Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1871, Page 1

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Tre Battery Daratcartox.—The Commis sioner « Bailey of New ¥ the Comm: ‘THe Sax Dorn landed fror Chariesten, S started at or expecte this evening New York and party Tenuessee at Navat 0: Robert Boy rdered to examina- te. for pron ander S$. P. Quacken- bush has been detached from the navy yard Norfolk, Va., and ordered to recetving ship Va Surgeon E. M. Stein has epecial duty up and placed on w. mand th H. a0 jalla at Portsmouth, N. been detached 1 -RNTOM, the British Minister, ly gave a dinner party on Saturday evening which was attented by Secretary Fish and we, Pe + General Creswell and wife, Senor Roberis, the Spanish Minister, and wife, Sir John A. McDonald and lady McDor ald, Secretary Kobeson, Ear! de Grey, Profe= aor Montague Bernard, Lord Tenterden, Sena. tor and Mis. Sprague, avd fiom LePoer Frene: ‘TRE DEFICIENCY AYPROYRIATION BRITT waa passed by the Senate on Saterday with the amendment for a reissue of national currencr, which Mr. Thurman moved te amend by provi- ding for the printing of one side of the notes by i house ard the other by another. e government to be made Department, which amend nt was agreed to previous im the Treasar Ment to the amen to the presage of the b: -H DER came here tu tes’ Senate Se! -ct Committee on bat having been taken sic His removal fy before the thern outrages, . the comm: Cwrolina, who was p anid Casweil Ce TRE Se the to southern meetin terre: ner’s speech; and when h a few minut clock was z with appla Goorways and ever cotrdours a eries were blocked a and many wbu came o'clock were com t leave mg disapp ett, tit t hinthe sound of the speak enced to : ast twelve v'c.0ck, fro: bis colleague—Mr of his own. INCENDIARY FIREMEN-.4 Startling Re A sponge Saturated with kerocence was fo: the many bmi le, New ¥ John Rahiman, im BUSph and con- bh red the barn * to bring tha boys out.” it seems that a number of firemen formed them elves into an *lilamin: ng Com- mittee” for this purpcse. Some of the testi- mony of the c: seldom eqralte Pt showed a depth of dep: ‘Tue Wasmixetow Fawiiy artes Onion PROVERTV.—The heirs of the late Join A ington. of Virginia, have an important on t im Caicage. Mr. Washington amount of real estate in that t after the commencement of the lion ¢ it @ sold. His a sold it tos relative tors mere fra cost, and sabseqj e which he st 1 im the sale o: ANOTHER ALLEGED VicTix oF A special dispatch to the Chr ton, S.¢ ¥ bought back holds. Tha nearly $596.0 Sclain a Ke + from U1 in Spartandarg aust shot ther ’ rg him. He is suppose:! b: time to he dead was ex h MANY years Stain Senater before t pul S@¥@uly Years old, and a 5 an. Heheld nv office ‘Tex Kentucky Senate defeated the bili to a’ low negro testimony iv the cours by & curons mendment * said tha! so general was t demand for this bill by all parties that even the em )erats were afraid to oppose it. So they Propesed an awendment providing that the act should take effect when Congress repeals the Fifteenth amendment, which is, of ¢ suree. ar efectual detea: TSB Phrenolegical Journal, ina reply to the query, * Why itis there no bald-headed wo- “ Some women are partially bald, bol very common.” It attributes diverence to beards, which take the bair element another way, arresting it before it can rise to the top.” and alee to“ over-warm and aur-tight hats. -+0-- 2 ROERER.—D: Nathan was ‘TRE Nataan Mc 2 last week the mu) cM 3 erarres'ed or repor’'tobe in New Haven, Low-ville ra. New Menic Vera, i ry, New Halifax, Alaska and Tuckauoe, N.J. SF Espartero is “dead set” againt Amadeus SF The Mobile police are uniformed in gr. S7-Nilsson still takes b in goid Bight and perquisiter, OF Large gold b somewhat “shoddy re pears have superseded diame: 827A Western ed now called“ « bean a few years age, would bave been termed “a tow-head. 87 The Catholic priest at Westerly, K (., has prohibited the wembers of his church frome: gazing in the liquor business wife agree gvandiy on one t « girl who is point; *he # more of Lim any oue else m the wor nd se docs he. SF Some one suggests thar the Princess Beatrice’s proposed American murriage be taken inte com> dere with the Alisbama claims a7 Six 5 ane the pablie schools of Louisvitic, Kr, bave been dismisod Gor r: fusing to study “1 thers Wiewry uf the United States. S87 The Chicogo woman barber has sa many customers that she las taken a vounger ais*er ito the business, Who attends cxciamvely t0 the lathering. SF Archbishop M ya Savarday Ordained at the har the A vostie, three Carl rrests. sli of from Protestautiom | struct’ | Bart ot the present century, President Madison THE POLICY OF OUR COVERNHENT TOWARDS SAN DOMINGO, Important Dispatch of Secretary Hobesom to Bear Admiral Lee. In view of existing cireumstances, we have obtained permission to publish the foliowing atch of the Secretary of the Navy to Kear Acmiral Lee, commanding the North Atlanti fleet Navy Darartmenr, ? Washington, March 21, 1471.5 To Reay Admiral S$. P.L-e, Commanding Nort. Atlantic Fleet f I herewith enclose a copy of ale'ter ich purports to have been addreseed on th, ith da, of February last by the officer commar ,j- * Bnessee to the Honorable Ben jami p | sirman of the commission sent to ngo on that vessel, and which waz he correspondence of the New. } of the present month ders to the commander of the Verne. ere s:mply to convey the comr sisson, on F expeeition tosnch ports asthey might de and cont un nothing farther of genera! in on OF direction, I nataraliy feel som-- what doubttul of the authent! eiey of tht letter; but as it bas been pubJished as au- thentic, and contains much wideh is caleu lated to mislead the people and guthorities of San Domingo as to the true spir' g and extent of the orders of the Executive tot Ae nava! vessels there, and may perhaps embar rass, te some ex- tent, the officers im command of those vewels, 1 pare meee it pant ts = ect the unfounded ideas therein contaimed, thro magh you, the com mandant of the fleet in those, he You will perceive that in ais letter, the writer assumes in effect that if a py person connected with the Commission wast aken prisoner by th> opponents of the Dominic ga geverament within their lines. he wonld be im reality a spy, ani! might, under the rules of. civilized warfare, bc treaied as such, becav ge the United States has, in the opinion of the writer, “through the orders ot its Exgeutive to ‘the nara Tribune ow the 1 As the 0: vessels there, chosen to take part in the internal conflicts” of the Dominicaa Kepu!: he. This statement is unfounded in tac and inference, and Bas evidently been