The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-05-05
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

AFFAIRS
Secretary Teller and Senate
Hill Before the Public.
J Aid Extended to the Southern
Sufferers.
Senator Hill Ventilates Hi
Grievances.
/ WASHINGTON, May 1.-The unpleas
ant personal relations which, it is un
derstood, have for some time existe,
between the Secretary of the Interio
and Senator Hill, Of Colorado, hav
at last manifested themselves in suc1
a way that wide publicity will be Civ
en- to their, causes of disagreement
The Senator who is said to have beal
greatly irritated by the misreprenta
tlon of his language and purposes by
Secretary Teller, as well as by the re
movals under his authority of friends
from positions in the Interior De
partment, has written a long letter tt
the Secretary, in which he complain,
bitterly of Teller's behavior toward
him, and attacks vigorously Teller!
management Gn Hills opinion his
mlsmanagemenD of the Department
over which he presides.
Beginning with his personal griev
ances, Senator Hill, in his letter
charges Secretary Teller with at.
tempting to place him in a false and
unpleasant position by causing to be
published unfair and inaccurate re.
ports of his statements and requests
He asserts, furthermore, that the Sec
retary has been guilty of violation
OF ordinary courtesy iH repeating to
newspaper correspondents for publ
cation conversations that had been
held between them.
After reviewing casually the posi-
tion taken by Secretary Teller in the
last campaign in Colorado, Senator
Hill takes up the Secretary's admins
tratiOn of the affairs of the Interior
Department., and subjects it to de-
tailed criticism and severe censure.
Referring to the lease of the Yellow
stone national park, he SAYS Teller re-
vlsed and dictated its terms and then
allowed his assistant secretary to take
all the blame and public disapproval
which followed its execution. After
Congress had limited the lease to ten
acres, the Secretary evaded both the
letter and spirit of the law and prac-
tically gave to the Rufus Hatch syn
dicate monopoly of the entire park.
In dealing with the questions
which arise in connection with the
public domain and particularly those
growing out of land grants he
charges Secretary Teller with acting
in the interest of great monopolies
and against the interests of the
government and people. He also
asserts and undertakes to show that
Secretary Teller has been connected
with a number of land frauds in Col
Orado. ----
In conclusion he reviews the man.
ner in which the patronage of the In
terror Department has been dispensed
since the appointment of Teller, and
cites a number of instances in which
persons unfit for the duties assigned
them have been given places, while
competent men have been unable to
secure an appointment.
Secretary Teller when asked by an
associated press reporter tonight
he had received a letter from
Senator Hill, of which the above is
an outline, replied that letter had
just been brought him, but he had
not had an opportunity as yet to do
more than glance through it. He
ildn't desire ut present to make anv
statement for publication with re-
gard to the matters therein referred
20. He understood that Senator Hill
had arranged to give his own letter
publicity by furnishing copy of it
% a number of correspondents. but
whether it would lie worth while for !
llm (Teller) to give equal publicity to
lis reply, was subject he had not /
ret considered. He would, he said,
'ead Hills letter carefully tomorrow |
md give it such attention as it |
seemed 10 MIN TO deserve. |
Senator Hill says tonight. in re-
pOnse to inquiries, that he had writ |
en- Secretary Teller the letter above
eferred to because, in the first place,
le thought the latter had treated him
With great disc0urtesy. Not long ago
le had, he said, a private interview
With the Secretary upon matter of !
BUSINESS. and had been hurt and pro-
'oked few days later to find an al
eyed account of this interview in
It. Louis paper; an account, however,
n which his (Hill's) conversation was
o distorted and misrepresented that
e was paced in false and despica-
lie light. For this distortion and
Misrepresentation, as we'll as for the
ublication in any form of what took
lace in a private and confidential
Interview, he believed Secretary Tel
9r to be responsible, and he did not
ropose indefinitely to submit to this
ort OF treatment. The Secretary's
onnection with recent newspaper at
acks upon him, could, he said, be
asily traced.
Another reason for writing his let
er to Teller. was that he (HilD knew
lany things about the management
the Interior Department of which
le public was ignorant, but in regard
, which it should be informed. Some
these things he had set forth in his
tier. AS for the patronage of the
lterlor Department he did not wish
control it, or exercise any undue
fiuence IN the selection of employ .
s, but he thought he might reason
)ly expect to be at least counselled :,
ith in regard to appointments and :
mOvals in Colorado. Teller, how :
'er, had thus far exercised the
motions of Secretary of the Interior
ith0ut regard to the wishes of the }
70 senators and representative from
and he (HilD thought this
as an unwarrantable assumption OF
lthority.
Miscellaneous.
New YORK, May 2-Seven hundred G
riking cigarette makers, men and c
omen, of Kinney Bros factory have
ganized for the better prosecution :