Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-04-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WAsH1NGror, April 10, 1S9


President Cleveland has not
had happy week of it. First
came the long delayed Cuban con-
current Congressional resolutions,
which call for some action on his
part, whether they get it or not;
then one of his childreh was ta
ken down with the measles, and
last, and probably most worrying
of all, he hears that the probabil1-
ties of the silver democrats con-
trolling the Chicago convention
are increasing every day. 1t is
not believed that the virtual re-
pudiation of the Carlisle boom by
| the silver democrats in congress
worried him any.
| Senator Tillman, of S. c., left
| Washington Yesterday to fill en-
| gagements to speak in Louisville,
St. Louis and Denver, and, ac-
cording to congressional talk, to
launch his own boom as a presi-
ldential candidate OF a silver plat
form. Mr.. Tillman has already
stated, and will probably reiterate
| it on his trip, that he intended to
bolt the Chicago convention if it
failed to adopt a platform salts
factory to the silver men.
Senator Teller of Colorado, has
introduced a bill to compel all
national banks to keep their re-
serves in their own vaults instead
of loaning it out at interest to
the banks in the great money cen
ters. He said that last Septem-
: ber no less than S2O0,O00,000
which should have been in circu-
lation, through the small banks
was thus tied up in New York
City. Senator Hoar, Of Mass,
said the reform sought by Sena-
tor Teller was badly needed and
that he hoped the bill would pass
The Indians are making. a
hard fight to prevent congression-
al action upon the bill recon-
lnended by the Dawes commits
sion, providing for allotment in
severa1ty of the lands in Indian
Territory, ETC.. and it looks like
! they might succeed. What the
+, Indians think of this bill was
voiced by Mr.. S. Miller, an edu-
/ Gated Creek, who is now in Wash
ington, when he said: ''It is III
violation of the most sacred treat.
les on the part of the government
and the tribes. 1t can have nc
e other effect than the pauperiza
S ton Of Our people and their e2
s tinction will soon follow. The al
: lotnent of lands in severalty, es
: pecially will prove a curse in
: stead of a benefit, for whateve.
i conditions may be imposed, at th'
Il end Of a few years small mum
n Der Of people will own all tn,
r land and the masses will be beg
e gars."
e Notwithstanding the open op
: position of the administration tn
e house military committee has ia
l. vorably reported the joint reso
luton providing for the promo
ton Of Gen. Miles to be Lieut.
! General. 1t is believed that slur
i thrown at General Miles by Ger
y tain parties because he made hi
o start in the army as volunteer
instead of with West Point di
e ploma, has largely increased til
j chances the joint resolution ha
for being adopted. Plain, every
, day men have never concede
q the superiority claimed by thos
: officers who have been educate
I at the expense OF the governmen
8 over all others who served in tn
:. army. If man has natural abili
e ty and talent in that line ther
q can be no doubt that the syster
Il of education at West Point tend
L to make a better soldier of hin
q but he is a careless reader of re
" cent history who asserts that h
ID is necessarily the superior of th
9 volunteer officer. Hundreds {
l cases could be cited to prove th
- contrary.