The New York Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1871, Page 4

NEW YOR on the deomvcratic ution was chen tabled for the pr PH BILL PROULUETIN eX ROM KOLCTTENG AL minntes past one the untiniated bust we Retorm bill, a from soltoiting appoiat- Was procee ed with, CONSULAR AND CIVIL AERVICK, Pavrenson addressed the Seoate at length in dintomaite consular wruily im favor of a reform In the diptomatie tried by ais Te Debate on the St. Domingo Anaexa ion ia the House. ital of ark aud Swe- PPropre ae | ps OxnensIVe a8 1 1 inwe and customs and an. untry to which Mogheon Bye, Monroe | Cia Ladsde La © power that ine b. long (ae «poils”’ becaine 6 and Corrapdon Paterson qo la regard to Cmmmtites, of read by the to a committes of rep.) of Kansas, moved to refer t of Columbia he bull might be p ent the bill from vecow- rtew thousand doi. the entire morn. AN, (vep.) of Iuwa, called attention to a said the experiment of tod for mony Tue ad atuee raving Mane. she inielligentiy cation which ae quice Uaptecedeniod Ge Of contorvence, Messrs, " Cy, tInqatred whether appoluted on «i Not approve of e Be scuMe as @ fii WAS Recessa: aid he undersiood tre Secrewry Cox wanged ty Of subordinates i of Mass, spoke of - x publ ¥ in the schools, ewhere wader the new gevern- fou to be that COMLPOL Lhe apyotutments st, but upon being *URTES“!NCa LO KAOULN by toeit dictarton, aled to the Presiden), «80 took svles wih | ee vagressmen. + favored a Terrird- + © power to appoint ashe considered that a did NO know porsonaliy What the Secrevary Cox di tuese abuses had of \t., alluded to the neces- lion of the government of teat nuisances the gi ston being the raj Which roamed at w: e aud then Congress y to put up anor city had passe : z diately the Couns h because they federal pal ronage, is within the President's noe Upon the coumiry ia every four years to bu there being 51,000 0 ‘en wifi; the den these offices onc adv avatod a retary by tie Y Of MAKIUg AppelutlmMents Up iMtlVaral euce ty polity oluing pariy discipline oh epublican exougi lor him. Vby our Westerit ai would be the 1 yy In a city, whit oue of the most beautiful isinces of cow: 1 a meaus oF ma was an @ement of Weakhow the surrender ©. | Mi Of the greatest rt f r moval of the cj { members of not know thai i ent people or tie on] a ; (ihe sole warraw | | and other matters) Was probably inert personal host Collector at we port of New York, of his colles. (vep.), of Ohio, from the Fimance no. (ed, With sdudry ame q ¢ House joint resoluti aning of the twenty internal taxes, He asked immediate consideration of iaed that the amendme: an ambiguity in the investigation Was a friead of his ee ated his col ¢., approved importers wh Allon with the House Com- remarks were simp! be appointed tnspectora, tue pt ors Would stil ng committee had exce de) its authority | in going to New York to couduct an ex parte inves rd t p , 18Tu, 48 passed by the Ser tall foreign merchandise w: 1 States on or before the ot entered or transferred to x public | d to the benenis resolved, &c. Th developed to rem house, shall be or the Surveyor of (ae Port of New York. this was not so he called apoa Mr. Paterson to state the contrary, Mr. PATTERso any manner these officers the owaer of su days from the p herefor fn writin | stated that (he testugony in thom, . FENTON, replying to the have no coniroversy With bis ool. one else Upou Casiom House matiers ihe practices of reference 1o himeeif, ¢ resolved, That tas maid act is jeague or an | OF ollers growing O} administration in appointing ths or th There was HO question with by should hoid ine offices provided joyed the contidence of the peop’ | pubic servants, roscription within the party relating to Its organizat al preferences. If itis coil: ppaintment to the Collector of New York, at for hia reputation he had made , for current rumor in New + ise, and the contrary Was generally believed. resolution under whic investigation was of 8 tipon which to urge | the passage of the bill in*rodaced by himself on May , providiug tor the collection of fines, forfeit- ures faad penalites for violations of the Customs | Jaws al the port of New York. to the re.orm of a system, and bad ne reference to abuses of individuals. appotuters en- ad were fanihgul The questioa Was one ratver of mization for a dif. OF KPOWINE Gul | wie had advised TO MILITARY : from the Military | ments a bill aa- etary Of War to negotiate for the | on of a telegraph line tothe military posts ne Missouri siver. j THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. nu for a female ‘Tertitortal bill. | ted with amend presenicd a pet Drovisision iu ine Disiric 2 the cominiitee TO STATES INTEREST AND DISCOUNT ON | Fenton, (rep.) CN, ¥., irom the Finance Com+ '. Morton's bill to re ud discount on thelr Thut measure looked Anameudment from the miner! was sulmitted by Mr. Saga a Stated his integtion to prypuse 1 as a subetiiare for y of the committee f£ Ohio, who | It was not inten ted (rep.j, of Onto, who | administrate: had now increased force; bat hud beon introduced several Dionths prior to the preseat Voilector's ap- Fenutou concluded with the remark that if there was any uecesslty for reform sinee the foundation of the government it Was apparent at Known to hiveaself or {4 particular political clase | fication liad been put out and Others substituted for them In the New York Custom House wi to the least, did not enjoy the confidence and respect of the public in a iigher degre: After further disctission Mr. mide an ineffectual attempt to peal, Which Was the spe THE HATH OF RESOLUTIONS Mr. SMORTON, (rep,) of Ind., said he would cail up Me $00 a5 tie Penuing business was dis- of. Mr, Sherman's amendment provides for the pay ment of interest