The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1874, Page 5

iia gitaus ads A Fresh Batch of Finance . Bills Introduced. THE SITUATION IN THE SENATE. Disclosures in the Investigation of the Moiety system. WaswInaTon, April 27, 1974, Whe Pimancial Situation in Congress Unchanged. ‘The status of the currency question, so far as Yezislative action is concerned, is just where it was When the President’s veto was sent vo the Senate. ‘The Currency bill passed by the House 18 before the Senate Finance Committee. It embodies sub- stantially all the President's recommendations on Baance except the specie redemption cluuse. The ummittee will attach to the billsome amendments which will make it acceptable to the Senate, and Others than those the first sesgion of the Forty- ‘aired Congress wili not dispose of. All other Muan- etal propositions will probably be stran¢ed, & Second Crop of Financial Bille—Free Banking, Inflation of the Legal ‘Ten- dors and Retirement of Treasury Notes— Specic Payments. ‘The veto message of the President having put a mew phase upon the currency question the intro- @uction of new bills reliting to that subject has been resumed, and a number were introduced in the House under the regular Monday morning call, an, like those introduced by unanimous consent during last week, were referred to tne Committee on Banking dnd Currency. Among them was a bill «by Mr. Poland, of ‘Vermont, to pro vide a ree system of national bank- fog, and for the resumption of specie payments. Section 1 repeals all laws limiting the amount of circulation to be issued to national banks. Section 2 provides for the issue of circu- tating notes to all associations tormed in accord- “gace wich existing laws. Section 3 provides for the cancellation of United States notes to the ex- tent of fifty per cent of the amount of the increase ef national bank notes till the outstanding Umted Biates notes are reduced to $250,009,000, @ection 4 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, tor the purpose of retiring Bue legal ender notes, to issue bonds, not exceeding $400,000,000, redeemable in coin at the pleasure of the United States, after twenty and Sbirty years respectively, the former bearing Give and the latter four and a half per cent coin imerest, payable ‘semt-annually. Section § pro- vides for the redemption of United States notes tm coin after July 1, 1875, on presentation at the Treasury or any Sub-Treasury, aud that after that Sate fiity percentof all customs duties may gbe paid in United States notes. Section 6 prouibits the allowance of interest on deposits by one bank- ing association to another. Mr. Hooper's bill authorizes a further issue of bank notes, but limits the amount issued to $10 Per capita of the population of any State or Ter- mtory, according to the census of 1870, and pro- ‘vides that Rot more than one-half of the reserves @ @ bank shall consist of a balance due irom associations for the redemption of their notes, The bill also contains the provision for the withdrawal Monthly oj fifty per cent of the increase of bank Motes in legal tenders till the amount is reduced te $300,000,000, and authorizes fiiteen-year foor and a half per cent bonds to be tsued for retiring the legal tenders. It ts frther provided that, after July 1, 1877, Cuited States notes shall be redeemed in | coin and be recetvable for duties on importa, and guthorizes. the Secretary of the ‘Treasury, whenever im bis opinion it is ‘neces ‘ary, to provide afcitional coin to redeem Umitea States notes. promptly on presenta- thon, to issue twenty-year bonds, Dearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent, payable sem!- aopually, a3 he shall deem expedient, not exceed- | tag $250,000,000, the proceeds to be used exciu- sively for tne redemption of the notes, The notes thus redeemed may be used tn payment of all dues Bf the Unitea States, except honds and interest dm the public debt, The bonds thus issued are | made exempt from all taxation. Mir. Lawrence's bili to facilitate the resumption | MM specie paymenis and to prevent fuctaations in the value of United States ‘notes, proposes, on the passage of the act, that the duties to be levied on the articles mentioned in the schedule be- sow shall be increased ten per cent, and a uke increase of ten per centum each subsequent | six montis thereafter, until the increase amounts | | 1 to 100 per cent, and the duties On ali such articles shall be paid only in gold coin or in bullion, The following is the schedule of articles:—Beer, ale, porter and other malt liquors; brandy, wine, figaeurs, arrack, and all spirituous beverages; silk and the manufactures thereof, in who.e or part; diamonds and gems, real and imitation; em- broideries of cotton, silk, wool or other material; fancy articles and perfumes; furs and manulac- tures thereof; jet and manulactures thereof; jew- elry, real or imitation; paintings and statuary; | velvets; tobacco and manufactures thereof; carpets and carpeting of all kinds, and roadcioth. The bill requires that $2,000,000 in ootn in excess of the amount required tor the re- Gemption of certificates of deposit shall be re- tained in the Treasury each month until the Propriations already made fh the interests of com. werce. ‘Therefore, as a matter of temporary relief, be it enac'ed, &c., that the vl the Treasury 1s | hereby authorized to issue 000,000 of Uni.ed States legal tenuer notes, &c. Mr, Shoemaker’s bili proposes free banking and | the retirement of fifty per cent of the amount of | imcrease in national hank notes in legal iender notes and to sell bonds to realize the necessary fands for the retirement of the legal tenders. The Legal-Tender Printing Monopoly— An I ing For the last four years, in view of the report of Senator Edmunds on the Printing Bureau, a por- ! tion of the legai-tender and fractional currency notes has been printed by each of the New York | bank note companies, leaving the finishing impres- sion to be executed by thé Treasury Department. | Owing to the recent estab'isnment of the Coiumbia Bank Note ‘Company in Washington, whicti 1s now | printing government notes, representatives of | the New York- companies are now here, and have had a hearing before the House Committee on Banking and Ourrency, their object being to bave a law passed restoring the former position of aMirs as relates to them- selves, Mr, Frederick R. Stanton to-day appearra before the commitree as @ representative of the Columbia Bank Note Company, He was asked by | ; Mr. Hubbard, who in part represents tne com- | bined New York