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CONGRESS. SENATE FINANCE DISCUSSION. Cuba and the American Flag in the House. THE SALARY DEBATE. Mr, Dawes on the Profits and Perquisites of the Presidency, SENATE, Wasuineron, Dec. 10, 1873. OIVIL RIGHTS, Mr. SumveR, (rep) of Mass., presented a petition Bf colored citizens, asking the passage of the Sup- plemental Civil Rights bill, Laid on the table. THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC. Mr. Fenron, (rep.) of N, Y., presented the peti- Gen of the Society of Friends and others in New York, asking the appointment of a committee to regulate the traffic in alcohulic liquors, and asking that it be reierred to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Scors, (rep.) of Pa., said he had a similar petition from the Young Men’s Christian Associa- tion of Philadelphia, asking that the sale of such liquors be prohibited, and, as there would prob- ‘ebly be some question as to the powers of Con- gress in the premises, be moved that the petition ve referred to the Judiciary Committee. ur. Epmunns, (rep.) of Vt., hoped the petitions would not be referred to the Judiciary Committee, fe would take the responsibility of saying that that committee would report that Congress had nothing to do with the vubject, except in the Dis- trict of Columbia and the Territories, He would be glad to see such legislation, but felt convinced that Congres# had no power, except as stated. Mesers, Frelinghuysen, Sumner, Thurman, Conk- ung, Sherman, Morrill, of Maine, and others pre- sented similar petitions to that of Mr. Fenton, A vote being taken, the Senate decided to refer ai to the Finance Committee. Mr, LoGAn, (rep.) of Il, presented a petition of business men of Chicago asking the establishment of @ brancn mint in that city. Referred to the Committce on Finance, Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.), Of Ohio, from the Commit- tee on Finance, reported favorably on a bill to authorize the organization of national banks with- out circulation. “Placed on the calendar, : BILLS INTRODUCED, Mr. ANTHONY, (rep.), of R. 1, introduced a bill repealing a portion of the act to expedite the prini- img o! public documents, which authorizes the printing of the Presidenv’s Message and the de- partmental reports for public distribution. Re- Jerred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. FERRY, (rep.), Of Mich., introduced a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to issue the $44,000,000 reserve ‘und, and make it part of the permanent circulation, The bill is designed Jor the immediate relief of the present stringency ‘and to restore confidence and business activity to the country, being part of the remedy o1 that gen- Ueman for the monctary derangement. Mr. CraGin, (rep.) of N. H., introduced a bill for the relief of certain contractors on vessels-ol-war and steam machinery. Referred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. Mr. FENTON, of New York, introduced a bill for the relief of Norman Wiard. Referred to the Com- mittee on Military Affairs, Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va., introduced a bill for free transportation of newspapers through the mails. Reljerred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, Mr. HITCHCOCK, (rep.) of Neb., introduced a bill to amend the act to encourage the growth of tim. ber on praines. Referred to the Committce on Public Lands, Mr. CxozigR, (rep.) of Kansas, introduced a bill repealing certain portuons of the act to promote the evelopment of the mining resources of the United States. Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining. THE STEAMBOAT LAW AMENDME? The House bill amendatory of the act to provide for the better security of liie on vessels propelled by steam was taken up. Mr. Scort, in reply to a question of Mr. Conk- ling, said the act was only to apply to towboats, #0 as to allow them to carry 150 pounds of steam to the square inch, It did not affect passenger vessels. The language of the act was identical ‘with that of the law which expires by limitation on the 17th inst. Both the Secretary of the Treas- ury and Supervising Inspector General of Steam- ry desired the passage of the bill. ‘The bill was Passed. GENERAL AMNESTY. The House bill granting general amnesty was Mr. SUMNER objected to the second reading of the bill to-day, not because he was opposed to gen- eral amnesty, but before it became a law he de- sired to secure justice to his colored fellow citizens, COTTON SEIZURES. Mr. Gorpon, (dem.) of Ga., submitted a resolu- tion directing the Secretary of the Treasury to communicate to the Senate the number of bates of cotton seized under orders of the department after the close of the war, from whom and where taken, by whom taken, when and where sold, at What price and what disposition was made of the Peeceeds, when and how much of the same went to the Treasury, and what disposition was made of the proceeds before being paid into the Treasury; also a list of claims fled betore tim, under the act of March, 1872, showing the mame of such claimant, how much cotton alleged tw have been taken, &c.; also the amount of expenses deducted from the proceeds of the sale of such cotton, and whether the same was allowed by the department and in whose favor. Laid over. CHEAP POSTAGE. Mr. SUMNER offered a resolution, which was agreed to, directing the Committee on Post OMices and Post Roads to consider the expediency of pro- Viaing a further convenience in correspondence, known as the “Letter Writer,” with a one cent wtamp, being a new article of stationery adopted for a letter, circular and newspaper wrapper. NATIONAL BANK RELIEF, Mr. Morton, (rep.) of Ind., introduced a bill pro- viding that any national banking association de- ciding to reduce its capital stock, as provided in section 13 of the National Currency act, shall be be entitled to take upa pro ratd portion of its bonds upon depositing Jawful money of the United States or returning its own circulating notes in the proportion required by law. Reterred to the Com- mittee on Finance. FREE TRANSMISSION OF NEWSPAPERS. Mr. Davis’ bill providing for the free transmis. mission by mai! of newspapers and periodicals authorizes newspaper exchanges to be made free Ol postage as formerly and also the free transmis- sion of weekly Ronareeets to subscribers within the county where published. CURRENCY IMPROVEMENT AND PUBLIC CREDIT, Mr. SHERMAN, from the Committee on Finance, reported the following resolution :— Resolved, That it is the duty of Congress during the present session to adopt definite measures to redeein the Pledge made in the act approved March 18, 1860, entitled An act to strengthen the public credit, ‘as follows:— “ana the United States solemuly pledges its faith to make provision at the earliest practicable period jor the Tedemption of the United States notes in coin.” And the Committee on Finance is directed to report to the senate, at as early a day as practicable, such measures as will not only redeem this pledge of the public faith, but will also furnish a currency of uniform value, always re- deemable in gold or its equivalent, and #0 adjusted as to meet the changing wants of trade’and commerce, Mr. BAYARD submitted the ule 3 as embody- ing the views of the minority of the Finance Com- mittee — Whereas a just regard tor the interests of every class of the community demands that the national basis of finance shall consist of a currency of unitorm standard anq intrinsic value, therefore, be Resolved, That the Coun on Finance