mals astily, in ignorance of the real circamstance« of the ‘case, or in cmfeapprehension of thei: legal effect. The United States is dealing wit: the regularly constituted government of the Dominican republic, to = nner and fer a pur pore not incousiséent with international law, and thongh the right of revolution against con stituted authority for just and adequate cans, inheres in every people, yet the constituted government is, Until it is actually overthrown, the legal representative of the nation, in al! its relations to other people, and the right of revo- lation does not carry with it, to the revolution- ists pending their contest, the right to treat t agents of other nations as enemies, when not in arms against them, while they are acting, a» they have an international right to act, in a cordance with the laws of the existing govern- went. Such treatment, without formal notice, is contrary to the rules of civilized wariar-. and the notice, if given, is at the peril of ti insurgents, and is Justitied only when distur) ance pises to the diguity of revolution. Buf neither the United States nor its Execo tive has chosen to take part, or as taken part, in the internal conflicts of tue Dominican re Pubic. The situation is this The President of the United States the Constitution, the right to make tre subject to the ra@ication of the Senate. rigcess Of the United States in (si appropri- considerable sum of money for the d purpose of acquiring by lease or hase a partof the Island of San Domingo. | bay aud peninsula of Samana were consi appropriate for our purpose as a nava ; and the Republic of San Domingo With its favorable position aud at |r resources. its iriendiy governs and people, ‘seemed for the’ pury | or commerce and jon fat desirable for w ent woich lie across the gi mestic commerce and shut Lo ini ght of the President, ant constitutional power to ne be ce:sion of Samana and th. exation of the Dom nics Kepublici. tion, be thought it riz: ntry, whose sn. intrasted to his judg nal duty to do = ce of this constitutional right he d ute such treaties with the extsting gov | ermmentor the republic, contessedly the gov j €rmax nt both defacto and de jure. Thesetres .< | Pere of Course inchoate, and eadject to be con | firmed or defeated by the actionot the Sena eu | Lae United States and of the people of the Dom ments of our Ways of ou the entrane | Piean republic; but by such treates and pendinz such tual action, the United States acquire. an imterest in the ining Reguusied tor, wh id not be rigutiuily disturbed uy any ot co | power; and it was the plain duty of the Ee tive to protect, if need be, the integrity of constitutionally acquired interest, 0 that ths j Subject of the negotiation might remain intac | untii the final action of the ratifying powers | couid be properly bad. This dat ‘spleen, and in every case of valu able acquisition the execution of it will be ex pecied and approved by the peuple. It was the discharge of such duty that, in the car maiched the armues of the United States in'y | @ed_ actually took and held possession of the | texsitory then known as West Florida, (including © vow the State of Alabama, for wuich territory negotiations were then pending, after wards coneluced and settled with Spain. ibis action was approved by Congress and the peo- Jue, not as au exercise Of War power, but as the Protecting of an interest constitutionally ac quired, and which the Executive was bound to mnaintain intact, while it remained in ua. in the present case the President has hither! only pursued in reiation to the republicof San Domingo this same recognized policy of our government. and under the treaty and by n f the appropriation by Congress for such p pose we took possession of the bay ani! pen in-u ‘@ of Samaua. This possession we still hold and while our flag fies there we must prove from every interference the interest which represents. In carrying out this recog. Po icy, the government of has not fired @ shot nor Janse a hostile attituse on the island of San “Wo- mingo, and has ueither interfered the internal conficts of the Dowinican Rep 1) bor coerced any other power. S$ Simply a nounced to all people generally, and p.u.t larly to such as « tude, its determination to protect, u dsj o-ed of, the interest it had acq.ui rep from all attacks from wit bouncaries, aud fiom the iuterterenc foreign power, so tbat in th treaties being ratified there wo thing contracted f intervenip l be with wo Lostil; “to take part in the coutlicts of a coun’: to coerce, nor to attempt to cor power. It is but the simple perfor ¥ ty Congress and to the ne‘: an the preservation in its exis: oi what we have constitutionally enter into negotiations, constitutionally tu ac quire. Under the orders of the Exeoutive, it 8 @ part of the duty ef those a! your feet ch are at auy time cruising tn the waters ot Domingo to maintain this statos ainst bower, and while we would not sield the tight to interfere with it tothe most powerful government, we cannot concede that right even to the weakest Very respectfully, GRO. M. Ko arson, Secretary ~ 202 827-The Roman Catholic Gharch of St. Mary, he Star of the Sea, corner of Johnson and lement streets, Baltimere, was dedicated ves- terday with imposing ceremonies. ae SF One hundred women in the Uy ited States are bow studying law. The youth: male at- torneys will soon begin to wailin chorus with the physicians. S7 Bonnets trimmed in two colors, with asin- gle bright contrasting tnt in ttowersor feather, are especially the newest combi ation of the seaton’s novelties. S7 The Kichmond Enquirer save that in a aoficuity in Lexington, \a,on Saturday last, a. M. Piper. ot Missouri, am expelled student, shotand paintally wounded James Kyan. Piper ss shoe ‘sted, ‘and after examination committed ‘or trial. 7A man pamed Roland, living at Mount Comfort. near Fayetteville, Ark., abot hie wife on the lth inst.. then murdered their ebild, an infant about nine months old, and finished his bloody work by biowing out’ his own brains. Domestic troubles are mentioned as the cause. 7-The Fenian Convention on Saturday ight abolished the office of President of the Order, and returned to the Committee of Finance its report for the revision and classifi- cation Of expenditure into those made in Ire- land. and those made in America. 7 Mr- dobn H. Witman, for many years 5 tendent of the Police and Pire Alarm Telegraph of Baltimore, died op Saturday. Mr. Witiman was one of the oldest te! in the United States. and was av operator en the fret Ime of telegraph between Baltimore and Wat WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1871. FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. This Afternoon’s Proceedings. —<+ = THE SENATE TO-DAY. Charles Sumner’s Spzech on San Domingo. ARRAIGNMENT OF THE PRESIDENT. Morpay, Mareb 27. SENATY.