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& ™ WASHINGTON. Favorable Turn, for General Babeock in the: Safe Burglary Case, COLONEL WHITLEY'S LETTER. PRODUCED. Innocent Character of the General's Assufances Established. DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL — CANDIDATES, Solicitor Wilson's Testimony Regarding Detective Bell. THE EMMA MINE INVESTIGATION. wiiOM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT, Wasarsertos, April 10, 1876. WHE LETTER WHICH GENERAL BABCOCK BE- CEIVED YEOM WHITLEY PRODUCED BEFORE | THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE—A STRONG POINT YOR THE LATE PRIVATE sECRETARY—THE ALIBI WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE "1 BURGLARY CASE, P ' General Babcock went boldly before the Judiciary Committee to day with the original of the letter be re- ecived from Whitley, the answer to which, produced before the committee on , Friday last, was perverted into meaning thut General Babcock Teferred to the safe burglary case when he held out theclosing words of encouragement. The letter shows that Whitley was far from referring to the safe burglary in this letter, and the perverted use of General Babcock’s auswer which, when the two letters are placed side by side, is wholly innocent, bas given all of the testimony of Whitley a suspicious character and caused the witness to be regarded as not altogether disingenuous in his profession, that hcts making a tlean breast of his complicity in the conspiracy. The fact has greatly reassured the friends of General Bab- tock, especially as Whitley is placed. in the predica- ment of having sworn falsely either when he was tried for the conspiracy in the local courts here in Uctober, 1874, or when he appeared before. the committee last Friday. But the scandal involved in the cage does not end tere. There is no disguising the fact that the public are disposed to ucoept Whitley as telling the trath now, ana Genera! Babcock is suffering accordingly. But if Whitley is really telling the truth the mischief | of his testimony will not end with the dis: Brace of General Babcock. The Associated Press told you today how, at the trial of Whitley in Washington, Mike Hayes, one of the implicated parties who turned ‘State’s evidence, testified that Whitley met him in New York and sent him to Wash- ington to carry out the plan of the burglary. Whitley tontradicted Hayes’ story, saying he was in Boston at the time of tho alleged interview and produced sev- ‘eral witnesses tending to show that tact and cstablish- ing the alibi. The same report goes.on to say that Whitley, in his recent. testimony before tho Judiciary Committee, confirmed all the statements of Miko Hayes, for which he previous!y had him arrested tor perjury, To repeat, if Whitley is telling the truth, a host of reputations must suder. He established an alibi, which he now leaves the publicto believe was false upon the testimony of the several persons hereafter enu- merated. No less a person than Harrison W. Hugely, Deputy Colector of the port of Boston, swore that:he was present at Whitley’s dinner party in Boston on the might of April 5, 1874, and saw and dined with Whitley. An official- of the Boston Custom ‘House, William H. Bates, testified that tie called to see “Whuley, and found him at a house entertaining his friends at dinner on the date referred to, and James Tilley, a Boston detective, swore that he got an in- vitation the night before trom Whitley to assist at this dinner party. H. F. Hutchinson, of Spring- Beld, Mass, swore that he saw Whitley at the depot’ Springfleld on the morning of the 6th, the day following the dinner party, when he was en roule to New York, and W. W. Applegate and Detective Newcomoe, of New York, tes- fled to his arrival there. The alibi being thus proved, and Mike Hayes’ testimony as to his getting his bur- Blarious iustructions on these dates discredited, the question recurs—DTd Whitley swear fulsely at his own trial or did he tell the trath to Proctor Knott’s commit- bee the other day? This is the conundrum Washington ls trying to guess to-night. THE MEXICAN CLAIMS COMMISSION—AN EXTEN- SION OF TIME NECESSARY—COMMUNICATION FLOM SECRETARY FISH 10 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSK APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE. The following communication from Secretary Fish in relation to the Mexican Claims Commission was re- teivea by the Chairman of the Appropriation Com- mittee to-day. Mr. Fish shows what has been done toward the settlement of tuo claims, and makes sug- gestions as to extending the time of the court suili- ciently to allow of Gnishing the cases on the calendar. He suggests that as Minister Thornton will not receive pay for bis services as umpire, he be presented with an appropriate tggtimonial :-—~ Derarturst oF Stark, Wasmycroy, D. C, April 8, 1876, } Bon, SamcstJ. Ranvait, Chairman of the Commitice } ob Appropriations :— Sim—The convenuon between the United States and Mexico for tho settlement ot claims under tie treaty of, 1868 iinally expired, aiter several exte: January 31, 1876. lt was provided, howe ampire should bar that date to completo his work. «At tho expiration of | the commission Sit Edward Thornton, in others in Which motions for rele: revision, &c., were pending. Many of these cla! large, and tho | documentary and ober evidence 18 exceedingly | voluminous, Although be has used every efurt w | dispose of these cuses ho has, at this + ULdisposed | of 118 cases, He states it will be impossible tor hin Jo dispose of these cuses within the tine allowed by \he Convents id that, in case he ts to all the busines: jore him, an extension of time must de granted lim. 1 have been inturmed by the Mexican , Minister of the readitiess of his government to jo the United States in extending the time of the umpire | until January 1, 1877, aud the matter 4 of claimants [rom both countnes, particularly to our own citizens who Lave charms pending to « very’ largo ainount, No appropriation was asked for for the com- ing year for this commission, a8 it Was supposed at Lhe | time the estimates were inade up that the umpire would | be able to close the work during the present fiscal year, | Should the umpire be able to dispose of ull the cues by | the end of July, suill a consideradie part of the clerical subordinate force of commissson will be re- | red during the montis of July and August, iu co fuitation with the umpire, eutering decisions and in | pertorming the closing acts, Lf an extengvwn ts agreed | da, the force, iticiading the agent, will be required until | the close of the labors of the umpire. ; Lenclose a statement of the unexpended-balance of | Appropriations for salaries and contingent expenses of | Unis commission, a large part of which 1s available aud | Gut covered into 'the Treasury. | Nv new appropriations | will be required, but it is desired