Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1894-1895, 1895-11-22
WASHINGTON.

At the request OF the Interior DEPART
ment. General Wheaton. commanding
the department Of Colorado. has been in
structed To hold Il troop of cavalry liz
readiness to be dispatched. if necessary.
10 the scene of the killing of two Indians
ut the Southern Ute agency, Colorado.
Official compilations of the Collector of
Customs transmitted 10 the Treasury De
partment amply demonstrate the rapid
rate at which seal herds of Behrlng Sea
are being slaughtered. In the last three
months 4.J14 sealskins have been brought
into port. of which number 1850 are
females. This number of seals represents
scarcely cne-cighth of the North Pacific
catch.
Secretary Smith. at Washington, de-
cided that the eastern terminus of the
Northern Pacific is at either Thomson,
Mimi. or Superior. Wis instead of Ash
land. Wis. as has always been claimed
by the company. About eight hundred
thousand acres of land is involved, which
is lost by the company. The secretary
does not undertake To say whether the
grant begins at Thomson or Superior.
but directs all selections for indemnity
between these points to be held for fur
Their consideration. He does declare that
the grant of the Northern Pacific does
not extend east of Superior City. He
also says that he is aware that the lands
east of Superior were the basis for the
selection of Il large quantity of lands from
the indemnity belt of the companys
grant in North Dakota. These selections
having been made some time ago. many,
if not ALL have perhaps been sold 10y the
company The secretary has directed
that the company be allowed sixty days
within which to specify Il new basis for
any of its indemnity selections vOlded by
this decision
Secretary Morton has his annual re-
port about completed The Secretary
will take up the system of government
inspection of meats and will point out
some of the defects in it as il now exists.
The fact that The system fails to protect
American consumers while it guards the
health of foreign purchasers of our bset
has often been pointed out. The law
permits the Federal authorities To Goa
denim bot rot destroy. and thus stands
in the way of an efectual interference
on the part of government officials to pre-
vent the consumption of diseased meat in
this country. Mr.. Morton acknowledges
this imperfection in the law and says il
is due to our system of government. which
leaves such matters largely 10 the State
He says. however, that there is a remedy
,.or the defect which is To be found in APP
Iealing to the owners of diseased stock
or in cooperation with the State govern
n.ents and he urges that steps 81 taken
looking to the extension of the national
governments prerogative in this .lirec-
tiOl.
Washington Dispatch: Among the mat
tiers, likely To come before the next Con
greas will be Il proposition To reorganize
the judicial system in vogue in the Dis
trict of Columbia. The very worst form
of t3 ranny prevails here. Judges are ap-
poin, ed for life. from the mcanest To- the
high vst. and independence of public opin-
ion h Is bred abuses that would not be toll
erat,,l for minute in any other coEI-
munisy in America. Lawyers are pray
move for fear of being ruined in Their
practice, and the people have been slow
to take the initiative The judges are
despotic in their rules and have the pet-
lie in q state of terrorism. They can
do all manner of outrageous things and
laugh a; protests. for there is no appel
in majority of cases. As matters now
stand no suit against any of the loc:.
corporations can be prosecuted success
fully. Every jury drawn has from one
| to twelve friends of the corporations,
and one of the judges makes it a practice
| to try corporation cases without jury,