to the States at the raie of six per rdance Wiih the ConLmerciat | His time, when € to lus friende as got cent, compnted in a COMMU SICATON—CONSOLI- DATION OF CABLE ‘ER, from the Commitice on Foreign Re- House bill relating to tele- tion vetween the United States os, With an amendment making it untawial foc two or more cable companies to con- their interest: without the consent General of the United States and upou such terms as he may determine, THE NEW SENATOR FROM MISSOURI. ‘The Vick PRESENT presented the credentiais of ¥. P. Lair as Senator elect from Missouri for the term onting March 4, 1873, V&N THOUSAN Orr, (rep.) of Pa. uup the Iueome bax or of the day, OY CONDOLENCE. lock, in accordance With pre- ¢, Mr. Ramsey, (vep.) of Minn., announced the death of his former colicague, the Mi Norton, who died at the close Of last session, d the usual resolutions of condolet ch, after eulogies of the deceasea by , Sherman, Stockton, Thurm: solitate or Ww of the Postinast: DOLLAKS TO PAY FOR INVESTIGATING LLBGED SOUTHERN OUTRAGES. (rep.) of Pa., introduced a joint resolu. | tating fen thonsaud dollars, or as much ay the expenses of te Kelec igate the alleged Southern ov Senate (len, at four o'clock, adjourned, Pomenittee 16 ives MOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wasminaroy, Jan. 24, 1 UNVAILING THB STATUE OF PRESIDE , rep.) ot Vt, from the Connni reported a programme or ar ments for tue unveiling of Miss ¥inn , of idncotm in the Capitei rotu Bills were intrody By Mr. Beek, ( ‘Las follows:— fa roference ty Dies M Public Baiiding By Mr. Conurs, (de | \ ANOTHER PUBLIC LAN and Consular bill. EXPLANATIONS —1M 5 frauting land ».) OF Ind. Pising to a perso: Clerk's desk and Rad TNE COMMITPEK ON BOUT . the motion ef Mr K HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 187L.—TRIPLE SHEET, and franchises madeto certain partios, and as to the suppression by the Bxecative of a certain ducu- ment showing those matters which had been shed to the original treaty. Mr. Orih also re- rred to the repetution of that statement made by Mr. Cox the other dav when the Diplomatic Appro- priation butt was under constderalion, Mr. Orth Went oa to say that In making this mare charge the second time Mr. Cox had failed to name anthority, bat he for, Orth) kn i. ‘The information had been rnished tohim by a Dr. Dayls, formerly connected with the State Departinent, who: anbestneney for reasons best Known to himself and some of friends, pre- | sented his resignation to the department, and wig had since dled, after communteatiug to Mr. Cox, on huis death-bed, that he had copted. an addenda to the trea.y containing a lixt Of debis and grants. He (Mr. Orth) was assured, however, on the best authority, by living witneases, that Dr, Davis had never had possessign of the treaty or the addenda for the pur- pose of copying them, but thatthe copy was made by another clerk Low ving, and who stated that aa ct copy of each addenda to that treaty nad boon = oF St fo forther substantiation of the postion here taken, to sead him & letier on the subject, waich the Seoretary had done, and which letter he now aske't Co have read, The letter irom Secretary Fish, aiter quoting Mr. Cox's romarks in the House, says:— The honorable gentleman is onitrely mi: Pores that way list of granty of iuads, m Privileces, debts, &o., attuchod ken if he sup- eH, COLONIAL OI » the record in (he Stain Des artnet Was withheld foi the branch of Cougeess which wl the right to tho cognizanee of theut. AU the faforination of which (ue department liad possession In regard to auy Such grants or concossious Was commiaicated by me lo the cha'rnan of the Senate Comuniiice on Foreign telauons on the 221 day of March iast, aud was by that gentiomen com to the Sonate ou che Sih day of the sane mont printed by order of the Seante for the confidential hat body, Tue same sucormation was muoionted to the Senate by the Presideat ou the ie aotwer to & resolution OF that bocy on the 4th instant, and will be found uety-socond aud divety-aixth pages o! the Senate executive docviaent number seventeen of tho present session of Congres: Mr, Cox, (dem,) of ana referred to Or, Da character, who had bee Au the Moxican wor, and | and exposed ‘he faraous Gardiner frand; who had gain com Hy Mmatant, Y., reatirmed his statement $a mau of irreproucnable on General Wool's stat been Secretary to the Mexican Ciaiins Commisston, | God suosequently to tie sew Grenada Commission, x aad comnunic ited the frets to him, Toought the St, Domingo matter was, Iike | the Gardiner fraud, baiquitoas, hon he (Mr. Cox) rovetved. i eueat Le offered a resotution, wit Wos adepted by the House, callug for the } paper, ‘Tae Presivient, through Mr. Fish, had re- Spooded thal Lb was iacompatiole with the pudlio id-erest tO Communicate the intor:mation asked for While Nay subject was pending before the Senate. Mf the py Message’ How wou What did nov exist? Was he (\ House w.lb the loekjaw while this indigmty was betes enacted Was he to be reproached for speak- tug What he knew, What was ois motive tor thus speaking? Nothing pecuniary or partisan, Was hot his statement condrmed by Mr, Sumner in the Senate, and by other cienaistan i toa p a) been surreptitiously Kept from the Senate or removed it » COX) to sit In tie looked ml for the scheme, ie wished he eould not believe what he had said; | he wou citiven. i mot then be humiliated as an American avradie annexation; but this project, 4 pot diseschant ‘him of tis old eas of the fatnre growth of the coun- | wale it de nocran . mate hima more heedful of (ne modes and mo- | 7 nye vent of the national Gomatn, ris ng te @ persous! ex. a 1 nivel, compinintng of some rede: by Mr. Swaen in the debat * Paragsayen diMentty, ayd