be, and they are hereby, instructed to report to the Senate measures which will secure, at the earliest practicable day, a re- turn to specie payinents. Mr. SukRMAN gaid it was the desire of the com- Mittee in offering the resolutions to ascertain definitely the wishes of the Senate on this im- portant subject, Mr, Morton said an early day should be fixed for its consideration. He had hopes that before the holidays some measure would be devised and pressed to shorien the panic now in the country Gnd reileve the financial embarra Mr. SUMNER Was glad to see that the committee ‘was 80 neurly in accord. He thought there was but littie difference in the views of the majority and minority, and ue hoped the national honor would be saved. Mr. Fenty, of Michigan, a member of the com- Mittee, said he desired tu present his own views iiinndeg woah wre ech do so at the proper time, n ‘a8 xe vonsid- eration of the sunecs d as the day jor the consid LEGAL TENDER. Mr. HAMILTON, (dem.) of Md., submitted an Amendment to the constitution’ of the United States, declaring that the United States should paeke make nothing but gold and silver coin @ cate. for the payment of public or private At a quarter past one P.M. the Sen: " on of Mr. CAMERON, Went Into executive eeneion And at twoo'clock the doors were reopened and ‘We Senate adjourned until to-morrow, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 1873, CUBAN INDEPENDENCE, Mr. Prm.irs, (rep.) of Kansas, asked leave to Offer a resolution, reciting the fact that a state of war has existed for some years in the island of Cuba, and that under its excitement the steamer Virginius hae been seized, the American fag hauled down wud » Jorge DpMvOS Of Kavee AR doar cruelly massacred, and declaring that in that mas- sacre Congress recognized acts of barbarism un- worthy of civilization; that the Umited States shonid use Means to suppress and check such cruel acts; that Congress reafirms the doctrine that the occupants of any portion of the American Cop- tment or the islands thereof are the proper rulers of the country they occupy; that iv is the duty of the United States, whenever the people of Cuba or any other part of America indicate their desire to throw off a yoke, promptly to recognize and sympathize with them; that in view of recent events humanity dictates an early recognition of Cuban independence; that the continued exist- ence of African slavery in Cuba is inconsistent ‘with and injurious to the civilization of the Conti. nent, and that it is the duty of the United States government to exert all means in its power for its speedy overthrow, and that all violations of our maritime rights or disrespect to the American flag should be promptly met. Mr. ORTH, (rep,) of Ind,, objected to the recep- tion of the resolution unless its author would have it referred, Mr. Puo..ips consented to that, and the resolu- tion was referred to the Committee on Foreign af- fairs, UNITED STATES CONSUL GBNBRAL AND AGENT IN woYrr, Mr. Orrn, of Indiana, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint resolution to change the name ofthe Agent and Consul General of the United States at Alexandria, pt, to that of Agent and Consul General oi the United States at Caire. Adopted, IMPROVEMENT OF PLYMOUTH HARBOR. Mr. BurFinTon, $e, of Mass., offered a resolu- tion directing the Secretary of War to cause an ex- amination or survey of the harbor of Plymouth, Mass., with a view to dredging and improving the same, 80 as to afford pare Protection and Jacili- ties to commerce, and that he report on the possi- binty of making such improvement and the proba- ble cost thereof, Adopted, TAMPERING WITH MAIL MATTER. Mr. DaWEs, (rep.) Of Mass., offered a resolution directing the Postmaster Generalto inform the House whether any Custom House officers or detec- tives have been allowed to examine correspond- ence passing through the New York or Boston Post Offices, and whether any such officials have opencd or otherwise tampered with such correspondence for the purpose of ascertaining whether the reve- nue laws have been violated, or for any other pur- pose, and to report ail the tacts to the House, Adopted, COST OF RE-FUNDING THE PUBLIC DEBT. Mr. Woop, (dem.) of N. Y., from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a resolution direct- Secretary of the ‘reagury to report the junding the public devt thus tar into the five per cent bonds, witha detailed statement of the amounts paid on that account, to woom paid, including travelling and other expenses of any per- sons aitached to the Treasury Department; also whether, in the adjustment of differences of inter- est, the government has received its proper allow- ance, with a detailed statement of the interest ac- count, giving the amounts, dates and name of par- tes with and through whom the negotiations were made. Adopted. BANKS WITHOUT CIRCULATION. Mr. MaYNarD, (rep.) of Tenn., introduced a bill to authorize the organization of national banks without circulation, Relerred to the Committee on Banking and Currency, AGRICULTURAL REPORTS, Mr. Hays, (rep.) of Ala., from the Committee on Agriculture, reported a resolution for the printing O1 265,000 copies of eagh of the annual agricultural reports Of 1872 and 1873, Referred to the Commit- tee on Printing. Mr, RANDALL, (dem.) of Pa,, stated in connection with the same subject that the Post Office Comuut. tee had nad betore it the question of public docu- ments and referred it to a sub-committee. The subject also embraced the point of repealing former legisiation in connection with the circula- tion of newspapers within the counties where pub- lished, and also as to exchange, INCREASE OF SEAMEN IN THE NAVY. Mr. SCOFIELD, Of Pa., irom the Naval Committee, Teported a bill authorizing the present number of enlisted men of the navy to be increased irom 8,500 to 10,000 men. He proceeded to explain the bill, and said that the Secretary of the Navy had in- formed the Committeefon Appropriations that ke had not nen enough to man the sips. He, lor one, should not have been very strongly inclined to make this increase tor the present emergency, be- cause he was under the impression that it would not be needed. Mr, HALE, (rep.) of Me., asked Mr. Scofield whether the idea was that this increase should be permanent, or was the number to be cut down again to itsold figure? Mr. SCOFIELD replied that the Jaw would be per- manent, of course, until it was changed, . GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ono, offered at ment, providing that the temporary mcrease of the jorce should not continue beyond tl 1st of January, 1875. He believed that the speck of war would ‘soon blow away, and that the country Would find itself again in calm and peace with mend- Spain. Mr. COBURN, (rep.) Of Ind., asked why then in- crease the navy? Mr. GARFIELD replied that the Was aware of the jacts which had transpired recently in relation to the Spanish government, Mr. Bxck, (dem.) of Ky., declared that no Secre- tary should have authority to increase either the’ army or the navy. Congress should retain that power in its own hands, Mr. CoBURN regarded the proposition as at least uniortunate, ‘The government was doing every- thing it could to bring about an amicabie adjust- ment, and it seemed to him that while that condi- tion of alfairs existed any increase of the war power of the vee mignt create agitation and apprehensions which would tend to break up the negotiations for an amicable adjustment. The government had found itself with a comparatively sinall naval force of ships 