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! Correspondence Of the Herald
WASHINGTON, June 4, 1876.
Nerico- Those Istalments-C Consultation at the
Vhite House, supposed about England, Merico
and Tsras, upon Consular Appointmcnts-I-
stucto,s TO O6fce-Seekers from an old tln--Nardi
Court Misunderstanding F.naticism of the
Isctotaiie,y, SC. &c.
The Union is holding out the idea that the install
ments of the Mexican indemni,ies, for April and
July 1874, have not been paid over by the Mexican
government TO the agents of the United States We
firmly believe to the contrary. Col Benton, in a
speech upon the general appropriation bill of the last
session, showed conclusvely to our mind that the
money had been paid over, and that if there were a
defalcation Gas there certainly and ISL was on
the part OF the agents OF the United States MIR.
Shannon, our last minister to Mexico who, we be-
lieve, Is on his way TO this city, and Mr. Green,
have entirely failed in establishing the idea that those
aforesaid instruments have not been redeemed -
We rely upon Col Benton. If there be man who
has thorough knowledge OF our Mexican relations
It is the Colonel; and he has positively assured us
that the aforesaid instruments by great effort of
the Mexican government, were redeemed. Gen.
Thos. j. Green, OF Texas, has Just arrived in town.
and, we informed, delivered large package of
documents to the President last night, more likely
upon the subject of annexation than upon these Mexi-
can ndemnitles, and therefore will dismiss him
for the present section of the last general APP
preparation Bill authorized the payment to our citi-
the indemnltles accruing from Mexico, in the con-
viction that Mexico had met these obligations our
Government by payment OF the money TO the au-
thorlzed agents OF the United States. We are now
told that the admlnlstraton-in the absence of salts
factory evidence that the money was paid r-has
determined TO withhold the payments to citizens
from this fund directed to be made IN the civil and
diplomatic bill OF Appropriations. There is some
thing, we fear, exceedingly rotten in this business
something in which we apprehend Mr.. Tyler's
agents will be held accountable to Mexico and to the
United States, something equivalent to Swartwout-
ing, and perhaps little worse But if 1t shall turn
out that Mr.. Tyler's mercantile firm at Vera Cruz
did not receive the money, or an equivalent there
for, then, of course the Government of Mexico will
be held responsible. But II is our serious conyc-
ton that Mexico has redeemed these aforesaid in
staments and that the agents, and incidentally the
Minister of the United States, Mr.. Shannon, the
responsible persons in accounting for the failure OF
the transfer of these moneysto the authorities at
Washington. Our attention has been attracted TO
this SUBJECT from the doubts expressed by the organ,
and tomorrow we shall refer to the remarks OF
Colonel Benton upon the section 10 authorize the
payment from these indemnes TO our citizens. For
years past the Federal Government has been so ire
quently unfortunate in the choice OF Its agents III
many OF its large money transactions ,ha Una, we
here of the April and July instruments Of
the Mexican indemntles for 1874. except by
charging it TO the rascallty OF our own accredited
agents or their depues or the deputies OF these de-
| DUTIES. or all of them together. We make no charge
| we merely express very general apprehension,
that il these Mexican instruments have not been paid,
h is not from the want Of punctuay on the part OF
Mexico but from the faithlessness OF agents
n completing the transfer OF the funds We shall look
however, closely into this subject within day
u two. Until yesterday, we had considered the
aith of Mexico in this business, so clearly settled
rot to admit Of prevaricallon or subterfuge. We
sha certainly be surprised II present and future de-
yelopments shall conduce to different conclusion.
In a visit to the White House this morning, we
we're told that the President could not he seem be-
ause OF a conference with Mr.. buchanan, supposed
. be on the package OF documents from Texas list
,yeniug, aud the news By the Cambria from Eng
and Subsequently, we were advised that the ap-