The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1874, Page 3

‘ — gee Site’ pergaTep PARTY MIMOVABLE. THE VETO. Opinions of the Business Men of the Great Cities. WHAT THE JOURNALS THINK Probable Action of the Senate. - WASHINGTON, April 24, 1874. Ata late hour to-night the committee appointed by the republican Senators who support the Mer- rimon Finance bill, vetoed by the President, agreed Upon the suostance of the address to be prepared and published defending their position as against the President's veto, The members of the committee are Senators Morton (chairman), Carpenter, Logan, Ferry of Michigan and Angalis, The object ts to combat the President’s reasons for the veto and to also-dispute the ground taken Ly the President in his veto on the basis of | is last annual message, Thq address will be given out when the consideration o/ the bill comes ‘up in the Senate. This remarkable and un- Precedented coup dat on the part of | ‘the detenders of the bill is explained as intended to set the supporters of the measure right be‘ore | the country and to thwart apy attempt to make it apyear that they are not m accord witn the admin- istration, barring this matter of financial legisla- tion, or that they contemplate renouncing fealty to the republican party by creating @ new tesue, It isnot the purpose of the committee to make a long address, but rather to counteract, if possi- blo, the effect of the veto message in terse sen- vences and strong language. THE INFLATIONISTS INFURIATED. The friends of the defeated bill say:—“ We will remein here till September, if necessary, for the Yelief of our people. We expect a popular reaction trom this veto which will stl give us the victory, and which will compel General Grant to retreat | from his false position. The West ‘and the South | hold the power of this country in their hands, and | they will not be trifed with on this vital matter | of their currency. All other means failing, they | will begin the work o! a revolution in the elections for the next Congress, which will foretell the name of the President who will succeed Grant in 1376—a President who will not dety the will of the people.’; Grant, the malcontent inflationists say, is cut, He cares for no party and no party cares for um. He has Tylerized and ho has written his epitaph in this veto. He was the bond of cohesion of the republican organization. The bond is now broken and tne party is gone. Cvwsar is killed in the Senate house and a triumvirate is coming. The republican party for the East, a new party for the West and South, and the democratic party against both of them. Other currency men say :— “We can, as @ last resort, this session, tack our Currency bill to a regular appropriation bill, as the increased and pack pay bill was tacked on to ap appropriation bill at the close of the last Congress. Should General Grant veto an appropriation bill with the amendment suggested an extra session must be called, and that will turn the world upside down.” From end to end ofthe Capitol and the city these are among the expressions heard on all sides, : PROBABILITIES IN THE SENATE. Unless the present temper of the contending in- fuences shall change, when the fight will open there will be an unyielding and agitating en- counter, which may grow in exasperation as the conflict progresses. The effort on the part of Sen- ator Schurz and others to have the “dénouemen\”’ ostponed from Tuesday to a later date in the week will be vigorously resisted, and, as the feel- ing is now, it will not be acceded to by Senator Morton anu his allies, So it may be expected that | on Tuesday next, after the morning hour, the Sen- ate proceedings will open with a lively and animating scene, the results entalled by which are iukely to be confirmatory of the wisdom of tne President's veto of the Finance bill. . SENATOR SHERMAN’S SENTIMENTS. With the greatest of joility Senator Sherman im- pressively acknowledged himself as pleased with the veto. He said he was glad of it; that it was | the best thing that could have been done. It would have been very unwise and very unfortu- Mate had the President signed the Senate bill, and it would have exercised a bad iufluence on the country. The veto was the only one he ever ap- | proved. He referred to there having been | mone in Lincoln’s time. They came in, how- ever, in Johnson’s term, he knew, but said he | was not aware of any having occurred in Buchanan’s time. As to the House bill on finance. he could not yet say what would be done about it im tue committee. It had not yet | been discussed, and hence he had no knowledge of ignorant of where we were Jo pg ty ES Wedealt ad, Ev 8 in uncer- men who deal int stocks Jegiti- A FLURRY OF WORRY i to behold, But the veto has done all that. We have no more tog, no More rocks in the way, and we can see ahead now, even by night, without a calcium light. Talk as mblers Will, there in the best o/ ieeling now in Watt street circles, and this feeling, whici of confidence and financial strensth, will grow better ana better day by day; for no matter what Congress may ‘jo, the stand the Prestaent has taken gives assurance that no inflation bill can preome @ law while he hag the power to prevent it. Judging from the general talk of the sound men in the street, the market will become firm in a few days atter the brokers have got over their excite- thent consequent upon the heavy unloading of Thursday, and business will generally revive. Boston, Mass., April 24, 1874, General B. F. Butler, who ia now trying a case at Salem, was questioned yesterday by a repurter as to his opinion regarding President Grant’s veto of the Inflation bill, General Butler said he did not want to be in ter- viewed, but he would say that the veto was a great surprise to himself as well as to others, He had expected the President +would sign the bill, and had not enteriained @ doubt that he would not do so, He had not read the veto at that time, but could not see how Graut could get around bis own Tn fact, he said he did not understand it, unless Grant had “gone back on himsell.”