12 commission. There were & number of ships not in commission which it was deemed safer to put ona war footing to meet any emergency—that had been deemed the salest atid surest way to preserve peace and pre- vent war, Mr. Coburn inquired what would be the cost of these additional 1,600 men? Mr. GARFIELD said he could not state that, but he had been instructed by the Committee on Ap- propriatious to report # bill appropriating $4,000,000 for extraordinary expenses of the navy. He proposed that the matter should be postponed until the result of the negotiations be- came known. It might take a week, or two weeks, or three weeks, but. if war broke out and the conn- try was called upon to act, the enlistment of 1,500 men for the navy would be accomplished in a single day. Let a declaration of war be ounce made and there would be no scarcity of men eituer for the army or navy. Mr. KASSON, (rep.) of Iowa, advocated the bill as @ necessary measure. He would vote lor iteven Without the amendment, making the increase tern- porary. He wantea the navy made competent to protect the American commerce and flag from in- sults by European Powers. He hoped the time wuuld soon come When the American navy would be suficient to have a ship in every port where ees commerce was subject to any kind of anger. Mr. ARCHER, (dem.) Of Md., supported the bill and stated that one month aiter the outrage on the Virginius there were only 22 guns op American vessels in Cuban waters, the Worcester carey 14, the Wyoming 6 and the Saugus 2. The Spanish navy in the Cuban waters at the same time carried 380 guns, It was not possibie for the American navy to have 68 guns there before the Ist of Janu- ary next, Such vessels asthe navy had were in foreign waters, and it was a godsend that if there were to be complications with Spain sach com- lications could not arise until after December 25. ‘t Was possible within 120 days to have an Ameri- can fleet of 500 guns in the Cuban waters; but Spain could also have # navy of 614 guns, embracing four of the most powerful iron-clads in the world. He was aware of the great recuperative energy of the country and of the great ability of Admiral Porter, and he was satistied that whatever difficulties might arise the country would be prepared for every emergency. Mr. STARKWEATHER, (rep.) of Conn., said that inasmuch as the preparation of the American Lavy had been underrated he thought that no harm could come from stating the fact that the navy was in @ good degree of readiness to meet any emergency that was likely to arise. He hoped and believed that no war would occur with Spain; put if war was to come he hoped it would come on no tdle or irivolous pretext, but in compliance with the sub- stantial judgment of the country; not to avenge any fancied wrongs, but to defend the honor and integrity of the nation. It was true that there had been only 18 guns of the American navy in the vicinity of the dificulty, but to-day there were more than 890 gans within reach of that difficulty. They were Leva ait tread roy they were within very reas unity an rt. ved ais meee. eke bic) even hte Poult FS ho neceasity for that. He hoped not, because the country needed and desired an era of peaco 80 as to recuperate from the ravages of the last war. Alter further discussion by Messrs. Beck, of Ken- tucky; Speer and Myers, of Pennsylvania, aud Hale, gf jajne, Mr. Garfieid’s amendment was adopted, and the bill thus amended Was passed, CODIFICATION OF THE LAWS. Mr. BUTLER, (rep.) of Mass,, presented a codifi- cation of United States laws Notiees by commia- sioners jor that purpose, and on his motion it was referred to the Commitvee on the Revision of the Laws. FOUR MILLION DOLLARS POR THE NAVY, Mr. GARFIELD, Of Ofiio, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported a bill Lo get anti | $4,000,000 for extraordinary mses Of the Navy. Keterred to the Committee of Whoie, THE SALARY DEB. The House, then, at hatf-p: one o'clock, re bate on ary question. Mr. TREMAIN, (rep.) of N. ¥., addressed the House in favor of the proposed reduction. He agreed with the report of the minority of the select com- mittee in the statement that, in every form by which the pablic will could be expressed throug! conventions, through legislative bodies and entleman himself through the public press, the increase of sala: had been con emned” As to the suggestions made alary bill wae Yesterday that the repeal of the urged by demagogues, he remarked that if that representative 18 a demagogue who faithfully labors to carry out the popular will, and who in doing so is willing to submit to personal sacrifice and loss, then he wished that the House were full of such Comeccguon He ppppoeed WM RARBAUA.O Ur ite vie who might be called anti-dema Ror A “4 which believed gogues, belonged to that school Bnd, practised the belief that public offices were created, not for the benefit of th ie, but for the benefit of the inc! and w umbent ere Willing to trample under foot the TNonest old doctrine of common law, that every public office was created for the pupiie, wellare, and that every one ‘who accepted public office did so with the implied condition that ms duty should be diseh solely with a view to the public welfare. As an extra- ordinary example of that class of public officers he referred the House to one who had once been & member of that body, who subsequently held office in the city of new York, and who, by means ot con- spiracy with other office-holders, used public office for the aggrandizement Of bis own fortune. That man had suffered the penalty which sooner or later comes to punish those who Violate the laws of God or man. Those who wished to profit by that man’s example might look in upon him in cell No. 34 of the Penitentiary op Blackweii’s Island. After a classical and amusing allusion to Mr. Cox in the character of a “dew-drop,”’ which he had given him yesterday, Mr. Tremaine went on to say that ts was a time when members should ling to make personal sacrifices. ‘The coun- try was passing through @ crisis of unparalleled severity and of embarrassment of commercial, manufacturing and agricultural interests. Hun- 8 and thousands of laborers were found in the streets unable to procure employ- ment, and in the meanwhile the pressure of taxation to: meet the interest of the na- tional debt was resting most heavily on the in- dustry of the country. The people had lavished their confidence on their representatives and thi should prove worthy of tiat confidence. He nopet to see substantial piantaley on this question, The angry waves of partisanship which recently raged 80 furiously were gradually subsiding. He was sure he spoke the sentiment of every gentleman of the House when he said that if it were necessary to-morrow to vindicate the unatoned and unsutis- fied dishonor inflicted on the national Mag there was not one of them who would not vote all the Men and all the money necessary to wipe out that stain on the national honor af all hazards, He therefore appealed to the House to act with una- nimity on this question and to repeal the act of March 3, 1873 By so doing he was sure they would receive @ reward better than the $5,000 which they surrendered, They would not only re- ceive the consciousness of having done their duty according to their oath, but they would feel that they deservea and should receive that welcome encomium go grateiul to every hard working rep- resentative, “Well done, good and faithful servant.’