companies, about the issue of | $30,000 of stock of the Qviumbia Company to Mr. Stanton as trustee for $ P, Smith, of New | York. Mr. Stantou’s answer brougL€ eat the fact | that the stock was givem as a consideration for | Smrtb’s induence in oossining a contract trom the Treasury Department for the Columbia Company. Assistant Secretary sawyer protested agatnst the proposition of Hubbard to examine the emplcyés of the Tréasury Department without first applying to-the Secretary, the Department always being ready to give the proper facilities for that pur- pose. . Governor Shepherd’s Message to the District Legislature=The Congression- al Investigation and Suspension of Business. ‘The District of Columbia Legislature met and organized to-day, when Gove.nor Shepherd sent a message saying :— “In view of the investigation now being con- ducted by the Joint Committee of Congress, ap- Pointed to inquire Into tae affairs of the govern- ment of the District of Columbia, and the penaing joint resolunon offered im tue House of Kepre- | Sentatives contemplating the temporary suspen- ston of the functions of the District Legislature, which is also recetving the attention of that com- mittee, it seems that @ proper respect tor the action ot Congress would indicate the propriety of delerring legislation while those subjecis are uuder its special consideration. “1 therelore reco:;ninend that the Legislative As- sembly adjourn or postpone the transaction of business until Congress shall have made a dnal disposition of the matter in question.’? The message was reierred to a special com- mittee, Government Preparations for the Obser= vation of the Traasit of Venus in Ant- arctic Regions. The officials of the Naval Observatory, the Smithsonian Institution and Navy Department are |New YORK | the witness the case had been compromised by in- t York; aman named Moore, in Europe, turnial the secret iniormation he so understwod; the compensavion of the witness in Europe was §6 & dae with all expenses adied. r, Beck, of the committee, here asked the wit- | ness humerous questi in order to discover for What purposes the 8 specified im the oF record were According to the witneas much of the money was for copeine papers and for samples of goods, besides, he lived weil, as the cutee could see, and toe government paid wel 1u further answer to interrogatories the witness said:—Stmon Herman gave him first a retamer of $400, and aiterwarcs a lee of $1,00u, ior nevi ns Cuse dismissed in a New York court; the $1,000 wiieh Herman testified he paid to Judge Davis Was turned over to (he Treasury, in compromise of the charge againat Herman; Juoge Davis tola structions from Wasnington tor that amount; accordingly Judge Davis instructed Assisiaut Dis- trlet Attorney De Kay to go ito court and enter @ noile prosequi; witness never tuld Herman tuat he was to give # part of che money to Sanborn, Mr, Beck (interrupting)—But Herman swore you divided with Sanborn, Witness—I sweur 1 uever said a word to Sanborn about the case, | In course of the interrogation by Mr. Foster, of | the comumuttee, the witness said he knew bothing ubout the Morrison case furtuer than the fact ‘bat When he was about to sail ior Europe & messenger Placed in his bund a package adarvased to Morri- son, Charing Cross, London; when the witnecs arrived in London he cailed at the Charing Cross Hotel, and earning that Morrison had depurted tor the Continen’, leit the package for him at the hotel; the withess wax not, nor did he ever hear that Sanvorn was, one of the tuformers in the giove cases, Durlow the cross-exammation Fay aaid ne advised with Sanborn after he was indicted; he had made mones ia stocks on the tniormation of Sanborn, but not otherwise with him; he dd not kuow that sanborn was an émployé of the novern- Ment, Lever baving seen his papers; be thereiore could uot swear that he was an employé of the | government, Several members of the committee further crose- examined Fay, The witness did not know whether any member of C.ngress wrote to sanborn urgiug him to settle with Waddell; he did not recvilect that Sanborn ever said he hada contract with the governinent; the witness thought Sunboro @ must Peculter Man; the witness did nothiag wrong in transactions, Mr. Siblack, of the committee, said he thought it Was strange that the business between the witness and Sanborn shoud resylt only in favor of Fay, bios Must be some peculiar relanons between em, The witness remarked—There are nose; 1 Swear It. THE CALDWELL CASE. The committee this alternoon examined Mr. | James ©, Caldwell, of Phitadeiphia, who, being | sworn, sald that about @ year ugo & conidentia bookkeeper in the firm with which he is connected bertidatyatieeh 4 took from the estaodlisihment 1p- voices, siips of invoices and other documents and pus them _into she bands of B.C, Jayne, the gov- ernment special agent at New York; this clerk afterwards sought an opporsanity to be discharged by having a quarrel with the junior partaer; in e latter part of May, 187: from their Custom House brokers at New York, saying one of the firm was d to come to New York on important business; @ telegram was soon after received stating that Mr. Cauldwell would be preierred. The witness then gave a circumstantial account of his visit to New York. On visiting the oftice of L. G. Jayne Mr. Jayne immediately opened the business, and, having the stolen papers before him, said that this Was the most complete case of fraud he had ever had; Mr. Jayne saia the invoices were correct, buat there was a violation of law, three instead of five per cent commission having veen added on invoices of cameos and jewels, the diicrence @ letter was received busily engaged tn fitting out the party to ve dis- posed to the Antarctic regions and Tasmania, to | observe, in conjunction with foreign scientific par ties, the coming transit of Venus. France, Germany and Great Britain will be represented at varidui is points, The outfit of the American party is vey complete and comprehensive. It consists of a“ fewer then fifteen wooden structures to be erected at points of observation sor the instruments alone, besides a large number of tents to be used by tne parties as quarters. A very large and well se lected assortment of sctentific instruments will be furnished by the government, and the ma- terial generally tor the comfort and necessities of the parties will be as complete and perfect aa has ever béen prepared for any expedition sent ont by the United States. As the parties will number at least twenty, in addition to the servants | and