said tat that Ouleer to exonerate Yum, as he * redleciitrs contaiued f aploined of, e NORTH CAROLINA CONTESTED ELECTION cass— MA. SHORE ENTITLED TO THE SHAT. My. MoCrAmy, (ep) Of Lowa, from the Coumittee oa Devt reported im the contested eleciton case tro Nera Caretina, tiat Nathantel Boyden, the contes\aat, not entitied to the seat, and thas S rane Suober, the sittiag memver, Was entiied tom. The resolutions were adopted. CONSL DATION OF INDIAN TRIBES, Tee i to provade for the consoiutation of the Te fom Utbes and f0 create # terrivorial goverament for the Todiaus came up as the business of the morn- ing hone, and alter discussion by Messrs, Voornens, | (em. of Lud. ; SHANKS, ) of Ind, and other. ubers, Was recommitied to the Committee on 4 A airs, to be considered by that comiunitee ao) the Committee on Lerritories, with leave to re- port after the 2d of February. THA WEST POINT CADET DIFFICULTY, Mr. Lowas, «rep. or TH, from the Cominiites on Atairs, reported a resolution authonzing a sov-commalitee IM Tegard to the Kidnapping and c e" ry reetgoation of » 10 proceed to tVotut and tke fesiimeay, as & better y plan than to bring the wit- GELIONs dof Mo, from the same com- reported a substiimte jor the Senate bili to | Pehaverse the State of Arsansas for moneys ex- pep ted im caroding, equipping and provisioning ta litta forces to aid ta supppeaing the rebellion. The substitute was agreed la aad tae bil passod. SALE OF PUBIIG LANO® TO A KANSAS AGRICUL THEAL ASROCTATION, Mr. Asree 7 “i a bit aathorizing the sale of a portal of the deaven worth military srvetion to the Kaw Agfiouitaral aod Me. nical = Ast0Cktion mM Leavenworth for tar grounds, Pave. WOMESTEADS FOR SOLD ORPHAN CHUURE! . (rep. of Maci period a vill ta en ers and widows and orpi sievds on tite pttblic Iau is, Toe ta “ir heving expired, the vill went over wa morrow, Tub GHOR GA | Le DISTRIOT CONTRSTED CASH—MR. COMKER KWORN TN, Mr. Yorns, (lem, ol Ga, presemiod the ereden- tials of Stephon A. Corker, member elec! from the obtain be TION Hb Congres#eaa! district of Georgian, and moved Uae bo be swortia. Mr. Tews, irep.) of Mesa, Objecied and pro: | Thomas ©. Koird, a coutestant, ond moved that the salject 90 re- vred to the Commitee on Elections, ss of Mr. Corker were in aiue form Gove nor Bullock. Mr. Inooks, (lem,) of N.Y. 4 that on the pr ation of those ¢ Mv. Corker Was entitied, as ® matter af the! white in the organiza. he BREAK IR deci thon of the Howe & Was the duty of the Clerk to | Piece on the rol of members ali wie heid groper ered ier the organtzadea the question bo- caine oa & Wat Uader te conivol of the ma- jority. Mr. Rarmart., lem.) Of Ma, 90 4 that tt de- od caticely pon the polities w inau hoiding eredenat ia’ Mr. HUTA | sept to the Clerk's desk and had road the aotte valest, Carta ng thal the election wi aut and ntaiiation, He also seut to ‘sdesk aud het read aa extract from a ‘a, devating @ Ku Kinx outrage in ing inte a jail, a omt seven on ther ears iy He called apoa the Uatod-torin: the house 10 aay whotuer, 2 WOs, and with LHe proof appendel, ot Lhe mOomoor eulll ihe matter was as toe festliaeny could mot be Laken aod the question decided belore the ‘era nation of * It Would be 1a ome sort sanetoutt jug crime. Tre House #honld recoile thet the dhetrict in qnestion Was the home of Alex- #0 Jer and Liuton Slephens, Who Were sull unre peataut renea, Mr. Joxms, (em) of K cired whether the democratic paper rete not condema the outrage, whether amy’ Sas responsible jor excep! tae radi. al Mr. BUY Sa retorted taet the democratic 4 omgat jesticn, fe to (ie declension of the Memphis 4ynee, that the federal government Was # fest reeking Mr. Joxts remarked that he ¢ phe cder — } | See fast Sop naious of The sane character from Wendet PRIUS and othe: aticas. Mr. Younc «atl the remarks of Mr. were ouly Une report af he stake ore Southera outrages. He “seed op tee darete bo show the state GF society ia the stat foot theme stories Wore a @xaggerations He chal ehecion War Late Whole @xecwiive power la Georg national. 20d aimort a th manny. MMr. Youse-—Kvery bit of a. Mr. NiBtLAcK—Thes the foult tes at the door of the republican officials neveed of at the eoor of tne lemoctals. Mr. HUT mR remarked that in the ease of the out vege alluded to the State o@iciais had dose their dulyta feveag ose mon ia prewn. Taey were there m execution of the and were taken out the #xecution of Le al ye | “Gir Keee. (dem) of Tad., argued in support of te right of Mr. Corker to wore Mr, COBURN reniladed tim Of the recent action of Indiana Senate im depriving a tember of as newt. Mr. Kenn disclaimed ali knowletge of the facts in tuat case, bOt bad ne oy ate was jastuled by tie facts Mr. Parxswous, (rep. Of DL, Sapporied the al. soluie rigat of the person holiling Lhe proper ore | deutiais to be sworn in, When there Was pothing aileged agatust its qualifications, He dit not waut to mak’ plague them hereafter. away hy faine Isenes, Mr. Dawns, (rep) Of Mavs. sontatioas of Mion of Reor myching Mad + To this day, it vats tat a cerudente Whe vit His Slate Mn Cousormaby bo bee ‘nt Faria ease to pitas He was no. to be drawn Ole F 7 AE at be samme Foat had Wndisturbed except ta Me care. of Whiel Wl parlor CO Witi nglidng to be gained, noterioas corued Wer | toestablish here. ne | sidce on the Georgla case, | and sw rn ta, and was prevented from votty ) ACLION was sustained by arbitrary power in Ii {tothe Senate, He had requested me Secretary | Wito had been to Mexico ; r oF papers wore not on file why that | 1 It be tueompatible to give now notorious? | He should be glad and proud to aid any | seeret gervice fuud should from Captain Crosby, of | with the ainexscion of St. Doiingo. the paras | dear. ' Sach a motley crowd of } aie ther, Wf possible, th, hat (a> acon of Lue a precedeat wow wuieh would return to was afraid tat the Lie) as 1 the ie . froma tae bogiuniug of ) vanced a ons agatust his e@ilgibiaby. | Hifora practor of the House New Jersey ashaited, vat With ever) thing t be lost by the precedent which hts coltea songnt t tf is appeaied to the Meave toad herve to its ancieut ruie and let the member who | presents prover credenttals be swora In, Mr. Vooarss, in discussing the matter, referred tothe uotion of the indiana ject, and discussed the particulars of the excinmon of Joha W. Bursoa from the Indiana Senate, ing that action on the part of the Senate. 