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

THE DYING ADMINISTRATION.

(From the Anylo-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 wou!d
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. SCIIENCK'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 JOIINSON has throttled the Omnibus
Railroad Bill and other designs 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 JOHNSON
the whip hand, the PRESIDENT was beset by the
friends and associates of all the rascals who had
"come to grief"--revenue thieves, counterfeitorf,,,
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

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the country,las crimes of a deep dye and without a
shade of excuse had been fully proved against the
culprits. But ANDREW JOHNSON was not the only
individual beset. Those who had designs on the
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, and
bowing their heads into the dust. " Ch'n-chining"
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 shattered hopes
and broken heart,,, on a new era advancing, and an
old era retiring. Let 113 hope as we do on a va-
nishing night of strife and corruption, and on the
dawn of peace, honesty, and justice.

711 E NEW YORK ELECTORAL FRAUDS-

For some time a special Coma-lige° of the Howe
of Representatives, instigated thereto by the Union
League, of New York, has been inquiring into the
frauds by which the Democrats gained the late elec-
tions in New York for the PRESIDENT of the United
States and the Governor of New York. The report
agreed to has been presented and published ; it is
voluminous, not only giving the full details of the
evidence, but advising the enactment of fine bills
and two joint resolutions proposing amendments
to the Constitution. The Committee asserts that
many thousands of aliens were enabled to vote;
that many hundreds voted in the names of fictitious
persons; that hundreds more in New York City
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 ; that
these were accomplished only through a gross and
criminal neglect in some Courts, while Democratic
officers and partisans of every grade aided instead
of preventing them, and protected the perpetrators
when arrested. Finally, the Committee is of opinion
that it was through these frauds that the Damn'
crats succeeded in carrying the State. In conse-
quence, the Committee recommends the enactment
of the laws and constitutional amendments above
alluded to. Though the annual naturalizations
average only 9,207, yet, between Sept. 16 and Oct.
23 of last year, the New York Printing Compaq
struck off 105,000 blank applications for, and
69,000 certificates of, naturalization. The clerks'
fees were recovered from Tammany H ill, and over
40,000 of the red tickets upon which they were
paid were furnished to the Committee. While the
applications to the Supreme Court for the ferr
weeks up to October 6 were nearly four thou-
sand more than the records show to have be-
fore been issued, still thirty thousand additional
blank applications and twenty-five thousand ad-
ditional blank certificates were procured, ten thou-
sand of which were issued within three days of the
time the work of naturalization closed. The State
Supreme Court entered heartily into the business of
making out these fraudulent papers, scattering them
broad-cast over the city to persons who did not al3"
ply forthem in Court. The actual number used never
can be known ; but including those sent from New.
York City over the State to persons never apPear-
ing in Court, it is stated that fraudulent certi-
ficates were issued from two Courts only amount-
ing to not less, and probably more, than sixty-eight
thousand three hundred and forty-three. :1-13Yer
OKEY HALL was among the witnesses examined'
and he could not deny that the vote in New Yt)rs;
was largely in excess of the legal voters. Most ()i
the fraudulent papers were deposited in the ball°t
boxes, and repeaters considerably swelled the nal'
ber. Indeed, if this Committee is to be believed'
the Democrats had arranged so beautifully that the
game was in their hands, and their information 105
so exact from all parts of the State that they had
only to keep throwing in their fraudulent votes to
be ahead of the rival party from the beginning t°
the end. In the Sixth Ward of New York Citi,
there were 1,000 votes for the Democratic ticket
alone, in excess of the whole number in that district
of legal voters and if they could carry the fraud
to such an unblushing extreme, we may safely COn;
elude that they were ready, if necessary, to Os
more votes for their candidates than there are inci
habitants in the United States. Verily, they w°til
have raised the dead, and piled up generation °°
generation, for they were bound to succeed in the
election ; and those who are prepared to swalloW 3
whale, laugh scornfully at the idea of making tW°
bites of a cherry. The assertion is positive, with
what truth we leave our readers to decide, that but
for these wholesale frauds the Republicans would
have carried the State for GRANT and elected Gllt%
WOLD as Governor. To prevent the recurrence, 3
population increases and suffrage is extended t°
every man, a very perfect system must be in f°lcei
administered by honest officials who have no Wye.
rest whatever in the result, or elections will degene-
rate into a game with loaded dice, giving the Pilaf
into the hands of those who can cheat most skilfu
ot
and unscrupulously. This report led to the Poill.c:e9
passage of a bill by the House of Representatlew
forbidding the State and County Courts of 11
York to naturalize foreigners hereafter.---Ang
American Times.

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Deaths.
GIIEEN—On the 12th inst., at 11, Finsbury-eireus,
Green, Esq., aged 77. Ijenr
HEARNE—On the 10th inst., at Brompton, John
Esq., agd 84.
STING- On the 13th inst., at Croydon, Benj. Sten'lll°
Esq., aged 58. fi

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Middlesexi—Monday, Much 15, 1869.