—Mr. Fenton asked ananimons rent that the ladies unable to obtain seats in ies be admitted to the cloak room aud corricors im the rear of the Senate cham- ber; and no objection being made, it was so ordercd. Mz. Sumner then called up the resoluti intrudueed. by him in reference to San D)- mtngo; and they were read. SPEECH OF FENATOR SUMNER ON THR SAN DOMINGO QUESTION. Mr. Summer proceeded to wil:dress the Senate. He raid that in entering upon this discussion he performed @ duty that could uot be avoided He wished it were otherwise but duty is a task master to be obeyed. On evidence now beture the Senate, it is plain that the Navy of the United States, acting under orders from Was! ington. has been engaged in measures ot vio- lence, and of belligerent intervention, being war, witbont the authority of Congress. “An act of war without the autuority of Congress is no common event. ‘This is the simplest stateme: of the case. ‘The whole business is aggrava'ed when it is considered that the declared 0 of this violence is the acquisition of fore territory, being half an island in the Caribbean sea; and still (arther, that this violence has buen employed, first, to prop and maintain a we sk ruler, bimseli a usarper, upholding him In power that he might sell his ‘country; and, seconily. it has been employed to menace the Black i public of Hayt. Such a ease cannot pass withoutinqniry. It | is too grave for silence. For the sake of the navy, which has been the agent, for the sake ot the Administration under which the navy act. 1, fr epublican institutions whicli suiter when the Great Republic makes itself a Pattern of violence, and for the sake of the re- publican parts, which cannot afford to become responsible for such conduct, the case must b= examined on the facts and the law, and also in the light of precedent, so far as precedent holds ite torch. When Le spoke for republican inst ta‘f ns, itis because be would not have our grvat example weakened before the world and our ‘ibame tarnished. And when be spoke for be republican party, it was becaure from the begiuning he had been the faithful servant ot that party and aspires to see it strong and tri- umpbant. But beyond all these conside: is the commanding rule of justice, which be disobeyed with impunity. ‘The question is not whetber the acquisition of he island of San Domingo, in whole or part, with # population foreign in origin, language, and institutions, is desirable; but whether we are justified in the means employed to accor plish this acquisition. This question is essen ally prelimmary in character and entirely in- dependent of the main question, Ox the main question there may be difierence of opivion fome thinkin? the acquisition desirable, and otheré not desirable; some anxious for empire or at least a sanitarium in the t ; And others more anxions for a Black Kepnblic, where |! African rac II show an example of seit: gov ernment. by which the whole r nay be oj hited; rom oking Of gold mines, eatt mous tains, Logsbea + bags of coffee, ant boxes of we owe to the Africa: difference of opinion on eviderce now before t king more of wha But whatever main question muployed w meats have be astit da. Ard this is che question to whic! of the Scnate. T proceeded to relate how and at came specially aroused on tis eaty for the annexation of th ominican peopic w Ing betore the Ser ate and be was ocer ng ashing two qu t good tor aud dforthem? The m stions he fo and con ter. oF e latter F giant str weaker party t was good for m for ns. !s annexation good fcr them This was the question on his mind when he was Aseistart Secretury th him @ handful of i<- Yomingo. Agong these wore dispatches trom alar agent there, wio signed the treaty « u6xation, from which it distinctly appeared that Baez, whi im selling bis country, was maintain by the navy of the United State: Was the official report of our who signed the treaty, there c and this offici: one other consular dispateh. emotion as he read th: then be had suppo less, although preci d'any such terri patches from St ni powe: That = b consular agent, n be no question, report was sustained by at least He contéeses now painfal revelation A the proceedin, te. He had 1 © aud indefensible irregularity. ‘There dispatches became more important as testimony when it appeared that the writers Were personally in favor of annexation. Tius, then, it stood that,on the official report of oar OWN agents, we were engaged in forcing upon + Weak people the sacrifice ot their country. To him it was apparent at once, that the acquiai- tion of this foreign territory would not be re- spectabie or even tolerable, urless by the con rent of the people there, without force on part. The treaty wasa contract, which, accord- ing to our own witnesses, was dbtained throu a ruler, owing power to our war vessels. A+ such it was beyond atl question a contract ob- tained under duress. and, therefore, void, wiiile the duress was an interference with the mte.nal aftaire of @ foreign country, and, theretore, coutrary to that priveiple of nou-intervention which is now arule of International Law. As this question presented itself. he lost nO time ja viriting the Navy Department, in order to ex- aline the instructions ander which our n al off cers were acting and also their reports. | happily these instructions and reports were ‘oo much in Mrmony with the other testimony, so that the S Department and Navy Depart- ment each contained the record of the dep or- able proceedings, and still they pressed th on- summation. He could not have believed it. sad not the evidence been explicit. The sto: y of Naboth’s Vineyard was revived Violence begets violence, aud that in S to- mingo natural'y extended. It ‘is with navous as with individuals—once stepped in, they go forward. ‘The barsh menace by which tho in- dependence of the Black Kepublic of Hayti was rudely ascailed came uext. It wasanother stage in belligerent intervention. As these things were unfolded he felt that he could not hesitate. Here was w shocking wrong. It must be ar- rested: and to this end he had labored i faith. If he was earnest, it was because he could not see a wrong done without seeking to arrest it. Especially was he moved if thi« wrong be done to the weak and humble. “hen, by the efforts of his lite and the commission he had re- from Massachusetts, was he vowed to t he couid for the protection aud eleva- tion of the African race. [fhe could help them, he would; if he could save them from outrage, he