The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-07-23
NEW YORK HERALD.
sew York. Thur.day. July ~. 1876.
Congressional Proceedings-Thirty-Thi
Week OF the Session-The Tariff.


surely as its friends anticipated. We do not look
for vote before Monday or Tuesday next Sc
nator Cameron, of PENNSYLVANIA, defended the
bill of 1872 ably, and reminded the administra-
ton oil the measures resorted to by the party in
his State to secure the election of their candi-
dates.
IL appears that there eight or nine demo
cratic Senators-independent OF those who have
avowed their determination to vote against it
opposed to the Tariff bill in the shape it
came from the lower house, but how many of
these eight will vote against it, remains in doubt.
All who vote for it must vote against their
own Judgment, and in opposition to what they
must consider the best interests of the country
If they vote for the tariff bill they must sac
rifice those interests for their party These Sena-
tors are Messrs Dir, Dickinson, Benton, Cass,
Sempls, Hayward, Hanmegan, and Breese Mr..
Calhoun is opposed to the ad valorem principle.
and TO the great revolution in our commercial sys-
tenn this bill will produce, and it is our impression
that he will recommend some amendments
We wish to place the names of those Senator'S
before the country, that the people may see in
whose hands their interest,". rest, that thew NAV
judge them by their acts When measure like
this is brought toward, measure affecting TO
some extent the interests of every man, and when
tne TWO parties are equally divided in relation
TO Its merits, it becomes u matter of very serious
consideration with every Senator having a vote
upon the Question, what course he will pursue in
the Premses-whether he will hesitate between
ms party and the real interests of his country
II the necessities of the country really required
repeal of the present act, the whole question
would bear a different complexion, but such is
not the case. 1t is an experiment of the most
desperate character and an immense response
ohity devolves upon those having in their hands
tne disposal OF this mighty matter.
The Oregon Treaty and the Senate.
We have extracted from the Philadelphia North
American the documents connected with the Ore
gon treaty, and which formed the basis of discus
SION Oh the convention proposed by Great Britain
Tor the settlement of this dispute. These docu-
ments we publish in ertenso in this days paper,
and II will be perceived that they bear us out in
the statement we made few days since, that the
right OF navigating the Columbia is confined to the
Hudson Bay Company during its charter, which
expires in 1863
There Is mystery hanging over the publication
OF these documents, that the Senate owe to
themselves and the country to explain. An in
Junction OF secresy was imposed on all the debates
and documents connected with the conventon
and before that injunction is removed, and while
the Union states that they cannot publish them
we see the secrets OF the Senate Chamber given to
the world in daily public journal. How did this
take place Which member of the Senate has
abused the trust reposed in him, and violated
parliamentary usage and moral obligation so out
rageously as to give publicity to these important
documents
We trust the Senate will investigate the matter,
and promptly expel the offender. 1t was but a
year or two ago that similar outrage was perpe-
trated, and an important treaty published in a
Wall street paper before the injunction of secresy
was removed from the Senate.
AFFAIRS IN MExIco.-The letters that have ap-
Peared in the London Times from Mexico, have
lately attracted some attentions and it will not,
therefore, be uninterestng to be made acquainted
with the writer
The correspondent is Mr.. Thomas Worrall, a
native OF Liverpool, England. He is very init
mate friend of Mr.. Morphy, the gentleman who
has gone to Mexico on a secret mission from
England He is also well known to Mr. Paken-
ham, lately the British Charge d'Afaires, in Mexi
co; and we think it possible, that Mr.. Pakenham
may have him pointed out to the proprietors of the
Times, as fit and proper person to correspond
with them. We believe that Mr. Worrall went
to Mexico in 1884, as partner in an English CON-
mercial house; but three years afterwards he left
II, and commenced business on his own account
as bill broker, and agent for the sale of govern
ment securities. Hitherto he has done pretty
well, and if Santa Anna were restored to power
would be much better.
The Times could not have chosen a better re-
preventative in Mexico than Mr.. Worrall, for he
moves in the first circles there has access to the
best sources of information, and possesses great
literary, as well as commercial atainments.
CAPITAL PUNIsHMENr.-We notice that How
ard, the murderer, who was lately hanged in
New Hampshire, stated before his death that had
he known that he was to have been hung, he
would not have committed the murder his idea
being that the law had been altered, and the SEN
tence would be imprisonment for life. This in
measure explains the feeling which desperate
murderers have in relation to their punishment
The idea that the dread of life imprisonment is
so great that of death, is absurd in the extreme
The factis, that many desperate characters in
these days of REFORM" plan and commit muir
der, with the explicit belief that the Fourier and
universal abolition philosophers of the present
time, will exert themselves in their behalf, and
obtain for them full pardon, or a communication of
punishment TO imprisonment for life. The new
theories which have been lately preached upon
the subject of capital punishment have spread
them selves among all classes of society, so that
even judges and jurors are tinctured with them.
Understanding this feeling, and knowing that so
soon as arrested as murderer, he will excite the
sympathies Of class of sickly sentimentalists,
a man who is so hardened az to commit a murder,
is willing to risk his chance of hanging, fully be-
lieving that the various causes we have mem
toned will prevent it.
If murderers were sure that death would be
the certain result Of their crime, they would be
much less abundant than at present.
CALIFORNIA ExPEDTIoS-As Colonel Steven
sons regiment Is now completed they will be