Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-16
AN ANIMATED CANVASS.
CONTEST FOR THE SPEAKERSHIP OF
THE NEXT HOUSE.
n sifer of Ohio Supposed to be Ahead-kas-
son of Iowa a Strong Candidate-Dunnell
Opens His Headquarters-RepOrt of the
Secretary of the Interior-Commission
Signed Cabinet Speoulations Again
Matters of Minor Importance.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.--The canvass fol
speaker of the house is becoming lively and
interesting. OF the candidates Keifer, His
cock, Dunnell, Burrows and Kasson are here.
Orth. Reed and Robinson, of Massachusetts,,
will be here in a few days. Keifer has estab-
hshed his headquarters at the Ebbett house,
Hiscock at the Arlington, Dunnel at the Ma
tional, and the Others have not yet opened
their headquarters. Gen. Keifer's friends
are very hopeful They say Keifer
has the united and cordial support
of the Ohio delegation, and while the fight
will be of sectional nature, the West against
the East, that Keifer will get votes in Penn
sylvania, New Jersey and several from New
England as well as several from the South.
Keifer's friends believe he has now more posi-
tive support than any other candidate
and that he is the real choice
of number of members, who for state
candidates. 1t is the general opinion that
some OF the western candidates will have to
drop out of the race before the heat of the
fight begins, and naturally those having the
smallest support are expected to be the ones
who will retire. 1t is believed by the Ohio
members tnat helier mas Ger
tainly more more strength Dggi5.+. than han +soyy any
therefore he will finally become the candidate
of that section. AS one of the humorous
features of the canvass 1t Is related that Fos
ter last spring wrote letter to members Of
the house asking them to vote for Hiscock,
and saying the speakership ought by right to
go to the East, and particularly 1t ought not
to go to Ohio, because that state
bers of the supreme court, several
prominent diplomatic positions and other Of
fcers. Now time and the changes it has
wrought, have turned this very argument
against Hiscock, say the Ohio representatives.
New York, they say, has the president, two
members of the cabinet, the French
mission, and other diplomatic missions,
second assistant postmaster general, and
will have q member OF the supreme
court. This, urge the Western members, is
sufficient honor and power for New York at
present. None of the candidates yet give esti-
mates of their strength. They say it ia too
early in the canvass for that. Kasson, it is
admitted, is strong candidate, and a Repub-
lican member of the next house
said t.-night: eff Kasson had been member
of the last congress be would push Keifer
very closely and perhaps win; but he has
been out Of congress SO long that he comes
before the house as stranger, comparatively.
But few of the men he served with in congress
are now members, and Kasson is in fact a
stranger to many members of the Seventeenth
congress. Notwithstanding this he is strong
candidate. His qualifications for the place
are admitted He is prompt, determined and
good parliamentarian, but is handicapped by his
long absence from the country. The men,
ber who thus expressed himself Is friend of
Gen. Keifer, and naturally regards the latter
as the strongest candidate. 1t is reported
hot har 10 divtc-
ION of sentiment. 1t is quite probable, how
ever, that the election of speaker will largely
influence the disposition of the clerkship, If
ahe speakership goes west, then an eastern
man will be clerk, and vice versa.
SECRETARY KIRKwooD's REPORT.
The annual report of the secretary of the
interior is largely devoted to fresh discussion
of the Indian question. He strongly recon.
mends that liberal provision be made by con
gress for teaching Indian youth our language
shat uponi just terms to the Indians the
number and area of existing reservations be
largely reduced; that on such reservations as
are not we'll adapted to farming with
out irrigation efforts be made to teach
the Indians to become herdsmen,
instead of endeavoring to make them farmers;
that Indian titles to reduced reservations be
indlvidualized and thoroughly protected by
law; that the more civilized reservation Indi-
ans be encouraged to abandon their tribal re-
lations, by setting up experimental forms and
local government among them, as nearly alike
AS may be to the system Of county government
prevailing in the states or territ ories in which
the reservations are respectively located.
There are now in states and territories, west
OF the Mississippi river 102 reservations, great
and small, on which are located in round
number 224, 900 Indians. II all the Indians
west of the Mississippi river were gathered
upon four or five reservations, our Indian af-
fairs could be managed with greater econ
omy to the government and greater benefit
to the Indians. | recommend that congress be
asked to create a commission of three or
four citizens to visit during next year the
reservations west of the Mississippi river, for
the purpose of recommending to congress if
they shall deem 1t wise the concentration of
the Indians on four or five large reserya-
tions, to be selected in different
parts of the west, in which different
tribes shall be located; and If this SHALL in the
judgment of the commission, not be wise,
then to recommend the concentration of ex-
listing small agencies when that can be prop
erly done, and the reduction of the area of the
Others to dimensions proportionable to the
number of Indians now located thereon.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED.
President Arthur commissioned the follow.
ing postmasters to-day: John M. Patten, at
villisca, Ia; Simon Donaldson, Caldwell, KS;
Joseph W. Harris, Moberly, Mo-; Theo. Hase,
Kansas City, Mo-; Edward r. Shipley, Spring.
field, Mo-, and VIM. P. Jones, Nashville, Tenn.
The president also, to-day, signed the COM
mission Of E. Carother as postmaster of Nc
keesport, Pa, but it is held for the present at
the postoftice department.
CABINET SPECULATION.
The Pacific coast has only four Republican
votes in congress. California and Nevada
went Democratic last year, and Oregon is very
close. Hence it is said the claims of that sec
tion for cabinet representation have been
passed by. 1t is almost universal belief here
that Filley is booked for postmaster general
upon James retirement, and it is certain
James will not tarry long in the cabinet after
congress meets. The present phase of the star
route cases is not encouraging to his pros.
poets.
There is a later report that President Arthur
has determined upon his cabinet slate; that
Lincoln retires by his own request, and
Emory Storrs be made attorney general; that
Senator Howe will be made secretary of the
interior; Chauncey Filley, of Missouri, post
master general; Gen. Longstreet or some
other southern man, secretary of the navy.
The name of Frelinghuysen has slipped
from among thos, mentioned for
cabinet positions since it was ascertaiped that