? Mr, HawLey, rep.) of Conn., addressed the House in favor of the reduction of salaries. He did not object to the imcrease given to the mem- bers of the Cabinet and Justices of the Supreme Court. He was perfectly willing that those officials who come to Washington and keep house in @ respectable eS should have $10,000 a year, As to the President’s salary, he had not voted to make it $50,000, and would uotdoso. He was sorry to see such & tone of denunciation or censure as prevailed in the House on this subject. It was below the tone of the nation. He would vote for a reasonable reduction of sala aN to give mem- bers what he thought they ought to have, Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., favored the reduc- tion of salaries of members and Senators, but did not believe that the people required any inter- ference with the salaries of other officials. He, therefore, could not support the bill of the minority, As to the back pay, the will of the people shouid be respected. Ifit had not been stealing, it had been at least a very bad blunder, and blunders were sometimes as bad as crimes. Mr. E. H. ROBERTS, (rep.) of N. ¥., was the next speaker. The voice oi the people, he said, ougiut to be listened to. If that voice was unreasonable, it should be defied; but if 1t was just it should be respected. In this case he obeyed the popular will, because he believed it was right. The same reasons Which actuated him in opposing the in- crease Jast session controlied him now. Gentle- men belittied the question when they made it a ersonal question only, It was true that great vio- lence and lack of disotimination had characterized the public press on this question. He trusted that none of them would object to criticism even it it were trenchant and severe, But the indiscriminat ¢ abuse of public men, without reason and without decent pretext, was a crying shame. If its effects could be Kept at home it would not be so mis- chievous, although it diminished the incitement to laudable ambition. Ul memvers carried their eyes to the other side of the Atlantic they would see how greatly more mischievous it was. Mr. NEGLEY, (rep.) of Pa.—Did not the gentleman earry his back pay to the other side of the At- lanuc ? Mr. Roperts—If the gentleman has satisfied his own conscience with reicrence to his own back pay he has periormed his duty, but I appeal to him not to decide my duty for me. Mr. Ne@LEY—1 mean nothing unkind to the gep- tleman, but I simply make the inquiry whether the gentleman did not lately return his back pay to the ‘Treasury ? Mr. RowerTs—When I assent to degrade this body by a personal controversy it will be when [ change my esumate of public duty. Isay that this indiscriminate abuse of public men, this attempt to drag down gentlemen in this body, is an injury not to a party, not to individuals, but to the coun- try a8 a whole. Look at the exhibitions on this floor, What 18 the effecy of them abroad? Monarchists conclude that in republics virtue goes into retirement. The great evil of Uhis general denunciation is that it strikes at the integrity and honor of the Republic, and yet this hewspaper criticism grows out of @ moral senti- ment higher than has ever betore prevailed, It is the expression—morbid, perhaps—but still the ex- pression of something commendable—the expres - sion of an aroused public conscience. Let the iconoclast break down the idols if he will, but let his fury be stayed before he destroys the household gods and the divinity of the Republic. Let these critics restrain the tury of their denunciations, Let us also be macly enough to accept whut is true in their criticism, Mr. NIBLACK, (dem.) of Ind., said that he had opposed an increase of salary last session, not only because he thought that it carried bad laitn farther than it had ever been curried beiore on that subject, and was setting a dangerous pre- cedent, but because he thought that it placed the compensation of members and other officials far higher than was required by any exigency of the public service. He doubted whether the Increase to members was of any real advantage to them. He thought that it made the contest ior seats more sharp, more bitter and more expensive than it had been under the old syste! He thought that, under all the circumsiances, the most graceful thing to do was simply to reinstate substantially the old law, leaving all other questions connected with it to be setticd hereaiter on some more ap- propriate asion, He preferred the bill reported by the select committee to any other proposition that had been submitted, because he believed it Was one on which the House was more likely to har- monize than any other. He did not think that the compensation of the members of the Cabinet and of the judges of the Bapiome Court was too high; | but he thought that the President's salary was out of all proportion to all the other salaries fixed last session. It gave the President five times as much as a member of the Cabinet ora judge of the Su- preme Court, and that was out of proportion to the nature of the service and the obligations, duties and expenses of their respective positions. Mr. Dunnam, (dem.) of Ky., Said that, while he did not believe that the compensation of members as fixed by the last Congress Was one cent too much, he would still vote for_a reduction, in obe- dience to public sentiment. He would vote to have the salary fixed at $5,000, but at the same time ne believed that bis district demanded, and that the good of the whole country demanded, the restora- tion of the franking privilege. Mr. PHELPS, (rep.) of N. J., favored the bill re- ported by the committee, though he was rather ielined to prefer to it the amendment proposed by Mr. Townsend, of Penusylvania., fixing the sal- ary of members at $6,000 a y ir. FRYE, (rep.) of Me., did not want to make a pre! but desired to enter a caveat at this stage of the proceedings. If the debate continued for two or three aays longer and 100 or 200 more speeches were made, all of them in favor Of the re- peal of the Salary bill, his constituents would cer- ainly come to the conclusion that it required an iImwense amount of powder to betag, him to. He wished to say, not to the House, but to his tar off constituents,’ that he should not make & — speech, that there was no _ need of his making a speech, and that the speecties made here were not for his conversion, because he had always been in the faith and needed no con- version. He simply desired his constituents to un- derstand this. (Laughter and oy lause.) Mr. Dawes, rep.) of Mass., said that he made no claim to the gift of prophecy, but if he predicted anything when he opposed the increase of salary last session his prediction was history now. [fhe urged then any reasons why that measure shouid not become a law, the people of the country, as well as the condition of the country, pronounced them now to have been good and valid reasons, He had not then imputed an; wrong motive to any gentleman who differed wit him on that occasion, and if, since then, he had taken occasion, im public or otherwise, to criticise that measure, he had impugned the motives of no man who was instrumental in the passage of that law. He had believed it then to be unwise; he be- ho it now—more, if possible, than then—to have en an unwise measure. Tuose who had sup- Bee dal Hie alto hs them of what was their error, He had Stated then that the proposition to impose for ali coming time an annual drain of $2,500,000 on the Treasury of the United States was inopportune and unwise; that it was at @ time when, for the very arter in which it was done, the revenues had lien off $8,600,000 and the expenditures had tn- creased iu about the same proportion, To-day, he continued, we meet a deficit in the revenues of the country of three times that amount, and tid further inc! ane in tl timates of Xpenditure for the coming year of mo! times that amount. I frought then that if thero ‘Was sume occasion—as I thought there was and still think—for the revision of rates of compensation of persons in the olvil service of the United States, it was unwise for us to begin with ourselves and with those officers of the government who were best compensated for their services. 