? Well,’ said Butler, “it the President gill deny his own acts let bim do it.” OBicago, April 24, 1874. Public sentiment in Chicago 1s largely against inflation, notwithstanding that it is claimed to be a Western measure. The Clear- Merchants’ Exchange have all petitioned Congress against inflation in any form; and of the press, the Inter-Ocean, Mr. Logan’s organ, alone pieaded for rag money. The political relations of tie Infla- tion bill have exercised the minds of our politi- claus, especially as last week Mr. Hesiny, of the Suaats Zeitung, reatirmed and emphasized the bolt of the German republicaus, on account Of the bad faith o1 the republican partyin financial mat- ters. Among tne solid business men and bankers of the city, however, the ression of satisfaction at the action of the resident waS universal. Mr. W. F. Coolbaugh, the leading Coicago banker, expressed pleasure at tue vetoing of the bill, aud anticipated that wile a certain class of speculators would feel disap- Pointed thereat the future would snow that there Was no necessity for inflation. The bili was not a bad one, ail through, but the evil it contained greatly outweighed the good, and it deserved a veto actordingly. Mr. B. F. Allen, President 9! the Cook County National Bank, + though that there was mot enough currency in the country, but that the question as to the shape in which it would come had pe yet been ascertained. It was, in his opinion, a pity that a question uf so grave importance should become connected with politics, Mr. Sol Smith, President of the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company, thought that Grant had acted nobiy and w! ely Among the merchants visited was Mr. J. W. Farwell, who ia prominent in the wholesale dry goods trade, He charac- terized the bill as a bungung affair, which satisfied no one, and whose fit end was provided by the Presidential veto, Ovier business men were visited, tue result being the discovery of a gen- erally unanimous feeling of pleasure at the Presi- dent's action, Almost all the interviewed ex- Pressed themselves in favor of a free banking law, which, with proper restrictions, would soon bring about a desiravle state of commercial affairs. REPORT FROM CINCINNATI. CINCINNATI, April 24, 1874. The President’s veto produced a marked etfect on ’Change yesterday, but there was no pub- lic expression of opinion by the Chamber of Commerce, ness men was very aptly expressed by J. Lester Taylor, & prominent cotton , mer- chant, who said to ir Teporter:—“It suits me. Iwas on that etde aii the time. 1t was clear to my mind that the inflationists in Congress never “‘mtended to redeem; om the contrary; their idea was to issue more and more. + Bat this veto stops | that sort of thing and gives at least a point to rally on :or solid, honest men.” And the ideaof the iufationtsts genersily could sot be more pitnily expressed than it was by Mr. H. Thew Wright, an anti-administration man, who said he Was ior inflation vecause oe coulu pay his depts by pts pee but 1t was all the good he could see In it. A qneer effeet has been wrought by the veto upon men here who have been bitterly opposed in politics to General Grant. Hitherto nothing too severe could be said by them against him, aud one of the men most antagonistic to the President was Judge Hoadiey, When 1 met this liberal republi- cah magnate yesterday he said :— “Hurrau for Grant. I was talking to the chair- man of the Liberal Executive Committee to-day, and he said he ieit like saying ‘Hurrah ior Grant’ jor the first-time in four years. I cannot say how it will adect the President politically; put 1 know it 1s @ good thing. fur we have a prospect now of the views held by the members of the committee | ‘who were considering it specially. He is in favor | of doing everything to periect the bill, and resolve | mpon some kind of a measure which would give the country the financial relief reqaired, and save | it from the dangers and pernicious effects which | were threatened by the Senate bill. He was will. | ing to do anything which will give the security to | the finances for which he has contended all along, and he is yet in favor of free banking, with coin redemption, as heretotore. He has avowed that he thixks any man who honestly in- tends todo nis duty as a Senator or Represent- ative, and ts bound by a spirit of integrity as a faithful public servant, will do allhe can to this end. He does not think anything wiil be done ‘until the present excitement “blows over,’’ which he seems to contemplate with some solicitude. However the fight may develop, Senator Sherman | can be retied upon as carrying the olive branch and disposed to try all measures consistent with his convictions to bring about an amicable acjust- ment of the present Gitagéiisiis on the fndnce question, |" On the other hand, Senator Ferry, of Michigan, and his friends will stand unflinchingly where they have stood all along. They will insist upon what they have advocated, and if it is defeated they Will be satisfied to go to the people with their record, The gentlemen on tle other side are anxious to conciliate matters and bring all existing | hostilities to an end asweilas preventing addt-, | Uonal aggravations from arising UNANIMOUS ORGANIZATION SOUGHT BY DEMOCRATIC LEADERS, The democratic Senators, although having bad luck 1m the effort to secure unanimity of action on the Louisiana bill, have it. in contemplation to hold ® caucus on financial matters. Jndge Thurman, it is understood, clings to the hope that some plan may be devised by Which the party may all be brought together in this matter and take advan- ‘tage of the republican dissension. This, however, tsa vain hope. One democratic Senator, in speak- ing of it, remarked that the party was hopelessiy divided on every great question now before the Country, and that all that tt was united on was the “damned nigger,” and that was a dead issue. “It the democratic Senators do conciude to hold their caucus nothing practical will of course come of it.” It is understood, however, that against the President personally they propose to jet the repub- licans fight it out among themselves, THE VETO IN WALL STREET. A Quiet Day ana a Good Feeling Pre- vatling. Wall street wore a caim and benign countenance yesterday. It was evident that the President's ‘veto had been well digested and ‘that everybody had made up his mind to “put a good face on ‘the situation,” for a few days to come at least. in conversation witn a well known banker on Broad street the Heraup reporter a formed that every one of the prominent men of the street, without @ solitary exception so far as he had been ablo to learn, were in the best of humor over the veto, and that not one of them had an on eR the curbstones, 4s-no fog nor rocks in the ci eke in “hack setting on a sulid basis.” Theodore Cuok, a promi- nent democrat, and President of the Fourth Na- tional Bank, said that “President Grant takes @ sensible, practical, business-like view o1 the fingn- cial question. His action wilt certainly give great satisfacuon to intelligent men througuout the country tirespective ol party. There are some in- _flationists im this city Wio are terribiy chagrined atthe veto. Some of them are republicans and do not hesitate to swear vengeance on Grant. But | they are not numbered among the solid and sub- stantial men whose influeace politically and tnan- ctally 18 sought for. THE VETO IN TENNESSEE. ENE Mempats, April 24, 1874, With