The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

Captious Criticism.
Senator Teller objected to the confirmation of Mr. Bliss to be secretary of the interior because many important legal questions are treated in that department, and Mr. Bliss is not a lawyer. Senator Teller is a lawyer, and this may account in part for his view of this question. It is to be remembered, however, that Senator Teller is no longer in accord with the Republican policy, its men or its measures, and altogether is in a not very comfortable frame of mind. It is true that many important legal questions have to be determined in the course of the great business of the interior department. It is also true that there is no lack of legal counsel at call for every department of the government. Among other things there is an assistant attorney general for the interior department. The great mass of the business of the interior department is of a strictly business character not requiring the technical learning of a member of the bar. Mr. Bliss has all the requirements to fit him for successful administration of this department. He is distinctly a business man and stands among the foremost in a city of business men. Doubtless in the transaction of his own affairs he has had occasion to consult legal counsel, and if he feels like occasion in the interior department the country may be sure that he will not be his own lawyer.