1. Buri BR (Of Mass.) contrasted (he action of the ronubitea Wouve ot Wepre-eaatiyer vem munatex ropublican House ot Represeniatiy i He wished that the rex riblican party had a ltttle more of tae idea of stand- Ing by its own mea against disioyal a rtifleatos, Mr, CONURN also relerred to the continuous excln. sion of Mr. Burson from his right to vote tn the diana Sonate as au thing without paralicl i the iia tory of the government, as revolutionary and de- | stractive of the very first principles of representative been admitied by aa The ana, aud it was by these who sustained 1t that (ne reso. lution against the annexatton oi St. Domingo had been passed, Mr. Vooxgers defended tho action of the Indiana Senate as belng in conformiiy with tie constitution of that State, by which bribery is made a cause of government, That gentleman tad ailegation that he had beep guilty of bribe: inclizibtiity. Bedides, at was a family squabbie ta the republican patty, hot in the democratic party. Air, Sitanxs Condemned the action of ihe Seaate H. Perry, publisued in the New York Sun. 1a refe- rence tO What Le terms tie St. Dominyo riug, and ring the annexation of St. Domingo as now manipulated would bo a huge svindle upon the United States goverument, enriching a few friends of the adnunetration und iaxing the goverament niilions of treasure. The motion offered by Mr. Borner to refer the credeutials and tho memorial of the contes ant to the Vomaunittee on Elections was rejected—yeas 41, mays 143, ir. Corker dpen presented himself and was sworn in, PROTKSE AGAINST BUILDING THE NEWPORT AND CINGINNATT BRIDGE, Mr. SPRVENSON, (Tep.) Of Onio, presented a memo- rialof the underwriters of Cicionaul protesting ajainst tie construction of the Newport aii Cinein- a obstructton to commerce. ? FOR THE DISTRICT OV COLUMBIA, On motton of Mr, Coox, (rep.) of TH., a conference commitice was ordered On the bul to eroaie a gov- éroment for the Disiriet of Columbia, and Messrs. Cook, Bingham and Voorhees were appounted con- ferees on ihe part of the House, MISCBLLANZOUS BILLS. Mr, NiBLack nitro eda bill giving the Cilcago nd Ohte Southern Rai'road Company the right to butid a bride across the Wabash river, and declar- tog it a post road. S Afier eXpianation by Mr, Niblack the bill was. {rep.) of Pa., offered 4 rerolution reqturing the Engineer Department to ingwre aud report as to the necoestty Of erecting bulkacads ov Whorves between the piers in ihe harbor of Marcus Hook, Delaware river, Va, Adopied. THE A ATION OF S1. DOMINGO—PASSAGE OF TRE DIVLOMATIC AND CONSULAR APPROPRIATION Bib, The House thon, at half-past three o'clock P. M., went into Committee of the Whote, Allison in th ‘onsular Appro- , ine question being on au amendment offered by Mr. Wood, providiag that no part of (ae be used im convection Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. ¥., argued In support of » bis ameadment. Alr, Wood's amendment The Comunittee ten proc ‘ongidera- tion of the bill and subsequently rose aud reporied it to the Honae, The bili was then passed. 81.08 RECOUNTED. Bills were reporied irom tre Coumittee on Com- Merce and recousuitted as follows: — In reference toa railroad bridge across the Mis- Sissi ppl tiver. To encourage the butiding of steamships in the United Siates. ‘The Hous then, at nalf-past four P. M., adjourned. GOTHAM ON RUNNERS. The ‘now Storm a Really “Old Fashioned One"’—Tue Boaus and Bolles, with Sleighs and Bells, Sliding Over the Snow. Ever since Thanksgiving the chief topic of con- versation ia metropolitan circles has been the “mild weather,” morning on emerging from the family sueets, what wonderful weather | Uilng on the same occasion. ‘ mewed with vartations over the matutinal buck- Paterfamilias remarked regularly every Mater said nearly the same The remark was re- wheat cakes, It was repeated down town and up town, bellowed by the bulls and growled by the bears, It did duty oa the pretty lips of the beauty, and even in Sorosis, where the world’s problem are In speedy process of settiement, the fair sisters stopped now and then to say, with a wise smile, HOW VERY MILD THE WEATHER 18! Now, every Gothamite knows that mtid weather to New York means mud, Italian skies, and strects covered with the best quality of biacking; the love- iteat Mue above and the cho‘cest black below; pretty heads bobbing about in the soft air, and PRETTY LICTLE Bours hopelessly lost to sight, though to memory still ‘This ts New York in “mild weather.’ Lovely woman, bemg still condemned to petticoats, fares badiy under such ¢treumstances. She often feels herself to be a “dem‘d moist, unpleasant body,” ana is tempted to wish that she wasn't a body at all. quite another matter! foundation for hope as one can imagine, especially But New York in a snow storm—ah, that is Snow ts about as frail a New York snow; yet @ great many hopes invested in the delicate flakes as they float through the winter air, settling slowly on bare branch and housetop and crowded street till one might imagine that the world had been getting it- ' se measured for the very whitest dress within TA# RESOURCES OF THE UNIVERSE, A wreat many hopes indeed! As soon as It was at a)! reasonable to expect snow everybody who had, metaphorically speaking, a sielgh in his pocket vegan to look for sletghing. Now and then nature mado a pretence, but it all ended in the regulation mud, aud so January nearly compleied its clrenit Bui wnd stil there was no snow Monday “saw another sight.” “It snows,"? says Klora. ‘It snows, and straightway all the “Mciiimseys’ vswells,” with the dear, nice, sweet, demure to speak of. iitie creatures and their brave, nobie, galiant de- feuders with one volce cry, IT sNOWS."* And ft is not a mere flurry cither, but slowly, steadily, persiscent! through Monday afternoon and eventing, the snow re no more end the perks are giorlous In their dazzling winter dress. And now jor the blooled horses, the grace- fui sleleis, (he proud cavailers and the beautiful dames! Hundreds of siewhs drive briskly to as many doors, aod wien the ladies and the children, msott, bright Wrappings, are snugiy tucked tn, way they start for the Park. Silvery laughter koeps thine with the silvery jingle of the bells as the eel steeds skun away OVer (Le smooth snow. Once on the Park THE FOS GETS FUNNIER. people, and all so folly! Of course they are jolly or they wouldn't be sleighing. in Laplane aad other slow places steady-goi peo Journey in sleighs the most of the year, and think “ago! it. No doubt they go to juncrals in sleighs, fa ers located moat the “ceutral fires,’ Where the sow melts nearly as soon as {i falls, is quite another affair, So i you would ie, al gay people, and turfmen, and lovers, aad metropolitan clergymen, and lovely hades ane spar kitag chlidron ali dasning hither and tattner bend ALL KINDS OF TEAMS, from (he sleady family horse to Dexter, goto the ie hing seaso: aad be sure soe NO Mayer, no more beau. ‘he Mall” stretches away love: n in its summer green. Over the — trees he stow has drifted ti every twig ix tranafigured, The shrubvery stand. whee and sult, The paths are smooth and even, Por coloring t re yay CosiUTIeS and rosy cheeks aod Mashing eyes; for sound, ripples of talk and jeugbter aut Ove aadted tread of horses. Bul Were are two aides to everything, and HS DARK SIDE OF THE SNOW is Soen OMpiseaily In the city, If Dante had only beou m New York ina snow storm! If he had at. tempted to rule in the street cara on gome of the aventies | Pat he Was fortanate in being assigued ty the internal regions instead. He never had to choose vet oen Dreating the breath of all the New Yors democracy and vetting his feet wet. Happy ula) Fveryuody, including the horsea, had a bard lime Jeeterday, those vague abstractions, “che authorities,” did their beast, and workmen shovetiod snow with a will; yet dificuitics wttended all kinds of locomotion, The hack drivers took #dvaniage of the perils of the hour to bere ae howest Peony, aad the pedestrians sur- mounion eis wad stood 1a slippery places as bost * ther com’. LEVERIOK’S BRIGADE Were carly on aod, and made & Neree attack on the, | snow . “woadway. Shovels avd hoes and wittow 1 brooms wer ot over Vigoronsly, however, ¥ kort and oon there caine ement in tie te ald Wuken We teat of 0 & doll in rl 4 rotura in Mh nod tips vt fagers or bt we Weather was quite pleasaat, and eHee. Sleigh. ad ‘sien rides” wore judge | #8 ac 0K EY Whe ave ow wouth 19 @xu a tienoul of mele ows. to merease and the extent of the burden it imposes upon an overtuxod people, will, [kaow, be most acceptante, THE UNITED STATES Si KING FUND, Proposals to Incronss Our Burden of Taxtion. OMcial Oyintons ef a Plows Vraud—-Wuat the Books of the Uatted States Trcasurer Show-Sonater Sherwan Thinks the In- come Tax Cannot be Abolisked—He Gives His Ressens for the Oviuiou—A Now Chairman ef thy Senate Finance Commitee Wanted—How the Sinking Fuad Works— The Untied States Pays Compound Luterest on Ite Owa Patd Up Dobt—History of a Miltien Dellars—A Needless Tax—What the Pooplo Waut and What Thoy Must Have Congress, Ationtion!—The Views of a Statesman=—Pacide Railroad Subsidy Bonds=Down wits tho Taxes! WAStinarow, Jan, 22, 1871, The sinking fund, to pay off our nationa: dent. How many ; copie Kuow what it is? Not one in half @ million, it 13. a grievous burden or a national blessing? Not one tn ten thousant, How many people really know whether Inasmuch as efforts are being made in Congress few facts showlag its true character Iv is popularly supposed that when the Secretary Of the Ticasury pays of a million of dollars of our national debt that (he interest ceases atthe date of | purchase and that the people's burden of taxation is decreased exactly the amount of the Interest of the paid up debt, Exactly the reverse is the case, Amiliion doilars of outstanding fvo-twenty bonds take $120,000 in gold from the taxpayers’ treasury on account of intevest in two years, While the same amount of paid up bonds impose a barden of $125,508 the firat two years it is in the sinking fund, and a very much larger burden annually thereafter. ‘This burden ts exclusive of that tmposed ou account of the payment of the principal. A JUG UNCPED STATS TREASURY OVFICIAL told me the other day that the siabing fund was a “ptous fraud’? Another higher and more outspoken ofMfclal tn- forms me that the United States sinking twod ts “a d—d compilcated piece of noasense.”’ Au ex- chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means says “Lt is taking money oul of one pocket aud putting At Into another’? The first named ofictal is the nearea: right. Leave of the “pious” and ho tuts it ex isa “raud,” out aad out, It ts a grievous burden upon the people, pretending all the while to be a bene- ficteut measure of relief. Look at the plain facts. THE BOOKS O¥ THE UNITED STATES TREASURER show that of te $188,276,872 worth of bonds par- chased by Secretary Boutwell, previous to the ist of this mouth, $54,779,150 was turned into the sink- ing fund. ‘The simple and compound taterest on $54,779,150 at six per cent in gold, Compounded over and over Indeflatiely, the premium on vonds purchased and sundry other necessary expenses, 13 the exact | Measure of the burden imposed upon the people | by the sinking iuad, At the present time it cannot be a cent less than four milion dollars per annum for compound iuterest on the patd up portion of our national! debt. O or outstanding national debt bears simple interest, while the people are taxed to pay compound interest | their debt that was paid years | ago. course this interest on Ha pala up portion of our debt goes eventually to pay offother porttons, but it increases the taxpayers’ present burdens most grieviously, Just at a time they should be relieved, PROPOSALS TO INOREASE THE BURDEN. It is now seviousl! ruposed by the “leading financiers” to turn all the bonds purchased by the Secretary into the sinking fund, If this is done the burden will shortly amount to TEN MILLION DOLLARS er annum, exctusive of direct appropriations for the payment of the principal of the natioual debt. Let me repeat. Ifthe proposed increase Is made the stinple and compound interest account alone of the sinking fund cannot be less than ten million dollars rannuin, with a certainty ofa very rapid increase, ve the people prepared ior this additton to their burdens? Senator Sherman, chairman of that mysterious | cabal, the Senate Finance Committee, thinks they are. He {ears very much to reduce our taxes; says that If the income tax is abolished some other must be substituted, It is most charitable to believe that the honorable Senator 18 a8 ignorant as he pretends _ to be. Wien the Zenator says that we cannot have | @ further reduction of taxation he shows himself eeu unfit for his place, q on that portion of e Can’t reduce taxes! way. e entire Internal Revenue Bureau should be abolisied tls session, retaming the stamp tax and | one or two others that can be collected with little or no expense. A reduction might also be made in cer- | tain customs duties, We should then have revenue enough to pay all necessary expenses of the govern- | ment, There will be a reconstruction of Congres. sional committees on the 4th of March next. Let us then have a new chalrman cf the Senate finance Commuter, HOW i works, To show the exact operations of the sinking fund Iwill give a brief histor, of the $1,099,009 of bonds te sed by Mr. Boutwell on the 12th of May, L309, On that day the Secretary of the Treasury paid | 1,000,009 of our national debt at a cost of $1,152,595 com the national Treasury, ‘What ceriainly should have been the end of the transaction; bat it was not. ‘The go up bonds were “punched” and stored in thé Treasury vaults, and new bonds to the gmount of $1,000,000, bearing six per cent interest in gold, payadie semi-annually, were issued to the Secretary of the Treasury in their stead, and stored also in the Treasury vauiis, On these paid up bonds the Secretary was obliged to continue to pay from the peopie’s treasury six per cent in gold, or $39,000 every six months. The sums so taken from the Treasury to be invested also in bond, making, In fact, the paid up debt of the nation bear compound interest, while the outstand- ing reqguived simple interest oaly, Every dollar put into the sinking fand, Instead of © deoreastug the peopie's burden, actually increases it more than the amount of the diterence between simple and compound iiterest, Follow tie $1,000,000. uational iadebtedness paid on the i2ziu of May, 1369, forexample. If it had been teft ourstanding the ia: terest (lhe burden to the people) woald have been exactly $129,000 in gold to Asi. Here is how It stauds undet operations of the compound on compound interest sinking fuad Premium pata on tirst purchase, « «$152,505 Simple faterest, first six montis, patd mto sinking fund... 30,000 80,900 Compound interest, second six months, pata into sinking fond ie Compound interest, third six menitls, paid into stinking lund, sees tees Compound interest, jourth sixth months, paid lato siMuking MW... eee eee Premium and two years’ interest. Tae history of this milton dollars ts 'y how finished. If the bonds had been lett outsvanaing It would have been necessary to tax the people exactly $120,000 to pay interest ou them for two years: but, ay they were paid, their two years’ expense to the people has been us follows:— ‘fo pay the principal... ito pay premium on purchase. ‘To pay inierest as above siated. Cost in two years,............ Amount that ougit to have been paid Neediess tax in two years....... A NEEDLESS TAX, Here we wave @ needless tax in two years of $1,158,073 on account of a singie miilton’ doliers? worth of bonds purchased for that “pious fraud,” tne sinking fund; and it must be rememvered that the entire fund ts $54,779,150, each million of which will, when tt 1s two years old, cost as much as the one Whose history I Have given'in detail. And how we have a proposition to increase the sinking fund to $155,009,000 at once by adding the special fund to It, and to continue the Increase by compound interest and additional purchases tn- deiinitely, It is all wrong. When a dollar of our national debt ts paid the Mmterest shouid stop there aud then, ‘the exact measure of the burden of @ debt ts its ine terest. Wier the sinking fuud plan our Secretary of the ‘Treasury inight go on paying o@ the public debt at the tate of $299,000,000 per year withont de- creasing the interest burden upon’ the taxpayers & cent, but, on the contrary, constantly increasing