that so much of the iatious heretoiore made for salaries and con- , bihgent expenses remai unexpenged on the doth | day of June, 1876, as shall be uecessary for the pur- | pose, may ve used iu the payment of sularics of the | eed secretary, clerks, translators and messengers at; the rates now respectively allowed to them for contin- | gent expenses for a period not to exceed six months | trom tre Ist day of July next. It 1 betieved that | ® reduction may — shortly made oumber uf trangiators ‘and — clerks, ' NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1876—TRIPLE SHEET amount which may the 30th day of June, 1876, of of the umpire, or so much for purpose, be of the Secretary or Seite, irvices of the umpire. sir, your obedient servant. HAMILTON FISH. ‘The total amount.of unexpired balances from June 30, 1872, to Jame 30, 1875, was $26,873 92, and the amount of. contingent expenses to June 30, 1876, was $1,115. The salaries for six months ending September * 30, 1876, were $5,100, and miscellaneous expenses $1,200. CONTESTED SBATS IN THE HOUSE—TWO BE- PUBLICAN MEMBERS TO BE OUSTED., The Committee ou Elections have decided to oust two sitting republican members and give their seats to the contestants, democrats, and the action of the com- mittee will be ratified ag soon as the reports of the committve can be acted upon by the House. In the cuse of Spencer against Morcy, of the Fifth district of Louisiana, the decision of the committce was unani- mous, but in the contest of Lemoine for Farwell's scat | for the Third district of Illimois, which is part of | Chicago, the award to Lemoine was a strict party vote. Several other contested election cases yct remain to be concluded by the same committec, IMPORTANT WITNESSES IN THE EMMA MINE INVESTIGATION. The House Committees on Foreign Relations havo summoned three uw witnesses from Salt Lake City in relation to the Emma mine scandal Three important witnesses are to be examined in the morning, and the Utah end of the scandal will be severely investigated. It will be a week or ten days belore the Salt Lake wit- nesses can reach Washington. ; FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT. Wasminctow, April 10, 1876, WHO 18 TO BE THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OY THE DEMOCRATS?—WINFIELD SCOTT HaN- COCK THE COMING MAN-—-THE OBJECTIONS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE PROMINENT | LEADERS CONSIDERED--FUBLIC SENTIMENT | CENTRING OM THE HEEO OF A. HUNDRED BATTLES, It the honest, impartial opinion of nine out of ten of the democrats one meets here from all parts of the country, from Muine to California, can be tuken a8 a criterion upon which to predict tature results, General Winfield Scott Hancock is the cowing man, the one who is tq receive the nomination at St. Louis, in June next, as the candidate of the democracy for the Presi- dency. This opinion i# surely becomivg stronger day by day. Nos that Hancock m the first choice for that high office of nine ont of ten democrats, because the Mret-choice favorites are Thur- | man, Tilden, Bayard and Hendricks, Hach inember of this quartet has his ardent and devoted followers; each will be earnestiy supported in the Convention, | | and either If nominated would be in the bighest degroe | satisfactory to tho great mass of the democratic party | Doth in the North and in the South; but to each there i is, trom various causes, just enough opposition to render | the nomination of either a dangerous experiment for | the democrats to adopt, Bayard—‘without fear and without reproach’’—tails trom en insignificant State; one, too, whose electofal vote is sure to be cast for the | nominee of the National Democratic Convention. Be- | sides this, the insinuation thrown out against him in the Senate the other day—groundiess though it was— a | is sufficient to show that the radicals, at least the Jacobins of the party, woald en- deavor to cast suspicion upon the strength | of his Union sentiments should he become the standard bearer of the democrata, He would be held Up as too strongly tinctared with Bourbonism. At the | same time those who know the parity and patriotism | which predominate in Bayard's character onif regret | that the Presidontial chair ts not certain to be filled by | ‘#0 able and honorable an occupant, Hendricks, while poasessing some show of strength, has also exhibited evidonce of great weakness, First, | he is not known to be a man of frm convictions, par- ticularly upon qaestions which are sure to occupy a prominent place in the ensuing Presidential canvass, He has some bitter opponents within the ranks of his own party. This is notably true im.Ohio, where Hen- | dricks is anything but popular. Tilden scsrfto bev groupé.as 2 Presidential | candidate. This is purtly due io two causes:—First, | he came to the front wo early in the effort to secure | the nomination. He made his race too soon, and pub- He attention has; ceased to be attracted to him ‘as it was a few montha ago, The | | second clement of weakness in ‘Tilden | | Louis is the bitter opposition he is encountering from | a portion of the New York democracy, rendering it | doubtful it he can secure the united delegation of nis ; own State, without which his chances may be regarded | his party a greater service than in any other capacity | during the Presidential campaign, probably securing | in this way the electoral vote of New York in favor of | the democratic candidate, whoever he may be. Last, but not Jeast to be considered, 1s Thurman, | whose high abilities, elevated character and thoroughly | wise statesmanship commend him’ not only to the Jeuders and masses of bis own party, but to the fair minded “men who are numbered among his opponeats, Even Senator Conkling, in open | Senate, once remarked that if the next Presi- dent was 10 be a democrat ho hoped, for tho Prosperity of the country, the choice would fall upon | | Thurman. It is doubtful if, alb things considered, a | more desirable President could be selected from among | i | the leaders of either party than would be found in | Senator Thurman; but alas! he, too, has his draw. | backs when availability is considered. Hoe has been | | unfortunate enough to encounter opposition of a inost | serious character in the ranks of the Ohio democrary, | By the way, the Ohio democracy has seemed to distin- | guish itself in the last few Presiaential campaigns or”) conventions by so casting its influence as to prevent | uccess, The opposition to Thurman comes more par- | ticularly from the rag-mon¢y men under the lead of | Wash McLean and the Cincinnati Znquirer. How far | this opposition might become reconciled in caso Thur- man becomes the wational democratic standard bearer T 18 a question of doubtfai consideration, In a State | Mr. Wilson.) July 1876, and the unexpended { favor as the democratic candidate for the Presidency?” | two masters faithfully; he