attendants, the provis'oug meccssary jor their subsistence. for stx montha,or more on their solitary stations will occupy great space, and there | is consideranvle fear expressed among the knowlng ones that the gunboat Swatara, fitting out at Brooklyn for the+!edtiqpy will be altogetuer too smail for the work e ted Of her, She is one of the experiménts of the Navy Departments, | and is by mo means’ roomy or commodious, Indeed it is quite certain that she 1s altogether too smali for the expedition, With wardroom accommodations for twelve she is ex- | pected to quarter twenty-six, besides those whe lapst be quartered in the cabin; and mo ove who has not suffered the discom‘orts of close and crowded quarters can imagine tne amount of solid misery a long cruise under such circum- stances® will entail, Besides this she has not enough stowage capacity to afford’ secure room for all the immense stores necessary for the | parties to properly carry out their work, and when the time comes it will probabiy be foundtoat a | great quantity of very valuable freighi must be leit ashore, and finally, it is doudtful | Whether she can be made ready in time, In every way she is regarded as unfitted for the duty. Hence it is suggested tnat the corvette Brooklyn, now at Key West, or some other Toomy vessel be detailed for the work. The com- fort and efficiency of the expeditionary parties would be greatly ennanced by sucha change u | the statements of naval officers are correct. THE MOIETY ABUSES. PESTS The Money-Making Systems of Sanborn | and Jayne—$50,000 Forfeited as Pen- | ality for an Error of $924. WASHINGTON, April 27, 1874, | | { | amount shali have reached $400,000,000, except that the same may be used by the Secretary o! the Treasury in the purchase of the United States notes.at any time after July 15, 1874, at eighty-seven per cent of their par value, in such sums as he may | @eem proper, and at an advance of one per cent | Bbove that sumon the 15th of July of each suc- | weeding year until the same shall reach par. To Increase the quantity of gold the Secretary of the Treasury may issue $50,000,000 of five year five per fent bonds, The notes thus redeemed are to be paid out again for the purchase of United States | bonds. ‘ Mr. Cros*land’s bill proposes that ali laws that | impose taxation on State banks be repealed, and | Bhat all laws which require the payment of duties | on deposits in State banks or on the circulation of | Btate banks be repealed, | ‘The bill of Mr. Fort commences with a preamble: | Whereas, it is claimed by portion of the peo- | ple that tne notes of the United States Treasury, | commonly called greenbacks, have been practicaily | | protested and disnonores, and that said notes are arredeemabie and unsstisiaciory a8 currency; and ‘Whereas, the President, in his message returning Senate Bill No. 617 recommends that, 4s a measure reparatory to free banking, or for placing the ernment in a condition to redeem its notes tn | ‘Coin at the earliest practicable moment, the reve- | hues of the country should be increased 80 as to | me curren’ expenses, provide for the sinking required by law, and aiso a surplus to be re- daimed in the Treasury in gold, and enacts that seciions 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the act to reduce internal taxes aud for other marposes, of July 14, 1870, and such other provis- eacor the second act as provide for the levying aud coilectlig of @ tax on anoual incomes, be re- vised and re-enacte amendments, vi a hail per centum, as provided in said act, there | ipuadl be levied and o.liected tor the year 1875, and jpnnually thereaiter, a tax of five per centum on ihe annual Income, protits, gains and salaries OF persons, corporations and aesociations within Onited States instead of $2,000 exempted in act, there jail hereaiter be exempted $5,000, i} government officers whose duty it was to levy collect the thcome tax provided jor by sald shall in due thme proceed to execute this act. Mr. Field’s bill ‘proposes the issue of inter-con- rtible three-sixty five bods, exchangeable for backs, Which may be held by national banks piace of legal tender reserves, and the surplus ncy in the Treasury suall be used in the re- mption of the five-twenty bonds of the United tates. Mr. Bright’s bil in the preamble recites the extract from the President's message as ted by Mr. Hart, and then proceeds as tol ws yhereas, there 13 great financial distress oeeaig ‘he Saryer portion of the country and burden of the national, State and inuticipal | | | art ual to the ability of the pe to oot 0 whereas it would be oppres- ) jpowe itional taxation on the people Sine Bie retannak many Danaaaary aoe | was in the list of cases; Mr. Sanborn was furnished | Work them up as an agent of the government; the | commission the witness received was signed by the The Committee on Ways and Means to-day ex- | amined A. Goodrich Fay, who, being sworn, was examined by Mr. Beck. He said he was a lawyer, | residing 1n New York; his business connections with Sanborn commenced, he thought, in 1868 or | 1869, and had reference only to the stock of the Eastern Railroad and of the Adams Express Com- pany; he had always advised wiih Sanborn ina friendly and professional way; he had never had | any money transactions with Sanborn, except as to the matter just stated ; as to Sanborn’s contracts he never knew he had a case in Brooklyn or a rail- road case. In answer to the question, why he went to Europe, tne witness said he had contemplated jor years going abroad to educate his children; he | mentioned this to Sanborn, who said that while | abroad he could attend to some important busi- | | } ness for the government as well as to bis own pri- | vate affairs; it turned out that while he could not be appointed Consul he could go out as agent | forthe Treasury; he did not know who brought | about the appointment; he made nothing out of | this appointment, his balances being short; he had | nothing to do with moteties; there were some | things Mr. Madge, head of the Speciai Agent | Bureau, said he could finish up; what he did wus as an honest man; if he | made mistakes they were of judgment. In | answer to iurther inquiries the witness said he | ‘was the adviser of Sanborn to accept the terms of | settlement proposed by Mr. Waddell, ana for this | service never received a cent; he did not know | who made the application that he shouid be ap- | pointed agent abroad; he never said a word to | any member of Congress about it; be did not think | anybody advised him he would get the office; San- | born