The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-04-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, April i2, 1880.


tary Columbus Delano with cane some
two years ago, after being imprisoned
for four or five days was par,loned out
by President Hayes, very much 10 his
delight and considerably in accord with
the public sentiment in Washington.
Delano established an unsavory a
reputation while at the head of the In
terror Department. f..
IL is calculated by the knowing ones
of the House that Congress will adjourn
before The 1st of June. Congress will
evidently adopt some important changes
in the management of onr Indian affairs
before its adjournment. The most strik-
ing changes will probably be in the
management Of the nomadic tribes, and
inducing them to assume pastoral rela-
tions and divide their lands.
Tho leading chiefs from the three
bands of Wisconsin Chippewas left for
home last week, but will stop at Car
isle, Pa, while e1l-roUte, TO visit the
Indian school recently established there
through the efforts of Ex-Governor
Pound, of Wisconsin. A similar school
will be established next year at For
trcss Monroe, Va.
Several of the newspapers are com
miiting the blunder of speaking of
George f. Seward as minister to China.
Mr.. Seward held no such position. His
office was consul-generaI, the same po-
sition that General Fairfield held at
Paris before he went to Spain.
There is considerable complaining at
the Capitol about the absence of men,
bers from their seats. Too many of
them are away in New York and other
sections of the country dabbling in
stocks and other species of speculation.
They accept the position to represent
their districts for consideration of
$4,000 per year, and they are morally
under as much obligation TO discharge
their part of thesContract as the govern
ment is to pay them their salary. Cases
are known where Senators and Repre-
sentatives have not been in their
seats one-fourth of their time this ses-
sion, but the members have been very
certain to draw their salaries regularly,
and bnt for the press the people would
be kept in utter ignorance of the way
they have been defrauded. This is not
ably the case with Representative jim
my O'Drien of New York city. No man
who has absented himself for over thir-
ty days should be again returned to
either House by q reelection, nor
should he receive more than the pay
actually earned unless he be absent by
reason of illness of himself or a near
relative.
The outlook now is that there will be
reduction in the rates of duties on
printing paper and type. But to render
success certain, the publishers and other
parties interested had better do some-
thing else than sit in their offices and
grumble. "God helps those who help
themselves" and growing and gruIh-
bling is poor species of self assistance.
The land grant bills are beginning to
be pressed upon the attention of Con
gress. Should the bill of Mr.. Chambers
pass, thirty-seven million acres of land
will revert to the general government
that now belongs to single railroad
corporation, and this BODY of land en-
braces more good wheat land than can
| be found in any four wheat-raising
states in the Union.
William III. Vanderbilt has sold out
the controlling interest of the stock of
| the New York Central, and has inst
| added four millions TO Lis former stock
of thirty-sevcn millions i'm government
bondsl His sales of railroad stocks
lately amounted to S42, 900, ,OOO-all his
own.
A very large emigration may be look
ed for this year from Europe, espec-
tally from Germany, Ireland, Sweden,
and Denmark. Already they have com
menced landing weekly in New York
by the thousands.
Mr.. Duester, of Wisconsin, has very
wisely introduced bill into the House
to prevent impOsitiOns upon the emi-
grant passengers while on the high seas
from vessel owners and officers, or
after their arrival in this country by
transportation lines.
| Talk about love in cottage, and all
that; why just see how quick General
Sherman's four daughters were out of
the market after the Khcdive's $4,000
necklace was divided up among the
girls!
There is nothing that makes matri-
mony easy like $4,000, unless it be
S150,000.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COM
| PANY
is making Herculean efforts before
Congress to get back its forfeited land
grant of some 100000 acres.
While there are the strongest equita-
BILE grounds for confirming to the other
roads their lapsed. grants, there exists
grave doubts against doing so i'm the
case above cited. They have already
secured an immense domain; they have
a long line of completed road; are
pushing on towards the Pacific rapidly;
and besides, arc boasting of their per-
feet ability to complete the entire line
without the aid of dollar or an acre
= 81 kIxz.x L.. "A
then. Indeed, to grant them help in
face of that boast would not be aid, but
a bonus-a subsidy, indeed, of the bold
est kind. -e.
1t is a well.known fact that the secur-
tiles of this company have enhanced
from y to AZ cents on the dollar within
the last twelve months, and that Chas.
d. Wright, one of its OWNERS and Off
cials, has made privately over million
dollars i'm that time specializing in the
stocks of his own company. Others
have made smaller fortunes dabbling in
Northern Pacific securities. These,
then, are not, we submit, Just exactly
the proper subjects for national charity.
THAT STAR SERVICE.
A correspondent extremely well
versed writes us as follows in regard to
the much talked of "star mail service"
in our Western States:
"If the Honse committee desire to
strike paying quartz, the inspection di-
vision, if judic,ously worked, might
pan out. Thus:
"Let the committee divide-part 60
ing in at front door and reserve en-
tering the rear opening. When in,
lock the doors, call for all papers bear
ing on remission of fines for non-fulfill-
ment of mail deliveries on time; ex-
= anime amounts rcmitted, and why
summon tho postmasters on whose cer-
tificates fines were RENTED, question
them sharply, keep eyes and ears open.
Go through the contract division in
like careful manner. Examine all the
contracts in amounts and dates; see
when and on whose written requests
: L ~ A.. 10 4.