believed Bell to be a spy on the answer, in substance, is either “Our first choice is ——,- but I don’t believe he ean be elected. I think Hancock te the man.” Or “Give us Hancork, and we'can’elect him.” | When asked wherein Hancock possesses strength Overthe other prominent men named as candidates, the reply is that while Hancock would receive every democratic vote which either of the candidates named above could command—viz,, the tull vote of the democratic party—he would, in addition, receive a large support from the liberal republican element, o more properly describing it, trom the dissatisfied ant conservative element of the republican party. And being one of the most popular as well as successful and Prominent heroes of the war, and having been wounded and having shed his blood upon more than One of the great battlcflelds of tho war, he would obtain votes trom tho hundreds of thousands of sol- diers which no other democratic candidate could hope | toreceive, His famous stand at New Orleans in de- fence of constitutional rights won for him aot only the good will of the entire South, but of every lover of cou- ‘stitutional liberty In the North. His.desire to render the military power entirely subordinate to the civil, as |: manifested in the strong argument submitted by him before the recent Court of Inquiry at Chicago, shows that under bim the complete supremacy of the civil over the military powor would be inviolably main- tained. The time to elapse between now and the assembling of the St. Louis Convention Is short. The democrats cannot expect to succeed by rponing an unkown, nobody. The time has been when this might hay been followed by success, but not now. The people who desire a change will not take any man or party upon trust; in slong phrase, they will not, In choosing | @ Prosident, “buy a pig in a poke.” The man who ts put forward to receive their support must be a mun of known ability, unquestioned integrity and undoabted patriotism, . Winfeld Scott Hancock, as the possessor of these qualities, ts to-day the rising star in the Presidential sky, and but for some unforeseen contingency he is destined to become the standard bearer in the ap- | Proaching” Presidential battle. The nomination of Hancock would spike the principal campaign guns of | such leaders ag Morton and Blaine, whose stump oratory mainly consists in allusions to the bloody shirt. Besides, what moro appropriate name for a Presiden- tal candidate in this our centennial year than Haa- cock, ae GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES, Wasnixaroy, April 10, 1876, WHITLEY'S LETTER TO GENERAL BABCOCK—THE DETECTIVE’S REQUEST OF THE PRIVATR SEC- RBETARY, AND WHAT CAME OF IT--AN INNO- CENT MATTER TWISTED INTO 4 BAD PURPOSE, AS ALLEGED. General Babcock appeared before the Committee on | the Judiciary to-day and produced thg letter of Colono! Whitley, the substance of which he endeavored to give ou Saturday, the original not having been found by him among his private papers until yesterday. The letter is ds follows: y No, 150 Scuoon Streat, Bostox, Mass. © My Deak Gxverai—1 learn you are vow in Wash- | ington. I um going to request wor of you, and if "you ‘can help me, and it is cont t for yuu to do 80, shall feel ever much obliged to you. Upto the present time I have been unable to obtain my pay for the month of August the matter before Secretary Bristow he would ordor me io be paid; tor be did uot appear to feel uniriendly toward me when [ lust saw him. Ac to the course which bas been pursued toward the | members of the secret service force 1 have little to say | al present, as the day ol reckoning hes not yet come; but the reward tor my ten apd. a baif years of faith(ul wervice renderod to the | ath igre ot» seemiugly has come; and ‘that has all been accomplished by the simple ipse dizit of one man, unsupported by evidence in uny sense of the word, acting directly under the counsel of William P. Wood and Me, Gibson of the Sun,: More than forty persons have been thrown out of employment. I need my,jneagy ‘very moch, amd | Lope you will be able to have it sent to me at once, as there is no good reason to detain it. eee Co cerely yours, + 8. C WHITLEY. ‘The tollowing was the reply to Colonel Whitley’s levter:— Dean Coroxnt—Your letter from Boston has been Feceived. I uttended to the matter yesterday. Selore this reaches you you and your men will be paid. Thoy have sent a man to pay them. You may bide your | | their doors and gaunounced that they had agreed to { in Utab, in 1870, a suit was brought in his court by Mr, Dyer, and so warned Mr. Dyer; about the 10th or 12th of February Bell called at witness’s office aad re- peated the story that he had been in the employ of the dotence and wanted to be employed by the prosecu- tion, He spoke of the express packages to Bradley, despatches sent by Babcock signed by B. Finch, or Bullfineh, and showed him the cipher that was pubd- lished in the New York Henatp, 11 was identified as partly in Luckey’s handwriting, and witness was quite impressed with his story, though he was cautious in trusting him. . Witness telegraphed to Dyer that Bell hud told @ remarkable story, &c. To this Dyer an- “If you think Bel! told the truth send him Whgpwere despatches and express packages sent?” Wilson telegraphed to Dyer:—That man Bell bas Secretary Chandler's commission in his pocket.’ Dyer afterward telegraphed to Wilson:—‘We dare not trust the fellow of whom you spoke.” On the 16th of February Mr, Dyer telegraphed that, after an hour’s conversation with Mr, Brodhead, it was decided, the other counsel concurring, not to use Bell except in re- buttal Wilson telegraphed to Eaton, associate counsel, that he was satisfied with the conclusion arrived at regarding Bell, as it seemed to have been alter caro(ul consideration, Witness met Bell | ‘at the White House on January 10, and asked bim why he did not go directly to the President and teil him the | same story he had told him (Wilson). Witness told the President the substance of Bell's story, but does not know whetbor Bell caw him. Bell once came to witness’ house and told a very remarkable story about Avery. He said that Avery had been harshly dealt with; had been left to bear tho brunt of the battle; bad impoverished himself, and was tnen ready to turn States evidence, Bell, sald that Avery Wanted to see the Secretary of the Treasury or the Attorney General and was ready to talk, Wit- bess said bts suspicious were very strong then, as they have been since, that the story could not be implicitly | trusted. Witness told Bell to go to the Attorney Gen- eral with the Avery story. With regard to Bell's state- ment to him touching the Babcock and Luckey affair, Witness regarded it as something worthy of consideration because of the production of the cipher. The fact that he had a commission under Seoretary Chandler, and because Bell repeated to him a