Daily Republican., 1882-03-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
SENATOR TELLER AND THE NJ,
lions Wards.
bout Cabinet Chsnges-The Chi
nese On COnnecticus Avenue
The n Il ans n ad- Incl.
dents about Wnshtvg.

Since General Grants appearance In
Washington, ,rumOrs of cabinet changes
have filled the air. He may have moth
ing to do with the proposed changes s,
but nearly every body believes that he
has. 1t was thought that the father in
law OF General Grants son, ex-senator
Chatfee, would be made Secretary Cf
the interior, but it seems that Senator
Feller Of Colorado is to have the place
If the Indians read the papers they are
now trembling in their boots, it they
have any boot, at the annouu cement
that Feler will be over the head of the
Indian Bureau. He has no sentimental
tenderness for these unlovely wards of
the nation. If the truth were known, he
believes with Gen. Sheridan that the
best Indian is dead Indian, and that
they have no more right to the splendid
western domain than the panthers and
cayotes which shelp to make it a
bowling wildernt 81. We see too much
of the Indian here in Washington.
There is nearly always a delegation of
some tribe here ostensibly for the pur-
pose of having talk with their Great
Father" President Arthur.
Their talks amount to nothing, and are
good tor nothing, and 1t is strange that
the President does not stop such empty
humbuggery. These talks are gotten up
by the Indian agents who beco me tired
of the dullness and nothing-to do-ness
OF frontier post life, and, desirous of
having picnic, they bring half dozen
filthy chiefs to Washington to talk over
some imaginary grievance which if it
were a real grievance could be much
better ad justed on the ground, at that
end of the line than at this end.
To return from the frontier to the
cabinet, it is rumored that Gen. Beale
who was Minister to Austria during
Gen. Grants first term will be made
Secretary of the Navy in place of Judge
Hunt. VIM, K. Chandler is also talk.
ed of for the place, and it is quite pro-
bable that one of them will get it.
Judge Hunt can well retire on his as
sets, during his brief iucum bency, he
has given his sons permanent aud lu-
crative places in the Unit ed States
Navy.
a till prohibiting the immigration
of Chinese has been p tssed by large
majority, and the president, it is said,
will not veto it. Maybe he will, though
there are just now influences in and
around the White House that are
friendly to the heather Chinese. 1t is
said that the picturesque suit will
leave Immediately for Spain, taking
with him the trade aud the good will
OF the walled and tlowery kingdom.
The ambassador and his suite in their
gorgeous silk drapery are nc more like
the Cinnamon of the Pacific coast than
Oscar Wilde and DR.. Mary Walker are
like men. IT the ambassador carries
out his threat to leave, Connecticut av-
enue will lose one of its chiet Sunday
afternoon attractions. You know that
this avenue is the fashionable prone
made of Washington, and when the
weather is fine not even the Boulevard
de ltaliens at u ridnight presents
gayer, more vivacious or vainer specta-
tacle. The Chinese legation do not
mingle with the promenaders, but they
stand on low balcony fronting the av-
enue, and arrayed in the bright col
ored, loose flowing silks Of their coun.
try, evidently e JOY being gazed at by
the throng Of promenaders S.