The New York herald., 1845-08-04
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
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WASHINGTON, August 2, 1885,
The Secretary of State and The Secretary of the Tsa
sury-1he Taif-Ihs Orsgon-Jhe North and
The South-Ihose S,ppositious Mleagss again
Mr.. Dickens Called to the Bar-Rotation going
A Protest against the Inequality of its OPERATION
Cases CHed-Foreign Co,suls, &c.
In the menagere that was in town the other day,
we saw owls and eagles all in the same cage !; and
a cat and squirrel in another compartment, living
as sociaby together, birds of feather; but who
ever would have dreamed Of free trade and high
protection domicAiating under the same roof. and
dining at the same table. Yet there is no mistake
about it, Mr.. Walker Tin the temporary absence of
his family and Mr.. Buchanan are now quartered in
the same house-in other words, Mr. Walker, ad
interim has taken up his abode with the otherwise
lonely and solitary Secretary of State They live
in perfect harmony. They talk Of every day mat
ters and every day gossip over their gooseberry
wine with infinite gusto but it is said that their
social concord is never disturbed by allusion to
Oregon from the one or to the tariff from theother
The malicious rumors in circulation, that there was
strong MI trust or Jealousy existing between the
Secretary OF State, and the head of the treasury has
induced Mr. Walker to remove into the household of
Mr. Buchanan, in order to extlngush the suspicion;
and to maintain. before the people, the external evil
dences required establish the idea of that unmlti-
gated, and undiluted concord, which ought to be
cherished, mutually, among the members Of the
Presidents executive councils, and which the
editor of the Unton is ready TO swear to- as the
existing state of things with the administration.
And it So Socially, the members OF the Cabinet
are as harmonious family Of brothers; but the
difference between the Secretary OF State and Mr.
Walker on the tariff question, is about equal to the
difference between seventy per cent protection
cold iron and plain procrustean ad valorem Of
twenty per centum. Mr. Buchanan, we understand,
is willing to fall back, by way Of compromise, to
the tariff bill of General Mckay of the last Congress,
which reduces the schedule OF lS42 to general
average Of about 30 per cent, excepting upon iron
and coal upon which the duties are but slightly di-
mlnished Mr.. Walker will not give in his adhe-
sion TO the bill-it is sufficiently low; and s upon
these very contested articles of iron and coal, (ron
more particularly upon which ne demands mate
rial dIminufion
He will recommend revenue tariff in his report,
with determinations, not for protecton but for re-
yerue Mr. Buchanan will not desert the iron fur
naces of Pennsylvania. He will, we think, do all
that he his present position, to arrest reduc-
ton OF the protection or bounty paid upon Pennsyl
vania iron by the consumers and when the evidences
shall have become ndubitaby conclusive, that the
tariff of 1912 is to be dismantled and extingushed,
the cruelty of the Administration, in the ample
folds of the sable rebozo of Judge OF the Supreme
Court. 1t is not improbable, therefore, potwlth-
standing the fact that Mr. buchanan and Mr. Waiker
are lodging and eating under the same root, that the
former will car de kitchens" before next Christ
mas day.
A wicked and i'll founded rumor has come to our
respecting this fraterniZation OF the two homo
rabe Secretaries. II is said, that as Mr.. Walker IS
rather Indifferent about Oregon, and would as soon
give it away as not, (Which we do not believe)-
now that Texas is secured, he will only meet Mr..
Buchanan in compromise upon the Tariff, by the
Secretary OF State agreeing to surrender OF Cre-
gon the 10Th degree ,or as more preferable, tore
closure of all negotiations upon the subject, ana the
continuation of the treaty OF JOINT occupation In
perpetuty; in short, desertlon by the government
of the northwest territory as not worth the trouble
of preserving, much less of fighting for. That
South Carolina has no lnordlnate hankerlng after
| the Oregon territory, we are satisfied from the
speeches Of her Senators in Congress IN '42S, and
| their votes against taking up the bl!l from the
House at the last session. And yet the policy OF
| Mr. Calhoun, from which the south expected in
Oregon separate nationality, that would never ask
for anne xaon and thus be forever out Of the scale
against the south, IN me balancing OF poimcai pow
SEIZURE of the territory by our citizens, local
government and an irresistible appeal to the pater-
nal protection of the Federal authorities at WASH
ington Briefly now, there is no suspension Of the
negotiations and The prospect is that they will be
continued till the meeting OF Congress- thence from
week TO week, and month 10 month, through the
session, to the adjournment, ad ,nfnltun or until
| the American people OF Oregon strike up war with
| the Hudsons Bay Company on their own account,
| in which event, this Government must become In
yolved the dlff1culty, and lnextrcaDy, except by
| fighting 1t out.
| We shall have to keep the people in remembrance
| OF certain rank abuses which are creeping into the
| government, the end OF which, II not arrested, no
| man can foretell. Among these corruptons, the
practice which has been introduced into the Senate
in every inaugural executive session, OF the MEM
bers of the Senate voting themselves the ordinary
mileage for imaginary supposed and fictitious jour
neys to their constituents, and their return, like
wltches with their bodies lying comfortably in bed
at Washington, while the spirit, the real man, bya
sort of ransu5stantiation, only known to the old
women of Salem, has been off in the form of grey
cat or terrier dog, astride OF broom, whisking
through the air all the way to Arkansas Alabama,
and back in the small hours Ws between tive 2 and SIX
tary Dickens procure that voucher, and have the
facts officially recorded, concerning the extraordl-
nary bill Of mlleages! MIR. Dickens, when the un-
official statement of these extra douceurs appeared
in the Herald including Mr. Bagby, MIR. Barrow,
Mr. Dickinson, and a score OF others, sent round
among his subordinates in hopes OF detecting the
| traitor who made the disclosure among them, and
of furnishing him for his treason by his immediate
election. Mr.. Dickens then discovered that Sen
ator perhaps implicated IN the revelation, and
kept remarkably quiet thencetorward; but In order
TO appease the Senate, and to pave his way for
reelection at the next session. ne had kept the re-
cord of these extraordinary mileages out OF the
reach OF the public eye, and especially out OF the
further says, that Mr. Dickens actually went up to
the Treasury Department, and tried to argue Mr..
Walker into the legality OF these extraordinary
mleages and the propriey, therefore,, OF the late
Senator accepting his twelve hundred dollars for
the imaginary Journey he travelled on the night OF
the third of March, to the people, having been out
like wizard, whisking IT through the air on
broomstick,
''De live-long night,
Till the peep oh daylight
And coming home just at day in the morning"
Satisfied with the able, disnteresed, and patrio-
tic appeal of Mr. Dickens, ii is said that Mr. Wal
ker took the money authorised by vote OF the
senate. but entirely unauthorized by the princi-
oles of the government and of common honesty
We don't believe that he did take this mileage. Mr..
Dickinson Mr. Barrow, Mr. Bagby, and some 9TH
ers, might take it; but we cannot think that Mr..
Walker any more than Allen, Archer or Benton
would touch cent OF it, The official record Of these
mileages must be furnished in order to show who
are and who are not guilty of accepting them. The