mem- orandum which he remembered haying sent to Dyer some time previously, which caused him to believe that Boll knew a good deal. THE EMMA MINE INVESTIGATION—EXAMINATION O¥ JUDGE 3’KRAN—DENIAL OF LYON’S STATE- MENTS—-THE MINE STILL REGARDED AS VERY VALUABLM—ONE OF THE ORIGINAL OWNERS | ON PROFESSOR SILLIMAN’S REPORT. When the House Commitiee on Foreign Afuirs met | this morning General Schenck’s counsel submitted a | ist of witnesses lor whoin sabponas were desired, iu order that they might testily before the committee In | Support of his statements and im. contravention of Lyon’s. The list included Gencoral Baxter, Mr. Gager and Mr. Selover, and numbered nine in all, Mr. Monroo remarked that these, together with six for whom sub- ponas had already beon issued on application of General | Sehenck’s cognsel, would make Afteen, and if the otner | side wanted am equal number the granting of the pres- nt application would involve the examination of thirty more witnesses, The committee then went into | secret session to decide on the application, The committee at half past twelve o’clock opened accede to General Schenck’s request and summon all the witnesses nauod by him. Judge James B. McKean, ex-Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of Utah, was sworn and examinea by Mr. Chittenden. He testifiea that shortly atter his arrival | James E. Lyon, who applied for an injunction to re- strain the Emma Company froin selling the mine. Mr. Chittenden read to witness Lyon's statement, that be endeavored to get McKean removed because the | latter had tried a suit in which ho was personally in- terested, Judge McKean pronounced this statement utterly false, He had never done anything whatever of the kind. He recalled one case wuerein he discovered that 200 feet of a certain lode had been located in his name | without his knowledge, and he thereupon immediately transferred the caso to another judge for trial- He never had an interest, directly ur indirectly, in tho | Emma mine or in any other except to the extent above | indicated, which amounted to nothing, ard none of bis | tine auc wait in couddeuce the result. Your services | associates om the bench had any mining Interests so | are bound to be BE) BABCOCK. | far as pe knew, When he refused the injunction | ‘There are no dates to theso lettors, which, however, | asx! you, Park* was not interested im the mine, | were probably written in November, 1874, | Ex-Solicitor Banfield confirms the testimony of Gen- | eral Babcock, that about the last of March, 1874, he, at | the request of Babcock, sent to Colonel Whitley to come and see the Genpral, which Whitley did, but he as a. candidate for the democratic nomination at St, | knows nothing of the business between them, nor has | In reply, Judge McKean stated that Mr. Hollister, then he any knowledge of the burglary conspiracy turther than the published reports and the rumors which | reached here, which are not considered as testimony, The call made at the Solicitor’s office by General Bab- and, cousequently, Banfield knows vothing about the | matter, (The name of Mr, Bantinld was on Saturday | erroneously stated in this connection instead of that of Ex-Attorney General Williams repeats to-day that | he had no order from the President or suggestion trom | ‘ Genoral Babcock to dismiss the safe burgiary caves and | Bwear to that. I would not believe him under oath un- | of one-twelfth, valued at $100,000, which would be at H —| 3 b i swer—I think if Mr, Lyon believed that the trath would | ie Cat tha ah creo soni aieian eae ak ee | metals among the nations of the world. It was im- and after Park bought in he (McKean) granted an order | in favor of Lyon and against Park, Ho had never given any decision favoring Park. | Question—Was any attempt ever made to influence | your decision in the Emma mine investigation case? and now Revenue Collector for Utah, informed him that Lyon nad intimated that there was an interest the disposal of the Judgo it ho would grant the injuno- fas nexi to hopeless, As the democratic nominee for | cock in response to Whitley's letter was after Mr. Ban- | tion, Both himself and Hollister regarded this with | | Governor of New York Tilden can undoubtedly render | fleld had becn succeeded as Solicitor by Bluford Wilson, | great indignation but paid no other attention to it. What is Lyon’s reputation in Utab for truth and ye- | now discussing the question of having a double stan- | the voto on which stood racity? Answer—It is bad; very bad, Quostion—~Would you believe him undor oath? An- | promote his own interests he would swear to it. {f he believed a lie would promote his own interests he would | SILVER CURRENCY. Passage by the Senate of the Bill for the Issue of Silver Coin. SPEECH BY MR. SHERMAN, OF OHIO, — The Question of a Single and Double Standard Considered. RELATIVE VALUE OF SILVER AND GOLD. Wasnisoros, April 10, 1876. In the Senate to-day Mr. Sherman, of Obio, called up the House bill to provide for a deficiency in the Print- iwg and Engraving tsoreau of the Treasury Departinent, aod for tho issue of silver coin of the United States in placo of fractional carrency. The Committee on Finance having repurted amend- ments in régard to the coinage ot a silver dollar, authorizing its exchange for United States notes, &c., poblished on Thureday last, Mr, Sherman said he had hoped this bill would pass the Senate without much discussion, The third section of the bill presented tho question of a single or double standard, a question which had caused more books aud pamphlets than any other question tn political science. Ho then referred to Enghsh, French and German writers on the subject, aud, resuming his argument, said, the price of trans- portating $100,000 in silver wns no more than for transporting $100,000 in gold, as the cost was based on the vaiue, and not om the weight. Englaod alone bad adopted gold only us a standard. He de sired to call the attention of the Senato to the iaws of the United States as weil as the laws of England, France and other countries on the subject. He first Tread from the act of Congress, 1792, and figured it establishod a proporttonate-value between silver and gold, aud resulted in driving,gold out of the country. The act of 1834, which made an onnce of gold worth aixteen ounces of silver, drove silver out of the country, and gold came back, Mr. Sherman quoted at Te! from Seyd's “financial! Word” and from the | report of RM. T. Hunter, of Virginia, mado to the Senate in 1853, when ho was chairman of the Commit- tee on Finance, The act of 1834 having driven silver out of the country, in 1853 there was no small change, and it was when Congress undertook to correct this evil that the report of’ Mr. Hunter was made, Betwoen 1853 and 1801 there | Was about $48,000,000 in silver coin im the country, but the silver dollar was still undervalued and never entered into