was anxious he should obtain the office; the business he was to attend to in Europe was witn reference to customs undervaluation; there was certain information submitted to him, and his business was to visit certain consulates and com- pare evidence with consular records and samples, and to find out whether they were good casea or not; he did the work; he could not | give the names of these cases; he did not make a special report and knew of no list; the names of tne cases were in the department, but there was nothing there to indicate he nad anything todo with them; the business was the kid glove cases; aimost all the trade in that article in New York wiih the list; he supposed Mr. Sanborn was to Secretary of the Treasury; it stated that he was to proceed to Europe and examine into certain cases filed by Mr. Sanborn; it was not thought necessary to instruct him, but to leave the matter to his | had gone to see Mr. Brush the matter might | | Yas that during five years the government had lost | curred was $43,000; | Know of auy oficial ever im favor of the government being $924, and the whole amount o/ the invoices, $80,000; Mr. Caldweil explained to Jayne how the matter oc- ~ ‘ed, and claimed that the firm had certainly “o «Mention to defraud the government; Jayne ' med him that he could settle the case in two + 1a) bes; he could take the case into court or com- | Be pile ; the witness and the other members of “am preferred a compromise rather than incur the iarge expenses 0: a court; finally it Was agreed to coulpromise ior $50,000 as the best tuat could be done; the firm was to pay $15,000 on application to the Secretary of the Treasury to accept the compromise, $17,500 when the compromise was accepied, and $17,500 to be paid sixty days there- after; the firm paid the two sums first named, Making $52,500; thinking they had paid money enough they returned to Mr. Bliss, with a view that he might recommend that the money already paid was enough, and that the remaining $17,50 need not, therefore, be paid; Mr. Bliss said an | arrangement might be made by reducing the sum to $5,000; this Mr. Caldwell, on bebalt of his firm, accepted, but the money Ras uot yet been paid; they have made an application to the Sec- Tetary of the Treasury to reopen the case, ‘The witness related that Wiliam P. Wood, an ex-government chiet detective, came vo him, say- ing that Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun, had agreed to give him $1,000 for an article containing all the iacta tn the Caldwell case; witness con- sulted bis partners, who said, ere is another angerons blow, acd if this man haa oF all tae facts, end cun spread them in such a way as to damage our credit, we bad better close with his proposition,” whiten was the paymert of $2,000— $1.00 tor withhoiding the article, and the other $1,000 for his influence at Wasnington; this money was paid, and Wood gave a paper signed by hi sell, saying that Irom an examination of tne case he believed Caldwell & Co. did not intend to de- iraud !he government, Mr. 8. J. Conley, Collector of Customs at Phila- delonia, being present, was asked his opinion ot Moielies. He sala, as the supertor Custom Hionse officers were judges im cases of alleged | fraud, they should have no part in moieties; on toe other hand, he questioned very inuch whether the interests of the country would be promoted by the entire abolition of moiti ; to do 80 would throw open the door to irands; it was tothe in- terest oi the honest merchant to prevent irands by dishonest importers. During the two years and @ hull he had been tn office his share of moieties amounted to only $1,200. Naval Ufficer Hicstadt, of Phitadeiphia, having been sworn siid, Le had received about the same amount of moities, in one case—toat of Koverts & Co.—he knowing nothing oi the case until he obtained the money. While there should be severe fines and penalties tor false imoortutions, he be- Heved, with the Collectors, that the principal oMcers of the Custom House, who acted in the capacity of Judges, suould have no moities. Hiram P. Goodrich, special Deputy and Acting Surveyor at Philadelphia, Knew of no case in which the books and papers of merchants were seized in that city. Joun Field, or the firm of Young, Smitn, Field & Co., of Philadelphia, was examined by the Ways and Means Committce to-night. He gave a cir- cumstantial account of the visit to their store, in October, 1878, of Augustus A. Brusu, a Treasury agent in New York, who alleged that the firm had been guilty of frauds by false invoices. The part- ners in the house heid a private consultation, and as they were not aware they nad done anything | wrong they formaily resolved to spill the lust drop of blood aud spend the last dollar in deience of | their rights; the witness was iniormed that ti he | have been settled; Brush was accompanied on his visit Lo their store by D. F. Houston, of Philadel- pis, a Treasury agent in that city; some of their ooks and papers Were taken away and they have not yet been returned; the irm do not know the details of the charges against them; the allegation $650 of duties. for which the penalty was $68,000 or $70,000; the diMculty arose avout cartons; some of the manulacturers of little things include the poxes with the invoice and others do not; one invoice, which was for $2 50, 8. on Witness stated that the case was now | ‘our Mr. D. F. Houston, having been sworn, testified in relation to the case of Roberts & Co, which was one of false weight in the mutter of ifon; the Treasury settled it by their pay: of $12,000, although the penalty they the government iraudulent weighers were discharged: witness atid not having been pun- 5 ished for ch practices; he received $3,000 | as his share of the motety; with relerence | to the case of Young, Smith & Oo. ne | said Mr. Brush discovered the irregularities of the house in New York, at which port part of thei foo were imported, and ¢ame to Philadelphia to look to the case; the witness never heard of this case till Mr. Brush brought it to his atten- tion; suit has been commenced against them, In reply to a part ol Mr, Field’s testimony the wit- ness said he remembered sending oniy one message to me firm; Mr. Bickel, who is connected with tt, usked him what tronvie there was between the wovernment and the firm, The witness replied :— if Mr. Field had come to Mr. Brush and | explained, as the latter requested, perhaps the matrer could have been settled. In the course of the examination the witness satd he bad been Deputy Coilector of the port of Philadelphia. He ‘Was opposed to moieties to the principal customs OMcers jor the reason that the hope of reward was apt to bend their judgment; and it was his opin- ton that irregularities and irauds were for the pe part to be traced to she ad valorem system of dutics. The examination of witnesses on the moiety and kindred questions was here closed, and to-morrow the committee will hear statements concerning the iron and steel interest. THE VETO IN DETROIT, Detrort, April 27, 1874 The sourd of Trade to-day adopted resolutions commending the President’s veto of the Pinancial bill, THANKS TO PRESIDENT GRANT. West Briguron, 8. I., April 26, 1874, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD: — We are no great “shakes” aown here on finance, but you deserve our thanks for the brave and ob- | stinate fight you have made against that outrage. ous, and we may say infernal inflation scheme, Your course has aroused us to think deeper upon the fearful results it would have entailed upon the judgment; | honor and credit of our country, and the ravages be would to.morraw furniah the eemmitwe with | it would nave made in our OWD industry and mod. forieited $3,000 worth of | 0! erate ‘Throngh the HeRaip we bes to send our Feapects to the Uhiel Executive, who now smined a greater victory and ir distinction than he did, sword in band, at the of hig troope io the Wilderness, It makes us sturdy sons ot the soli proud to think tha: amid the corrup- tion of this age of money greed, we are represented stom Dy a President fearless enough to do what is Fight '0 save cur credit, to give our coun- try nae and hon r abroad and to pay our honest feta with ‘yon and truth, Let bim con- upue to be guided by the same plain and upright reasoning he will be victorious over the ene- mies of ts! houesty and common sense. A FARMER, BREW YORK CITY. ‘The City Chamberlain’s statement for the week ending Aprit 25 shows:— Balance. April 18. Coroner Kessler was yesterday called to 130th street and Tenth avenue to hold an inquest on the body of Joseph Larkin, eleven years of age, | whose death resultet :rom injuries received by having beet accidentally run o er, about ten days ago, by anheavily laden dirt cart, driven by nis brother, and irom which he tell, Louisa Dederich, a child three years of age, whose parents live at 68 Laight street, yesterday, wntle alone in the room during the temporary absence of her parents, accidentaliy teil on roe | ove, and Was 80 leariuliy burned be.ore assis: nce rived that death eusued soon ait Coroner Croker will hold an inquest. The S= ise residents of this city last evening held | @ grand banquet at the Assemoly Roums of the Helvetia Mannerchor to celebraie tie adoption of | the new constitution by the twenty-two Swiss Cantons. President Dr. Jonann Freiderich opened the meeting by an eloqueut address relative to | the subject, 10 which be was loudiy and frequently appiauded. Uther interesting addresses oiowed, interspersed with choruses aad vocal solos by lady and gentlemen members of the different swiss musical societies, ‘The sale of an extensive collection of fine art and Nustrated works (postponed from the 23d and 24th inst. owing tothe bad weather of last week) was held last evening at the satesrooms of Messrs. Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., Clinton Hall. A large audience, among them a number of ladies, was present, and the bidding throughout the evening was very spirited, The main part of this iamous colection came irom the library of the late Lord Farnbam, of England, About one-hall of the catalogue was | disposed of, The balance will be sold this evening. Good Will Engine Company No. 3, of Trenton, N. 4., On the way ‘0 visit William Wooley Hose Com- pany, of Boston, called yesterday on Mayor Have- Meyer, Who received them at the City Hall witha specch, injresponse to one from Chief Marsnal Bar- ton. The untiorm worn was a neat one, chocolate colored irockcoats, wit red ieacher caps, andas | thie company passed the HERALD office, keeping step to the motes of “Cameron’s Coming” piayed by a fine band, dressed in white great coats, 1 made @ creditabie @ppearance, as did its elegant four- ‘wheel hose cart. Alter the Mayors compliments the company marched to tie Full Kiver boat. BROOKLYN. elnae nts Henry Ward Beecher will lecture in Plymouth church, on Wednesday evening, on ‘the Wastes and Burdens of Lue.” There are 150 men now at work on Prospect Park against 1,200 at the same season lastyear. The muinoer will not be increased. ‘The ponde bordering on Fourth avenue are re- ported as being in a dangerous condition, hable to | flood neighboring ce!lars, The sudject has been Teterred to the beaitu authorities oy the Common Counc, ‘The Board of Aldermen have directed that steps be taken by the Commissioners of City Works for discontinuing the use of the Wallabout cocks by the offai contractors. A more suitable site will be selected for their use. The examination tn the case of Timothy Finnin, arrested op suspicion of being connected with the Panormo tragedy, and since charged with assault and rovvery. been set down Jor hearing be- Justice Riely, on Weduesday, the wth inst, Atthe annual meeting of the Art Association, yesterday, Messrs. Gordon L. Ford, N. D. Morgan, Ea ©, Otto, C. Muller and Thomas KE, i BATE ciocas trustees lor Gve years, The association is reported in ® Mourisuing condition. ‘The construction of the Frost street sewer has been recommended, as the accumulating waters, which have no outlet, create @ nuisance dangerous to health. The cogs of the work, it is estimated, ‘Will be $35,000, or $90 per lot on Lhe district bene- fited by its construction. Eight Inspectors of Buildings, at a@ salary of $1,200 per annum, will be appointed next week, | with a view to guarding against the recurrence of such accidents as that In Stockton street last week. It is promised that the building law whl henceforth be complied with. Fire Marshal Thorn )esterday discovered that certain advertisers, who exhibit pictures nightly on the roof of the building at the junction of Washing‘on and Fulton streets, use gasvlins, an explosive and dangerous liquid. He notified taem to discontinue their exhibitions at once. Mrs. Anna Ingraham, a member of the Ladies’ Temperance Association, has been obtaining testi- mony against delinquent liquor dealers, She has, through the agency of a small boy, purchased thirty bottles o: whiskey on Sunday from as many dealers mm “the ardent.” Their cases are tu ve tried beiore the Excise Comaussioners at an early | day LONG ISLAND. —— i The members of the Methodist