The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-15 00:00:00

THE DYING ADMIIVISTR,ATION.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The weakness of Legislatures is to talk. Pre-
cious time is wasted in useless debate, and when
the session draws towards its end, a frantic rush
ensues to get bills pushed through. It is but fair
to Congress to say that more business is there
transacted with less talk than in any other as-
sembly ; yet Congress is open to two charges—
first, that bills which ought to be debated are often
rushed through under the pressure of the previous
question, and they are then found to be bad only
when in operation as laws; the other is that on a
measure comparatively unimportant members ex-
pend golden hours in ventilating commonplace
opinions, holding possession of the floor and de-
luging the country with their overflowing elo-
quence. We cannot say much time has been lost
by the late Congress in its last session, yet it be-
came during February a sort of Steam Bill-Manu-
factory, working at the highest pressure and on
the longest hours. Evening sessions were the
rule, and once the Senate sat all night. At times
that body would get into splendid working order,
when they would rattle off bills as an American
Legislature only can. Then a fit of " cussedness"
would come over them, when fillibusters would
commence operations, and pugnacious members
raise their voices for a row. It was ANDREW
JOHNSON who kept both Houses up to the mark, for
time slipped rapidly away, and they knew that no
bill passed by them was safe if a margin was not
left beyond the ten days. As it was several bills
have been lost by drifting into the prescribed pe-
riod. Among them that of Gen. SCHENCK'S, pledging
the country to redeem its bonds in gold wherever
other payment is not distinctly specified. What
the other " innocents" are the late PRESIDENT has
massacred we cannot tell, but we fear there are
some as important. Among them, it is to be hoped
that ANDREW JOHNSON has throttled the Omnibus
Railroad Bill and other &signs against the Treasury.
The Copper Tariff Bill he was obliged to veto, for it
was passed in ample time, and had he kept it ten
days without signing, it would have become law.
His veto message, which was sent to the House of
Representatives Feb. 22, is an able document, but
the House managed, by a bare two-thirds majority,
to pass the measure over the veto. While Congress
was hurried to death by this pressure to beat time,
and the fatal ten days which gave ANDY JOIINSON
the whip hand, the PRESIDENT was beset by the
friends and associates of all the rascals who ha•l
"come to grief"--revenue thieves, counterfeitors,
forgers, burglars, and murderers. With his exit
from the White House will vanish the hopes of
pardon for the convicted, therefore their pressure
to push their business through, equalled that in the
Capitol. Some of the pardons have astonished

the conntry,!as crimes of a deep dye and without
shade of excuse had been fully proved against the
culprits. But ANDREW JOHNSON was not the only
individual beset. Those who had designs on tle
Treasury, on the Public Lands, or on any other,
species of plunder, swarmed into the lobbies and
surrounded their Senators. It is vain for any men
to set up for lobbyists without having a Senator
who is erected into a little god, before whom they
spend half their time grovelling on their knees, ancli,
bowing their heads into the dust. " Ch'n-chinieg
their Josses became fast and furious as the end of
the Administration drew nigh, and the Washing-
ton sun of the 4th of March rose on shatteredboPe°
and broken heart,,, on a new era advancing, and a°
old era retiring. Let us hope as we do on 111'3'
nishiug night of strife and corruption, and on the
dawn of peace, honesty, and justice.

THE NEW YORK ELECTORAL FRAUDS.

