New Ulm weekly review., 1882-04-26

the rules. 1t it receives favorable
consideration in she Senate aud roes
to the President, the latter Is very
likely to pick some flaw in it. The
Farley amendment to the old bill,
forbidding Chinese naturalization,
and the Grover amendment. which
included both skilled and unskilled
laborers in it's provisions, are incor.
porated in the new bill a nd are not
supposed to be acceptable to Presi-
dent Arthur.
There IS widely prsvelant i'm
preston that the new Secretary oi
Che Interior, who takes charge Of his
port to!io to-day, will introduce a
new policy in relation to the Indians
but 1t should be known that he can
not adopt on arbitrary, out and out,
policy of his own. There are bills
and treaties limiting his powers,
which are ministerial or executive.
But ministerial powers may be SC
exercised as to give very decided in.
dlvlduallty to their administration,
and it may be expected that Secre.
tary Teller will be influenced by ex.
trcme Western ideas in all the deal.
ings ofhis department With the Red
Man.
About two weeks ago Bishop An.
drews penned a letter to the Metho.
dist clergy, asking each one of them
to hold special services last night in
reference to the Indian question, ir
tartherance of the views of the soci
ETY. organization for 'tIndian Treaty
Keeping aud Protection In ac.
cordance with this request, Hon
Hiram Price, commissioner OF Indi
an affairs, delivered, at Wesly
Chapel, last evening an addres!
on what the Government had don,
for the Indians, and what the citi
zens should do. A large majority
Of the American people, said Mr.,
Price, were totally inogrant of ev.
erything connected with the Indian
question. They are just beginnin!
to understand it. Il was not a par
of Gods plan to create an independ
ent plan. What hurt the Indian
therefore, hurts the whites. Whil'
the Government has done its full
duty to the Indians, it yet has don,
a great deal which should b,
known. Mr.. Price thereupo1
gave a number of statistics, i,
which the Methodists made a BOO
showing. Asa Methodist he wa
ashamed of this and urged his hear
ers TO do better. He advocated tn,
giving up Of the foreign missions un
til the Indians were civilized an,
christianized. Ernest efforts, he be
lieved, would bring about such result
i'll fiveyears. The Indians were grow
ing better, making rapid progress
morally and materially. The Gov
ernment cut off their rations o
whiskey last year, intending nev
er to supply them again with it, an,
had reduced their supply oftobacco
both experiments meeting will
marked success.
This is Emancipation day
the day that the colored popula
tion of Washington celebrate
The steets are full of colored mill
tary companies, headed by colore,
brass.bands, marshaled by colore'
men on horseback, followed by col
ored women in carriages, aud b,
myiards Of colored youth and maid
ems on the sidewalks. Maryland
and Virginia, Baltimore and Alex
andria, have helped to swell tn
dusky tide on the gala day. No city
Of the Ozark Continent can show
as large colored population as til,
Capital, to-day, and certainly nc
city can show so great variety O
facial characteristic art tint pro
duced BY generations of pratica
miscagenation.