The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-10-22

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first place in q general way. 1t
now wanted to know, "merely
out of curiosity, chow promptly
and vigorously he had attended to
the memorial relating to Gov.
Hoyt and the memorial. asking
that one member be added to the
council and one to the house of
representatives" The LEADER
answered these inquiries explicit
ly. The memorial relating to
Gov. Hoyt was presented to the
President repeatedly, and no one
was better satisfied than Gov.
Hoyt with Mr.. Posts attention
and good offices in dealing with
this matter. Mr.. Post attended
to the memorial of the legislature
of Wyoming, asking an increase
in membership and in the per
diem allowance of members, in a
business-like manner. Special
legislation for one territory being
impossible, he called together the
delegates from the various terri
tories, told them the desire of
Wyoming, and a bill was drawn
up embracing the features he pre-
scribed. That bill took its place
in the calendar, and will very
likely become a law.
3. AS to whether Mr.. Post re-
manned at Washington until the
close of the session, the LEADER
answered hat Mr.. Post remained
there until the general appropria-
ton bills were before congress,
when legislation for Wyoming
could no long be expected.
Altogether, Mr.. Post was in at
tendance at congress nearly seven
months during the session, n
period greater than the average
of the most industrious congress
men.
The statement in the Sun that
MI. Post said he would not be in
Washington more than sixty days
during tbs session of congress was
a mere street rumor or another
roorbach cooked up in the Sun
office. Mr.. Post denied it.
FORT MCKINNEY.
The statement made by the
that Mr.. Post was in
strumental in securing the S25.-
900 appropriation for Fort Nc
Kinney being doubted by the
Sun, proof was at once offered in
this form:
"Mr. Post appeared before the
general appropriations committee
and argued for the appropriation
for Fort Mckinney, thereby e
curing its passage. A large num-
Der of recommendations for APP
preparations for forts in the west
were sent from the war depart
ment, but that for Fort McKin-
ney, and one other, we believe,
were the only ones which re-
ceived favorable action"
The Suns response to this
statement indicated how thor
oughly it was permeated by the
esprit of candor and fairness"
In an article on 'Irresistible Flo
quence," after quoting our re-
marks, it INDUCED in these sneers:
SNFEpS
cit thus appears hat the war
department is thrown into the
shade by our eloquent delegate and
hereafter if the secretary OF war
desires favorable action upon his
recommendations he must secure
the influence and prestige of Mr..
Post, otherwise he cannot expect
to succeed. Colorado and Ne
braska senators will please hide
their impotent heads, and ordin-
airy congressman stand aside,
while the delegate from Wyoming
takes the bakery"
This brought out from the
LEADER the following explanation:
Appropriation for Forts.
"The course of all bills for ap-
preparation of money for forts is
the same. The recommendation
is FIRST made out by the officer in
command of the fort, Endorsed in
turn by the department COM
mander, the general of the army,
the secretary of war, and the
president. The congressional APP
preparations committee makes the
decision which settles the fate of
the recommendations.
"But the Suns slurring and
gliding makes no progress in the
argument, save to show that it is
barren of truth to bring it
through. 1t wanted light. That
is given it, and it takes to mock
ing at the delegates 'eloquence.'
The eloquence of common sense
was all that was required. Fort
Mckinney is the outpost in Wyo-
ming nearest the Montana Indian
reservation. In case of an Indian
outbreak a large region which is
now being settled would be ex
posed to the raids of the savages
were a fort not built and occupied
somewhere in it. The fact is plain
enough to any one, but might
have been overlooked had Dele
gate Post not repeatedly waited
on the appropriations committee,