the view of communicating to the Henatp an expression representative or the sentiments of business in the Southwest on the currency ques- tion, I have interviewed all of the bankers and some twenty of the leading mercantile men here, the great majority of whom applaud the President’s veto as the best act of his ad- ministration. Here it may be weil to gpserye at one of the most remarkable results of these interviews, as from a Southern stand- point, is the universal expression that the national debt 18 (otha re pe liquidated socording ne terms of the loan: bearing upon Which the Anajokity EXD PORE AE thal Evieon that the late action of Congress was Virtually a backward step for the country, in that it looked to deierring the period of specie resumption, and was caicu- lated to impair confidence and to debase the cur+ McClure, Cashier of the Fourth National Mr. Elder, President of the De Soto Bank; President of the First National Bank, and M ferguson, President of the Bank of Com- d also a merchant, endorsed the veto, Amorg the dry goods interest [found unquall- fled opposition to inflation or any disturbance of the currency by Congress, THE PLANTING INTERESTS regarded the veto as unfortunate in tending to in- duce a greater tnvestment of money in bonds at the expense of the mercantile and agricultural m- terests of the South and West. Mr. Alien, cotton factor, Who Mas, probably, a larger landed interest than any other merchant in Memphis, thought that the South needed more currency. GRATULATIONS ELSEWHERS. SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 24, 1874. Flags were displayed, church belis rung anda salute fired at Pittsfleld yesterday in honor of the President's anti-infistion veto, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 24, 1874. Ata meeting of the workingmen last night the p following resotutions were unanimously adopted :— Resolved, That the trades unions and workingmen of Indiana thank Senator Morton and our representatives who nobly supvorted the interests of the Western States in the recent financial debate and action in Von- gress; and, Resolved, That we urge that they give no consent to an adjournment of Congress until some satisfactory Anancial reliet be granted to the industrial interests of the great West. THE PRESS ON THE VETO. “HYMNS OF PRAISE AND PAZANS OF COMMENDA- TION? [From the Washington Republican—rep, The people will accept the message of the brent dent in the same spint, Thousands of his fiends who followed him in the long marches of the re- bellion, who faced the Lala batteries of the enemy, will to-day condemn him, while other thousands and hundreds of thousands who have never mentioned his name except with wo insult upon their lips will voy al praise and call him @ second Jackson. sut ue by, when we shall be convinced, a8 we shall be convinced, that inflation is the road to national ruin and na- tional disgrace, we shall bear only hymns of praise and pians of commendation, The subject is one | act of last fall in issuing the $26,000,000 reserve. | ing House Association, the Board of Trade, and | ex- | The genefal opinion of our busi- | NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, has been talked and written threadbare, For seven ‘the it has been almost the sole to} or thot and in one way or pag A of 6 such as tails eration has not kno nt i¢ home to every man. In oar Joolishness and intense anxiety jor relief we called upon the printing an¢ more printed lies, to ask the world to trust to the pledges and Pa sed we had already broken and disavowed. We would imitate revolutionary France and rewrite the history of the assignats; | We would make money as plenty'as in Haytl, where Paper doilars are worth only their value as waste paper. President Grant has arrested us on the brink of the Feccnice. The party has been reminded of its solemn pleages; the party majority tn Con- | gress has been checked in {ts downward career; he country has been rescued from the gulf into which it wag ready to leap. General Grant has made himself the hard money President and the republican party he hard money party. “THE OPPOSITION ARE DISARMED,” (From the Elmira (N, Y.) Adve: tiser—rep.} The opposition are disarmed of a most potent Weapon tuey hoped to wield against ine President and party. He has shown himselt equal to politi- cal a8 well as military emergencies, Even those | who are disappvinted im his veto, we think, ere Jong wiil acknowledge bis foresight and his sagac- ity ip the act, “WB HAS SAVED OUR NATION,’? [From the Reading (Pa.) kagle—dem.) He has saved our nation from drifting headlong on to the breakers 0! financial destruction. He bas vetoed the dreaded inflation biil, and thereby gratified his iriends and surprised his enemies by | Showing that ie has the maniiness and patriotism to refuse to be led by such :nen as Butler and Morton, who would have buried our country, aiter @ brief lever of speculation, into ruin and disaster. “THE VETO WILL BE SUSTAINED.” From the Newark (N. J.) Advertister—rep.) The veto message will be sustaimed by the busi- ness sense of the country and by political econo- mists en the soltd ground that the legal tenders, though presently irredeemable, hold their value in | the iaith that no more of them Will be issued and | that they will be retired as speedily as other clreu- lating media, resting upon a gold basis, can be substituted ior them. In that faith the country accepts them as a convenient and reliable cur- | rency. “THE PEN MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD,” [From the Newark (N. J.) Journal—dem.] To General Grant has been vouchsated the rare opportuaity of proving that the pen is mdeed malabier than the sword, even though it be not, a8 Richelieu 18 made to say, “beneath che rule of meh | entirely great.” By this veto President Grast | achieved @ great victory for himsell, a great vic- tory for the country, and a withering Waterloo de- feat for the ignoble army of shoddyites in and out of Congress, Whoxe cause was clainpioned by men of the stripe of Morton and Logan and Merriam and Merrimon, all men of unquestioned brains, but mos' que-tionaule public characters. “THE WHOLE COUNTRY WILL APPLAUD.” {From the syracuse (N. Y.) Courter—dem.) The whole country, outside of tne inflationists in Congress, will applaud. the action of President Grant in vetoing the currency Will. He has saved the honor of the American name and the credit of the American nation, and he has administered a stinging rebuke to the inflationists, who were forcing the country to its ruin. The bill would Violate the national taith and commit the country 0a he. “LET ALL THE PEOPLE GIVE THANKS.” {From the Rochester Democrat—rep.) Let all the people give thanks. Tne President has redeemed the honor and the credit of the | Repubitc. He has been tound equal to a crisis than which the country has experienced none more Portentous since Lee surrendered his sword.