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ovor from the tumbler on his desk! We hope the
orator will take warning The "enemy IN his
mouth" will "steal away his brains" and have
rich and sparkling treasure. FELIX.
WASHINGTON, July 81, 1913.
Some of the particulars.

Some Of the particulars
The pay of some twelve hundred employees of
the government is hanging upon the general appro-
priation BILL the appropriations of last year having
run out We understand that the Secretary of the
Treasury has been, to-day, arranging with Corco-
ran & Riggs for the advance of the means required
to pay the clerks In the Executive Department. 1t
would certainly be safe responsibility to do so,
for the appropriations demanded will be made.
But had not the House taken up so much of the
people . time and money in speeches on this bill
for buncombe and humbug, there would be no diff
6culty from the suspension of the daily wages OF
the thousands of government operatives all over
the Union consequent upon the delay In the pas
sage of the bill.
The Savannah nver appropriation has been
struck out BY the Finance Committee of the Sem
ate II was feared that this item, if left in the bill,
would bring down veto. II may yet be debated
by the Senate.
We have NOT heard the result of the Executive
Keamy, as MAJOR General by brevet; but we sup
pose Colonel Benton has hardly done yet with his
sitting review of the proceedings of the General,
as commander Of the United States forces in New
Mexico and California. The whole of the long
exposition of Colonel Benton of this case, will
ultimately be published.
Colonel Benton introduced bill fpr the tempo
rary government OF California and New Mexico,
OF protection, pro tempore; but whether, even for
that, 1t Is not now too late, is the question. We
suspect, as IN the case OF the late proposed Bour
bon regency for France, CIT is too late.'
The Supreme Court expedlent of the select COM
mittee Of the Senate will be mint of capital to
the Buffalo Convention. Better nothing had been
done than this proposition to shift the burden of
responsibility upon the Supreme Court.
Col. Domlnguez, OF Gen. SCOTS Mexican spy
company, was in the Library of Congress to-day.
He was a Mexican highwayman, driven to the
road from having been robbed on it himselfb by the
agents of the Mexican government, and the peril
Of death was upon his head, when the happy
thought struck HIM OF joining IN with the over
lures OF Gen Worth at Puebla. He afterwards
did good service tor Gen. Scott with his spy COM
pany, all Of them contraband Mexicans, and thew
have yet not had their pay. Col Dominguez
can return no more to Mexico, except as an enc
my In open war. To attempt to return now would
be IMPEACHMENT alive. Congress Owls him some
thing tor his useful services, for though traitor
to Mexico, he was faithful auxiliary of the
American army. He is one of the most formidable
looking men we have ever seen. No description in
any book picture in any gallery, thatwe have ever
read or saw; no living specimen of the genus
ho.v6'r can compete with this ferocious looking
Col. Domnguez, He is heavy-built man, near
SIX feet high, with that transparent complexion of
the Mexican, though dark as the darkest Spaniard
OF the West India Islands His face is full and
round; his cheeks full and expanded; black whis-
kers and moustache; long nose, inclined to
snub, yet, not above the level of his protuberant
ChcehS, eyes, Dldch, Keen, yet cold and SIM
lister in their expression; his attitude erect; his
gait easy and flexible; his age between thirty five
and forty, apparently. Ii we were to meet just such
a man alone and unarmed, on Mexican road, we
should at once kneel downto ask God Almighty to
forgive us our sins, without entertain. ng the idle
thought tor moment of chance of living beyond
FIVE minutes We should conclude at once, that
the luxury TO such man OF cutting travellers
threat fixed us down beyond the power of ransom.
The life OF Dominguez, his associations, the law
less and unhappy people with whom he has had to
deal, the lawless and death defylng career he has
pursued, seem to have stamped upon the visage of
gand. We suppose he has come to take up his
residence in the United States. Gen. Jackson abb
solved Laftte for his services at New Orleans.
Gen. Scott has absolved Domlnguez for his SER
wees to our army in Mexico He has not been
paid. He has hazarded his life, and has refused
the bribes OF Santa Anna, in his fidelity to Gen.
Scott Ii Is not province, therefore, to look be-
yond the record. This exhibits HIM as an ally of
our army and he is, therefore, entitled to be paid,
and projected under our laws
From to-day we have only fourteen days of the
session remaining They will be full Of interest,
and you may expect the full attention of your corps
In their duties to the Herald. THE DocToR.