The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-02-13
MATT IRIS In WASHINGTON.
wAsnINeroN. February o..

nittee OF three experts in the business
'efore that department has been APP
'ointed to investigate bis official tran
actions and report the same to Secre-
airy Schurz. The most prominent ir-
regularity thus far ascertained Is res
)ecting valuable mine in Arizona,
where q son of the Commissioner was
N possession of the mine under an as
;umed, name-assumed and worn by |
The young man at the suggestion of the |
father. The "crookedness" consisted |
in getting are-survey of the territory in |
dispute ordered by the Secretary of the |
Interior by the advice of Commissioner
Hayt, and the lines so changed as to
place the mine without the limit of the
controversy. An investigating COM
mission has just been appointed to go
through that whole service,
A Rev. MIR. Bridgman, one of the
Christian Commission representatives,
appointed at an early stage of the adj
ministration of President Grant, agent
of the Menominees, Brothertowns,
Stockbridges, and some other civilized
tribes in Northern Wisconsin was re-
moved last year at the advice of Gov.
Pound, and his successor appointed.
This reverend philanthroplst and patri-
OF turns out badly on investigation, and
suits are brought to recover deficit in
in his accounts of over 100000. Bridg-
man, like Hayt, feels insulted and abus-
ed, and distrusts the integrity of the
courts. He, too, wants special COM
mission appointed to investigate and
report upon his accounts and stand be-
tween him and the penitentiary. The
predecessor of Bridgman, prominent
parson and politician in his section of
Wisconsin, has recently had several
Judgments entered against him for pine
timber sold off the Indian reservations
and adjoining Government lands.
1t is thought that transactions equally
| crooked and indefensible will be devei-
oped in other agencies on the borders
of Indian tribes in Wisconsin, Minneso-
ia, Kansas, Dakota and Montana, and
it is said that Oregon and Washington
Territory may come in with fraudulent
data that will out strip them all. We
will do Secretary Schurz the credit to
say that no one doubts his personal and
official integrity, nor his desire to make
his department, in all respects, a model
one. But the trouble with the secreta-
ry seems to be that he is not able to de-
tect dishonest man when he sees him
or If he is able, has not the moral cour.
age to put his official foot on the reptile
then and there.
The Governor of Colorado has beer
in this city for the last ten days, and he
with the representatives of that state
have plainly told the cabinet officers
and other officials, that unless the Gov.
eminent changes its Indian policy, the
settlers in the frontier States and Terri.
tories will be compelled to take matters
in their own hands and make peace
with the Indian tribes that will prove
permanent. They assert that eight O,
ten years ago the settlers of Colora3,
and western Nebraska were threatened
and annoyed by Indian atrocities
They finally became disgusted with the
tardy manner the general Government
moved to Afford relief, and took thu
matter upon themselves and organized
to punish the depredators. After
pursuit of AZ hours they came upon ant
surprised them, and slaughtered indis
} criminately thousand men, womer
and children. Since that time Their,
has been no further trouble with tn,
Arapahoes, and the Colorado officials
} including their Congressional delegates
} have given the Government fair warn
ing that they will apply the same RENE
dy to the Utes, within ninety days, un
less the Government takes steps to af
ford them more ample protection thar
they have yet had.
In such case the excitement ma,
become 80 great among the whites il
the Territories and border States, as tt
drive the Choctaws, Cherokees ant
other tribes from the Territory Sc
apart for them, and known as Indian
territory.
The railroads that run through thu
Indian country afford ample facilities
for the whites to run through ever,
portion of it, and must now result in Q
collision even were there not any pres
sure of circumstances outside of that
tending to bring about such result.
Congress is dragging its slow length
along. After the morning hour, the
House is daily engaged in discussing
the new rules reported by a committee
appointed for that purpose at the last
session. 1t will probably be month
before the House will set down to reg.
ular business. The prospects now are
that the session will continue until july
or August next.
1t is very evident that the present
Congress will be an inauspicious one
for the renewal of patents, or to be ben
eficial to patentees. The railroads
have patent bureau in Chicago, and
an attorney employed 10 resist all pat
ents affecting railroad management, at
salary of $4,000 per annum. They
1 a al, ott 10
islation for the benefit of patentees or
the Issuance of patents from the Patent
Office, at a salary of $1,000 per year.
The patentees instead of combining
their strength, are each of them fighting
| for their own interests on their own
hooks. The result is, the railroad cor
porations and other parties whose in
terests are opposed to those of the pat
entees, have made heavy inroad up
on popular and Congressional opinion.
Col. Edward Miller, of New Jersey,
failed to get renewal of his car-coup-
Ter and platform, to prevent cars from
telescoping in case of collision.
Parties interested in patents of any
kind had better be on the lookout here.
for they are in jeopardy.
AS Lent approaches, the people on the
POTOMAC begin to look after their fish
diet. Some of them near Chesapeake
bay, last week, were intensely disgust
ed to find that the spawn that had been
dropped in the Potomac, for the pur-
pose of breeding salmon, were the eggs
OF sturgeon, and instead of having a
crop of delicious Kennebec or Column
bia river fish, the prospects are they
will be supplied with an abundance oil
"Albany beef"
Pennsylvania, the past week, had
Republican State Convention, to elect
delegates to the National Republican
Convention at Chicago. BY a small
majority, the delegation elected was
friendly to the nomination of General
Grant. The minority, which was unex-
pectedly large, favored the nomination
of Senator Blaine, who was q native of
that state. Some of the anti Grant pol |
iticians protested to take great comfort |