Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-12
WASHINGTON NOTES.
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Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-President Arthur
returned to Washington on late train to-
night, agood deal wiser than he was when
he left. He will now buckle down to the
real duties of his Office and let politics
alone for q while. Secretary Folger, the
worst defeated candidate who ever posed
for Office before the people of the Uaited
States, was at his desk to-day, also wiser
though much sadder man. He has his ear
to the telephone, waiting in vain for the
depreciation in values which he antici-
cipated Republican defeat would
bring about. The only member of
President Arthur's cabinet who energies
from the smoke of Tuesdays management
with a scalp is Bill Chandler. The presi-
dent and his secretary of the treasury were
thumped in New York; in New Jersey Mr..
Frelinghuysen has nothing to show; Score
tary Teller loses Colorado after personal
attention to details; Brewster is smashed
in Pennsylvania; Lincoln is closely pressed
in Illinois, and in Wisconsin the log of
Grandma Howe scores five Democratic
congressman. Chandler alone holds up
his state, and with a party fight hotter
than hades in it.
The admirers of Mr.. Blaine are not
Growing so much as they were. The losses
in the congressional delegations scored by
such Blaine states as California, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Iowa, where the admins
tration was not factor one way or the
other, show that the people are getting
tired of the whole Republican outfit, and
want to play with an old-fashioned deck
without joker.
A frequent remark now by the different
Republicans is, they hope the Democratic
majority will continue to govern the house
of representatives, for, in such an event,
the party will become Indifferent. 1t is
true the Democratic majority in the next
house will not only be large, but made up
of many new members. 1t is also true
that there are enough experienced leaders
returned to keep the brakes on.
This was not the case in
1876, when the Democrats first
since the war had a majority In the popu-
lar branch of congress. The Democrats
will have great opportunity in the next
congress. It is hardly probable, owing to
the limit of the next session, that the Re-
publicans will reduce any Of the burdens
of taxation. This will give the Democrats
the chance to wipe out the internal revenue
system, and to revise the tariff in such
way that business men can interpret it.
The election of Col. Morrison, of Illinois,
which was at first disputed, 10 received
with satisfaction from all quarters. Nor
rison is safe leader, and his loss to the
house of representatives would have been
felt by the Democracy.
Mr.. VIM. R. Travers, of New York, has
bought the old residence on Fifteenth
street of Ex-Sscretary Blaine for $4,000
cash. Mr.. Travers is the special champion
of Senator Bayard for the presidential
nomination, and the purchase means, no
doubt, series of good dinners to work up
a Bayard boom. Bayard as presidential
candidate might do for August Belmont
and VIM. R. Travers, but the trouble is
Mr.. Bayard inagines that the whole United
States is east of the Allegheny mountains.
The report of S. G. Armstrong, superin-
tendent of the Hampton, Va, Industrial
school, for the fiscal year has been submit
ted to Indian Commissioner Price. There
are now thirty girls and forty boys at the
school. During the year the workshop
turned out seventy five sets of harness,
1000 pairs of brogans, shoes and various
other articles, and in the girls depart
ment says that the comparative success of
the aims and of the ideas indicate the true
policy-a liberal educational policy and
wise management. 1t recommended that
after six months at the school
as an incentive to labor, it students
be paid % cents per day, ons-half to be
retained until the students leave for home.
A statement is appended, showing that the
school has received up to July, from pri-
vate sources, 59,774.16, and from the gov
eminent, $35, 1858. M. G. Wilkinson,
superintendent of the Forest Grove, Ore
gon, Indian Training school, has submit
ted his annual report to the commissioner
of Indian affairs. 1t shows the total num-
Der of students 81; boys 81; girls 81. These
are divided among several tribes.
The Garfield board of audit met this af-
ternoon, all members present. Several
preliminary measures were considered and
the cases of White house claims and those
of surgeons were briefly discussed, but no
action reached. It was decided to employ
a clerk to docket the various claims, and
to proceed with the business Immediately.
The board will meet again tomorrow.
Information has been received at the de-
partment of the interior that Agent Nc
Laughlin, of Standing Rock, Indian agen-
cy, has been trying for eight days to have
United States commissioner, or deputy
marshal come to that agency and take in
charge number of white men recently
arrested for intruding upon the reserva-
ton. It appears the intruders have
large quantity of buffalo skins, which they
obtained off the reservation. The case was
recently referred to the department of
justice by the Indian bureau.
General Sherman has submitted to the
secretary of war special report upon the
subject of military posts and forts, in
which he says: "The time is now for a rad
iaal change in the whole system of piece
meal work in quartering the troops of the
United States. For a hundred years We
have been sweeping across the continent
with skirmishing line, building post here
and another there, to be abandoned next
year for another line, and so on, and now
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