The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

The difficulty of proving bribery is then touched
on, and " a change in the law recommended, by
which the giver of a bribe which is accepted shall
be exempt from prosecution, not from any disposi-
tion to palliate the guilt of the parties giving bribes,
but because public policy requires that the means
of obtaining proof shall be facilitated ; and this can
be done only by exempting from punishment one
of the guilty. The guilt of the party who, by ac-
cepting a bribe, betrays a public trust and violates
his official oath, is (if there can be degrees in guilt
of this kind) greater than that of him who gives it."
Finally, " Your Committee are also of opinion that some legislation is necessary to prevent the deposit
of large sums of money with the members of the
lobby for the purposes of corruption, and to pre- '
vent the use of the money of corporations, by the
directors, officers, or agents, with intent to violate
the laws against bribery ; and with that view they
recommend the adoption, with such modifications 4
and amendments as may seem proper, of the bill ' for the more effectual suppression and punish-
rnent
chairman, and now on the files of the Senate." It
is not, however, these milk-and-water proceedings
which are to renovate and render moral the Albany
Legislature and lobbies; and however unjustifiable
may be the sweeping charges of the press in the
eye of the New York Senate, they have been pro-
ductive of good, in forcing them to admit as much
as they have, and to take the action the Committee
recommend to check the growing tide of corruption. It

The Philadelphia correspondent telegraphed on
Thursday "that the Secretary of the Treasury had made
his usual monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States, which shows its total on the Ist
inst. to have been 2,653,750,000 dollars. This is a de-
crease during the last month of 7,200,000 dollars." See"
rotary Boutwell took charge of the Treasury depart-
ment with about $102,000,000 in coin in the vaults,
$29,000,000 of which was in gold-bearing certificates, and
$13,000,000 in currency. The public debt on the Ist of
March was $2,545,336,964 38, but since that time has
creased about $3,000,000. No payment of interest will
be due until the Ist of May, when $30,000,000 in coin will
be required to pay the semi-annual instalments of interest
on 'the rive-Twenty Bonds which falls due on that
date. Reuter's telegram gives the United States debt at
$2,636,000,000, being a decrease of $25,000,000 as cow'
pared with the March return. The cash in the Treasul
amounts to $92,500,000, namely, $82,500,000 in coin and
$10,000,000 in currency, being a decrease of $23,000,000.
These figures do not agree, but the difference perhapB
arises from the mode of calculation, though even including
or excluding the sum in the Treasury cannot reconcile
Router and the Times' correspondent.
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Births.
A NsoN—On the sth inst., at Sudburyßectory, Derbyshire,
the Hen. Mrs. Frodk. Anson, of a son.
OITAMPAIN—On the Gth iust., at Ashford, near Staines
wife of Major Champain, RE., of a son. ,

Marriages.
AINSLIE—CAMPBELL—On the 6tll inst. at St. Peter's,Belstze-park, Charles Alex. Ainslie, Esi., of Madras, to
Annie Augusta, the eldest daughter of R. 0. Campbell,
Eq., of CrosslA, Dumbartonshire.
PROCTER - SIMPSON —Oh- the 6th inst., Robert Reginald
Procter, Esq., Fern Bank, Clicetham, Manchester, to
Helen Louisa, second daughter of A. Simpson, Esq
Blooms bury-square.

Deaths.
BAILLIE —On the 4;11 inst., at Dunain House, Inverness-
shire, William 13aillie, aged 80.
WINNINGToN—At Oxford, Thomas Edward, eldest son of
Sir Thomas E. Winnington, Dart. aged 21.
WRITE—On the Gth inst ,at Queen-street, Twickenhanh
Edward White, Esq. •

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suring newspapers for this want of caution in at'
tributing crimes to public men involving ruin and dis'
grace, they come down squarely on the head of Mr.
John F. Mines as a striking instance of the utter
recklessness of writers. This gentleman, the corres-
pondent of numerous newspapers while an attach 6
of the Senate, whose only service was to draw his
salary, wrote an elaborate article for the Indepen-
dent, in which he asserted that the Legislature of
1868 was the worst assemblage of official thieves
that ever disgraced the Capitol of -the Empire State,
that it exceeded all its predecessors in corruutiom
and its private venality was only equalled by its
eagerness for public plunder. Summoned before
the committee, and long examined on these sweep-
ing charges, he was unable to state a fact within
his personal knowledge, or give the name of any
one who informed him of such facts, nor could he
in any way aid the committee in their investigations.
"indeed," says the committee, " this witness stated
when he heard rumours of corruption he purposely
investigated no further.' He did not try to traea
these rumours to facts. With snob avidity did this
writer for a professedly religious newspaper seize
hold of scandalous rumours, utterly regardless of
their truth or falsehood as a basis of sensation
article' written for pay ! While your committee
recognize fully the right and duty of the press to
criticise and comment upon the conduct of men
in public life, they are satisfied that such indis-
criminate attacks upon a legislative body, based
upon idle rumours, and written by men who
take pains not to ascertain the truth or false-
hood of what they write, are not only unjust,
but tend directly to encourage and increase the
evil which they profess to desire to correct.''
Horace Greeley, however, has a reply. Alluding
to their abuse of witnesses, he says Mr. Mines
" Wrote of matters notorious and unquestioned—of
what was in every one's mouth, though only the
inscrutable could absolutely, positively attest their
verity. He knew last winter's legislation was cor-
rupt, just as your nose often affirms the proximity
of carrion which you never saw and never want to
see." Nor is he less explicit as to where the money
went. " Who believes a word of the stuff about
the large sums " loosely" paid to Bohemians of the
Lobby, who couldn't get credit at a good Albanyl
hotel for a month's board ? Who imagines that
$60,000 of Erie money were ever put into the
hands of a non-resident ex-Clerk of AssemblY
without knowing that it was to be disbursed to
members for votes, who were to have it, and hoW
much respectively? This silly ostrich has not sue•
ceeded iu covering even his head, to say nothing of
the larger extremity." 'These- are the conclusions
to which the Committee arrived :
" 1. Largo sums of money were expended for corrupt
purposes by parties interested in legislation concerning
railways during the session of 1868. 2. Lobbyists wore
thus enriched, and in some case: received money on the
false pretence that the votes of Senators were to be in-
fluenced. 3. There is no proof of actual bribery of all
Senator. 4. The newspaper charges, made in the in-
stances that were brought to the notice of your Com-
mittee, were founded upon rumour alone, and have been
in no case sustained by the evidence of the writers, or
other proof."