Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-05-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prom our sesslsr correspondentl

touching Tue C"ho"~1 VI
tr;endn as Swain calls himself, there
would be some rich Developments. 1t
would show that the Judge Advocate
General OF the United States Army got
his position through the grossest and
most shameful disregard of both army
regulations and common decency. IL
would show that through favoritism he
got squeezed into an admission to the OAR
without the usual examination, as no mad
never studied law and could not tell the
difference between bill in chancery and
a bond of indemnity. To carry out TINS
fayoritism Swain was promoted over the
heads of several who were in line OF pro-
melton and who were infinitely superior
to him in every military aud civic qualifi-
cation. He has been pet with a sort OF
military coterie here who are under obli-
cations to him for small pecuniary tve>
per-cent,s month favors, and these are the
friends who are to stand by him in his
contest with the War Department, and l
am willing to wager good deal of wealth
that be will come out of court as CON-
pletsly covered with whitewash as any
other Of the tred but unpublished knaves.
As wrote the prediction last week that
the Kellogg trial would be farce, l write
the fulfllment of the prediction now, only
to say that the farce is great deal broad
or one than had any right to predict.
That there was preconcerted arrange
ment to let Kellogg go scot free, is amply
demonstrated by the tact that Ker who
drew the indictment purposely lett
breaches in it large enough to drive
through q coach and four. With the
drafts before him that had been paid to
Kellogg for bis official infa ence. he charg-
cd in each of the several courts that Kel-
logg had been paid and had received
"lawful money of the United States" Of
course the testimony did not bear out the
allegation, and OF course an acquittal fol,
lowed. Having thus been thoroughly
vindicated by technicalities in the legal
proceedings, a deeply concerned public
will be anxious to know what sort oil
vindicstion is waiting Kellogg at the
hands OF the Springer committee.
Thus far but fifty eight set speeches
have been made upon the Morrison tariff
hill, but the most of them are so enter
tanning that they will doubtless be re-
peatsd in this Congress, as they already
have been repeated in Congresses Of the
past. The finger marks Of Clay and
Webster, of Calhoun and Benton, of Ste
phens and Davis and the lesser lights of
the past, are plainly discernibls In these
after evening oratorical efforts. Each
speech is made to bristle with statistical
tables that have as much adaptabilIty to
the speech as the speech usually has to
the question under discussion. To show
the congruity of things as they transpire
in the House we may illustrate the in
stance of Mr.. Cox, of New York, who got
the door for speech on the Naval App
preparation bill, but said never word
about the navy in two hours talk about
the tariff. The reason of the omission ct
any allussion to the navy was probably
because We had no navy worth talking
about. This week will doubtless bring
about the fate of the Morrison bill, wheth
Or il shall DO voted up or voted down or
remodelled entirely.
Tho Reporter, q journal devoted to the
interests of settlers on the public lands
gsss ior the land>grabbers cut West in
the following strain, which, In view Of the
magnitude of the evils Of which it COM
plains, ought to be reproduced:
when the constituted authorities of q
Government of ffty-fvs millions Of peo-
pie openly confess their inability to res
train aging of squatters and cowboys
from fencing In the public lands, what
wonder u It that England and other ma
uons abroad are encouraged to send their
adventures here to occupy whole coun-
sios of our domain at wilt And what
could b more absurd than the attempt to
ct these land thieves disposessed by q
bill in equityi Il this the remedy in
voked BY . private psrson when his lands
are trsspAssed upon without color of riehta
and would L b the remedy that . pri-
vate individual would naturally seek
against the dcprelations Of burglar or
sassk thief And why is the position OF
the Government in such cases different
from that ofths citizeni But to add to
the many huniliations that the Govern
nent suffers from these depredators, we
have official information that the mails