~ “SURPRISE AND DELIGHT.’ (From the Baltimore American—rep.] President Grant yesterday surprised and de- lUghted the friends of a sound financial policy, and confounded and defeated those who hoped to throw the country back mto the renewed dangers of currency inflation and ot bottomless speculation, by returning to the Senate without his approval the Currency bill, “DANGER 18 AVERTED.’” ‘From the Boston Globe—rep.] Fortunately tor the nation, the better and more intelligent sentiment of the country has found ex- pression through the President, and danger is averted, Now it is to be hoped that reason and a sense of duty will resume their sway over the Con- gressional mind, “SAVES THE NATIONAL HONOR,” [From the Boston Advertiser—rep.] The course the President nas taken 1s most cred- itable to himself and saves the national honor, so recklessly trified with by Congress. Many a mis- | take, of which his administration has seen not a few, will be forgotten in gratituce for this one act that saves us from a@ national disgrace. “THE HONOR OF THE NATION INVOLVED.’? [From the Boston Post—dem.j In a@ matter involving so a the honor of the nation, and reaciing so lar jn its influence upon the prosperity and the com{ort of the people, there should have been no, doubt concerning the action of the Executive. “ONE OF THE GREAT AND GOOD THINGS.” [From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican—ind.) President Grant, in vetuing the Finance bill, has taken a step which will be remembered as one of the great and good things of tus administration. As ‘0 what will be the net gain to the republican party is of littie moment. “THE PRESIDENT COME OVER TO JHE DEMOCRATIC 1DE.?? [From the Worcester (Mass.) Press—dem.] Now that the President tas come vuver to the | democratic side upon this question, and vetoed | @ measure supported by a large majority of his fos irtends and opposed by a majority of his po- iitical Opponents, We shall hope to see him put into fg pe those other democrauc principles in which he used to believe. THE DORCHESTER MURDER. The Boy Pomeroy Denies Having Con- fessed—His Conduct in Presence of the Corpse—The Coroner’s Inquest. Foston, April 24, 1874, Since the commission of the most horrifying murder in the Dorchester district on Wednesday last the community has been in great excitement. The case has been thoroughly discussed among all classes; rumors have been circulated by the thou- sand concerning the victim and the suspected murderer, the boy Pomeroy. The authorities have left notning undone to sift the matter to the bot- tom, and the community are fully aroused to a degree of intense alarm. The Lane tragedy is yet @ mystery, the Bridget Lanagan murder 1s equally 80, and now comes the one just committed upon the child on Wednesday last. The developments in the case yesterday seemed to point conclusively to Pomeroy as the guilty per- son. The visit to the undertaker’s, where lie the remains of the victim, by the detectives and | Pomeroy, was the means of giving to the officers | what they™ LOOKED UPON AS A CONFESSION of the awful crime by Pomeroy, {rom the remarks made there; but, in fact, the lad has not made any detailed coniession, and has in effect declined so todo. The report of his ‘ledgment that he pul whee veatardy, i | comnytted thé murder, “true. The acknowledgment was made when tabor- ing under the potent influence of the presence of the body of his victim and when he seemed to be devoid of the stoicism which he had before and has since exhibited. He objected very strongly to goiug to the undertaker’s to see the body of the child. He was told by the officers that they only wanted him to see if he knew the dead boy; bat he said, “Oh yes, I know bim; I don’t want to see him.” When te was taken into the front room of the undertaker’s estab.ishment, which was separated from a back room in which laid the rem; glass partition, he trembled perceptibly. then urged to go into the further room ‘just a | minute,” but he grew WEAK IN VOICR AND LIMB, and said “Oh, no! I don’t want to go in; Ican see him now.’ He was finally induced to enter, but averted his head as he passed the door and did not gaze upon the corpse until brought up di- rectly thereto and until Is head was forcibly | turned in the direction of the remains, which lie with the gory wounds in view. Then only for an instant did his eyes rest upon the scene, as he im- mediately dropped his eyes to the floor and strug- gled to get away from the spot. His lip quivered and tears rolled down his cheeks, It was while in this trame of mind that he twice, in response to juestions put by the officers,answered that he killed the child, Later, while returning from the under- taker’s in a hack, he was questioned as to the method in which the murder had been commutted. SKETCH OF THE BOY MURDERER. Pomeroy was fourteen years old last November, | is Cg large for his age, weet ta lg | junds, not very prepossessing in rance, | in 4 od cna roguish fook. fis after: and has a rugge noon THE CORONER'S INQUEST was held, at Police station No.9. The first wit- ness put upon the stand was the accused, who upon beginning his testimony did not evince any emotion of fear ss to the charge of which he was accu ed. He gave, in a clear tone of voice, a full account of his movements: from six o'clock on Wednesday morning until the hour of Wednesday nigat when he was arrested; gave a detailed aud minute description of his movements throughout the day, which, if true, will undoubtedly stand greatly in his favor, and emphatically de- nied ever being near the place where the dead child was found, and also denied | any confession made to the detectives. Alter @ long examination of the prisoner he was re- manded to the custody of the police until the con- clusion of the Coroner's inquest. The evidence for the prosecution will undoubtedly be circum- stantial, which will pe brought out on bag A next, until which time the inquest has been ad- journed, Although there are mi who believe this boy guilty, there seems now to have arisen some sympat Jor him, trom the fact that a iittle pore who been enticed away some weeks ago, but’found by the police, has seen the prisoner and ‘says he is not the boy who too! m of APRIL 25, 1874—TRIPLE SHEET. - WASHINGTON. The Mexican Indian Claims De- cided for the United States. THE GENEVA AWARD. The Satety ot National Bank Loans. WASHINGTON, April 24, 1874. The ‘Indian Depredation” Claims of Mexico—Decision of the Test Case in Favor of the United States by Sir Ea- ward Thornto: the Umpire of the Mixed Commission, At the meeting of the United States and Mexican Claims Commission, held