must. And never befure was the occasion more imminent than now. A contract for the cession of territory must be fair avd without suspicion of overawing foree. Nobody ean doubt this rule, whether for individuals or natlous. And where one party is more powerfu! than anether it becomes more imperati Especially must it be sacred with a Republic, for it is nothing but the mwandateor Justice. It’ is general in its application; nay more, it is & partof universal law, common to all municipal systews and to International Law. Any departure from this requirement makes Degotiation for the time impossible. Plain! there can be no cession of territory, and espec: ally no surrender of national indepeudence, except as the result of war, so long as hostile cannon are frowning. ‘The tiretstep in negotia tion must be the withdrawal of al! rorces, coer- cive or mivatory. Mr. Sumner cited the EXAMPLE OF SPAIN. Yielding to an invitation uot unlike that of Bacz to the United States, this ancient Mon: arcby was induced by Santana, President Dommica, to entertain the proposition of re- annexation tothe Crown. Santana was legiti- mste President, while Baez isa usurping dic tor. And now mark the contrast between the ‘nt Mcnarcby and our Kepublic, painful ‘wr itiste us. Spain boasted in official papers that ip the act of reanuexion the Dominicans were spontaneous, free and unanimous; that no Spanish emissaries were in the territory to in- finence its people; nor was there a Spanish bot- fom in its waters or @ Spanish soldier on its No such boast can be made wew. Amer- emissnries are in the territory, with Caz- resu and Fabens as leaders, while American war vessels, including the Dictatur, o2r most powerful monitor, properly pamed for (he ser- Vice, Were in the waters, With cuss pointed at the people to be conquered, and American sol- diers with bayonets glancing in the sun were on the decks of fe War vereels, f not on the dard. done t Mr. Sumner proceeded to enumerate our w . vessels in the waters of Sav Domingo and their armament. TWELVE MIGHTY WAR SHIPS, including two if not three powerfal monitors, maintained at the cost of millions of dollars, being part of the price of the pending negotia- tion, Besides what we pay to Bacz here are millions down. Rarely have we had such a fleet in any waters—not in the Mediterranean, not in the Pacitic, notin the East Indies. Itis in the waters of St. Domingo that our Navy finds chosen field. Here is its flaz, and here also is it frown. And-why this arra if oar purpose *< -ace, why these engines of wat? If we so annexation by the declared will of the peop} spontaneous, free, and unanimons, as was boast of Spain, why these floating batteries overawe them’ If we would do good tot Atricar race, why begin with vivlence to th Black Republic ? The Commissioners are announced as mi ters of peace; at ali events their declared du i: to ascertain the real sentimants of the people. Why send them in a war sh Why cram tae dove in a cannon’s month’ There are goui steamers at New York, safe and sea-worthy, whose presence wou ot sweil the array war, nor subjret the G-eat Republic to th grave imputation of seeking to accomplish ics purpose by violence. TRAGICAL END OP SPANISH OCCUPATION. If while negotiating with the Dominicans for their territory, and what is more than territo their national life, you will not follow Spanish example and withdraw your war-ships with their flashing arms and threatening thunder, at least be taught by the tragedy which attended even this most propitious attempt. The saine volumes of authentic documents from which | have read show how, notwithstanding the appa- rent spout ineonsness, freedom, and unanim (y of the invitation, the forbearance of Spain was followed by resistance where sun and climate united with the people. An official report laid before the Cortes describes 9,000 Spanish s0!- diers dead with disease, while the Spanish « enpation was reduced to three towns on the sea-board, and it was perilons for small parties to go any distance outside the walls of the city ot St. Domingo. ‘The same report declares that 20,000 Eves, pre riaed for & campaign of six months, would be required to penetrate ‘the heartof Cibao.” which isthe very region now ocevpied by Gen. Cabral, who disputes the power of Baez. At last Spain submitted. Tho ea of independence prevailed once more on the island and the prond banner of Castil: which hed come tn peace, amid general cor:- gratulations. and with the boast of not a Span- ish bottom or Spanish soldier near, was with drawn. AN ENGLISH PRECEDENT. The example of 2 oped is reintorced by an English precedent, where may he seen in the light ot aralogy, the true rule of conduct. By a statute of the last century, all soldiers qua: - tered at the place of an election for members of Parliament were removed at least one day before the election to the distance of two miles or mere, and though fied tatterly, the principle has been No soldier within two miles of a place of elec~ ton ts allowed to go out of the barracks or quarters in which he is stationed, unless to mount guard or to vote. In accordance with this principle, as early as 1793, a committee of the other Honse of Congress reported again+ the seat of a Kepresentative on the ground that Vnited States troops were quartered near the place of election and were marched in a bods round the court- house. tion is Aud now that an ele Occur in St. Domingo, where nati lence is the yuestion, nothing arer it should be, in the language Black stone, ‘absc free,” and to this end a naval force +! withdrawn apt the “election” is determined. SEIZURE OF WAK rOWRES RY OUR G Ail this is preliminary, althoug2 p Way to ajust conclusion. It ix only when epter into details and consider what lias b our government, that we recogn be magnitude of the question t fener suppli the agent z ett is at | nless the reports of ti State | tment and Navy Department « discredited, it is obvious beyond doubt, m paintolly plain and indispatable, that our go €rnment has seized the war powers carefi!iy guarded by the Constitution, and without th= autboriy of Congress Las employed them trample on the independence and equal righ of two nations, coequal with ours, unlese carry out this project of territorial acquiai you begin by setting at defiance a tirst princi; '« of International Law. This is uo hasty or i iie allegation, nor is it made without immeasaratic et. Ans the regret is increased by the very th of the evidence, which is beyond «!l question, DAw/, THE USURYBR 1n this melancholy business the central figure is Buenventora Baez, ontess we except Pres tent Grant, to whom’ some would accord lace of