Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-30
The AMERICAN CONGRESS-.
1t Will Meet Formally on Wednes-
day Morning.
THE INSULT TO FRED DOUGLASS
Captain Kelioge's Friends Explain
ing-shrewd Suspicious That the
Osipee Could Sail tho Seas
Over Safely.

513 FOURTEENTH STREET, 7
WASHINGTON, ID. O., Sept 90.
With one or two exceptions, all the dele
gates to the International American con-
gress are now IN this city. The congress
will not meet formally until Wednesday
morning, and nothing of a deliberative char
acter will be done for the next six weeks
After meeting and >organizing on Wednes-
day the delegates will pay their respects to
Secretary Blaine, and will then be presented
by him to the president. In the evening it
is expected that Mr.. Blaine will tender the
congress banquet, and the next morning
the delegates will start on their SIX weeks
tour of observation throughout the country.
The delegates as yet do not know the exact
form their deliberations will take, and the
procedure will not be settled until the con-
gress meets
Senior r. G. Pierra, the secretary Of the
Spanish American commercial union, who Is
not delegate, but has been invited by Mr..
Blaine to accompany the congress and give
the benefit of his experience to the delegates,
said tonight that it had not been finally
settled whether the sittings of the congress
should be public or il the members should be
sworn to secrecy.
"What subjects will be taken up and the
order of their discussion is another matter
meets" added Mr. Pierra.
MY opinion is that the United States dele
gates will not have programme arranged,
but each delegate will be allowed TO bring
before the congress such subjects as he may
think proper. Anything relating to economic
matters can properly come before the congress
aud only politics are barred While have
no doubt each delegate will do his utmost to
have the congress adopt such measures as
will be most beneficial to his own country,
yet there is a sincere desire on the part of
everybody to have the deliberations of the
congress result in something practical.
Whether it will be possible to adopt gen.
eral customs union and an interchangeable
currency do not know. OF course what
ever is the result of the deliberations of the
congress it will not bind the respective gov
ernments. but naturally the recommends
tions will have great weight"
STATESMEN VISITING THE WEST.
AT no time during the past decade have so
many men from congress visited the far west
as there have the past summer Two-thlrds
of the men who at present occupy seats in
either the house or senate have gone to the
far west during the past six months.
One of the subjects they have given the
closest study is the Indian problem, and as
they drop into Washington they express
themselves IN positive terms in favor of
breaking tribal relations, allotting lands in
severaty, and throwing open the reserva-
tions to settlement. Your correspondent
recently travelled over large portion of the
northwest territory with General Brooke,
commander of the department of the Platte.
The general is one of the best posted
men in the army and knows the
Indian question from the beginning to the
end He takes decided ground in favor of
allotting lands to the Indians and opening
the reservations TO settlement. He thinks
the government has impressed the Indians
with the idea that they need not do manual
labor or equip themselves for civilized lives,
and that the effect has been very demoraliz-
ing. General Brooke is in favor of making
army officers Indian agents, and giving them
authority to command the troops whenever
there are troubles about the Indian agencies.
He beiieves in liberallty towards the saw
ages, but thinks the kindness and generosity
of the government have been dealt out in
judiciously. There are now about three
hundred thousand Indians subsisting on
provisions from the government stores, and
they are rapidly increasing in numbers,
while they show no perceptible progress in
civilization, and have as little respect for the
laws of the land as ever
THE ossIPEE INCIDENT.
At the navy department there is a dispo
sition to shield the late commander of the
Ossipee from the results of his action in re-
fusing to command the vessel with Minister
Douglass on board.
1t is asserted that Kellogg had been
lieved before it was known that his vessel
had been selected for tho trip, and that it
was the chief engineer who discovered the
| bad condition of the boilers. In spite of
this, it is known positively that Kellogg
never thought of asking to be relieved from
the command of the Ossipee until he had
been privately informed that his vessel was
10 take the minister to his post. Navy
officers here say that there was nothing
! serious the matter with the ships machinery
| until the publication OF the news
that the colored man was to be the
honored passenger, and they expressed
the belief that another voyage 10 the West
Indies WDull have Dppn the least
| dangerous to the safety of the vessel, the
crew, or her passengers.
1t Is reported here to-day that the Kear-
sarge will be ready for sea by Tuesday and
some officer finds that her copper plate is out
| of place or tnat she is short of MARINE
| spikes or other necessary equipments.
TO REGULATE PACKING HOUSES.
Some of the men who cut such prominent
| figures around the lobby in the last congress
| working for or against the food adulteration
| bill, have turned up in Washington during
the past few days. They say the bill to es-
| taolish inspections of slaughter houses and
| prevent the impure adulteration of lard and
condiments, will be pushed with great
| vgor by one element and opposed as vigor-
| ously by another element The manufactur-
| ers OF adulterated lard have shrewdly forced
| congress to provide the same precautions
| against the introduction of impurities in
| slaughter r-hOuse lard as are proposed for the
| adulterated article, and since the inspection
| of slaughter houses by agents Of the govern
ment contemplates rigid examination of
| hogs, and therefore the throwing out of
diseased porkers, they have arrayed the
farmers against the general proposition,
| whereas the gentlemen from the rural dis
| tricts were very much in favor of the food
adulteration bill as originally proposed. The
| fight will undoubtedly be a lively one, and
begin early in the session of congress.
THE WHITE HOUSE.
II is believed that the white house has
| been put in healthful condition this fall,
| but Notwithstanding all tnat has been said
| about the venerable mansions unhealthful
| condition its occupants as a rule live out the
allotted term of man. Mrs. Mckee
| will not be at the white house till
December. Mr.. and Mrs Russell Harrison
| are expected 10 arrive for the winter before
| January l. 1t is also hoped that Mrs. Scott
Lord and her daughters will be here by early
| December. Lieutenant Parker of the navy,
| Mrs. Scott Lords son-in.law, will perform
| the social duties which formerly devolved
| upon Colonel Wilson ana Lieutenant Du-
| Walt.
| WAR on MoRMoNIsM.
The victory of the gentiles over the Nor
mons at the recent elections in Salt Lake
City, Utah, has SO greatly encouraged the
| peoplee opposed to blgamy and Mormon
ism that they will present an organized de-
mand when congress meets for legislation in
tended to further stamp out the curse OF