The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-30

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Marshall Mcdonald.
Special Correspondence Of ne IEtellt1snoz.
WARRINGTON, D. O., Jan. 2S.-In let
ter to the INTRLL1aRNoER last week gave
some inside facts connected with the selec'
ton OF Hon. Marshall Mel as United
States Fish Commissioner, showing how
Senators Faulkner and Kenna secured the
appointment over German, who had q
candidate Of his own.
The new Commissioner has assumed the
duties Of the Office, and as he Is West
Virginia production, sketch Of him in
the INTELL1aENcER will at this time be
interesting.
The Commissioner is to hold no other
Office, and he is to be paid salary Of five
thousand dollars year. he was born at
Romney, West Virginia, 1885. In 1854
and 1866 he was student Of natural his.
tory under Professor Baird, at the Smith
soniau Institution. He was graduated at
the Virginia Military Institute in July,
1850. From 1861 to 1865 he served in the
Conierate Army as an officer OF engineera
and ordnance, and at the close OF the war
was Ohief Engineer Of the Army OF North
Carolina, under Braxton Bragg, with the
rank Of Colonel. His commission as
Brigadier.G General had been made out, but
II failed to reach him until the surrender.
From 1865 to 1870 he was Professor In
the Virginia Military Institute. In 1877
he was Commissioner OF State to make q
survey Of the mineral resources Of the
James River Basin, and reported to the
Legislature. He became interested in fish
culture in 1876, was In charge OF the State
hatchery at Lexington, and has ever
since been the Virginia Commissioner Of
Fisheries.
Mr.. Mcdonald became attached to the
United States Fish Commission in 1879.
He has received gold medals for improve.
meuts In fsh culture from the interna-
tionsl ishery commission at Berlin and
London, q silver medal from the Societe
d'Seclimation OF France, and special
medal for fshway devised for the River
Vienne, in France. In 1881 he devised
the automatic hstchiBg jars now In gen.
eral use By the United States Fish Com.
mission, the several State commissions,
and in Europe and Japan. This opera.
ton first msde possible the vast extension
on the work oil shad propagation accom-.
plished OF late years, and rendered the
work oi the United States Commissioners
practicable from the commercial stand
point. It was in the winter Of 1882 that
he developed at Wood'e Hall the tidal ap-
paratuS now in use for catching the hoat'
ing eggs Of cod, halibut, and other marine
epecies.
Works from Commissioner McDonsld's
pen covered the whole range OF fish cul-
ltural work In the scientific as well aa
economic aspects, and are to be found in
his State reports as Commissioner OF Fish.
cries for Virginia, the report Of the Com
missloners in Forest and Stream, in Science,
in the annual report OF the Fisheries So
ciety, and in the quarto fisheries report.
He Is accounted by competent judges as
the most accomplished fab culturiss In the
country, is notin the world.
AN ENTERTAINING AND INSTRUCTIVE INTER.
VIEW.
DR.. o. g. Chase, 8 former West Vir.
giniRn, Is In Washington to urge the pass,
age OF the Springer bill to organize the
Territory Of Oklahoma. DR.. Chase will be
Remembered by persons vino served in the
Legislature Immediately after the close Of
the war. He was delegate from Putnam
county, and was then, as now, q strong
Republican. He has been elected by the
people OF No.Man's.Land, which they
style CimRrron Territory, as delegate to
Congress, but Of course he does not expect
to be admitted. Last night l met the Doc
tor at the National Hotel. He told me the
Oklahoma bill would be iavorably report
ed from the Committee on Territories at
an early day, and would be passed by the
House. This 10 saying good deal. There
10 strong oppoaition among the element
which sides with the Indians in such
things, but the better the situation is un-
derstood the less the opposition to the
scheme. The promoters ot the bill have
shown pre- ty clearly that the treaty rights
Of the Indians will not be iniringed should
the bill become law, while largo ecops
OF country which Is now absolutely with
out law will be opened up for civilized
settlement.
The condition ol the Indians who oc.
cupy the western part Of this territory Is
described ss wretched in the extreme.
: Polygamy prevails among them IN its
most odiouS form. 0ne instance is men,
toned in which white man married all
the girls in family, beginning with the
: oldest, and taking them In one after an.
other as they reached the stage Of early
Womanhood. An effort was made 10 get
j. one Of these girls into school somewhere
In the East, but the already much married
man objected neIceiy, saying
HE WAS SAVING THE GIRL
to be an additional wife when she became
old enough. The girl was not taken and
, she is now the fourth or nth wife Of this
white desperate.
Such Arguments as this are strong with
D the philanthHopist crowd. It is not LII
] tie singular that the Indian sentiment L
: post strongly developed In New England
: while the same section iGrniVheg oil the
. fierce Rni.polygamy sentiment Of the
/: country. As between these two Issues the
l Indian would probably 20 down. The
. abolition Of polygamy Is q principle Will
8 New England people the same as thI
. abolition Of slavery, and their representa-
tiyes will never rest until the custom o
q plural imsrnGg0 10 blotted oct, II 10 Eara
|. to associate polygamy with Utah and thC
b New England friends OF Mr.. Lo are sur
' prised and panied to learn that he also l
1 q Dad pplygamist. Lo has always beer
II excused by this GLASS Of GentimGntShst1 Ia
l. any sort Of dsviltry, from stealing q hoEst
9 to mailing babies RgAlnst the side Of thl
d house, on the idea that bad white mel
Q exRsperBted him into 1t. Bat It is prettl
n blrH "a RpNlY 4bia aOAlNVv N II IN