circulation, The effect of the law of 1853 was practically to demonetize the silver dollar. By tne act of February 12, 1873, Congress undertook to revise the laws in regard to coin, the weight thereof, &c. The old silver dollar was dropped out in the revision, be- cause it was not in use. It had been coined for twenty years, Buc the most striking change made by the act of 1873 was the introduction of a new dollar, called THE TRADE DOLLAR, The government by coining these trade dollars had introduced into the commerce of the worlda hew money which was largely absorbed in Japan and China. The trade dollar was worth less than: gold, and yet it was legal.tender. By the act of 1873 any holder of silver bullion could have into trade dollars; thea the law stepped iu and mado them legal tenders to the extent of $5. Con must either take away from the trade dollar its legal tender right’ or taxe away from the holders of bullion the right to bave it made into trade dollars, Ho thought it vest Lo allow the coinage of the trade dollar, but take away from it {ts legai tender right. af the trade dolar should continue ag a legal tender, with silver depreciated, the whole country would soon be overwheimed with that silver not at par in gold, ‘Tho | question of coinage was an international one. Gua- gress must stop what the laws of other nations were on the sutyect. He then referred te the laws of England, France, Belgium, Switzerland ond Italy, and’ argued” that wherever stiver was in ‘use among modern nations it was 2 legal tender only tou a limited amount. Ho next referred to tne financial laws of Germany, aud said he had taken pains to have the German statute translated. was the standard of value, atid it had been estimaced that the amount of silver ou:standing in Germany then was $340,000,000; but it bad been shown since that tho ; Amount was Over $400,000,000, le then read from the London Xeonomist as io the ammount of new colu is sued by ial b ryument, | the action of the German goverument nad been to de-’ all over the world, Itaiso arrested the flow of silver into Ludia and China fer the first time in 200 years, and. it Wasa settied fact that the silver from all of the Innes in the world bad steadily flowed into those Asiutic countries, He next referred to the gold on de- posit in England, France and Germany, and said yo the Bank of Engiand, the Bank of France, and tho Imperial Bank of Germany, ever $600,000, 000 in gold Was now on deposit—nearly one-itih of the | | amount of the whole world. Great Britain was dard, and in France they had provided for o doubie standard upon the resumption of specie pay- ment, Gold and silver had travelled sie by side trom the beginning of time, and no act of Parliament, noth- possible in the nature of things to fix tho precise rela- | tive value of silver and gold, Lt the government would pay out silver it would enter thto circulation that the nolle prosequis were ontered after full consul- | less 1 myself know what ho said was true, or unless 1 | and take the place of United States notes, It was tation with Messrs. Riddle and Mill, special government counsel, the Supreme Court of the District having de- | | clared the Grand Jury which found true Vills against | Harrington and others to be illegal, and, besides, at that time the trial which had taken place showed that , | there was not sufficient evidence to convict, but it waa | say that these parties had attempted any impropriety | im regard to this mine or other interests iu Utah. thought there would be at some future time. ! Mr. Riddle says that he intended to bring the case | before the next Grand Jury, having made arrangements | to receive new testimony through Colonel! Whitley, but his dismissal as special counsel prevented bim from | doing 80. | BURGLARY CASE. The Republican says:—“In tho Harrington trial of the sale burglary case, some eighteen months ago, Mr. Whitley, chief of the detective forco of the Treasury Department, was called to the stand and sworn. ‘The | foliowing is frum the record of the trial:— *Q. Had you any knowledge of the safe robbery here in the city of Wastington? A. Only what ta | and ts able to state that the opinion of practical miners | Who cannot only muster the cutire strength of the like Onio, where the strength of the two parties is so | xcen in the papers and what bas been wld me; that's evenly divided, it is absolutely essential to study and | *! take advantage of every element of strength. | It must also be verne in mind that, notwithstanding the great number of Senators who have in times past aspired to become Present, a strango fatality or lack of success has marked these efforts, so that the Sena- torial chair has not proven a happy stepping stone from which to mount the Presidential steed. Each of the four gentlemen named is the first choice of a con siderable following, yet scarcely one of their respective followers will assert that he deems the chances of bis particular candidate as sufficient upon which to ground well founded hopes, Nearly all admit that, granting that either one of the jour’ can'call out and receive the entire vote of the democratic party, some- thing still more 18 necessary to gain success, and that | is that the candidate of the democracy must bea man | 1. ‘@ And knew nothing of it in advance of its being j done?, A. Nothing tn any way whatever, in the slight- | | een?” i THE BELL-BABCOCK MATTER—TESTIMONY OF | SOLICITOR WILSON--THE DETKCTiVE's STORY PARTIALLY CONPIRMED—-A FEELING OF DIS- TRUST ALL ROUND, ‘The Commitice on Expenditures of the War Depart- | ment met to-day. Biaford Wilson, Solicitor of the | | Treasury, tostitied that he Grat met Bell in the fuil | of 1874, when he was an applicant for the position | of chief of the Secret Service bureau of the Treasury » Department, He did not appoint Beil because of informa- tion be bad that shook his confidence in him. Bell was | never in the employ of the Treasury Department in the Secret Service division, He was employed in the Revenue Bureau to get the Hoge papers. Hoge was democratic party, bat one who cau reconcile at least a | ot prosecuted becauve he left the country, Witness Portion of the honest dissatisfied voters of the republi- | met Bell about the 10th or 12th of February. Beil i cab party to a union with their political opponents in | came to his house and told his substantially the same | the effurt to secure a pure and patriotic administration. | story he told the committee, Bell bad never been em. | It is argued that republicans who are tired and dis- | ployed on the detective foree of the Treasury proper, | gusted with the present state of affairs will hesitate | because witness had learned from detectives of his as- and dectine to abandon their party and vote outright } sociations with General Babcock, Mr. Luckey and Mr. for a Bourbon; hence some cousideratién must ve | Bradley, and believed that be was