspirer, by
going into the political campaign
ut the dictation Of the men to whom
he owes position. Not only is this
inconsistent and indecent, being
violation of his own rules. but it
leaves his department, which he
! probably intended at first to run
honestly and intelligently, in the
hands Of his bureau officers IF he
knew all that he ought to know Of
the details of business in his de-
partmcnt would he allow himself to
be overruled, as he is every day, by
those under him ? If he remained
at his desk would he not know
more? l am afraid that Mr.. Schurz
like the rest, is not a real, but fair
weather, reformer, and that what
most Democrats have said of him,
and not what your correspondent
thought and said, is true. He is u
German silver reform CT and not the
genuine article.
The prodigious expense of Indian
wars is shown, in part, by the late
report of a bureau officer who SAYS
! the cost of government transportp-
, ton of troops and war munitions
on one Of the Pacific Railroads, has
been over nine millions of dollars.
Inc same transportation by wagons,
II there had been no railroad, would
have been three times as much,
! or twenty-seven millions. Thus,
though the road charges enormous
prices to the government, aa, under
the i'll constructed laws governing it
1t can do, it has yet saved the
government somo eighteen millions
besides, no doubt, greatly facilita-
ting military operations md ena.
bling tho army to give to border
settlers n protection otherwise inn
possible. If, to all the unuues-
toned advantages given us by such
railroads, we could add the assur..
ance that the government was not
constantly being swindled by the
roads in other directions, subsidies
would be fully granted to all who
would lay tracks through the pub
lie domain. But no way has here
tofore been found to guard the
governments interests in all re-
spects. Col. Tom Scott, President
of the Texas Pacific Railway Com
pany, thinks he has made the
discovery and will ut the next
session ask Congress to pass upon
his plan for safely giving govern
ment aid to his road He asks for
no land and no money, but gives
tho government 30,OO0,0OO acres
already belonging to the Texas
Pacific Railway, in consideration of
the government guarantee of in
terest on the construction bonds,
and he thinks tho government will
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