The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1884-11-01

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will be a wedding in the White House
The contracting parties will have the
congratulations OF the country, The
ceremony will, Of course, be "tho" social
event of the winter. Only one President
John Tyler, was ever married while in
Office, and the ceremony in his case was
performed in New York city.
During the session of the coming Con-
gress, the commissions of about 1S0 post
masters at post-offices where the salaries
range from $4,000 downwards to below
81 900, will expire. Among the list are
the post-ofiices at Chicago, salary Sc 900;
Philadelphia, salary $4,000, and Swan
nah, Ca, salary $1,000.
In a former letter I referred TO the
starving condition of the Piegan Indians,
whose reliance for subsistence has de-
pended entirely upon the Government.
There are no less than four thousand
five hundred of these unfortunate crea-
lures, for whose care and comfort Con-
gress appropriated last year $4,000, or
less than two cents per day for each In
dian! Their reservation is entirely non
productive so far as game Is concerned
and the Government has never attempted
the encouragement of this particular
tribe to arts of husbaniry. The Indian
Department cannot be and ought not to
be held responsible for the terrible con-
dition of these Indians, except for its
adherence to rule which limits the
agent to furnishing supplies for each
week for one fifty-second part of the
amouAt of subsistence for full year.
One can readily imagine then the actual
suffering that these people have already
endured, when four thousand human be-
ings were compelled 10 subsist on an al
lowance of food as limited as that of the
Greeley party in its most desperate strait
And now with ours Treasury bursting
with money and the granaries Of the
country groaning under the magnificent
crops of the past season, it has been de-
termined to keep these poor people dur.
ing the approaching winter on. half ra-
tions! 1t is no wonder that the Piegan
considers his own civilization superior to
ours.
The Conscience Fund" of the Treas.
ury is matter that is worthy of a little
study. II is fund composed of small
amounts generally, and large amounts
rarely. In fact it is a matter of surprise
that so many consciences should be dis
turbed by so small a sum of money that
their owners baye euchred the Govern.
ment out of, and so few that large steal
ings have been able to make an impres.
sion upon. The back pay salary grab,
believe, was not credited to the con-
science fund, and rightly SO, because it
was the fear of results rather than re-
morse which prompted its return to the
Treasury. The records Of the Treasury
fail to show that any of the gigantic
plunderers of the Government have ever
exhibited remorse of conscience enough
TO cover cent of their "boodle" iu tho
Treasury, but here is a poor crank of a
chap taking the pains to send one cent
stamp to make up the postage that he
thought he had swindled the government
out Of, when in fact the Government had
never forwarded his letter at all. Yes.
terday $50 was received from an individ-
ual down South who had become con.
yerted, and desired to remove this $50
burden from his soul. A Chicago man
forgetting that nobody had ever gotten
into Heaven from Chicago, thought that
he might squeeze through by returning
the 50 he had wronged Uncle Sam out
of in a whisky deal. The largest sum
that has ever been credited to the con
scence fund was 81 100 from Salem
(Mass.,) postmaster away back iu days
gone by, but even in this case the Gov
ernment declared that his accounts were
correct, and his money was returned Ia
him.
see that the lobby has already com.
menced to rally at the hotels, with Con-
gress six weeks off and the Presidential
election yet to come. Some of these
third house chaps have an Office in view
some are 10 the interest of some sort Of
Government grab, but a good majority
are for extra appropriations for public
buildings in different portions of the
country, and have simply come on in ad-
vance of Congress to enlist the good Of
fees of the heads OF departments. Here
is fellow from one-horse town IL
Florida who has got $3.50, 900 approp'
ration, but he wants quarter of mil
lion. Little Nevada, with scarce popu
lation enough to entitle her to q Con
gresham, wants 500. 900 post Office
building for one of its towns that neyel
had and never will have 4 900 people
Proctor Knott's Duluth district has haG
SIPS, 600, and wants more for post office
when the town is going backwards will
twice the celerity that it ever come for
ward. As matter of absolute business
three-quarters of the public buildingi
that were authorized to be constructed
at the last Congress were entirely un
necessary, but they furnished magnifi
cent opportunities for corner.lot owner
to rake in fortunes, and building con
tractors to quarter themselves on tn
Treasury for an indefinite period.
THE REMINGTONs, OF ILIoN.