1 thought then, and every oy. has developed more the truca of what I then said, that were officers of the gov- ernment on whose responsivility and integrity the very revenues of the country depended, and who were cking out a scanty subsistence on @ mere pittance Of compensation, and that it ‘Would be well tor us, if there was or disposition on our part to increase the compensation, to begin with them; but, on the very result of @ Presiden- tial election, which had placed us in power as the party. of economy, to tolerate in this House and to ‘9Uh OUTHOLVAO Amd those 1a ihe yNBW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1873-TRIPLE, SHERRY. best paid of all for their services—and to let those on whose ini the collection of the reve- nues depend mand in vain sufficient to keep them from temptation, was unwise; bat others thought differently, While I was Speaker there were Treasury officials in custom houses} who were receiving more than $100,000 for thetr services, ‘The figures | have at my com- mand. I could get no hearing here on & measure of eq their compensation with that of those on whose judgment as appraisers and as measurers and as other officials the col- lection of the reveaues depended and who could get but $1,600 for thelr services, ‘The reasons that I then urged are the reasons that now urge me to tue undoing of everything we then aid, just as faras the constitution of the United States will permit us. We are mistaken if we sup- Vaya) that anything short of that will meet either ie public expectations of to-day or the fair and honest judgment of the future on our acts. We mast undo all that we did then, as far as the con- stitution of the United States will permit it. I de- sired simply to make that statement, as the reason which will govern all the votes that I shall give here on the various measures, There was no more reason why we should raise the salaries of the others mentionea in the bill than there was why We should raise ourown. The constitution of the United States has wisely guarded the Executive Inst any encroachment on his compensation. e can, therefore, talk freely about the salary of the Executive, because we know that any thing we do cannot reach the present Executive. He stands before the country, thank God, as one Who never sought that place as a position for the attainment of wealth; but we have made the compensation tor the future together with the perquisites o! the office, so high that hereatter, when ne shall have left that place, we shali proclaim to the country that the highest office in its gilt is a position for the attainment of wealth. If we leave the matter there, contenting onrselyes with the idea that this whole condemna- tion ts confined to the fact that it touches our own salary, We misjudge. With the $200,000 salary there are perquisites allowed which vary very little every year Irom $50,000—sometimes above and sometimes below that gare, 80 that we leave the President's office hereafter with a compensation of $400,000 attached to ft jor the term; and 1 submit that, when we can do it without our motives being impugned, when we stand so far from any person whom it can affect, and when we can do it under circumstances that nobody can say it 18 a reflection upon him, is is our duty to meet that question, and to meet it fairly and equarely, The salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court were only, two years before that, made $8,000 a@ year by the addition of $2,000, and with a pen- on for life, Wecannot touch their salaries; but there Was no propriety, in my ovinion, after hav- ig xed their salaries at $8,000 and a pension for JL, to have added $2,0.0 more to them, But that 18 covered by the constituti The Cabinet ofii- cers had also $3,000 a year, and their saiaries were increased to $10,000, “I submit, thereiore, that the people understand that measure, which, when passed, not only embraced our own compensation and put it at an unreasonable figure, but that it put all the others in a like position. It did so while there were other officers of the goyernment demanding, under e¢irgum- stances Which required our attention, that their compensation should be increased, But we turned a deaf ear to them. I wish to call the attention of the House to another feature in the bill of the majority which never was in any other compen- sation bill. Hitherto, the Salary of the President ol the Senate and of the Speaker of the House was just double the compensation of a member up to the last increase in 1866. By that last increase, instead of being made $10,000, double the compen- sation Oi members, it was put at $8,000, which was the compensation of members of the Cabinet. Now 1n this bill it is proposed to bring down the salary of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House to $8,000 and leave that of Members ofthe Cavbmet at $10,000. They are thus put below the standard at which their compensa- tion was fixed up to this time, and while I hold that it should remain at $8,000 I hold also that the salary of members of the Cabinet should be brought down to the same figure. It is just as easy for ns to pags such a bill, so jar as the constitation will permit it, as it will be to pass the bill reported by this committee. 1¢ is no sound argument and no answer to make to the people of the country, that we have only time to do this par- tial measure. We have ample time. We have time enough to do it; and I tell the people of the country that unless it is done in this bill it never will be done. The attempt to put through this bill, so circumscribed, is an attempt—l do not mean to say that it was designed on the part oi those who reported it, but the coun- try will read it, and will have a right so to read it—to shield the remainder of the officers em- braced in the bill of the last session from any re- duction of their compensation. -In the present crisis, and under the present burdens of the people, with the revenues of the country falling off, and with your committees, charged with the un- pleasant duties of looking around among the in- dustries o: the country to see where some new taxes can be imposed to meet the current expenses of the government, you have got to answer for it to tne people why you do not undo what you con- fess here it was unwise for you to do, Mr. HALR, (rep.) of N. Y.