Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-07-10
John Smiths Letter.

Of Pierre, is still in hot water about the
Sioux bill. He still has hopes and they
are growing. Having taken the Knights
Of Labor into his camp he feels that he
cal now be somebody and do some.
thing for his people. He is very proud
of the recent letter Of the Knights COM
mittee men TO the speaker and two
other members Of the house, in which
they called attention to the Sioux bill,
and asked for its consideration. He
! believes that there are still chances, yet
he also believes in that able statesman
from Texas, Hon. Olin Wellborn; the
chairman of the Indian committee, who
has peisistently refused tie have the
| Sioux bill presented to the house. A
man who believes in Wellborn, and in
the possible passage of the Sioux bill at
this session, would almost believe that
he had hopes of Heaven. Such faith, a
couple of thousand years ago, used to
heal the sick, make water out of wine,
and teach the lame how to dance Irish
reels. But, even such faith nowadays
cannot secure the opening of the reser-
walton. / believe that nothing but
money will make the congressional
mare 20. ~ 10 Ju1o NM ~.no, ol.o4vus.
breds.
King Nehemiah, the First, commonly
known as Ordway. IN. g." is making
| big doodle out of the sale Of the lands
which have been selected for the site of
the New National Library. The old
congressional library has become q
thing of dust and rust and must, in the
catacombs of the capitol. Provision
had to be made for a new building for
the numberles tones of lore, and King
Nehemiah was wise enough in his
generation to find the most eligible site
for the new building, and then to infu-
ence congress to buy it. But first, he
bought the land himself for a n and
now the United States government will
have to pay him a royalty upon his
sagacity. He will make not less than
$4,000 clear, cool, hard money out of
his little spec" Such a man as that
ought not to be confined to so small a
field of operations as the District of
Columbia. He ought to be on the prai-
ries of the wierd wild west. If he were
only in Dakota to day, with all of those
profits, how popular he would be.
The Yankton Herald, and a few other
papers have been cudgeling their edi-
torial brains to understand the bill
which attaches Nebraska to Dakota, for
surveying purposes. Some of them
have supposed tiat Dakota was attacked
to Nebraska, and that the office of Da
kota's Surveyor General, Hon. Morris
Taylor, would be abolished. In order
to have a thorough understanding OF
the matter, and to explain it to the
editors and their readers fully and truly,
have looked up the bill in the docu-
ment O. Of the House of Representa-
tives, and have also talked with mem
bers of the committee who voted for it
and urged its passage. The entire sum
and substance of it all, is, that it is in
tended to wipe mi Nebraska, for sur.
veying purposes, by making it a part OF
the Dakota office. The public lands in
Nebraska have all been surveyed long
since, practically, and there is little
further use for the Office. Hence, it has
been consolidated with the territorial
~ofiice,and the jurisdiction Of Brother
Taylor is extended, instead Of being
diminished or contracted. See? 1t is
a simple business proposition, mainly
for the benefit of the territory and not
d~erogatory to it.
Congress is still engaged in a worldly
warfare; every day members call each
other liars, and all that sort of thing
and then 60 out afterwards, and get full
together. They are like the sailor and
the parson. The sailor was swearing
constantly and the chaplain ~reproved
him.
"Well, chaplain" said the sailor,
"You pray a great deal, and I.swear
a great deal, but neither of us mean
anything by it,"
President Cleveland has married a
handsome who is as brainy. and
as ambitious as Mrs. Senator Logan.
She has youth on her side, and she will
have a great deal to do with his re-
nomination. All that a shrewd woman
can do to further the interests of her
husband, the young mistress of the
White House will do. Cleveland is al
most certain to be renominated. Even
the politicians and hitherto leaders of
his party concede that.
Republicans feel hat their champion
for 1888 will be the same Plumed
Knight who led them to defeat in 1884.
They believe that James G. Blaine is
the only man who can pilot them back
to the promised land. If they imagine
that Blaine can be elected by caging
Burchard, during the campaign, they
are mistaken. Strange as i ma seem
there are thousands of just such cases,
yet alive. Caging one will hot destroy
the species,