church. at Patch. | ogue, have decided to exclude wine from the com- | munion table, using Water instead, The Queens County Teachers’ Institute will com- mence its session at Hempstead on Monday next, and continue in session two weeks, It will be | under the charge of Commussioners Lincoln and Garretson. Sea Cliff and Shelter Island are both undergoing great alterations in preparation for the coming summer season. At the former a large number of new residences have been erected, and aaditions have been made to a Dumber vi those erected Jast ear, and at the latter the improvements have | Been ually extensive. The proposed extension the North Snore road to Sea Clift wiil, it is ex- pected, give an additional incentive to improve- ment. At the recent meeting of the Presbytery of Long | Island, at Easthampton, the report of the Rev. E. W. Whittaker,. Stated Clerk, showed that during the preceding vear there had been a large increase of members and Sabbath School scholars, ag well as jarge additions to the boards oi the cuurch. rhe increase of communicants, ig 2,873; 01 Sabbath School scholars, 2,330, and of churches, 181. ‘The largest numoer received into any ove caurch wus forty two, The next meeting of the Presbytery | will be held on the last Tueaday in September, at Middie isiand. STATEN ISLAND. —-—_—__ Shad fishing, which has been backward in conse- quence of the bad weather, has now commenced more tavorably. The gill net fishermen are catch- ing trom 200 to 300 daily ana the driit nets are doing a fair busiuess. Commodore Simonson has | shipped trom his row of gill vets near Koobing’ | Keei, tothe New Yok market, up to this time, about 5,000 shad, and Mr. James Stiliwell, trom i row off Stapleton, about 3,000, which have aver- aged $30 per 100, ois A special term of the Richmond County Court, County Judge Metcalf presiding, will convene this | morning at the County Court House in Richmond village, There are avont twenty-five excise cases | on the calendar, the charges being ior vio.ations of the law in kdgewater village. to be tried on | appeal, Several other cases, uppeal from the | Justices’ Courts, will be argued, as wel as a num- | ber on appeal ior the remittance of taxe! | to have been iliegally levied. nee FATAL AOCIDENT. PORTLAND, Me., April 27, 1874. On Sunday James Sargent, of Passorstiela, was examining @ loaded revolver, when it was dis- charged, the ball entering tue side of his littie gir), eight years old. * died ta two hours, SENTENCE OF DR. PAUL SOHOEPPE. Cutcago, Tl, April 27, 1874 In the Criminal Court in this city this morning Judge Gary sentenced Dr. Paul Schoeppe, con- yicted of lorgery, to three years in the Peniten- tary, His counsel aeclare their intention of taking the case 0 the Supreme Court om a writ ai error. C—O | made by the committees which have been AERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1874—QUADRUPLK SHEET. THE MISSISSIPPI OVERFLOW. Additional Reports of the Homeless— Brashear City Overflowed—Reception and Dixtribution of Army Clothing— Morgan’s Texas Railroad Thscatened. New Oxeans, La., April 27, 1874. The resolution of a;ubiic meeting held in West Baton Rouge states that 300 families in that parish have been renuered homeless by the inundation from the crevasses, Brashear City 1s overflowed. The railroad em: bankment there isthe oaly thoroughfare, and the merchants have neariy all built oridges connect- ing with the emuankmeut and reised their store foors, Smail boats are in general use, Colonel He ¢. Hodges, Quartermaster Cnited 700 | States Army. received yesterday and turned over to the distributing commitiee ior soferers by the Overiiow 26,000 line! sack coats, 25,000 iorage caps, 25,000 pairs of shocs aua 4,000 blaukets, ‘The Cotton Exchange sends §2,000, contributed by the citizens of Savanuah, lor the sufferers. Advices from tue Teche country reports crevasse water still rising, and the indications are that Mosga's Texas Raliroad will be partly over- wr Jo" . ‘the New York mail of the 224 was received to- day, but the mails irom the 16th to the Lyth, in- clusive, are missing, The Signal Office Report. WASHINGTON, April 27, 1874, The Signal Office reports that the Mississippi River has risen slightly during the past twenty- | four hours tironshout its entirs zourse, from St. Fani to New Oricans. The ive at the la‘ter place is, however, only two inches, while est rise (at Dubvque) is only four inches. | ‘he Missouri has fallen ‘steadily trom | Yankton to Boonesville and risen slighty thence to its mouth. The Ohio has risen four inches at Pittsburg. five inches at Cincinnati and a littie at Louisville, below which city it nas fallen tu its mouth. The Red River has risen four inches at Sureveport, wmile the Allegheny, Cum- beriand, Potomac aud Mouonganela have lallen. Overflow of the Chattahoochee River. SavVaNNaH, Ga., April 27, 1874. It is reported that the lower Chattahoochee River is overflowed its entire length and that con- sideravie damage has been done. Overflow of the Alabama River. SELMA, Ala., April 27, 1874. The Alabama River is two {eet above the high water mark of July, 1872, and is still rising slowly, | The water lacks but two inches of being in the pressroom of the Datly Times Building, which Stands sixty feet above low water mark. Theriver | lands south of Seima are submerged and great damage bas been done to plantations and destruc- tion to crops. Aid for the Louisiana Sufferers. Mayor Havemeyer yesterday received from Mr. Thomas Cottman, a member of the Citizens’ Com- Mittee appointed to solicit subscriptions for the Louistana sufferers, a letter in which the extent of the damage by the flood 1s described as tollows:— “The parishes in which sugar and rice are produced are Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Iberville, Point Coupée, St. James, St. Mary's, St. Jobn, St. Bernard, St. Charies, Jefferson, Urieans, Plaquemine, Lafourche, and Terrebonne, which, according to Bouchereau’s Teport, Dioduced, a8 tiie Crop Of 1872, 100,278 hogs- heads of susar, amounting in value to $8,423,302; Mo.asses valued at $3,857,000; rice, it. Mary’s suffer very slightly by the inundation, The cotton parisnes are Curroll, Catahoula, Con- cordia, Cauld veil, Franklin, Mudison, Morehouse, 142,000 bales, Vained at $9,930,000. In enumerating tie products only staples are named here. A com- mittee, composed of the most intelligent citizens of New Orleans, estimate the sutferers at over | The buttom lands of | 25,000 in Loutsiana aloue, Mississippi and Arkansas belng very extensively afiected by the overflow, the