honor. ‘he two have acted toge as copartners. To appreciate the case, a: 1 especially to comprehend the breach of pubi Jaw, you must know something of the former, and tow he hes been enabled to play his par! Deminican by birth, with much of Span blood and with a French edacation, he cross where these different elements are som what radely intermixed. Ail his life he lias. been adventurer, conspirator, and trickster, uncerta:n in opinions, without character, wit out riotism, witbeut truth, looking out ». premely for himee!f, and on any side accordi: to imagined personal interest, being once violent against the United States as he now protesses to be for them. Mr. Sumner proceeded at considerable leuzth to give an exceedingly uncomplimentary + view oi the career of [saez and says that duri: bis entorced exile by direct vote of the peop of Dominica he found bis way to Washington. TER RAR/-SUMNER INTERVIEW. Mr. Sumner says :hat Secretary Seward ¢ clined to vee Baez but referred bim to him. ii had several conversations with Baez at |) « Sumner’s) house. ‘The avowed object of Bae > was to obtain assistance of money and arms ‘> aid him in the overthrow of the existing Gov - ernment. Be assured, Mr. President, he o')- tained no encouragement from ma, although not hesitate to ¥ 1 always have Sait that I ho; ever fail to ail possibie good to Dominica, extending to i" ing band. It was at a later day that o igerent Intervention began. Meanwhile Cabral, embarrassed by financial dificnities and a dead weight of paper monev, the legacy of the fugitive conspirator, turned to the United States for assistance, offering a lease of the bay of Samana. Then Spoke Baez from his retreat, denouncing what he ca “the sale of his country to nited States, Jopting the most inflammatory language. his far-reaching and unscrupillous activity Was organized, which, with the ave, the late roler of Hayti. com itulation of Cabral, February s A Convention was appointed, not elestou, which proceed 1 to nominate Baez for the term of four years, net as President, but as Dictator. Declining the latter title the triumphant cou- spirator accepted that of Gran Ciudadano or Grand Citizen with unlimited powers. A: the same time his enemies were driven into exile or executed. The prisons were most respectable citizens were is victims turally such & man would sell bis co Wanting money be cared little how it w: Arything for money, even his country. ORIGIN OF THE SCHEME. Cabral withdrew to the interior, keeping up @ menace of war, while the country was indig- nant with the unscrupulous usurper, who tur the second time bad obtained power by violence. Power thus obtained was naturally uncertain, and Baez soon found himself obliged .o invoke foreign assistance. ‘*Help me, Cassius, or | sink!” cried the Grand Citizen. Eurepean Powers would not listen. None of them wanted his half island—not Spain, not France, not Engiand. None would takeit. Bat stil! the Grand Citizen cried, when at last he was re- lieved by an answering voice from our Kepublic. A young officer, inexperienced in life, ignorant of the world, untaught in the Spanish language, unversed in international law, knowing abso- lutely nothing of the intercourse between nations, and anconscious of the Constitution of bis country, was selected by the P.esideut to answer the ery of the Grand Citizen. Mr. Sumner said he wished he cou\:! say some- thing better of General Babcock; but if he spoke according to the evidence, much from his own lips, the portraiture would be more painful and his unfitness more manifest. In clesest association with Baez, and with profitable con- cessions, not easy t measure, was the Aime: Caryneau, known as disloyal to our country, ai uspected that the military pleni- “ ‘80 thoroughly 8 potent ary, before leaving Washington, was ex- J ressiy warned against him; but like seeks like, and he at once rushed inte the embrace of the sel speculator; who boasted lis intimacy beyond all Americans ‘‘with the Samana and aDLexation negotiations to their close,” and who did not hesitate to instruct lsaez that it was not only his right but duty to keep an American citizen in prison “to **rve and pro- tect begotiations in which our President was interested,” which he denominates + the great business in hand.” (Hatch Sam Domingo Ke ig p. 135, Forty-tirst Congress, sx cond session, No. 254.) By the side of Caznean was Fabens. also a speculator and tife-long intr! Fovoy Extraordinary and Mi Plenipoten- tary of Baez the great business.” Sparing details, which would make the picture more fi mer, be came at once to the conclusion. A treaty was signed by which the a r tended to sell bis country to the United States in consideration of $1,500,000; also another treaty leasing the bay of Samana for an annual rent of $150,000, The latter sum was pasd down by the young plenipotentiary, or $10,000 in cash and $50.00 1n muskets and In a battery. No longer able to pocket the doubloons of Spain, the usurper songh: to pocket onr eagles; ani vot content with muskets and a battery to be used against his indignant fellow-countrymen, cb‘ained the navy of the United States to main- tain him in bis treason. It was ap the hardened conspirator and bis wel! confederates. . OPEN INFRACTION OF DOMINICAN coNeTiTY- TION. ‘The case was aggravated by the open intra tion of the constitution ot Dominiea with which it proceeded. By that constitution, hn September, 1866, a copy or whic 1 hetore me, it is Solemnly declared that *‘n the whole nor any part of the territory of the Republic can ever be alienated,” while the President takes the fo'low.2 oath of ofhce “1 swear by God and the boly Evangelists to keep, and cause to be kept, tue Constitution and the law ot the Dominican people, to resps their rights and to maintain the national it pendene All this was set aside while t plot went on. MR. SUMNER REPEATS HIS FORMER ALLEGA ‘TIONS. Mr. Sumner said that he now repeated from ofictal documents the allegations of his former peeeh. Let the conatry judge if he was not right, and if the time had not come to “halt” in this business, which already has the front war. There may be war without battle. Her enles conquered by manifest strength the m ment he appeared on the ground, s0 that his club rested unused. And £0 our navy bas thas far conquered without a shot; but its presence in the waters of Hayti and Dominica was war. TWO SOURCES OF TESTIMONY. All this w.ll be found under two hi ads, or in two different sources; firs: is furnished by the State Department, secondiy, what is furnished by the Navy parti These two departments are wit nesses, with their agents, confessing and act From the former we have