Fergus County argus., 1886-09-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Ifrcm our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Sept. is, 1886.

snc wtntcI roluid''ou o' ""'"'s
ton is beginning to .eturn. and the
hotels us well as the bu.r.css and
fashionable quarters of the city are
resumins their wonted appearance.
1t will be long time until the halls OF
Congress and the corridors of the
Capitol are again crowded with legis
lators, lobbyists and sight seers. but,
meanwhile, matters of national inter
est are daily transpiring here, and the
importance Of the capital as the great
and pertinent news centre of the
United States is recognized by the
many papers who now keep CORES
ponden;s here the year around. The
Capital has grown with the growth OF
the Nation. The government of the
United States. the national life and
manners as mirrored in Washington
have become a subject of interesting
study, not only to the philosopher, the
historian and the moralist. but to mil
lions Of intelligent citizens throughout
the country.
Every wear more and more Wash
ington is being selected as the natural
rendezvous of all conventions and as
semblies that are at all national in
their character. Arrangements were
proposed the other day for the &C
Comodation of the soldiers 10 be pres
ent next May a, the grand competitive
drill. for which $4,000 in prizes are
offered, and to which every military
company in the country will be IN
vited. During the coming winter sew
eral national conventions will rendez-
vous here.
Washington is the most attractive
city in the country, especially lr win
ter. Handsome public buildings, pri
vate residences hardly equalled by
any American city for number and
beauty, broad streets and two hundred
miles Of asphaltum pavement, almost
every street embowered in foliage,
and the presence of the most distin-
guished men Of the whole nation in
assembly-these are unique features.
and they 'draw'. They have drawn
thousands Of wealthy men to come
from all parts Of the Union and build
residences, Transforming tire capital
into our Winter Saratoga. If the
Knights Templar desire to hold their
conclave here during our most enter
tanning season, We will not only wei
come them as an assurance of our
regard for their honorable and useful
order, but we will take measures to
extend to them royal hospitality.
Washington is equal to her destiny.
1t is expected that Special Envoy
Sedgwick, who has completed the
mission Of investigation, Of the Cut
ting matter in Mexico, will reach this
city to-day, at which time he will
make the Secretary Of State his official
verbal report. Col Sedgwick's in
structions when appointed special en-
voy were to the effect that his report
should not be made in writing, but
delivered in person to the Secretary.
This being the case, there will Of
course, be no record made in the
State Department Of his mission and
its results. The chances are that it will
never be made public, as it will be
delivered to Mr. Bayard, and under
the circumstances it is not at all likely
that he will allow it to become the
property Of the public The contro-
versy growing out Of Cuttings impris-
onment has practically settled itself. |
and it will make but little difference
what may be the result Of the inves-
tigation carried on by the envoy.
The War Department just now is in
the midst Of a discussion as to the
proper disposal Of the Apache Indians
whose capture has cost the govern
ment so much blood and treasure.
There are class of military pundits
who imagine that the hunt for these
murderers and thieves has been war
fare and that the Indians are entitled
to billigerent rights. When score
or two Of Indians, who have been liv-
ing on reservation, fed and cared for |
by the government, stealthIy leave
there and engage in raid throughout
a wide extent Of country. not seeking |
troops to fight, but robbng and mur-
dering peaceable working people, men,
women and children, in their homes;
obscenely and hendishly torturing
and mutilating men and ravishing
women--is that "war" any more than
piracy?
And when these miscreants. incar
nations Of cruelty and british lust, are
pursued, and after long pursuit, either
caught or compelled to give them
selves up because they are out of am
munition, out Of food and Sd sur
rounded that escape and further
deviltry is impossble-is "that capita-
lation" Of hostile force engaged in
legitimate warfare? Are they "prison-
ers of WARP They are simply felons,
murderers. assassins, ravishers, brig
ands, pirates, outlaws, caught red |
handed by pursuing force. a military
posse. ministers Of outraged justice.