Morning journal and courier., 1881-11-16
rapid progress toward completion may now

rapid progress toward completion may now
 be secured
 Although this was Cabinet day.. no regu
 lar meeting of the Presidents official family
 was held. The President spent some time,
 however, with Secretaries Blaine, Folger and Postmaster G. neral James. The latter, Gen
 eral Elmer. Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
 eral, and Chief Clerk Von Worner, will leave the latter part of the week on their southern tour. Colonel Thompson, superintendent of
 the railway mail service, will go with the par ty. First Assistant Hatton will be acting postmaster general during the absence of MT. James.
 The arrival of Congressman Keller, of Ohio, to-day marks the practical commence
 aent of the Speakership campaign here, and from now until the Republican caucus the contest will grow 1iveier every day. Keifer has secured handsome suite of rooms on the first floor of the Ebbitt House. He will make this his headquarters and has already gathered around him many of his friends, in cluding Congress1Aan Butterworth, of Ohio. It is claimed for Keller that he has already an excellent prospect of success. S1xty-four or sixty-fve votes are counted on for him on the first ballot, and these with ten additional would give him majority in the caucus. It is claimed that there are twenty nine members out of which these ten are almost certain to be obtained. It is also stated that Keifer has assurance of considerable strength from the East and has the Pacific slope also for him. Congressman s. Orth, 8 canai date for speaker backed by the Indiana dele gation. will be here Saturday and will be fol- lowed by his colleagues in the House of Rep resentatives. Kasson is already here, but it is not known when Hiscock will arrive. The next Congress will be devoted entirely to the consideration of the material interests of the country and there will be little or no politi- cal wrangling.
 Secretary Kirkwood completed his annual report to-day. He first takes up the Indian question. He holds that the difficulties to be overcome are these: The Indians do not speak and do not wish to learn to speak our language, hence all business with them by the government and by individuals has been and must be transacted through interpreters. This he considers great source of trouble. The difficulty IS being gradually over- come by educating Indian children. To this end he favors enlarged educational facilities. He holds that only by educating the Indian children can it ever be hoped to civilize the Indian. In discussing the future of the In- dian he says if he is to make upward prog ress he must labor. The game upon which he has subsisted is nearly gone To make ef- fectlye this agency of labor he favors supplying them with necessary i'm plements. The titles of Indian lands are not such that the courts are bound to protect them. To remedy this he advises that new laws and new treaties be made and then the Indian owning the land he improves will enter more heartily into the work of cultivating it. He places the num- Der of Indians at 224, ,OOO, located on 1o2 res ervations. He pays compliment to the military for their prompt and efficient aid whenever called up- on, but the amount of country occupied by the Indians has prevented speedy concentra- tion and hence he recommends that all the ! Indians be placed upon four or five reserva- tions, and with this object in view suggests commission to inquire into it's practicability. He suggests that some of the older tribes be selected and the experiment of local govern ment by ballot and trial by jury be given them, and if successful adopted with other l tribes |