Lt ‘until the last dollar is patd. | WHAT THR PEOPLE WANT 1s immediate and visible relief trom the enormous burden of taxation that 1s now, to-day, crushing oub all business enterprise, We have had something too much of Treasury bul- Jetlas showing & large tucrease of revenue over tie previous month, Jt hasbeen thought a matter of congratulation that more money was extorted trom the people fu i969 than during (he year previous; and a source of exceeding joy to govermuent vill- ges aad lobbyists that 1870 yielded more even than 9. To be sure, the stomp speakers and electionecring documents claim great uction In taxation, but the ‘Treastry oMetal bulletins show that more and more money Ls being exiorted from the peopie caca suceceding y rion! U Congress will only give us te necessary legisia- fion the Treasury ballets of Wit wilt show a de revenug vs dd with the year p v an oue hunudved members oF Mie Forty. {have been elected to stay at home, Uns | Hef the nexy Coneress Will indebred to Compress: rable oduditien, The a watuliy vad noodte | Hes, Cong loss We lave Liumediate Tho people presgini dopl bode dave & a tossty. They have’ been wi again, in tie colunins of the HERALD and elsewhere, AS long ago as Fevruary, 1866, they had the follow ing warning trom one of the soundest statesmen of our nation. I quote his oficial report as tollows:— No nation ever bore such a burden placed as ours eved for ® year; nor can our, It is now beginnin ned time and eopie bear it many wero ‘ols even now etirdlicg imto- impatience, wie! hor year or two, wil. become the reot of a’ parly wil carry evert hing before it, United Statos, with their knowledge and rieace in public aifaireand their command over thei ic men, cannot long endure a victous syat ey will soon see what is wrong—what is unnecessarily an noying nnd inconvenient—and will demand # ull and satistag. ‘Thin auould be conceded at once, year wlil increase the impatlencs of tax payers an jo people 9: tax indignant nt injustic f waking changes. uit None aie more unskitful legislation, CONGRESS ALONE RESPONSIBLE. The people cannot look outside of Co: reilef. We have an honest Secretary of the who will execute the finauctal laws of Congress a8 he finds them. Mr, Boutwell exnibits, uuch zeal for the rapid payment o! debt, and) his integrity 18 beyond question. course 1a the Pacitic Ratlroad bond case sottles that matter, The Influences brought to bear by his por> sonal and political Massachusetts friends to induce to postpone the collection of interest on the Sutisidy bonds for thirty years Was such as few men could Withstand, wil therefore address itself to practls the people can have immediate relief. to bo done 1s the abolition of tie hatever amount Is paid on tha bic debt snould be appropriated so that the people ction J of law appr cal legislation sinking fund, from the Treasur; uudersiand the matier, July 14, 1870, blots the special tund out of existence, aud transiers the sinking tund to.the books of the ‘Tue latter should also be abolished, ext in order is a radical reduction of our taxe: the total abolition ot the income .ax, an N© the Whole cumbersome machinery of the Internal Revenue surcau, : the money we want 13 enough to pay the neces. expenses of the government and the luterest The priacipal can stand a few ard as ib ix, until We are better able to pay It. ow With the taxes t ALABAMA CLAIMS, Their Liquidation by Our Government and Baglsad Looked to for a Reimburscment. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 18TL. ‘vo THe Eprrox oF THB HEeRALD:— My opinion naying been asked relative to the probabitity of the “Alabama claims’ being patd by our goyernmeat or that of Great Britain, I repiy as “The question 14 one which wiser meu would find difie uty in answering, and their embar- rassment would probably increase with their study | Of a case involved La so many complications. losses for which demands are on file with the Der partment of State were restricted to the spoliaitous by the Alabama alone, or to her and one or two other vessels which saJed srom British ports on theic @rrands of destruction, 1 would not, pertaps, be 30 dimealt for an American well informed on tie sub- ject to arrive at some conclusion satisfactory ww blaseli; but when we consider that these ‘claims? embrace the spoliations and captuses by more (van twenty Confederate vessels, Yery great labor to investigate, even quite superfi- cially, the circumstances of all, in order tu estimate expurie the extent of Great Britain's lability; for something more is necessary than the mere fitting out and saiing of a predatory ship from the port of @ neutral goverument to attach responsibility for her depredatious, and 1t becomes one goverument, im exercising a proper regard for the rights 0. its People, not to insist upon ® construction of intere National law by others witch they are unprepared to llinstrate py their own conduct. Ca30, to be deemed accountable, Great Britain must have manifested culpable inauference to and dis- regard ot the character and intended uses of vessels: permitted to be iitted out and leave port, orcon- nivance on the part of her officiais have existed of a navore inconsisteut with friendly respect tor the welfare of a nation in auity, one government may perintt its peopie to proceed im of constructing, armiag ships which may ultimate: belligerent purposes against a frien didicult a matter as to exercise the minds of the ablest jurists, and all governments will be round re- luctant to concede a responsibility which necessarily feelings, bad faith or therefore, that on Our public debt. 1 becomes a matrer of In the present ‘To determme how far the matter be used for implies either dereliction of duty. the responsibility