employed by the de- | shown to this large and important element. To steer clear of the difficulties which seem to sur- round the selection of a standard vearer for the de fence to look into the hands of the prosecution, | Witness was questioned as to whether Br. Sherman, | sent out from New York to St. Louis, wont there in | knew there was other evidence to compel behef. In response to questions, Judge McKean said he bad | no knowledge of any attempts being made by Park or Stewart, or their associates, to influence him or any of | the judi@ary, and he had never beard anybody in Utah | Witness testified that he resides in Salt Lake City, | and scientific experts in Utal 1s that the Emma mine | is still very valuable, and that 118 apparent failure | is due to imeompetent or dishonest management or single export who said tina mine was not a gvod one, | His optuion was partly based on a leiter from Dr. C. F. Winslow, @ scientific gentleman of Utan, to Protessor | Silliman, in which tho latter's report was prononuced | pertectly warranted by the condition of the mine, and by the statement of vobn C. Fall; a mining expert of | would do great barm, and he hoped in this debute there | California, i On the coxclusion of Jadge McKean’s examination Mr. Swann said all of MeKean’s testimony concerning the character of Lyou would be stricken {rom the offi- ciai record, as the committes had decided last Friday on motion of General Banks, that questions affecting the credibility of witnesses should not be brought into this investigation, General Schenck remarked that he had not beea in- formed of the cominittee coming to any such determi. | pation amtil Judge MeKean’s examination bad began, He desired to say that the t ony of Lyon and the testithony of Johnson, also, were made up of loose Statemonts woicht iaferentiaily placed hin in «disgrace. ful position, and he therefore thougot it was his duty not only to disprove their statements, step dy step, | but furthermore to show their general bad character, After some remarks by Mr. Fautiner, insisting that the determination of the committee was proper and needful, and by General Schenek's counsel in opposi- tion to this view, it was agreed by the minority of the committee still present ia the committee room that the subject would be heid open for further considera. | tion by the fall committee, Warren Hussey, « banker, of Sal Lake City, was then examined, | amount $10. fT COLONEL WHITLEY’S TESTIMONY IN THE sAFE | both, Whitoces could not now recail the name of a | of $50 would cw Ju | dn anything | soinetimes said the stiver dollars would not be used. Lev the government try the people aud seo, He would not make any man tuko the dollar in silver for his greenback doilar; but he would give him the privilege ut doing 80 if be desired tt THE SENATE AMENDMENTS, He then explained the difference betweon the bill as now bvlore the Senate and ay 1 passed the House of Represcutatives, He said he had a letter from the | Secretary of the Treasury showing the evil effect of | cussed during making subsidiary coin a legal vender for a greater amouut than $5, ‘The House had proposed to make the silver doliac a legal tender to the amount of $50. The Senate Committee on Finance tixod upon $20 in- stend, He (Mr, Sherman) would have preterred tho ake it a legai tendor to the amount the exportation of gold ubroud and impair gold contracis, Mr. Booy suid ail of our bonds were payable in coi and not a siugie word was sald about paying in gol unul the law of 1873, Mr, SuuKMAN said 1b Was well Understood that-coin mount guld, and any intimation by Congress tu impair the full payment of the government det in gold com would be no suggestion lo induce the most tiusid man 0 Jear Isa but gold. He argued that the im«ue it converted | Formerly, iu that country, siver alone | tthe yoverniment would pay his bonds | ee EE <<. 3 States notes and the further rum of $48,000 to provide cogent 4 aod print ional bank notes to be ‘dwareed f the Becretary o Sxc. 2 —! rected ‘Treasary, ‘That the Secre a, issue silve: : of " ive and. ount rrency. iting 9 redemp- ‘ame be now in the Treasur: tion or whenover it may be presonted for r-demption, and the Secretary of the Treasur; under rezulations of ¢he Treasury provide fur such redemption and issue by substitution regular sub-treasuries and public de- sitories of the United States until the whole ount of jal currency outstanding shall be redcemed, fractional currency redecmed under this act shall be be a part of the sinking tund provided for by th law, the interest to be computed thereon as in tl bo redeemed under the acts relating to the ai UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, THR OSAGE CEDED LANDS IN KANSAS—A DEe CIsf{ON IN FAVOR OF THE GOVERNMENT. Wasaixetox, April 10, 1876, The Supreme Court devoted the entire day to read- ing opinions, Among the decisions rendered were the following :— Dase 401, Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston iway Company vs. The United states—Appeal from th» Circuit Cdurt for the district of Kansas. — This was the action of the government to vacate the patents issued to the road tor what are knowa as tho Osage ceded lands iu Kansas, The patents were issucd by the Governor of the State in pursuance of certified bids furnished bim for the purpose by the Secretary of the Interior, The Court holds that the lands so em- braced had not been granted by Congress to the State to aid in the construction of the road, but were reserved from sale by law, and thas the - patents must be cancelled. The Secretary of the Interiur having erred his acts are void, for public officers can bind the government only within the scope of their lawiul authority. Alter ex- amining,the original legislation involved inthe case, 1% is said that What is known as the Thayer act can have no effect upon the case, It was passed for a single purpose only—to enable the company to relocate the road, and a false recital therein contained cannot turn the autiority to change the route of a railroad into a grant | of lands or a recognition of one. Especially is thi 80 when the act exprestly leaves the rights of the road to be determined by the previously existing logis- jation, Besides this the lands at the tme were in process of being sold under a joint resolution of Congress, and it cannot be | pre- sumed that the Congress of 1871 intended to change the disposition of them made by the Congress of 1869, Convinced that the act of 1863 did not grant the lands, nor the Senate amendment bring into bemg apy right which did not exist without it, the Court al- “airing the decree in favor of the government. Mr, Justice Davies delivered the opinion; dissenting, Justices Field, Swayne and Siron, THE STATE CAPITAL, | | THE GALVIN LABOR BILL SUMMARILY DISPOSED O¥—TAXING THE SURPLUS OF SAVINGS BANKS— EXPECTED PASSAGE OF THE BILLS EXTENDING COMPTROLLER GREEN'S