distress is equally felt, and the intention of our comuittee tn obtain- ing contributions is to have aid exteded to all sufferers irom the inundation, not confining it to Louisiana.” ‘The tollowing sums were yesterday recelved by | the Mayor for the suiferers:— Cooper, Hewitt & Co. Liao The Cotton Exchange Contribution. New York, April 27, 1874, ‘The following additional subscriptions have been | received at the Cotton Exchange in aid of the suf- ferers from the Mississippi overflow :— E. RB, POWERS, Superintenden: Other Donations. New York, April 27, 1874, To ras EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— We desire to acknowledge, through your col- umns, the following subscriptions for the reliet of jana:— T. O. Matthiessen & Wiecher’s Sugar Refining Com. ny. 8 Rauiman & 0. De Cas.ro & Lonn E, A. O'Brien 100 meyer 100 Udolpho Wolfe & » oO Stursberg, Ruperti & C + 10 | Total... seer eesecsesssecescsesees seeceeesveres S180 | —Which amount we transfer by telegraph to New Oricans. Yours respectfully, C. HYLLESTED. W. T. WILLIAMS, Issue of Rations and Army Clothing. WASHINGTON, D, C., April 27, 1874, ‘The Secretary of War has directed the issue of twenty thousand army rations daily for twenty-tive days, and aiso a proper supply of army clothing for the use of the destitute people in the overflowed region about the Mississipp1, the aistribution to be agreed upon by the authorities in New Orleans, The cost to the government: for these issues will be $90,000, and the Secretary bas asked Congress to appropri- ate that amount to meet the expenses, In accordance with the request the House Com- mittee on Appropriations have agreed to report and recommend the immediate passage ot the oil appropriating $90,000 ior the parpose specified, | Seventy-five Tons of Government Ra- tions En Route. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 27, 1874. The steamer Exporter le{t here yesterday after- noon with seventy-five tons of government rations tor the Louisiana suilerers. Contributions from Boston. Boston, April 27, 1874. The contributions in Boston for the Louisiana eufferers now amount to $33,000, THE OROPS IN ALABAMA, MOBILE, April 27, 1874. The crop prospects along the Tombigbee River are anything but encouraging. The river is higher | than during the great flood of 1844, and stil! rising. The news from tne Yazoo Valiey is better. The rivers are falling, but the greater portion of the best lands are still uuder water. FOREIGN TRADE. Statistics of Imports from Great Britain. WASHINGTON, April 27, 1874 The Bureau of Statistics furnishes the following | statement showing the imports of certain articles from Great, Britain to the United States during the | three months ended March 31, 1874, compared with | the corresponding period of 1873 :— 1873. 1874, Alkali, eerie GOL DAS ez Copper, un wre ie ‘és or siabs, ews. is oN Copper, m0 Visa 82 Cotion, pr yards. : Earthen and china ware iniilinery, @ of all sorts, \ons..... r and ar- Tron, raliroa Aron, hoops, sheets, boile: mor plates, (Ons... 7,(51 1,20 | Irom, cast ans wrough sa) Biewy | Sieel, unwrousht, tons. oy 3198 | Lead, pig, rotied, &c., 2 549 | Linen, piece goods, yards 96,350,110 Machinery... av 617 alt, rock Hae, te 46,184 Broadstuffs of mik and san... La, Biik ribbons of ail kr rticied of slik and acne! fyinies, Briush and trish. Wool, sheep and lambs’ Woolen cioths, yards. Worsted stutis, Yards, Carpets, yards. Urioa, N. Y., April 27, 1874, ‘The cheese trade opened here to-day with sales Of 759 boxes of new At 16c, ® 16X¢, Some lots were | April 23, is as ivllowa:—! + partly skiunmed, | ek, Re, A. the great | 13,804,856 | ogre The parisies Cf Ascension, St. Jawes and , sees $100 | PERE | | sufferers in the overflowed districts of Louls- | | | Suppression of important fate, | By, seventy or sevent; 4 | than that.” i ee THE £TATE CAPITAL Ratlroad Bills Ordered to a Third Reads ing—Success of the Fifth Avenue Paye ing Scheme—Rapid Transit 3 ALBANY, April 21, 18174, The Assembly was in general orders throughout three sessions to-day, The senate passed a num- ber of bills, principally of a rural and local charae ter. The lobby wae acti ad im fall force, and the Modoca were ready for any desperate enter- TURBR RAILROAD BILLS were ordered to a third reading in the House, the Greenwich Street Elevated, the street car rail- road from the foot of Chambers street, on the weas Bide, across to the foot of Wall street on the east, and the street car raiiway ‘rom Vesey street to South ferry. Ip the same order was placed, after some debate, the bill to divide the excise money among the cuaritable institutions of New York, the bili to pave the Filth avenue with hydraulic conerete, and also tue bi!l giving to the Batty Reg tster of New Yurk the publication of certain legal notices, The bill to protect the health of female operatives came up without a blash and had 4 solitary advo cate in Mr. Griftin, of Delaware, who contended that unless the sewing machine operatives used this pascas crunk in psace of the treade that they would perish off the ace of the earth. A motion to strike out the enacted ciguse succeeded and the bill was killed, ON THE FIFCH AVENUB PAVING BILL the New ork meubers, were dividea Mr, Conughito said Le iad a message from Mayor Have. Meyer protcanng against 1% somebody, the Mayor Said, lad a patent pavement of iis own im hiseye. Finaty, sr. Coughiin moved to have the expense of the (biped aividea equally between the city and the propesty huiders, Mr. Wi staff said the property holders of Fifth avenue now pay Naif toe taxes of New Tork city, and this was a stall consideration to allow them. One verbal amendinent was offered and rejected, and the bill went to a third reading, REPUBLICAN Caucus. The republicans o! the Assembly had a ¢aucus this evening, and agreed to suvport the blll to re- a@uce the Pars and Police Commissioners to six members each and to tuke away the confirmation power of the Board of Aldermen of New York, A motion to exempt the Park Commission was made and alterwarus withdrawo. Another motion, looking to an extension of the session beyond the the 80th, was allowed to drop. A large party uf Cus‘om House many with Blise and O’srien at their head, came up to urge the bill to regulate THE PARK AND POLICE COMMISSIONS, Several Tamuiany democrats, Jonn Kelly leading the van, appeared on tie scene to try and check- mate the Custoin House folks, A great deal of feeling ts excited over this measure, the republi- cans being partly satisfied, (rom the arguments of Mr. Bliss that, unless they have the Police