of Great Britain is materially adected by the ciroumstan¢es under which the several depredating ships ieit her ports, and it is equally evident that while she may be legally and morally responsible for spoliations vy severai ships, such liability cannot be determined for that reason to attach to all cases of spoliation which may have occurred, but each must be determined disuncuy on itsown merits. If a settlement for these losses should be gilected by and beeween Great Britain and the Individual Claimants it would naturally be ex- pected that each case of spoliation be presented by able counsel and satisfactorily established by proof— @ procedure necessarily involving great Cost and troubie to the persons aggileved, and one which must meine some ratuer to forego the prosecution of their demands than incur the charges of their col- government, these demands, would haye small charge te claims with the eviuence, be prepared to give general acquittance on such priucipies as would be mutually Another difficulty wouid be found tn mdlviduals itle- ment arising im the amount of drawback wiich might be deemed allow.ble for valid claims of Brilish subjects against the United States, unless they should be previously provided for; for it cane hot well be disputed that such cists, oi the rebellion, exist; and Ldo now Were practicable to establish to the satisiaction of botn governments the precise amount of thelr ace countability to our peopie oa the score of the Ala- 1108, 43 Well as ours to British subjects om other grounds, that the British authorities would venture to pay the former without assurances that the valid claims of England would be respected. truth, for reasons which need not be expressed, I am meined to belleve that Great Britain will not t to pay these claims to individuals or the government on terms other than such as involve a settlemout reciprocally of personal de- Tam guite sure our government would nos venture to appropriate public treasure to the pay- met of foreiga claims without providing tor the liquidation of foreign dues to American citizens; aad | What would be proper ior us we should not be un- willing to concede to others. | one government have equal claims upon another Whoreby they have suifered joss with its own cite ats atfords the only apology lor our &% erninent having patd 60 many iundiods of thov- sauds of dollars to the subjects of Great Britain sin , lle rebeiuion for war claims accorded by our Admt- | raity Couris—and only on this principle have che Alabama claims any Virtue. Sueu ofthe case, the policy of this gove precluded the hope of successiil application United Siates claunants to Great Brits to me quite proper, Just and reas: cordance with the government assame, adjust and p and thereby not only give an earnest of its con- fidence im their jusuce, bat suostantial evidence that they look for their settement by Great Britain Having paid them, our government may iagiude aud without prejedice to the claimants. Lf these claims, th thelr present uncer tain staie, have to await the acknowledgment of Great Britain, our governuent doing nothing to establish their amount and justice, their ovners may Well despair of realizing a dollar irom tiem, Incernaiionai, like other law, 18 determined by pre- cedents, and the opportunity now exists tr two great nations to establish an important principe afocuing the world at large, and of moch greater * consequence thau the sui invoived tn the aggregaye claims of the two countries reciprocaily, ‘The pill recently introduced in the House of Repre- sentatives by Mr. Builuton, of Massachusetts, is intended to carry out the recommendation of te President in his Message. Tt contemplates the awit. Ing and assuming of the damiges caused by tLe Alabama, Shenandoah, Florida and te Georgia, In juts Message the President alluded to no British ‘These vessels were the only In te John eatisiactory. ‘The subjects ot beug the sate resident's recommendation, our tiese claims, theim in a larger @ crulsers in particular, ones that were built in Britizh ports. son-Clarendon treaty the whole class of claims was known and andersiood as the Alabama clams; bub an examination of the correspondence Willsliow that the damages by all the four vessels were In Dir. Buiinton’s bil) the four yea. ‘The Mabilily of & = to ve included, particularly included, josses by these vessels may hot rest on wame ground In each case; out tat they are lable jor inese losse4 our government has always mata- A» to the Alabama, there was gross negl- gence in allowing her algo in the case of the Movida, In regard to tae case of the Shenandoah and Georgia te negligence It may have been dulicult 60 ob ‘hat these yostis were in- tended for the Conteterate goverameni; but that they were so Intended Was @ fact of common ramor, ly in regard to the damages caused els Was Mads Cortai When sie allowed them to come into her harbors to obtain sappites relrom a4 if they lad been as there wae Was not 40 gross, {ain exact information Therein and go out th legally cauipped Confederate veascis. It was fer undoubted dnty to have de’ these vessels wirenever the, ‘Tie Sbepandoah burned about twent, alter she had been into Melbourne and plicd with coal and imereaced her crew—all ints Vad Lo strongest protest by the United States ie United States has always demanded compen- Sation for wil Uiese vessels. und let the commissiou deteriwine the amount 8} let the Secvetiry of the ‘Treasuey to tie claimants and before they ma. be paid, prigcipal aad lulerest, by aving heen paid by the Uulted States #Ull Mave TIL Cont f S, eiUher fo saltely Let this bit be passe Vive they Wil @ Ai WIL pay tite crm. ned and assumed i States nd no chance Virbyal ciabna nis. Gy KENSHOY,