TERM. ALsany, April 10, 1876. The Senate and Assembly ‘reassembled this evening, there being, strange to say, a quorum in both houses, There were several important matters disposed of during the evening by the assembly, ‘The principal | one, so far as New York city is concerued, upon which | action was taken was the Galvin Labor bill, which pro- | vides that all persons herealter employed as Inborers by the city of New York inany of the departments om | bureaus shall be paid as compensation for their gers | vices at a uniform rate of compensation “fox | each days of service, such rate to be fixed | from time to time by the Common Council, | provided that the rate shall not exceed | the sum of $2a day. Several weeks ago a bill similar | im every respect to this one, which bad been introduced, | by Senator Morrissey, was passed by the Senute. Mr. | Galvin's, which was introdycea about the same time, | hus boen in the Committee on Cities evegyince. He made a motion this evening to discharge the commit tee from further consideration of tho bill and that is be referred fo the Comittee of the Wholo, so that the whole House could take definite action upon it, Mr. Fish claimed that the bill had been troduced for “buncombe” effect, but Mr. Galvin dented the soft impeachment, contending that he had introduced the | bill in good faith, and that it was the wish of the labor- ing classes of New York that the Legislature should, before adjournment, settle the question the bill dealt . with in some definite way. Mr. Grabam, of Monroe, moved an amendment that | the Morrissey bill be substituted for Mr. Gaivin’s. This | was voted down, and then Mr. Galvin’s motion was lost, the yeas and nays being calied upon it. i | ‘7HR VOTE. | ‘The following democ voted in favor of Mr, Gal- } vin's motion Messrs. York, Chu! Cleary, Coleman, Crui Fallon of se, Crusby, ren York. Faulkner,’ Plann, "Now nm, Galvin of Ne “4 | York, Halliday, Hi nm, Killian of New Y, we York, Murphy of New York, Nelson. O'itare of how Patton ° oe, loon, "Méraalng. © sher- ; of New York. Tabor, talmage, Voorees, Wallul’ Wenesl. Wiltuey: Warten { monetize silver. Probably no act of any Parliament had been so wide reaching as that of the German The tollowing repablicans voted in favor of it:— Reichstag. Ite effect had veew to Messrs. Betts of New York, Graham, N. 1. Green, T. Wy DEPRECIATE SILVER | Greem, Galiek, # of New Yur, Hodrex, Hoffman of | New York, Power, Taylor, Watts of New York. ; ‘he vote against the motion stood as follows:— Mevers. J. 6. Brown, bare: A.J. Campbell of Ni N, Uamappelly bert, Gay) Grad of New Ye Higgtus, Hogeboom, lngalis, | MofeeNunetos Ne | @. 1S Smit! Webb, heel? rn | ‘The only democrat who votet against the motion, to 45, was Maxwell, of On- ‘ | tario, Aad thus has the labor question in New York | city been settied, so faras the present Legisiature is concerned, tor the Morrissey and tho Galvin bills wit | never see daylight out of the Committee on Cities, THE VRKIGHT BILL. | Another effort was made to-night to get the pro rita Sreight pill out of the Railroad Commuttee’s hands, A resolution was offered that the committee report the | bill by the 13th inst, bat a motion to lay jt onthe table preyatied by a large vote. COURT OF GENERAL SEMSIONS, The bill authorizing the Recorder, Comptroiler and Commissioner of Public Works to hire rooms for the use of the Court of General Sessions was, on movion | of Mr. Forster, recommitted to the Committee on | Cities, by @ vote of 42 to 32. | TAXING BANK SURPLUS, | The bill relating to the taxation of stockléolders ot banks apd the surplus of savings banks was dis. the evening in Committee of | the Whole of the Senate reported from the Banking Committee. It. provided tha: the taxable | shares shail not be valued otherwise than other real | and personal -estate, nor shall such shares be assesseq | at more than their par value, except when any uct } Dbauk or banking association shall be possessed | accumulated surplus = proiits to an ai j execeding tity per cent upon ite capital. The vaiuation of the shares of such ae or vanking association may be increased by adding ‘4 the same the value of such excess, The discussion the bill turned chiefly on the question of reducing the | fifty per cent of the surplus profits to twenty-five pes further debate the bill was pros, COMPTROLLER GREEN. To-morrow the bill extending Comptroller Green’* | term of oifice comes up for consideration. There ca lou, Becker, Bissell, D. Bradley, Carty of Now | He purchased a (ourth interest ia | | be no doubt of its passage 1m the Serate, as there ia n Opposition, it having entirely weakened in few days. Senator Woodin is still full of tion vo fight the thing through, even though he bas to use a club. BATHS AND DISTRICT COURT HOUSES. The biil for the erectiun of additiona: baths in New York city was ordered to a thira reading; aad also the bil authorizing the Comptroller to raise $50,000 for the work on the Third District jivec ior fractional currency would save the e: se of printing that carrency.” Im his opinion ther but two tulngs more needed .o make this a per- | lect financial measure, and they were to authorize any holder of greenbacks to convert them into tour per | cont forty year gold bonds, and to exchange our six | per cout bows for four per cont ones Then ‘ i SPRCIE FAYMENTS WOULD COMB | without @ ripple in tio current, Avothor thing ho of | believed 1M Was an international convention fur a unit | continuing of money and accounts bowh of gold and silver, He | House, saw ju the vill now belore tke Seuate an opportunity ser ereite taninieeee DURYEE'S ZOUAVES, Ap adjourned meeting of the survivors of the old | Fifth regiment of voluuteers, or Duryeo's Zouaves ag they were more generally known, was held last even Ing in the Post Office building for tho purpose of form. ty do some good, and he Velieved true stavesinanship was to do all tho good possible ay upportanity pre- seuted, Bevuuse this bill dit not wecomplish all he de- sited Was nyo Teason why he should oppose it | Alter specehes by Afr. Morton, of ihdiane. ceriticist the bill, and Mr. Morrill, of V tr. Mogy, of Missouri, at tho arks, moved that the whole subject be postpuned un- | ing acivic and military organizatiou, The of | tl next Thursday week. the civic society 18 to preserve the mi | sit, SHMRMAN Said It was Very important that the-! associations durin war, and to cherish the mem- | first and secund sections of the bill be passed immedi- ory of these who fell in the feid or died since the dis uteiy, the country was getting scarce of ¢ bandment of the regiment, He suggested that those two sectiot kighiy-two members were enrolled and the fallows out the third and fourth sections, wi Ing officers elected :—President, General Al Duryeos Jag buat the Committe on Finance would Vice President, General Hiram Duryea; uuject embraced in them and report it as an