Com- mission fixed to their liking, Tammany Hall will have it all itsown way in tne fall election. The bill made a stir in the Senate. Mr. Fox moved to strike out the firet section, and, reviewing the political standing of the four Police Commissioners, denounced Oliver Ohar- lick asthe embodiment of all that was wicked, Gross and Jacobs aise arzued against the measur the latter saying thet the Senate republicans pul themselves in a craven attitude when they bowed the knee to the power of the Custom House, | Woodin, on the republican side, detended the bul, | Tne committee finally rose and reported pro; Afterward in the Senate the bill was ordered to | me readmg by a vote of 15 to 13. The Governo! THRER RAPID TRANSIT BILLS before him—Speer’s, Gubert’s and Beach’s. The Vanderbilt and Third avenue are reported a8 vir- tually withdrawn, and the substitute of Bastman’s bill 18 aid to be in the Vanderbilt interest, The Con.ereiice Committee on the eee a wi i | are nearly through with their work, au Ovaciita, Kichland and Tensas, producing over | probabiy be ready to report to-morrow, A Satoon Keeper Invites the Public,to Drink “Crasade Water” and the Ladies Accept—The Police Called Upom to Quiet the Disturbance. CoLumscs, Ohio, April 27, 1874 Crusade matters nave been very quiet here for some time till this morning, and now the old time excitement 1s up again. Charles Wagner, pro- prietor of an eating and drinking hous? on Hugh Street, advertised a grand opening to-day, pro- posing to sell several liquors bearing the names of | “crasade water” and the names of one or two of the prominent ladies connected with tne crusade | movement, Upon secing this advertisement seventy ladies marched to his place to-day, and a smals squad, headed by Mrs. Dasseliam, President of the ; Ladies’ League, stepped inte the store and said ‘whey bad accepted his INVITATION TO FREE LOXcH, and would like a little crusade water. Teiused to give or sell them any. They then at tempted to pass into the dining room, when Wagner ordered the party from bis premises. Tae refused to leave, saying he bad invited tne public, and they, asa purt of it, came to get their part of the good things, Wagaoer then seized several ladies and pushed them out of doors, He then grabbed Mrs. Dasssliam by the arm and one her. towards the dvor, aad, some vf the jadies Say, Struck ver, but several men present beonly pushed her. Wagner's wite then sei Mrs. Dassellam by the throat, while Wagner commenced his work on ths other ladies, Men from the outside rushed in, and for a time a war of words and some little scumling took place, a joane of police urrived aud the trouble was over for he time. A large crowd congregated im the street and blocked the sidewalk, whitch was soon cicared by the on who comuanded the ladies to keep moving. They obeyed tuis order by waiking in procesuon up and down im front of Waguer’s Place. The crowd of mea would have Giapersed av the suggestion of the police, but Waguer begged them to stay, saying he would bail out of jallany man arrested for obstructing the sidewalk. Wax- ner’s men have been Wasbing tae, pavement for » long time, but the crowd and the crusaders are stillon auty. No iurther trouble is antic, ated, THE FREEDMEN’S SAVINGS. Condition of the Institution—The Branch Office in this City—The Sixty Days’ Rule Regarding Deposits En- forced. Wagner WASHINGTON, April 27, 1874 Reports were in circulation to-day that the Freed- man’s Savings Bank had closed its doors, but they were uniounded. During tue iorenoon a few de- positors called at the bank with their check books | for the purpose of ciosing their accounts by with- drawing ther deposits; but, feariag a run on the institution, the management applied the rule to | their charter which authovizes the bank to require | eixty aays, notice previous to the withdrawal of deposits, Veposivors requiring money lor current business purposes were accominoda‘ed, In order io arrange the avairs ol che institution, the Committee on Kanking and Currency to-day agreed to report a btll authorizing the closing of the unprofitable branches of the bank, and, with the advice aud consent of the Comptroller of the Currency, whenever it may be deemed proper, to close the main ofice in washington, The respousinility for the conduct of the busi- ness does not rest with the prescut man- agers, who have been in ofice vut four weeks, but the alleged violation of law and which, it is said, have been withheld from the Committee of Bank- mg and Currency by the Comptroller, leave it optional with the House to censure the Comptroller | Jor nis alleged couceaiment or the Bankiug Com- mittee jor their inefiiciency, The bank, if fually closed now, will be able ta y-five cents on the dollar. eanwhile it is advertised that depositors will get seven per cent on their deposits, The New York Branch. ‘The news that the Freedman’s Bank in Washing. ton had suspended payments and closed its doors yesterday induced a HERALD reporter to call at the New York branch. tn Gieecker street, to ascertain Whether there was avy run. The office wore its usually quiet aspect, ‘out Mr. Harris, the man- uger, said that ue snouid probably be compelied to en.orce trom to-day the ruie requiring mxXty daya’ notice from depositors. He thougat tnat the Washington banx couid not possibiy have closed its doors permanen:iy, and had probably only an- nounced that the sixty days’ rule wouid have to be insisted upon. The run on the Wasuingtun bank Was, 1D his Opimion, caused by the report of the Comptroller of the Currency to tie House of Rep- resentatives. He tuousht there would be a rum on the New York branch. “such news,” he said, “would bring a ruu vo any bank, and we are not invuinerabie by any means, Still, the very worst exhibit of te Washington bank which can be made shows a deficieucy of only $200,000 on $8,000,000 deposits, and a large proportion of this | deficit will be abvsorved by unciaimed deponits, An evening paper of layt Saturday culcu.ated the probable oss to tae depositors at seven per cent anu [certainty do not think that it will be more Mr. idarris atated, aiso, that the New York branch could not continue pay: uel junds came irom Wasningt and expressed @/ eat regret at the necessity of suspension, The New York branch, wiich 1x only one out of thirty-four branches, has about 5,000 depositors, and the tote: amount of their deposits ts avout $316,000, Two- thirds of the depositors are colored people, cout oF LEN APPBALS OALENDAR, ye beer N. a ame Me 181 rt ol ye cule! ir for | ‘nesday, et sae He a 21v, 220, 22, 186, ' A