For some time a special Committee of the llngse
of Representatives, instigated thereto by the Uniee
League of New York, has been inquiring hit° the
frauds by which the Democrats gained the late elect;
tions in New York for the PRESIDENT of the Unite
States and the Governor of New York. The repot.
agreed to has been presented and published ; it
voluminous, not only giving the full details a t"
evidence, but advising the enactment of five bill:
and two joint resolutions proposing amendment:
to the Constitution. The Committee asserts th3t
many thousands of aliens were enabled to vete:
that many hundreds voted in the names of fictitious
persons; that hundreds more in New York Gilt
cast from two to upwards of forty votes each ; that
extreme frauds were committed by entering voters
on the poll lists, where no such persons voted ; tb
these were accomplished only through a gross 313.0
criminal neglect in some Courts, while Deneocratla
officers and partisans of every grade aided inste3
of preventing them, and protected the perpctratoll
when arrested. Finally, the Committee is of ()pin°
that it was through these frauds that the Wl°•
crats succeeded in carrying the State. In Onse
quence, the Committee recommends the enaetlue/3t
0
of the laws and constitutional amendments above
alluded to. Though the annual naturalizatin°
average only 9,207, yet, between Sept. 16 and Oct'
23 of last year, the New York Printing Com Pall
struck off 105,000 blank applications for, 311,
69,000 certificates of, naturalization. The clefts
fees were recovered from Tammany Hall, and °vet
the
40,000 of the red tickets upon which they Welie
,-
paid were furnished to the Committee. While ;I,f
applications to the Supreme Court for the .'"u,
weeks up to October 6 were nearly four thee
sand more than the records show to have
nbtd
fore been issued, still thirty thousand additle'd,
blank applications and twenty-five thousand 311,
ditional blank certificates were procured, ten th°4o
sand of which were issued within three days of 'tie
time the work of naturalization closed. The St3of
Supreme Court entered heartily into the businegeo
making out these fraudulent papers, sc ittering °air
broad-cast over the city to persons who did not apt
ply forthem in Court. The actual number used iZes,t
can be known; but including those sent froth
York City over the State to persons never aPP'ti,
ing in Court, it is stated that fraudulent cent,
ficates were issued from two Courts only arti°uht
iug to not less, and probably more, than sixty-elo•or
thousand three hundred and forty-three. .I‘l3fej,
GREY HALL was among the witnesses exatti:;l 1.
and he could not deny that the vote in New of
was largely in excess of the legal voters. -Me! iidt
the fraudulent papers were deposited in the na,i,
boxes, and repeaters c onsiderably swelled the nub
ber. Indeed, if this Committee is to be belie'°
the Democrats had arranged so beautifully that - tog
game was in their hands, and their information a
so exact from all parts of the State that they to
only to keep throwing in their fraudulent votes to
be ahead of the rival party from the begiuningoiti
the end. In the Sixth Ward of New Yorkeitet
there were 1,000 votes for the Democratic !Itrict
alone, in excess of the whole number in that &sato
of legal voters and if they could carry the frio,
to such an unblushing extreme, we may safely 'east
elude that they were ready, if necessary, t°
more votes for their candidates than there 'ire ola
habitants in the United States. Verily, theY sT°O
have raised the deal, and piled up g qieratinii
tbe
generation, for they were bound to succeed -,° of
election ; and those who are prepared to sx''l',°tsvo
whale, laugh scornfully at the idea of makilibwitil
bites of a cherry. The assertion is positive' t bitt
what truth we leave our readers to decide, tllol,otio
for these wholesale frauds the llepublicos, 61/15'
have carried the State for GRANT and elected
c,ag
woLD as Governor. To prevent the recurred t 0
ee
population increases and suffrage is extend force'
every man, a very perfect system must he 'l3 iote•
administered by honest officials who have
rest whatever in the result, or elections will der'rizeo
rate into a game with loaded dice, giving
i falls
into the hands of those who can cheat most s'..egipt
and unscrupulously. This report led to the Pv'ttivo
passage of a bill by the House of Represelipvt
forbidding the State and County Courts ef'
Ingir
York to naturalize foreigners hereafter."'
American Times.

ocrAtiv
Gen. Bedel, who was nominated as the Deal tell t'
dl° • y
Candidate for Governor of New Ham shire, use, 00 ,
story how, on a former occasion, on hearing of 1,7,3,00tir,%
tion be remained iu deep thought for hours °°"— A Ow-
, fil. The
to recollect what mean action ho had ever peri°-I,iii. „.oas
could have led the Democrats to nominit° -ollinah"ea
inference is that, as he had now accepted the nfo° sue"Det,
extent that for two or three
he is aware of what the mean action i 5, c 1 to l'er
5°1141 the story. E ....- 410
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Births. Pji
ATEILITNINEY—On the 12th inst., Somerville,
00'
.
Atlilumney, of a daughter.
BANKES On the 9th inst , at Eecleston-street, th°
Mrs. Nugent Bankes, of a daughter.
Marriages. iticV
r I u'6, Lir
Mounts—TURNER-0u the 9th just., at St..;)-1 0' r
mond, James Morris, 111. D of 13, Somers-Pvic-%rurfie
park-square, to Agnes, only. daughter of J°ll3
ben
Esq , late of Glasgow.
EAMSDEN CLARK —On the 11th just
Paddington, Thomas Ramsden, of "294,tSC.tiSiat-"eltPli(11170;..
street, Grosvenor-square 'to Cqtherine 3130.',0300fr
cf John Clark, of 28, Ta'vli toLk aeseent, -We"'
park. s -*

Deaths. fiatifel
GREEN—On the 12th inst., at 11, Finsbury- eiregs' ' 0
13 '
Green, Esq., aged 77.
HEARNE—On the 10th inst., at Brompton, job°
op
Esq., aged 84. 4 Steil.
STENNING - On the 13th inst., at Croydon, Be''.
Esq., aged 58.

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