on Wednesday last, the opinion of the umpire, Sir Edward Thornton, was filed in the case of Rafael Aguierre vs. The United States, awarding that the motion heretotore made by the agent of the United States to dismiss and, reject this claim be allowed, and the claim was ac+ comlingly rejected, This was the test case of the class known as “Indian depredation claims’? against the United States, the aggregate of which amounted to some $31,000,000. Mexico as- serted the liability of the United Jtate s mainly by reason of certain provisions of the old treaty of peace of 1848. The United States, through their agent, Mr. J. Hubley Ashton, maintained that af any llability attached to them under that treaty on this account, such Mability was released by the “Gadsden treaty of 1853.” The Commissioners, having disagreed upon the ques- tions raised by the motion of the agent of the United States, referred the matter to the umpire for his decision, with the result above indicated. The opinion of the umpire is regarded by those familiar with the matter with which 1t deals as a masterpiece of judicial exposition, and evinces such thoroughness of research and conclusiveness of reasoning as might be expected from its distin- guished author. Both governments are to be con- gratulated upon the final solution of this long agitated question. It only remains for the Com- missioners to apply the principle laid down by the umpire in the test case to the 365 other similar cases before them; and this, it is understood, will be done so soon as the necessary formal inspection of the cases can be made, ‘The following is the text of the opinion of Sir Edward Thornton, as umpire in the Unitea States and Mexican Claims Commission on the motion to dismiss the test case of the class of claims called “Indian depredation claims” vs. The United States:— In considering the case of Won Rafacl Aguierre vs. The United States, No. 131,and the motion of the agent of the United States of Octuber 10, 1870, the umpire has carelully perused and studied all tue documents which have been lorwarded to him by the United States and Mexican Claims Com- mission. After due reflection he has become sutis- fled that the points upon which the question of the rejection or admission ofthe above mentioned motion principaliy turns are the causes wiicu led to the conclusion oi the treaty of December 30, 1853, between the United states and Mexico, and | the meaning of the words of that treaty. One of these causes, it 1s evident to the umpire, were the complaints constantly made by the Mexican government to that of the United States irom an early date alter the conclusion of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo till near the end of 1853; that the stipulations oi the eleventh articie o: that treaty had not been ituifilled by the latter govern- ment, aud that it consequently owed inaemnity both to the Mexican government and to citizens of Mexico on account of the damages incurred through this failure. The correspondence be- tween the two governments was of an irritating nature and seemed likely to excite angry ieelings on both sides. It was therefore the interest, a8 it ‘Was the desire, of both governments to put an end to.this state of their relations, and the umpire cannot doubt that this was one o1 t e causes of bes rgd which were referred to in the pre amble of the treaty of 1853, aud woica the two na- tions desired to remove, It certainly could not be asserted that every cause of disagreement would be removed until 6.18 question was settled, and the ansence of a stipulation tor that purpose would have nad the effect that a false 1m- pression would have been giv en by thut phrase, ior every Cause Of disagreement would not have been removed. By the unratified Treaty of 1853, us ne- gotiated by Mr. Gadsden in Mexico, that Kepublic ceded tothe United States a certain portion of territory, and agreed that the eleventh article Ol the Treaty of Guadalupe should be annulled, and that the-United States should be exonerated from ull claims by Mexico or Mexican citizens, Whether on account of the alleged satlure to fulfil the obligations of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Guadalupe or on _ other ac- counts which might have arisen. since the date o1 that treaty. In consideration of these stipulations the United States agreed to pay $15,000,000,"and further engaged to assume ail Claims of United States citizens against Mexico and to pay them to the extent of $6,000,000. But the Senate of the United States altered the terms of this treaty, and the amendments proposed by that body were accepted by Mexico. by the amended treaty Mexico ceded a smaller portion of territory, released the United States irom ull lia- bility on account of the obligations contained in the eleventh article of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and agreed that that articie and the thirty- | third articie ot the treaty of the Stn of April, 1381, should be annulled. In this amended treaty no mention is made of the miscelianeous claims of Mexican citizens against the United States nor Ot those o: United States citizens against Mexico. | In consideration of these stipuiations—i, e,, the cession Of a smaller portion of territory, the re- lease to tne United States from all liability on account of the obligations contained in the eleventh article of the Treaty oi Guadalupe Hi- daigo aud the repeal of that articie and of the pals LDA articie of the treaty of April 5, 1831— tne United States agreed to pay to Mexico the sum of $10,000,000, It is contended, on behalf of the claimant in the case now under consideration, that the first sentence of the second article of the ratified treaty of De- cember 30, 1863, does not release the United States from the payment of damages, if any were due, to Mexican citizens On account of the failure of the United States government, if it did fait, to fulfil the obligations of the eleventh article of the Treaty. of Guadalupe. The umpite holas qthat it does so release the United States, and that the govern- Ment which accepted the amendments made by the United States to the former Gadsden treaty 80 understood those amendments. It 18 inconceivable that alter all the correspondence and almost angry discussion which bad taken place between the two govern- ments upon the subett at ore, pile ed non-lulfil- mang or the chilegttond of the élevelith article of the iy of 1848, and the consequent claims of Mexican citizens, the United States and the Re- public of Mexico should have been satisfied with and should have ratified, and tue Senate of the United States should have sanctioned, any treaty which dia not provide jor the settlement of one of the great questions at issue. It is argued that the second article ot the