confession: from th: Jatter we have acis; contessions and acts all in harmony and supporting each other. CONPE*SION OF STATE DEPARTMENT. In the strange report of the Secretary of State, rcsponsive to a resolution moved by rae in the Senate, the dependence of Baez apon our navy isconfesscd tn various forms. No body can read this dooument without noting the cou.ession, tiret from the reluctant Secretary, and then from his agent. Mr. Sumner proceeded to make numerous citations trom the report of Secretary Fisb, an. the correspondence ot ymond H. Perry, our Coneular agent at San Domingo, to sustain bis position. adopie i erent TRE CASB OF DATI® BATCR. ‘The case of Davis Hatch was dwelt upon by Mr Sumner, and he charged that Hatch was detained in prison by the authorityof Baez at the «pecial instance of Cazneau, and with the connivauce of Babcock in order to prerent his infiuence against the treaty of annexation ard yet the Great Republic, instead of spurr. ing at once the heartless usurper, who trampled ou (he liberty of an American citizen. and spurningthe ill-omened treaty which 1c, this sacrifice, continued to lend its strong ar in the maintenance of the trampler, while wit! unexampled assiduits it pressed the trea.y upon a reluc ant Senate. CONFESSION OF STATE DEPARTMENT GARD TO RAYTI. But intervention in Dominica is only one par WIRE RE of the story, even according to the cof , ot the € Departme Side bye Dominica on the same tempting islan black republic of Hayti ha numerou Ikon, Which more than two ge achieved national independence, an! at a la ¥, by the recognition of our governme k its place under the law of nations as ¢ and peer of the Great Yo all i paramount titles of independence and eqaalit sacted and unimpeachable, must be added Special character as an example of selt ernment, being the first in the history of African race, ard a promise of Who can doubt that as such this b has a vaine beyond ali the pro ing tropical sei Tu the ettort to secure nveted + ritory, ou content with ma tain wrper Baez in power, ¢ the ha: ot Domini the United States, sent one other than our m eupyt a with the war-sbips ther war-ships, be powerful monitor, tt Dictator, with the frigate Severn #s conco: and with yet other monitors in their train menace the Black Republic by an act of wi An American admiral was found to do th. thing, and an American minister, himself . 1 Alrican blood, was found to aid the admiral. Mr. Somuer proceeded to cite the dispatches of Br. Bassett, our minister resident at Port » Prince to show the menacing tone taken by ou jovernwent towards Hayti, and which racterized a8 an assault apon the Indepe dence avd Equality of the Biack Republic, RECOKD UF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT {f the report of the State Department contession, that of the Navy Department authentic record of ac! ble, unte Nations and Hagrant and indetens We are ready to set aside the Law Constitution of the United States, twogreat safeguards. Both of these ar- | degraded in order to advance thescheme. it he called it plot he should not err, for this teria is Suggested by the machination. Theschete first shows itselt in a letter from the Secretary of State to the Secretary of Navy, under date of May i7, 189 informing latter that the Presideut deems it “-desiraly that a man of-wor. commanded by a discrect ent officer, should be ordered‘ rts tn the Dominican Repul ou tue condition of ataire quarter.” ‘The Secretary adde. “1 is alx mportant that we ehould bave full and a. rate tform: ob ip regard to the we of t Domintcans of all parties in regara to annex tow to the United States, or the sale or jease the bay of Samana, or of territory a, Ont sailed fr neral Baboock - Domingo, «- s special agent of the State Department. i records of the Department, so far as commu cated to the Senate, show no authority to tor negotiations of any kind, much less to treat tor the acquisition of this haif wland. His instr which are dated July 15, 1569. are simply ke certain meuiries; bu’ er the same , the Secretary of the Navy addresses a letter to Commander Owen, of the Seminole with an armawicnt of one 1!-inch gun and four pounders, of 4.200 poun nh which bh Il remain at Samana or on t coast of St. Domingo while Genera! Balcoci is there, and give bim the mora. support of your un “Mr. Sumner proceeded at length to qnote from various dispatches, ¢ lorders tu Ad miral Poor, (c¢., to show that our governme made a belligerent intervention in the atta of another country, with a declaration of wa: against the Black K { without any authority from Congress er sanction under the Constitutivn. Such, he said, was the testimony establishing beyond’ question the two proposi- tions, first, that the usurper Baez was main tained in power by our Navy, to enable him to carry out the €aie ut Lis cou and, secondly, that further to assure t © the neighbor Republic of Hayti was violently menaced, ail this being in breach of public law, international and constitutions! That it was a breach of these Jaws Mr. Sumner essayed to sow by co- pious quotations frow various authorities. UEURPATION OF WAR YOWEES CONTRARY TO TER CONSTITUTION. ‘The same spirit which set at defiance great principles of International aw, installing force instead, is equally manifest in disregard of the Constitution of the United States, and here one of ite most distinctive principles is struek down. By the Constituticn it is solemuly announeed, that to Congress is given the power *‘to declare war.” hace goon to declare war is under the safeguard of Congress with the concarrence of the President, so is the powcr to make a treaty in the President with the concurrence of twi thirds of the Senate; but the act of neither comes binding wituout this concurrence. Thus, on grounds of authority, as well ax of reason, is it clear, that the promise of the President to employ the War Powers without the authority of ress was void, and every employment of these War Powers in pursuance of this assump- tion a usurpation. if the President were a king, with the kingly rerogative, either to declare war or to make atics, he do what he has done, but be- ing only President, with the limited powers es- tablished by the Constitution, cannot do it. The assum! im the St. Domingo treaty is exceptional and abnorma), bei: absolutely wirbout it. ‘The treaty with France in 1805 for the cession of Louisiana contained no such assumption; nor did the treaty with Spain Soy treaty with Mex by whica i to rossand California was 5 the treaty with Mexico in 1853, by which new territory was obtained; nor did the treaty with Russia in 1867 for the cession of her possessions i North Ameriea. In