Daily globe., 1883-08-02
SECRETARY TELLER;S T4CATION.

SECRETARY TELLER,S VACATION.
Secretary Teller, of the interior depart
ment, is absent from Washington, as is the
president, and as also are the other mem
bers of the cabinet, We are happy to say,
however, that in his case his absence is
proper. He is not seeking a senatorship,
q Ia the secretary of the navy or passing
first moment of his vacation he
devotes to visit to his aged mother re-
siding at Morrison, Ills, where with his
wife and children he is happy to spend a
couple of weeks in rational dignified rest.
After this visit he intends going to Col
orado, where his private bsuiness matters
need his personal attention. He will re-
turn to Washington the latter part of
August, about the time the president turns
up from his Yellowstone 'exploration.''
Upon political topics the secretary does
not talk like man concerned or burdened
with party management. AS to TIE next
president, he says he is neither prophet
or the son of prophet, but thinks the
Republicans will elect in 1884
The reader will enjoy his
views regarding civil service reform and
the Indian service. Being asked how the
new civil service system succeeds in the
Interior department; he said:
81 have had no occasion to test it SO far. Ny
department is about as well organized and equip
ped as it could be, and do not believe even a
| civil service reform commission could improve
! nonph The
vision, the Patent Office, Pension Office, Indian
| office, and Land office, are in splendid shape,
and there Will be no necessity for the appoint
| ment of new clerks for some time. The busi-
ness of the census Office is being gradually clos
| ed up, and there are $50 clerks there the cream
of the bureau, who will be transferred to other
branches of the department as fast as they are
needed. They are all skiIlful, competent clerks.
and better ones than could be secured by new
appointments.
Not long since the secretary in
troduced new policy in the Indian
service-that of Withholding supplies of
coffee, sugar, ETC., from Indians that will
not work. Speaking of this innovation
he said:
1T works well. Instead of distributing
these luxurles promiscuously and gratuitously,
IKE Hour and beef, as was the practice formerly.
we now give them reward of merit to Ind
tang who show some desire to sustain them
elves, and the agents directed to issue these
supplies only to those who are Industrious. NY
theory of Indian government is to apply to
fhsaa the same rules that make good
""t Of white people, educating
citizens i teaching the adults
the children, am N~aeEts of in
dustry. If you would place CO. - III "
white people, ignorant and Indifferent u nc,
own welfare, in the same circumstances VI
which the Indians are placed at the agencies.
and furnish them all they want to eat, without
requiring any exerlion on their part, they would
behave no better than the Indians do, and would
be quite as troublesome as they are. We must
teach the savages the necessity of education and
industry if we ever make them self-support-
ing" ''How Eare the Indian schools
getting on? "Splendidly. The number of
pupils is increasing rapidly, and the Indiars no
longer are reluctant to send their children there.
Some of the brigt4test and most successful
scholars are from tribes that only recently were
on the war-path. 1t would surprise you to see
how quick they learn, and how soon they adapt
themselves 20 the ways of civilization.''