treaty released the United States only from claims for which they might be thereaiter Mable on account of any future — fatiure to fulfil the obligations of the eleventh articls of the Treaty of 1848; but as, by the second article itself, the eleventh article of the Treaty of 1848 was aunulled, there could there- aiter be no failure to fulfil where there were no obligations, and consequently there could be no iuture claims. If there were any claims for which the United States were liable on account of the fatlure to fulfil the obligations from 1848 to 1853 they were certaimly ltable at the moment of tue signature of the Treaty of 1853, and that present lability could not have been excluded irom the term “all liability,” from which the government of Mexico released the United States, The context of the second article also corrobo- Tates this view of the case. The second sentence of the article annuls the eleventh article of the ‘Treaty of 1348, United States from all uture claims on account of failure to fulfil the obligations; and the first sen- tence, if tt refers only to those {uture claims, is. clearly a pleonasm. In the second articie of the unratified Treaty of 1868 it was agreed that, ‘to rewjove all occasion of dispute on account of Teclamations to the present date founded on alleged Indian incursions,”’ the eleventh article f the ‘Treaty of Guadali should = be ant nied at then, thg Abolition of this ahile fe had this erect mika ‘egard to reclamations to the present GAté, & sortioré, it would have the same effect with regard to claims which in fact could not arise. Further, if it had been deemed necessary, especially to release the United States from @ lability which could never arise, the order of the two sentences in, the second article would have been reversed. The abolition of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Guadalupe would have come first and the release from future liability would have followed as the self-evident conse- quence of the abolition of that article, It 18 alleged that the meant the Spanish of the frst sentence of the second article in question 1s different from that of the English version. The umpire is not of that opinion, e strict transia- tion of the Spanish would be, “The government o1 e In doing 80 it of itselt releases the | Mexico, by this article, exempts that of the United | States irom the obligations ol the eleventh article of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.” One of. the meanings of the word “liabie,” found in ‘John- sov’s Dictionary,” te “not exempt.” The verb may ve transiated “to relieve irom non- exemption or liability.” Inthe third article of the unratified treaty of 1853 it {8 stated, ion of the ‘ants re- United States and the fodligaciones) relinquished by the by the al the Treaty of Guada! 3 in the beginning of the following article, must, therefore, inctude those reclamations, There is, Consequen ny, no reason that they should be ex- cluded trom the pocaning of the same word in the second article of the ratified treaty; but, whether | the translation into Spanish was correct or pot, it i the Mexican government alone which was | responsibie for It, Tue Spanish version was never | submitted to the denute of the United States, whose sanction to every treaty is necessary. It is true that Mr. Marcy stated in his note to General Robles of December 11, 1856, “that the amendment of the Senate was sent to General Almonte to be | translated in advance of the exchange of the rati- | fications of the 'reaty,” but there 18 Do proof what- | ever that the translation was sent back to Mr. Marcy, that he was consuited about it, or that he ofieres Y opinion as to its correctnéss. On the | contrary, General Almonte asked, on the | 4th of May, 1864, that the Senate amend. | ments might be sent to him, because he wished to despatch nis mail to Mexico on the following night. On the following day, the Sth, Mr. Marcy jorwarded the amendments to General Almonte. ‘There could, therefore, have been very little time to discuss the correctness of the translation, conld there be any object in | doting eo, fur the amendments of the Senate were | final, and it was intimated that no modification of them would be admitted by the United States. | General Almonte was known to be acomplete mas- | ter of the English Sangnaes. He must have well understood, from hi nowledge of the language aud of the circumstances preceding the conciusion | of the treaty, the real meaning of the Engiish of the sentence in question, and the umpire belteves | that be correctly rendered it into Spanish. In the | absence of any reasons naving been put forward | by the Senate for naving reduced the sum to be | paid to Mexico from $15,100,000 to $10,000,000, the vmpire considers it out of place to have recourse to suppositions, It 1s, however, a fact that according to the amended treaty asmaller portion of territory was | to be ceded by Mexico than was stipulated in the | unratified treaty, and that by the latter the United States were exunerated from all claims of Mexican citizens which may have arisen since the | date of the treaty 0: Guadalupe. The release in | the amended treaty was not so comprehensive. | ‘These two facts may account for she reduction | made by the Senate in the amended treaty. | Notwithstanding, however, this reduction, the | United states gtill agreed, .in the third article, to | pay a substantial value {n consideration of the | stipulations contained in the first and second arti- | cles, The umpire holds that one of these stinulations, viz., that contained in the first sentence of the second article, released the United States from all ciaims of the nature of that advanced by Don | Ralael Aguirre, in the case Ne. 131, and he there- lore awards that the motion of the agent of tne United States, presented to the Commission on the 10th of October, 1870, be allowed, EDWARD THORNTON, | WASHINGTON, April 16, 1874. It will be remembered that it was upon this | | question that the Commissioner on the part oi | Mexico, M. Guzman, caused a deadlock in. the business of the Commission and was recalled, being succeeded by Manuel Zamacoua. The inter- ruption of business at one time threatened to | render vold all the work of the Commission, so that the removal of this serlous obstacle will now | facilitate the labors of the Commissioners both on | the part of the United States and Mexico, The Geneva Award. The Geneva Award bill reported from the Judi- clary Committee to-day provides for the Presiden- tial appointment of a Court of five commissioners to adjudicate all claims which, according to the pro- visions of the bill may be presented to them. These claims are restricted to such as directly re- sulted irom damage caused by the Alabama and Florida and