National Republican., 1883-03-15

u think not That story probably had its
origin in the relations that are supposed to
have existed between Belmont and Mills. The
latter, have been told, was a secretary or
something Of the sort for Belmont"
What is moving Murch2"
THAT do not know unless IL is to stir up
an agitation aud keep in business as ali agita-
tor He is stonccuttor, you know, and was
elected to congress through the influence of
The workingmen's organization of his dis
trict. His platform was opposition to tho
contract system under which work on gov.
ernment buildings is done and having been left
at homo this time by an intelligent constitu-
ency, he doubtless feels that he mustd do some
thing TO make his stonecutting friends be-
lieve that he is still reformer. If no allows
himself to drop from sight he may have to go
to cutting stone again, and that would be
pretty rough. / do not understand that he
charges recent corruption, his allegations
touching only buildings completed. The facts
he alleges must have been known to him, then,
for years, and If he wanted them investigated
he might have instituted tho inquiry any
time during the four years he has spent in
congress-"
II. c. Dear, in reply to the charge made
with such vehemcnce and virtuogs wrath by
the Indian office that his story about Agent
McGillicuddy is false, and that he is whisky
seller and cutthroat, &C., comes to the front
with the following statement in rebuttal: MY
assertions rs to McGillicuddy's dishonesty
and every statement made by me will be
verified by an inspection of Inspector Pol
locks report which is or was on file in
the department of the Interior. Pollock
was sent TO investigate the frauds of Nc
Gillicuddy last summer, and on discover
ing their immensity he telegraphed to the
Indian commissioner that he would suspend
McGillicuddy. The commissioner telegraphed
him not to suspend the agent, but to go on
with the investigation. The frauds were so
open and shameless that Pollock did suspend
McGillicuddy, Notwithstanding his instruc-
tions to tho contrary, thinking that his action
would be sustained by tho department when
the facts were all known.
"The only thing that the Indian Office can
say in contradiction of my statements relat-
ing to McGillicuddy's glaring misconduct and
corruption on the agency, and in defense Of
his character, which is byword through the
northwest is the word of McGillicuddy and
his paid hirelngs. Accompanying Inspector
Pollock's report are forty affldavits Of the best
men in the locality conflrmatory of what /
have said as to McGillicuddy's dishonesty"
Up to the present writing Dear has the best
of the controversy.
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"The church influence has had more to do
with keeping Indian Agent McGillcuddy in
his place than anything else," said Catholic
Indian missionary from the far west to the
Avenue man. "The missionary at Pine
Ridge agency is an Episcopalian, and McGil-
licuddy has shown him great favors, in conse-
quence of which tho reverend gentleman has
enlisted the assistance aud backing of Bishop
Hare and the church influence generally
through that channel. The first thing a
shrewd agent does is to get his missionary
on the ground and win his moral support,
which has proved sufficient to weather many
an unworthy man through storm which
would otherwise have swamped him."
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Senator Sabin is making the rounds of the
departments and getting acquainted very
rapidly with people who will be Of use to him
next winter. He takes to the business of
practical craftsmanship like an old hand.
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az had very pleasant time" said ex-Sen-
ator David Davis to friend on his return
from Saratoga Springs last summer. "I en-
joyed myself immensely. While there made
the acquaintance of several charming ladies.
One in particular, young lady from the
south, was exceedingly agreeable, and If 1
were marrying man don't know, ha, ha,
what 1 might do. She used to slap me play
fully on the cheek and kiss me in q way that
made me quite forget my years and feel young
again. There is something wonderfully at
tractive in these southern extraordinarily
attractive"
Appropos Of tho storm that has been started
by the publication of the fact that the tariff
commission cost $69,000, the commissioner of
customs, Mr.. johnson, says that If there is
any one thing more than another he courts it
is an investigation of the tariff commission,
whose accounts he passed upon. Mr.. johnson
is of opinion that the government never got
a better return from q 100000 investment
than it has from this particular 100000. He
says the commission did its work cheaply and
wondrous well.
"a
Public Printer Rounds fitted out two cara
vans for Pixies Peak in 1861, one of which
contained whole printing establishment, in
Guiding press to start newspaper. They
started from Chicago in good style and reached
the present location of Denver, where the
Rocky Mouatdin Neps was established. The
Office of the Neps was in the bottom lands of
Cherry creek. Some time after tho paper was
in good working order an unprecedented
flood rushed down the creek and swept away
the whole establishment. "That press" said
Mr.. Rounds, "has never been seen since, So
great was the force of the flood that the heavy
machinery was carried down stream into the
river like logs of wood and sank in the quick
sands OF the Platte. The boys probed for it,
but nothing was ever found They started on
higher ground next time, and the Nees is
now one of the great dailies of city of up
ward of 10000 people,"
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