—I ask the gentleman from Massachusetts, as the leader of the House and as chairman of the chief financial cominittee of the House, whether, in his judgment, leaving the voice of the people aside for the moment, and on his oath as a member ol the House, he considers the salary of $10,000a year am inordinate or extravagant salary, either for the head of a department or for a Judge 'of the Supreme Court? Mr. Dawks—in a country which prides itself on its simplicity of manners and o! institutions, ina country where no place ought to be sought in the gilt of the people for the money it confers, I say to my friend trom New York, what he will find in the records of two years ago, that I believe it will be a sorry day for this country when we put such compensation to our offices that they will be sought jor the money they wil: bring, and J say, thereiore, that it is better for every one of these men that their compensation shall be what it was beiore tue passage ot the law of 1873, Mr. MayNnaRv—1l ask the gentleman from Massachusetts whether he does or does not think it would be a sorry day for this country when @ man would be constrained to decline an ommce tendered to him, either on the Supreme Bench or any other place, because the salary of the office is insufMicient to support him? Mr. Dawrs—I think that the greatest and best men of the country who can be bought by the money of an office had better decline it in the be- Lavras re Mr. MAYNARD—The gentleman has failed to un- derstand the point of my inquiry, for he certainly bas not met it. Task him whether he dves not think it would be a public calamity when a man, suitable and fitted and called to an office, would be compelled to decline it because the compensa- tion was insufficient to support him ? Mr. DAWES—Witn all frankness | say It wouid be. While you may have, here and there, in the lon; lite of the Republic, such an instance as that, want to know of my friend from Tennessee whether he would not think it a calamity to have such offices sought after by inferior men all over 6 panne tor the pay which they would bring them Mr. MaYNaRD—Undoubtedly: and, therefore, I want to see what would be adequate salaries. Mr. G. F. Hoar, (rep.) of Mass.—aly colleague's statement in reference to the President's perqui- sites will undoubtedly attract attention through- out the country. He has stated that the perquisites of the President's office amount, on an average, to $50,000 a year, making the salary and perquisites for @ single term $400,000. Now I wish to ask bim how he makes out that sum ? Mr. Dawes—I have done just this—I have taken from the Sep coration bills the sums appropri- ated for the President’s household and his house just what would be expended by any other officer who has his own house; not the cost of the house, but the yearly appropriations for carrying it on and Keeping it in order and repairs, Mr. G. F, Hoak—Is it not for maintaining the state in that house which pertains to the receptions and other expenses of the office ? Mr. DawEs—They are the sums which the Presi- dent, if he were ea on a@ footing with otner ofti- ciais, Would be obliged to pay out of his own in- om come. Mr. G. F. Hoar—If he did not have it appropri- ated he would not spend it; that is the whole ol it, Mr. Dawes’ 20 minutes here expired. Mr. ites (dem.) of Ill, favored the repeal of the Salary bill. He believed that that was avery unfortunate measure; unfortunate because it had shaken the confidence of the country in their pub- lic Servants to a great extent, and had shaken the confidence of the country tn some of the best men occupying seats ineither house, If he had voted for that measure last session he would still believe it ought to be repealed, because on a question of this kind the will of the people ought to be omnipotent. He believed, also, that the pending biil should be amended by a provision that no member shall draw his salary until after be had Sypeared and qualified and taken his seat, . SOUTHARD, (dem.) of Ohio, believed that the whole of the law of the last session should be re- pealed, and not a part of it pay The bill of the minority was good pro tanto. it was one step in the right direction. and one step only. Mr. Have, (of Maine), who has charge of the bill, permit to become & law @ measure which would Cen fa~te Gave notice that he would move the previous ques- tion at three o’clock P, M. Fron. NEW COMMITTEES. phys Speaker announced the following commit- ee8 — On the Mississippt Levees—Messts. Morey, of Louisiana; Hurlbut, of Illinois; Stanard, of Mis- sourt; Pieree, of Massachusetts; Lewis, of Ten- haat Ganda, of Pennsylvania, aud Lamar, of PP! On the Centennial Celebration and the proposed National Census vf 1875.—Messrs. Kelley (of Pa.), yin (of Conn.), G. F, Hoar (of Mass.) , Shan! ‘of Ind.), Woodford (of N. Y.), Butler (of Tenn.), mith (of Ohio), Fort (of Ml), Clayton (of Cal.), Wells (of Mo.), Young (of Ga.), Harris (of Va.), Standford (of Ky.). The House then, at half-past four o'clock, ad- journed. OITY AND COUNTY TREASURY. Comptroller Green reports the followthg disburse- ments and receipts of the treasury yesterday :— Claims paid, number of warrants 64, amounting to. $415,459 Pay rolls, number of warrants 41, amounting to... 2,952 Total number of warrants 108, amounting to.....g421,Ul neOKIPTS. From taxes of 1873 and interest. $68,253 From arrears of taxes, assessments and inter 8014 From collection of assesements and interest 5931 From market rents aud fees. 99 From water rents. 1,087 From licenses, Mayor's Office. 18 TOMA covenevevegseryeevpensney LED ASTRAY. The New Play at the Union Square Theatre. To THE Eprror oF THe HERALD. Perhaps you will permit one more objection to the views your theatrical critic has taken of “Led Astray.” As I have always noticed in the HERALD @ great liberality in giving a hearing to those who dissent from its own opinions 1 send you mine, firm tn what the poiiticians wonld cail the rectitude of my intentions, As [have seen it “Led Astray” combines in Itself every requisite for @ good play, Aside trom the title, there is mo defect in it, It deals with a good and legitimate subject, not mawkishly, not sensa- tionally, but in @ robust, manly tone. The story is told with that exquisite and easy art, that facile mastery of dramatic evolution, which is the result of ripened experience. It is impos: ble toimpugn its moral; its literary quality is high; 1 is the richest recent success Of the stage in point of character, and the dialogue is fresh, pithy, clear and graceful. Can we require more than this on the stage belore we acknowledge excellence? And if @piay with so many points in its favor as I have here run over is to be confounded by the pubiic press with the theatrical garbage with which the boards are recking, where is the advantage to au- thors, actors or managers of their endeavors to meet the calls of good taste? And where is ihe value of your theatrical column, which has been supposed to be an instructive indication and record of theatrical doings? Have I pitched too highly the praise of a piece which your critic treated the other day with flip- pant scorn? Let us see, by the light of some crit- ical examination of the play itself, as none was given in your notice, “Led Astray” is a love story. Love is the staple of all our romance and of half our history, and love stories, since the world began, have been the themes that “inhabit in the finest wits of all.’ It is not, therefore, a case for apology when genius tells us one more Jove story; for men and women— of whom the world 18 mostly made up—are as much interested in the theme now as they were in the days of Hero and Leander or of Lafli and Mag- nun, or of King Dushmanta and the forest maiden; and if it be true as written, that “all mankind love a lover,” it should be a gooa primary point in a story’s favor that one could say of it— ‘The spinners and the knitters iu the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bone Do use to chaunt it; itis silly, sooth, And dailies with the innocenée of love, ‘All that in fact is critically required is that it should not be just the same story as the old ones; that some new conceptions of the relation of love should be given us; that some hitherto unnoted point should be indicated where the old passion and the old human nature fret against the frame- work of the newer world; and that the poet who perceives these new relations should ‘clothe his case in circumstances” more or less unworn. And all this demand the new play meets. It is not at all the ordinary love story of the shilling novel, and does not end in 80 many yards of white lace and sprigs of artificial erange blossoms. On the contrary, the lovers are married when we meet them first, and yet the early dawn of =‘ their passion nas not come, 80 that the story treads ground but little travelled in dealing more strictly with the inteliectual and social relations of the theme, and reaches a cli- max in which the usual ‘Go and be happy” of the comedies 1s well replaced by a dénouement that 18 in the thought and perception of the auditor be- fore it is acted, hut yet 1s not the less dramatic and successful, because the skillul delineation of the natures of the pair have made it assume the force ot a reality. Armande de Chandoce is a neglected wife—a high bred, virtuous woman of the eréme de la créme—beautiiul, admired, leading a lite supposed to be as elegant as the inside of a brougham lined with violet satin; but she finds this life to be somewhat vague and empty, and, in short, 1s not happy. She has romantic tastes. Her brilliant society lite dees not fill her fancy, and with a per- son of her station there is clearly little or no do- mestic life, 80 she drifts along on the surface of a glittering, unsatisfactory existence, ready to ve- come a victim—one of Charies Reade’s “white doves born to be clutched.” Rudolph de Chan- doce, her husband, is an unsimpering person—a , nobleman who hunts in the country and inhabits ; his clab in town; an outspoken gentieman, with un- commonly little nonsense in him. It is to be as- sumed, we suppose, that the marriage was one of convenance, Such are the relauons of the pair, and the wife is tempted, but is not “led astray’’—that is, Bot in the sense in which these words are generally accepted. She resists the temptation, and is superior to it, and ifthe words can be at all applied it is only inthe sense that her thoughts dallied with | the danger, She remains on the nither side of the rubicon, and the scene in the fourth act, in which thisis made to appear, is one of the finest ex- | pressions of womanly dignity on the stage. That one stroke would be sufficient to stamp Miss Eytinge as an actress of the first class. Lady Mon- tague said:— In part she is to blame who has been tried— He comes too near who comes to be denied. And it is only on this strict doctrine that Armande can be said to have been led astray. In this sketch of the relations of the husband and wife itcan be readily seen are the elements of a vital struggle of touching interest, and itis in this struggle that the two come to know one another, and their love grows from that knowledge. As you will observe, I have given you only the atmosphere of the piece, not venturing to tres- pass on your space with an analysis of the struc- ture by which the theme is so skilfully wrought out, for I wish to touch especially on the svarcely comprehensible imputation of immorality. If this play be immoral where shall we find morality? Its heroine is tempted and listens a little to the voice of the tempter, but warns him away. Is this immoral in fact or tendency? Does the immorality consist in the fact that a temptation is shown? But since the Christian world has been taught for nearly two thousand years to utter its daily prayer to be spared temptation one would natu- raliy suppose that temptation is a fact so worked | into the fabric of human life that a story of human passion cannot be completed without it; and this is true. How shall fiction exhibit the triumph of virtue if temptation be not part of its mingied yarn? Are the eyes of dramatic critics so debauched by the recent stage that they don’t know morality when they see it? “Led Astray” is an admirably told story, and its scenes are a suceession of situations of great dramatic force, satirical point or dainty humor. Its dramatic flow reaches high tide at the last scene of the third act—the proper point—where the Count Chandoce (Mr. Thorne), having sur- prised De Ia Sparre making love to the wife, who had vainly endeavored to escape nim, comes to an understanding with the iover—an un- derstanding that they must fight, but that the true cause of their fighting must not be known, lest the scandal should touch the iady’s name. The consequent hasty game of cards, the imputation of cheating, the blow—all this rapidly, naturally, skil- fully presented—is @ first class success in writing and acting. Mr, Boucicault acknowledges his indebtedness to Octave Feuiliet; but he is no more indebted to Feuillet than Feuillet himself was indebted to the origtnat author of the story, Major Valbzeha, of the French army. Valbzehn’s story was entitled “Le Chien d’Alciviade,” and was published nearly twenty years ago. Iam inclined to believe that Mr. Bouci- cault has, as well as Feailiet, used the original story. In Valbzehn the story really turns upon the nice sense of honor toward the woman in the dealings between the two mem; not only in Keeping tne secret irom the world, which the hasband exacts of the lover for the sake of his ewn name, but also in keeping from the woman the secret of the duel, and even keeping from her the very knowledge that her weakness had been discovered—all of which the lover exacts from the husband in a chivalrous spirit of tenderness, which evidently had all the gallant Major’s sympathies. In Vaib- rehn’s story the wife fell; but this is not necessary to the effect, and is changed in the present piay. evsuveresecene GAM thi Take it altogether, we have had no Ww play on our stage this iong while combining such depth in subject WivD aki im tae treatments a8 the nres- ent. I¢is@ happy recurrence to Mr, Boucieault’s best atyle, the magic o! which he seemed iately to have somewhat lost. Tne Count, the Countess, the lover, the little daughter, Hector, the two grandmothers, all these are successes in character. They are drawn with a firm, clear hand, that gives individuality at every touch, and one remembers them as if they were persons, and leaves the theatre, too, happier tor having known them, Permit me to say a word more as to the acting, It is evenly excellent throughout; done with a nicety and finish and an unstagy art that is worthy the highest praise, Miss Eytinge and the young lady who did so excellently the naive little daughter, with Mr. Thorne and the personator of Hector, were perfect. FLIBBERTIGIBBET. A Card from the Author. To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Your correspondent “Playgoer’” accuses me of egotism in the few words spoken last Saturday night: at the Union Square Theatre. He could only allude to the announcement that ‘Lea Astray” was the first of a series of five act comedies written with the intention of oringing back, if possible, a taste for the legitimate drama. There would be egotism and vanity in the assumption that I alone am the person capable of undertaking this task, ifthere were aby other individual living who could be as- sociated with mein it. Unfortunately there is not. It may be a lamentable fact, but it so happens Thappen to be the only dramatist living whom the English-speaking world have been pleased to accept as capable of writing legitimate comedies that have been ranged