their tenders, and by the Shenandoah after her departure from Melbourne, and allow- ances are tobe made only for the excess of the loss over any amount received as insurance, No allowance shall be made for unearned treights, prospective profits or seamen and officers’ wages | for a louger time than one year after the breaking | up of the voyage, and no allowance shall be made | to any insurance company except for the excess | of its loss over its gain from war premiums, If the | Tund holds out interest may be paid on the amounts awarded at the rate of four per cent per | annum, and five per centis to be deducted trom | each award for expenses of the United States. i Reported Bad Condition of the Freed- man’s Savings and Trust Company— Other Institutions in Disorder. \ The financial condition of the Freedman’s Sav- | ings and Trust Company huving been for some time under suspicion Mr. Bromberg, Representa- tive from the Mobile City district, offered a resolution in the House on April.19 that the Comptroller of the Currency should fJurnish the House with copies of the reports on file in his office on the condition of that institution. These reports were received this | morning, but were not addressed as Mr. Bromberg | Tequested ot the Comptroller, to tne Speaker of the House, but to the Committee on Banking and Currency and were passed upon to-day in an unusual manner by being referred to the committee wtihout the customary order of | being printed, Many detalcations and irregulari- ties are believed to exist in the various branches, seventeen out of thirty having been examined. The institution here has been paying large and un- warranted interest and also extravagant salaries. The law which requires them to invest in United States government bonds has been, it js alleged, | ignored, andthe money of the institution has been loaned, it is stated on reliabie authority, on the furniture of a hotel and market bonds of tnis city. | An effort will be made to close the affairs of the institution without delay, | Senator Stewart’s National Bank Bill. Senator Stewart's bill, introduced to-day, to pro- | hibit national banks from loaning money on. | money as security, and for other purposes, pro- vides that no national banking association shall hereafter offer or receive United States notes,na- | tional bank notes or gold or silver, United States | coin as security or collateral for any loan of money, or for a consideration agree to withhold the same from use, or offer or receive the custody of such notes or coin as security in consideration for any loan of money, Any offence against this provision | is to be punishable by a fine not exceeding $50,000 and a jurther sum equal to one-third of the money | soloaned. The officers of the association are also | subjected to a further fine of one-fourth of the money loaned—all penalties to be recoverable for the party bringing the suit. The bill also provides that gold notes issued by national, banks shall be receivable for customs duties, The Postal Telegraph Scheme. senator Edmunds’ bill, introduced to-day, for the creation of a Commission on the Postal Teiegraph, authorizes the President to appoint a Commission consisting of an army officer of no lower rank than @ lieutenant colonel, a naval officer not leas in rank than a commander, and a private citizen ex- pert unconnected with any telegraph company, to make inquiry on the general subject and report to | Congress as to the desirability of establishing a postal telegraph system in this country. The Bill for the Free Coinage of Gold— its Beneficial Tendency—Embarrass- ment of the Mints and the Assay Office. Senator Sargent to-day had the vote reconsid- ered by which the House bill providing for the free coinage of gold was indefinitely postponed, and | ‘tne bill placed on the calendar. Itisexpected that the bill will pass without opposition when all the reasons are presented. It is claimed that it is necessary, in the present condition of the United States, to place it upon terms of equality with | Great Britain, where gold 1s, and has been for | 200 years, coined without charge. A large amount | of bullion is annually exported which, under the operations cf the pending dill, would be coined in this country, and the importation of foreign coin and builion will thereby be encouraged. The pas- sage of this bill will be a return to the practice of | the, goVérnment prior to 1863, and will have a | strong influence in preparing the way for specie pay- ments. Dr. Linderman, Director of the Mint, has | received a letter from the Director of the Mint at Paris, inwhich he expresses himself strongly in favor of the preservation of the double standard of gold and silver in France, and adds that silver | has rendered an immense service to the treasury in payment of the ransom imposed on France by | the unfortunate events of 1870. The Treasury De- partment this morning recetved an important letter from the Superintendent of the Assay Office in New York announcing the exhaustion of the appropriations, and that he would be compelled to give notice to the public that the functions of his | his public and private virtues. | at a cost not exceedin; | reduce herself in a , the best he could under the ciroumatances to meet the requirements of depositors, The ettention of Congress has been called 10 existing embarras ments at the mints, but without effect. The Louisiana Question and the Preb- lem of Cheap Transportation. In the Senate the Louisiana question was Te- sumed by Senator Merrimon to day, and he made @ most able and powerful speech, which was lis: tened to, towards its close, with a great deal of attention. He became very animated ana dwelt. at times upon his subject with @ crushing force and an unanswerable pertinency. Then the long expected report of the Select Committee on Cheap Transportation to the Seaboard was made through their chairman, Sevator Windom, of Minnesota. It is considered 8 masterly document, replete with the fullest and most interesting infor- mation, It was listened to throughout with the utmost attention, Among the true and suggestive statements made in his excellent speech, which were especially distinctive and novel, were the two propositions stated by him that the “country was suffering from stag- nation” in the interior and consequently on the commercial borders; and second, that ‘df haif the speeches which were made in the Senate were read abroad our country and govern- ment would long since have been recognized in Europe a8 bankrupt.” Senator Sherman, who has just returned from Philadelphia, says that the report of Senator Windom 1s one of the most important documents which has ever been submitted to Concress, and that, if it will give up all its little quibbling, adapting the report | in its entirety, as it is, without letting in any little additions to please different sections, it would be the best thing it could do. The whole plan of im- provements recommended by the report would be carried out by the government ‘Within an expendl- | ture of $150,000,000. The Trial of General Howard. In the Howard Court of Inquiry the government rest ed its case to-day, closing with the examina- tion of Assistant Adjutant General Vineent. Gen- eral Howard commences with his defence on Mon- day and expects to occupy a week. Compulsory Pilotage. Numerous petitions irom all the cities of the Atlantic seaboard have been sent here praying the abolition of compulsory pilotage, The Senate Committee on Commerce, who have been con- sidering the matter, have addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury asking the benefit of his views on the subject. The committee have also been the recipient of remonstrances from pilot associations to the effect that if compnisory pilot- age isabolished their means of livelihood will be: entirely taken away. The committee have the scope of @ measure under consideration which, as acompromise, might be acceptable, and which, it! is probable, will be agreed upon, It Is to exempt, from cumpulsory pllotage all vessels engaged in, the coasting trade and all vessels having American. registers. The committee will, however, take no: definite action until after being advised of the views ol the Secretary. The Senate’s Tribute to the Memory of Sumner. On Monday, immediately after the reading of the journal in the Senate, Mr. Boutwell will offer a. resolution declaring that, as an additional mark of respect to Charles Sumner, so long @ Senator, business be suspended that the friends and asso- ciates of the deceased may pay fitting tributes to Alter this resolu- tion shall have been passed and seut to the House: eulogies will be. delivered by Senators Boutwell, Morrill, of Vermont; Fenton, Thurman, Sargent, | McCreery, Frelinghuysen and Anthony. in the House eulogtes will be delivered by Judge Hoar, Mr. Dawes, George F. Hoar, Mr. Rainey, of South Carolina; Judge Kelley, Colonel Lamar, Mr. Pot- ter, of New York, and Mr. Nesmith, Mr. Wash- burn will not probably have taken his seat in the Senate, and neither Mr. Hooper nor Mr. | Pierce, who’ represent the Boston districts, will i speak. NEW YORK CITY. Sergeant Tims, ot the Essex Market Police Court. squad, entered a panel house at 143 Fourth avenue last evening and arrested Elien Moore and Mary Burns, togetuer with lour men, who were locked up at the Central Police Ofice, The charity fair which was held last week under the auspices of the St. Ann’s Roman Catholic cburch, at Tammany Hall, closed last night. The nttendance was sass. and the receipts very grati- lying, the sum total amountiug to nearly $7,000, About 700 pupils of the Cooper Union Free Schoot were present’ last night at the distribution of cer- titicates of profictency, as shown by the late ex- aminations Six hundred and nipe certificates were awarded. Mr. Peter Cooper and other eminent gentlemen were present At a meeting of the directors of the Panama Ratlroad Company yesterday afternoon Mr. Rufus Hatch, managing director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, was elected also managing director of the Panama Ratlroad Company, thus placing the management of the two corporations. under the same control and uniting two interests. Ameeting of the Twentieth Assembly District Tammany Committee was.heid last night at No. 889 Third avenue, to elect permanent officers, when. the see | ticket was elected by acclamation :— Chatrman, F. F.. Naville; First Vice Chairman, John Maguire; Seconda Vice Chairman, Jonn Noakes ; Recording Secretary, Robert J. Leaycrait; Corresponding Secretary, John Reilly; Treasurer, Adolph Birnbaum. BROOKLYN. The receipts of the late charity matinée held at the Academy o! Music, amounting to $3,893, have been distributed among eieven of the leading charities of the city. Mayor Hunter went out yesterday to visit the Ridgewood storage reservoir, to inspect the work, and will send a communication to the Common Councli concerning it on Monday, Engineer J. W. Adams, of the Board of City Works, Teports that the storage reservoir can be finished the amount originally voted by the Common Council for that purpose, He has been instructed to prosecute the work to itscompletion, It will be ready next winter, In the case of the girl smma Friedlander, who ‘was reported to have diced under suspicious circumstances on the 9th inst., Coroner Whitehill had the body exhumed and Dr. Creamer yesterday made a post-mortem examination, which disclosed the fact that the girl died trom inflammation of the bowels from eatlug large quantities of pickles and drinking freely of vinegar, her object being to fAesh. Coroner Whitehill will hoid an inquest on Sunday, The body of a man, probably a sailor, was picked up in the ferry slip at the foot Broadway, Williamsburg, yesterday morning. He was judged to be about thirty-five years of age, five feet ten inches in height, hair black, He was dressed: In a black coat and two pair of pants, the under fa Gark-brown and the outer ones ara, with black stripe, The hody was sent to Parker's undertaking establishment, corner Union avenue and Hope street, to await identification. A militia parade took place last night in Wil. lamsburg. The Forty-seventh regiment, Colonel David E. Austin; Thirty-second, Colonel H. E. Rober; Twenty ctghth, Colonel sesepes Burger; I, Kenger, and Turner Cadets, Lieutenant Colonel Battery a mounted artillery, Major Join Simmes, assembled at their respective armories at Selma | seveh o'clock, and an hour later formed on avenue. After marching thi the pri streets the various commands reviewed by Major Hunter and the Common Council at the Cor uer of Bedford avenue and Wilson street, SMASH-UP ON THE ERIE. Sixteen Cars Thrown from the Ratle= No Lives Lost. Newsvra, N. ¥., gel A bad smash-up occurred at three 0’ | morning on the Newburg branch of the Mrie, a Vail’s Gate, about five miles from this city, A Joaded coal train, eastward bound, ran intoanopen the track for some dis f ally Learn ae onaly, ani acestering the coal about, singularly and was ‘tanatel nobody hort. The was not overterhed, ‘facel- dent took place at the janction of the branch and omMce wili expire by limitation of statute on the 27th inst., at which time all melting must cease. ‘The Director of the Mint telegraphed this morning that he must keep the Assay Office oven and do “ghort cut” roads, and was due to tne of the switch tender, During the day on both roads tiave been 0 erred of the accident, Late in the afternoon was cleared, and trams are rnnning eaele eo - switch, and the engine and sixteen cars left the .