none of these treaties was there any such assumption of power, ne Botegeenier'a nnesfas tot H Ueat, on the Birk , 1870, being the expiration oF the period for the exchange of ratitcations, he referred to its formal rejection by the Senate The Evening St ar. TWO CENTS rper pre- | June 30, 1870, which was not unknown tothe expenditures (or warships and troops, President. In the order of business the rejec- fing to certain it te famsted that Bumbers to th annexed. and ther allegation forgets to the testimony of Reters, ‘ation travels with the san on parattele titade, and not on parall: itude, mainly following the isotherma! inc, and not turning off at right angles, whetner north or houth. Sometimes it is insisted that it will be better tor the people of this island « a i better for them, better for the African race, Detter for civilization, that the Black Kopablic thould be absorbed out of ht. instead of ~) being fostered into a successful example of self-government for the redemption of th | race, not only on the Carribean is » baton | the continent of Afnica. Then, again, arises | that other question, whether we | arsume the bloody hazards involved tn th nese, as it has been pursued with the alternative of using while the land ot moet painfcl anxietice, tion was communicated to him, while it became Toussaint LUuvertare listens to the constant at once & matter of universal notoriety. Then, by way of further fixing the President with this notice, he referred to his own admission in the annual message of December last, when be Answers that “daring the Jast session of Con- 41-8 a treaty for the annexation of the Kepublic of St. Domingo failed to receive the requisite two-thirds of the Senate,” and then, after de nouneing th mas “folly,” he proceeds as fcllows gestion is that by joist resolution o: the two Honses of Congress the Executive be authorized to appoint a commis- sion to meg: tate a treaty wath the authorities of San Domingo for the acyuintion of that isiand, an: that an appropriation be made to defray the expenses of such commission. The question lay then be determined, either by the action of the Senate upon the treaty or the joint action of the two Honses ot Congrers, upon a resolu- Hen of annexation, as in the case of the acqu. sition of Texas.” Thus by the open declaration of the Pre«i- dent was the treaty rejected, while six months alter the rejection be asks for a commission to negotiate a new treaty, and au appropriation to detray the expenses of the commission; and not perceiving the inapplicability of the Texas pre cedent, be proj to do the deed by Joint Kesolution of Congress. And yet daring thie iwtermediate period, when there was no unra: fed treaty extant, the “ame belligerent iuter vention bas been proceeding, the same war-sh: have been girdling the island with their guns, and the same naval support has been continued to the usurper I at great cost to the country, and by the diversion of our naval torc trom other p! + While the Constitu tion has been dismissed Out of sight like a dis- charged soldier. Already you bave seen how thie belligerent intervention proceeded; bow on the 2tst duly 1:30, Com Green reported that “a with drawal of the protection of the United States and of the prospect of annezation at some fature time would instantly lead to a revolu- tion headed by Cabral,” bow on the 28th August, 1870, Commander Allen reported Baez as “requesting the presence of a vessel on the north side of the island on account of an in tended invasion by Cabr: how at the same time the usurper says that he ‘‘deems the pres- ence of a ship of-war in the bay of Manzauilio of immediate importance,” how on the 3d Sep- tember, , Commodore Green reported that Baez ‘feared an outbreak,” and appea'ed to the Cemmodore bring some of his men which were at Azua,” which the obliging Com- modore did; how under date of October », 70, the usurper, after declaring the necessity Of @ mar-of-war at the port of St. Domingo, faye that “none would be more convenient than the Yantic tor Ube facility of entering t Ozawa, owing to her size,” and how ag: the tame day the usurper writes «till letter “to reiterate the necessity 6f the vessels now in that bay {Samana} coming to the south- ern coast.’ All these things they had seen testing constantly our beiligerent intervention and the maintenance of Baez in power by our Navy, which became bis body-guard and omat- present uphoider. He would leave them to their judgment without one word of commen remiuding them only that uo President 1. eutitled to set aside the Constitution of our couuiry. MR. <TMNER owe rr. In concinding his speech, Mr. Sumner said “Mr. President, as { draw to @ clo, allow m to repeat the very deep regret with which | make this exposure. Most giad!y would I avoid it. Controversy, espectally at my time ot lie Las no att t thave been rea in the school of duty, aud, now as of old. Lea not see wong without trying to arrest plead now, as I have often pleated befor ing out of the record. Dispatch orders, naval reports—these a peachable anthorities. And ali officialiy communicated to the Sena? Printed by its order, a uni ea) coufirms the boy of truth, I And here it is estumony. Thus stands ease been violated in two of ove securing the Equality of Nations, and providing against belligeren a distinctive fundamental prin ‘tution, by which the President is depri ot & kingly preiogative, is disregarded, ax very kingly prerogative is asserted by Sis is the simplest statement. L ii turther at the facts we see that a! great di obedience Las tor its object the aca n #ition of an outlying tromeat island, with larg promise ot wealth, and that, in carrying 01 this scheme, our Kepublic has forcibly main taived « usurper in power that he migut seil couvtry, and bas dealt a blow at the indepen dence of the Biack Kepubii. besides being a wrong to that Kepi insuit to the African race. And all this ha« been done by prerogative alone, without the authority of an act of Congress. It such a ausaction, many-beaded in wroug, can escape judgement, it is difficuli tosee what securitics remain. What other sacred rule of interna- tional Law may not be violated? What oth foreign nation may not be struck at a" other belligerent menace may nut ve uried What other kingly prerogative may not be seized Yn another occasion I showed het Wrongtul proceedings bad been sustained by the Presideut beyond ali example, but in a corres ponding rpirit. Never before has there such Presidential imtervention im the Sena We have been constrained to witness. Pr tia! visits to the Capitol, with appeais to s tors, bave been followed bs assemb! Executive Mansion, also with