among the standard drama. of the past. lam alone. Itis not a merit to be alone. It 18 an accident. [he 75,000,000 people speaking. our language have not furnished me auring the last 30 years with a companion, When I set myself the task to turnish a succession of five act comedies and plays to constitute @ mod- ern drama of this day it was clear one man could not supply the whole world single-handed, In such @ task some assistance ts necessary; so I brought in two of the most distinguished dramatists of France to help me. ThusI produce three five-act plays during this month. Among the score of legiti- mate plays to be thus furnished some will be from my unaided resources; some in collaboration witn fellow laborers, not furtively, but openly. Really | cannot perceive anything particularly heinous in all this transaction, nor Vora tion of the bilious attack un ler which certain jour- nalists appear to be laboring—a disorder I regard with more curiosity than concern, The public and the more liberal journals will deal sincerely and generously with me in this work; forgiving the fail- ures—tne best of us must tail sometimes—and en- couraging the successes, and so I shall proceed with the work, with the approbation of the bilious party, if they so please, if not, without it, | Yours truly, DION BOUCLOAULT, ManuaTran CLUB, Dec. 9 THE RETURN OF MR PAUL B DU CHAILLU. Mr. Du Chaillu has just returned to New York from his new field of exploration in Scandinavia and along the border of the Arctic regions. He has been two years searching the realm of wildest nature and among the moss primitive and interest- ing people of the civilized world for materials for a book and lectures. Those who have read his ex- plorations, discoveries and adventures in equa torial Airica, or have heard him lecture on them, can readily imagine the treat in store for the public. The one extreme of nature and of the world will be made, no doubt, as interestin; in his hands as the otner. He will tell us of the midnight sun and continuous daylight, of the darkness that reigns unbroken, of the evernal ice and grandeur of natural scenery in the wildest of all countries, as well ag of the habits and traits of character of a people little better known than the negroes of interior Africa, He speaks with enthusiasm of his experience and the materials he has to lay belore the public, His lonj absence, and being beyond the limits of communl- cation with his friends, caused some anxiety for some time as to his iate; and it appears that sowie adventurous scalawag in the United States, thinking Mr. Du Chaulu might he dead, had acta. ally used his name for lecturing purposes, just ag others had plagiarized bis popular books op equatorial Africa. Now, however, the intrepid ex. plorer will be welcomed back to his country, and the people will have what is genuine, THE MURDERER MECHELLA. Medicat Experts Pronounce Him Pers fectly Sane—Another Appeal to the Court of Pardons. Since the reprieve was granted to the murderer Mechella, incarcerated in Jersey City, he has been examined by three prominent physiclans—two residing in Jersey City and one in Hoboken, They are unanimous in+the conclusion that he is perfectly sane. County Physician Buck wrote to Governor Parker, setting forth his opinion on the case and those of the other physicians who mvestigauted it. Deputy Sherif u’Brien, who is stil! detailed on special duty ta keep a strict Watch over the prisoner, states that Mechella has at no time given the slightest evidence that his mind is deranged. “He played the fool with the keepers,” added O’Brien, “but when he found that that game could not be played with me he altered the tune and was himself again.’ The prisoner was removed on Saturday from cell No, 2 on the ground floor to the cell on the northeast corner of the third floor, overlooking the great thoroughfare, Newark ave- nue, and he appreciates this act of Kindness, His present abode is not properly a cell, but@ room set apart for witnesses and deotors, and wechella seems to enjoy the privilege of having a wide space to walk about during the day. In justice to Governor Parker it is proper to state that in granting the reprieve he was imposed upon bya few fanatics, who grossiy misrepre- sented public opinion, and who, like the Tooley street tailors. set themselves up as the peo ple of Hudson county. As soon as the Governor learned that his act . elicited the most outspoken disapproval he rebuked the fanatics by refusing to appoint a medical com- mission to examine Meciiella. The Court of Par- dons will be convened on the first Tuesday of January, at Trenton, to consider this case a sec: ond time. The relatives and friends of the prisoner ave seeking for some physician who will pronounce lium insaue, Important Action of the Pilot Commis sion as to the Harbor Encroach- ments=The City Liable for Heavy Damaces—A Letter to Governor Dix. Pilot Commissioner Biunt is at work trying te move the forthcoming Legislature in favor of legis- lation for preventing the encroachments on New York Harbor. Yesterday a reporter of the HERALD called upon the Commissioner to inquire ag to his prospects. Commissioner Blunt detailed to the reporter Several of the grievances, among which was one o/ a recent and most flagrant character, in which the Street Cleaning Commission were the delinquents. About six weeks ago it was discovered that parties in charge of the city scows were dumping at one | time 3,000 cart loads of ashes and sweepings inta the harbor, They were canght in the act, and a suit has been commenced against the city for the recovery of heavy penalties, for whieb the city has made itself Hable by this disgraceful proceeding. This is not the only mode in which the navigation of the harbur ig interfered with. European steamers, and even those belonging to the United States government, are found doing this. The latter, however, when caught pay the Gne, one- half of which goes to the informer. It has been es qimated that 250 tous a day are thus dum] into he bi In reference to New Jersey Mr. Blunt — encroachment upon the harbor of New ork by the New Jersey Central Railroad alone amounts to over 5,000,000 square feet of water sur- tace, This diminishes the tidal flow 25,000,000 of cubic feet. One cubic foot is nearly eight gallons, and a galion of water is eight pounds in weight. This amounts to 160,000,000 pounds of water dis- placed every tide, the scouring eect of whieh is t to the harbor.’’ The continuance of these abuses has rendered the Pilot Commission desperate and deterinined and a letter has been addressed to Governor Di"<< in answer to some tnquiries which the Gover’ agg: made, by Commissioner Biunt. This letter gop. cludes a8 follows:— ‘ ody. It is suggested, in the Ar, ef hoMh for tte Tsay. restored as iar’ ac can gate piace ispinetag structures now completed: that p fiioat spouts ot vited toeappoumt, 9A the Barbor. who: soul be citizens of that shot on ‘ork ad. in vertor Mine in. 1855 and 1867, fs i et pasie of a treaty like that of “hich at changed by ordinary legislation, awit had to:be rat on by Congress, 4 bill to make lt | to throw anything into the North Rive ¢ af Creek, as recommended by ¥ ay, be. i. The laws passed for the Pr siervati ‘are perrect oe johers are almont P- for (nn Bs over ft used by cost to the Ct States ship of War, Which would and Ae, com ty Fanning “ie would Tot sgeeea, ‘9 Cruise per sanam, aud night Miriaiteuon ‘of the roachments the dredging from the harbor, to be detriment conld be caused to the noch dredgings, oud It ls belleved be