Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-01-16

income was $50 per month; now he is
one of the solid men of that solid state.
He is Cameron's man, but has to
bear some burdens. One of them is
that he recommended the pardon of
those members of the Pennsylvania |
legislature who were convicted of |
bribery in the passage of the famous
riot bill. Another is that he is o |
representative of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and the unpopularity that
attends that company in Alleghny
County, which grows out OF the fact
that that county had to pay all the
damages arising from the great
strikes of 1877, throws its mantle
around him. ~ eir
Quite an affecting scene took place
in the interior department when MIR.
Schurz, in reply to question from
the head chief of a tribe of Indians,
informed him that he was about to
retire to private life. The Indians
made rudely eloquent speeches of
sorrow, saying that he was the best
friend the Indians ever had.
In this connection another incident
in Indian affairs might be mentioned.
A short time since Mr.. Sehurz re-
ceived by express a package contains
ing tomahawk. hunting knife, moe
casins, bear claws, eagle feathers,
and, in fact, the whole outfit of q
savage warrior. With them was a
note from Don't Know-How, of the
Indian Territory. It stated that
two or three years Mr. Don't Know
how, having earned $40 by hard
work, became trader in small way
Now he is worth $4,000, and pro-
poses to be savage no longer, but to
follow in the footsteps of the white
man. Even his name was changed,
and in the future he would be d. K.
Howe. a E
It is rather amusing to see how
the Democrats in the House lodged
the reading of a communication from
the acknowledgement. It was an
answer to a resolution introduced by
Mr.. Money, to investigate the charge
made during the campaign that the
Democratic Congressional committee
were ranking unfrankable matter.
The postmaster general replied, in
closing affidavits from the employees
of the committee itself in regard to
the matter. When the communica-
ton was sent to the House the DEM
ocrats, having an inkling of the con-
tents, would not allow the seals to be
broken nor the contents read, and
when the Republicans insisted upon
the reading they prevented it by
, adjournment and such tactics II
was finally referred to a select COM
mittee, which will, of course, bury il
"darkly at the dead of night" One
rather amusing bit of information
was that the Democrats employed
, three clerks to send out the docu-
ments, working them eleven hours
per day, and allowing them thu
princely remuneration of $500 pei
week.
The case of Campbell and Cannon
of Utah, and the action of Gov
/ Murray in connection with it, hal
also created a ripple. Cannon re-
ceived ten times as many voteI
t as his opponent, but was denied the
, certificate on account of his being
6 a Mormon and an alleged alien
What effect the former change vii
Q have on the committee on election
y of course I can't say; but the latte
q will not amount to ''row of pins.
The same objection was made to hi
. admission to the Forty-third Con
I gress, but it was proven to the salts
e faction of the committee having it Il
: charge that he was a naturalize'
3 citizen. This does not seem to b
the place to begin the fight upol
Mormonism. The Houseis the Judg
j of the qualifications of its members
q and it should provide that no MOI
mon should sit in it. This woul
= cut the Gordian knot. The presen
= fight against the evil will strengthen
G it, because Cannon is as sure to &c
his seat in the next Congress a
Judge Houk.
n The famous case of Ben. Hallida
# is again before Congress. He wa
= the proprietor of the famous Over
y land Mail Company and Pony Elk
d press, which ran from Memphis t
J. Placerville, Cal, in ante7bellum an
q railroad times, and his clair
= lover $5OO,O0O) is for stock destroye
u by the Indians. Edmonds and Thu
g man both oppose it, and its chance
for passage are consequently slim.
! I was reading over the old contra
u between the postofice departme1
le and this same Overland Mail Con
pany and Pony Express few da,
" ago, and its contents astonished m
l. The coaches which run from Men
II phis and st. Louis to Placervil
n were required to be taken through
!, twenty days for eight months of Il
Al year. and in twenty-three days Il
,e remaining four months; and they hi
N to carry at least 600 pounds of ma
ne matter In addition, the contracto
oa were required to establish a POI
v. express which should make the tr
70 in ten days eight months of the ye