appeals to Sena and who Cau measure the pressure of a hinds by himself or agents, especiaily the appoint ts commanding r where g the Senate with “fully” in rejec ing the treaty, we are gravely assured thac t the proposed a ge debt abroa. is to be ultimately extinguished,” thos makin, St. Domingo the pack borse of oar vast load. Perhaps, copying Don Quixote when he impose! on the shoulders of Sancho Panza the peni .al stripes which belonged to himself. Then, respending to the belligerent mena: of bis Admira’. the President makes a Kandre: menace by proposing uothing lees than the acquisitionder the ‘island oF St Doune thus adding the Black Kepublic to bis scheme. he inneceat population there were startle.! ‘Thetr minister Lere protested. Nur is it une Ural that it sheuid be #0. Suppose the Queer England, in her speech at the opening of F isment, lad proposed in formal terms juibition Of the United States, or supp Louix Napoleon, tu his speech at the opening the Chaw vers during the Mexican War, while the French torces were in Mexico, had covlly proposed the acquisition of that portion of th: nited States ining Mexico and stretching to the Atiantic, apd, in support of his propo- sition. bat set the productiveuess of the voll, the natural wealth that abounded there and wound ap by announcing that out of this might be paid the French debt abroad, which was to be saddied upon the coveted territory. Sup) ose such @ proposition by Louis Napoleon or by the 2g Queen, “made in formal to Chambers or Paritament, what woul! been the feeling in our country? Nor have been diminished by the ive [Toposition crept into accident. Whether by accident would that feel! excuse that the o! ch by it would attest swall consideration yytlans love ours—especialiy independence. rts which reach history the, spe tf ite for nations! All this is shown by the bs vow, even if their wi did not attest it. the Blac! erent Interventie rent in _ a the authority of Congress? bite ‘withoet the 0 ca: ‘as it ey erent ly not to sanction 4 usurpation of the the Constitution ¥ va Slates. Therefore, on the question of acquisition 1 * | visited Windsor Castle to-day and ren whisper of independence. And there ts still that other question of debts and edly | acknowledged and unacknowledged, wi immense claim by Hayti and | boundary which I have already cat lawsuit. These questions I state only. Me Ne to my mind U is something better than be!- | Ngerent intervention and a Menace ot absorption at unte | itisasincere and homan | uthe spiritot peace. t2 reconcil out the island. Let th | Repabtic will become | name and of the civ sents, while republics in glory. The blessings of geod men wor a atte an effort; nor woa smileot Mew | be wanting And may we pot justly expect the Presid to unite in such a measure of peace and go Wil? He thet rulech lus spirit greater tha he that taketh a city, and ruling bis spirit in principles of internat tation of br * bad taken all the islands HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the call of St > A t tor reterence on duced aud reterred te By Mr. Poland (Vr). Bill mony taken In ihe courts of Kevision of Laws. By Mr. Twichel! (Mass re of Masxactunc the United States Carroll (N.¥.): 3 ting PensioUs to s neon. Ry Mr. Cox (N matches. Ways By Mr. Storm and for other purposes. to red Ways and M 1 to place the On the same tooti Bill to amend the « 1870, for the relief of certain officer the ariny. Appropriations By Mr. Nibiack (Ind): Kesolations of the Legislature of Injliana in relation to ennalty ing the bounties of ediers. Military Affaics By Mr. Armstrong (Dakota) Bill ta cseate the Territory of Pembina. ‘Territories Mr. Hibbard (N. H declaring the true policy of the governme: relation to taxation, revenue. refor which was referred to Ways aud M. mite. Pending the further cal! of New Hampshire the House, at 1.10 p. m., adjourned. TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR, This Afternoon’s Dispatches. Associated Press Reports. FROM EUROPE TO-Day. THE REVOLULION IN PARIS. Telegraphed Peclusively to The Berning Star fered @ resolation 3 Com elections passed of yu overwhelming ¢ lubeusry autho: The abdica YOrs increase ch, within came Ur A on ot tt a vwr ernment untenadie. Bazaine and La Boewt A # News Special dixpal i La Boent will go the Hag The Reyots tn Algeria nyon cb = f Government in Lefle Bhicrs Threaterimg to Attack Paris. |. Dhier is credited wilh the remark to his friends that when the government has 1,00) | troops in which it c an attack w made upon Paris. it is believed the « will be removed to Tours The \.rsailies G rement Katsing Yoluntee. Vaerearrier, March 2ith.—The Minister of War bas ithe Prefect to raise a batalion | Of mobilized volunteers in each of the depart | Mente in pursuance of the law just passe the Natonal Assembiy. These volunteers are | to be torwarded to Versailles tmanediatery and receive d ove anda halt trancs. Their o%- | cers are to be appointed by the Minister of War. ‘f An Insane Gene: | ‘The Dobe says Genera) | ris sane, and is cared tor by bie colleagues of the cen! committee. Captare of ® Ganboat by the Paris ' Imeurgemts. The al journal of the committer uLces That eygbteen battalions of the N, | Guara wil» al the commune. The new gover Ment bas beeu proclaimed there witwout bivod | shed | Advance of ssiam Outposts. Prussian outposts have been advanced 9 Vincennes. ‘* | pants! Maprip, March 24.— | | be chosen Presiden er Salu: On | j Spanish Senare, y a President vt the tw Chamber of Deputies. A republican band bat male ite appearance | in the province of Lerida. Loxpox, March Z.—The steamship Hansa, m New York, touched Southampton to-da: | Napoleon Welcomed by Victoria | Lonpom, March be Emperor Napoleon ned an ic: | hour with Queen Victoria and family | drers ot welcome made by Lord Sta | Marsbal Canrobert's children were also preseut | The castie gardens were Oiled with | crow: people, who cheered the ex- ea Closing of te elena tan Hotel w Yo New York, March e Metropolitan Hotel will be closed to-morrow, the Lelands giving their whole attestion to the newly opened Startevan fupposed Nathan murder, was here three weeks ince, but bas since disappeared, and is sup- posed to be hidden in the city. The detectives ere at work, but with no Of success, itis rumored that be expressed bis —— to stand the trial for marder if relieved of the Sentence of twelve years impiisonment for another offence in Iitinois, foto The Dion-Rudol iph Billiard Mate) im Sax Francisco, March 2.—Dion won the match Of billiards, 1,500 points over Ku- dolpbe Saturday night. A depute arose, to set- tle which @ second game was played, w! Kadotpbhe was ‘the victor, ——