independ- | Captain James MoConnell; Se co | ent measure. Catlin, Tbe annual dues were fixed at $5, the | Mr Lowy withdrew iis motion to postpone. Mr. SHeRMAN then by Uuaniimous cousont withdrew | the third and lourth sections of the bill; the first one | meeting ~ Msae from bcs > > John K. Dane was rew expressin, 3 hearty thy with the objects of the proposed society. is difticult to fix « precise date for such reduction. The | racy in the next campaign, and, at tise same time, to jaw provides a sala: 009 i sir | i / Hiwrd Thortion was arouted Ocweber Iu, 1873. | Present for the sullrages uf the people, not only to the He bas performed on enurinous umount vf labor ax, | democrats, dut to the large mass of dissatisiied re, ‘the interest of the defence. He repiiou that from iu- formation be got trot! Mr. Dyer and others there he thought that Mr. Sherman was using the opportapiti ) | womiluence Brydges Willams in the report wien with a very few exceptions, the commission uuiformiy diflered and the cases lave gone to the umpire bas dechwed to teceive any salary for suc, 1t 18 sug- ested as eminently proper, uuder these circumstances, at authority be given to the Secretary of State to | draw Une sulary of the winpire, which will romain un- expended on tue Ist of July, 1874, or su much thereof as may Le necessury. lor the purpose and to apply it to the obtaining of a proper testimonial as an expression oF Chauks of the government fur the labor | aud wbility bestowed by the British Minister upon these claims. The Jollowing is suggested amend- as ment (0 be incorporated ty the legisiative bill -— That so much of the lor ealuries ot the United wtion heretoiore made ured [ansiators and messengers, at the lively allowed to thorn for @ peried out te oxeend ais publicans, a candidate unobjectionable in every way, | he bad im the interests of the defence; ; public opinion, as discerned by careful investigation | but . that inco «(then «be =«bad talked with and conversation with prominent and well informed | Mr. Dyer and Mr. Sherman and his | men representing every section of the country a | former opinions are considerabiy modified, and he is | almost every phase of public sentiment, is and has been fast centring upon Hancock as the man who, Jodged by his personal, political aud military record, added to his bigh character as shown both in private and public life, combines more and greater elements of strength aa the democratic nominees for the Prosidency not satisiied now that Mr, Sherman went there, or | acted while there in the Interest of the defence; with | regard to Ueil, witness said he wrote to Dyer thai b most be careful not to trast Beil; that be was realty in the employ of the deience; Beil called on the wit | ness about the middle of December last with a | than are to ve 1d combiued iu any otner one man. | letter from Mr, Dyer; witness grew suspicious | ‘Your correspondent bas conversed with representative | of Bell, and hence the letter to Mr | men from almost every State whose electoral vote wat | Dyer; he delioved Bell was in the H all likely to be cast for the democratic nominee, and im | service of Babcock, and did not want to reply to the inquity, ‘Who do you abd your people | employ nim because hie did not see how he Could serve he would. No attempt was made to influence Protessor Siiliman in its preparation nor Was any attempt ma bad made subsequently. He was wot inspection, Witness stated that at t! i and Anderson made their examination wt a cation of the mine giving out. prospects were of the very. best. was in Utah and did not consider $5,000,000 a higit price, Witness had knowo Lyon a namber of years in Colorado and Uiah, His character lor veracity was | | bad. Witness woulu not believe him ander oath, Silas Williams, Superiotensent of Kroma mine from Augost, 1871, to Marets, 1875, was next examined. he Wostiied at cousiderable iength as to the exeotience of the mine, and swore that it was Dot at any time speci- ally prepared for inspection by any of the various ex- perts Who examined it, and, lke the two precoding pe cc that ho would not believe Lyon under ‘Tho committee then adjourned uatil to-morrow: | he wished it to be understood that they were not op- posed to the third aud fourth sections, but withdrew teu merely to have the public business expedited, | gilt, Mounier, of Maine, moved an amendment to the first section, appropriating $48,000 vo provide fur the engraving and printing of nationut bunk notes, te be disbursed Guder the Secretary of the Treasury, He sent to the Clerk’s desk and bad read a letter frow the Comptrolier of the Currency, urging the ap- prupriation. iho amendment was agreed to, MP. SHERMAN submitted an ameudment, as follows :— Aud the Iractional currency yen under this net Wall be bs 0 be & part of the bp ne fvied Le ‘the care a redeemed under siuking fund. . Agreed tu. ‘The bill was then read @ third time and passed. he a8 tollows :— ‘TeXT OF THE BILL. Be it onneted, &o.—fhat there be and here! appropri- ‘ated out my In the Treesary, mah siitovwios opore. an, Grating ud shor expensed oF snaking and iwhiag’ United tue Emma mine for $150,000 in the year 1870. Inthe comprising the thiru section of the bill us 1 passed the | Jetter was enthusiastically received and heartily aps sjring of 1871 he and the firm of Walker Brothers sola | Mouse, which had uceu amended by the Seuate Cou? Wiesaea. vf : oye-haif interest io the mine to Park for $825,000, They | “ite. sowntLL, of Maino, enld it was vastly important | pomted a sone fo ror. tnenk camemmas | would not have sold the whole mine at that rate. Thor | that the iirst two sections of this bill should be passed, | instructions to ascertain the cost of unll a bap object Was Lo got some One interested Who could pido it | yy yraer ve supply the Hational banks with currency. | talon for the purpose of visiting vaitedelpiie 200 Bab | caety 0 ee ee Tere cee oh; | There wore now 195 national banks without currency. | timore during tho Coutennial year. ‘The meeting thes, urely true and sated uo more thaw witness expecied | yr, Suxnuax said, speuking for humselt aud others, | adjourned, sublect to the call of the commities. THE CARPENTERS. A mass meeting of the journcymen carpenters war to have been held last night at Central Hall, No. 147 West Thirty-second street, The committee that called the meeting intended to offer the following resolations:— Resolved, That we, carpenters and upon. Be tt also Teewolved. That # committee of be to walt apon and conter the en’ And that tele stand adjourned, subject to the call of | Seema aS nate at Joiners, Died, du accept and agree to be by the terms, 10 be nubroitted'to the employing f oity, vin, that $5 be considerod the stn r waxes and ten hours to constitute & , Saturday, which shall be eight hours, antit snd aiter whieh date wine hours sbali work and the rate of wages nb that’ time to be det Litt 4