New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-08

10 tie state OF California for renguishneu Of all claim
20 the Custom House square. The Legature passet an
act N ell the Government Reserve excepting out the
sale fhe Custom House lot but there no release q
the United States Of al claim 70 il Consequently the
worn remains suspended and the application has been re
newod for the release and Is expected the release VII be
ATTAINED and that the contractors for the Custom House
will be enabled to proceed with the building.
The aistraci accompanying this repor. exhibits Marine
Hosptals at Chelsea. near Boston Norfolk, Virginia
OcTscoke North Carolina Cleveland. Ohio. Chicago,
Illinois Pittsburgh Pennylyania Louisville keng Ky
Padueab Kentucky Na;chez Mississippi New Orleans
Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama, and Key Wes', fiorai
Appropriation have been made for such establishments a.
NAPOLEON Arkansas; vcksburg' Mississippi EE Cr
Vile Indiana; Portland Maine San Francisco Cai
fornie and the Hospitals are in course OF
and OF them, appears BY the s5strs y merry
completed AZ baltimore New O;ean I'm
sick and invalid are made with hel,cA ne
pels end other institutions In other and mass Ror,-
ccnlers from the Department The marine hospitals are
sustained in part by the hospital fund collected ION
and in part by appropriations Dy oong - Ino
OF the Department organized for the construction OF Cas-
tom House and the sy-tem OF accountability and
inspection viii be applied to them by laws and regaia
tona for the government of the respective hopta
modified suit each locality have been prepared AMI
Put in force and the charge Of them in this Department
arranged that the accounts required 10 be peol
icaly rendered and proper economy enforced These
hospitals with adequate provision for sick and disabled
seanen recommended to the continued favorable con-
sideraiion Of Congress.
The act Of Congress to provide for the better security
Of the lives Of passengers board vessels propelled
in whole or in part By steam has claimed the aaen
ton If the Department The supervising inspectors were
all in due time appointed also the local b0ars provided
in the act They entered at once the discharge OF
the duties specified in the act and have been ardu9usy
engaged in giving it full effect There will not have been
a wears experience under its full operation, until about
the June next but far its operation has been highly
favorable, and gives reason to hope that bette seeuTi
both as 10 life and property, steam vessels viii Be tho
result of its faithful and vgilant execution interrOga
tons have been sent out BY the Department under the
provisions Of the 10th section in order to elicit the nior
nation designated in the 3oh section ana when answer
sha be received the nterrogations and the Information
ELECTED will be duly communicated In the meantime
report received from the Board OF inspectors convened
Of Cincinnati, and giving much valuable information is
herewith transmitted The operation Of the act promising
10 be highly beneficial the Pacific Coast should parc
pate in al the benefits and advantages il Is calculated to
afford Under the existing provisions OF the act this is
impraccabe and therefore is recommended that new
supervising district be established to embrace mat coast
with Supervising Inspector Inconvenience arises from
there being of local nspectors-One set under
the Of 1884, and the other set under the act of 1882 The
under the act Of 1893 in way under he
superintondence of this Department although, without
its the necessary papers cannot be Issued by
the Custom House officers Those under the act Of 1872
under the superntendence OF the Department 1t IS
desirable that the boats inspected under the act Of
should be subject TO all the provisions OF the act OF
1882 but is desirable that there should be but one set
of inspectors and that all should be under proper super
inendence
Attention is called to the Louisville and Portland Canal
The 10000 shares Of capital stock in that Company under
the of the act Of the Legislature Of Kentucky
have been reduced 3l of which 29)2 belong to the
United States and $40 TO individuals These sO shares
will be reduced By the earnings of the canal for the year
1883 Of which the Company will furnish report and the
earnings of 1854 will complete the purchase and leave the
United States the sole stakeholder and proprietor of the
canal and entitled to possession of ii complying with
the condition Of the act of Kentucky under which the p
vate stock has been purchased That condition requires
that tolls shall be collected than will be sufficient
to keep the canal in repair pay the necessary cost of
pernendence and custody and make all the improvements
needed, fully to the purpose of its establishment
and to protect and guard the interests OF commerce An
appropriate act swanted at the present session. to provide
for the upernte ndence Of the canal and the carrying out
Of the provisions of the act of the Legislature OF Ken
lucky, in order to make the canal Free far pracca
Attention is also called to the s5OoOOOo balance of the
sOo0000O agreed be given to Texas in the settlement
retained under the prOviso the boundary bill The late
Administration decided that all the stock of Texas men.
toned in that provso must first be released to the United
before the stock could be issued and the present
Administration determined not to disturb that decision.
The is that the creditors of Texas remain I'M
paid although many willing to file their stock aud re-
lease all claim the United States and receive the pro
portion Of the 100000 accorded to them by Texas while
the United States with abundant means to pay cannot 40
and the debt remains liable to claim for interest
which, under the act could not well be refused.
Attention is also called TO the fact that the treasury
building does afford sufficient room for the accommo
daOn of the clerks of the Department and that the Land
Office belonging to the Department of the Interior
accommodated in the building to be exclusion of part of
the clerks of the Third Auditor and OF all the clerks of
Treasury building have been found SO damp and un-
healthy as to make il proper to building, and
move part of the clerks of the Third Auditor from the
basement The Fifth Auditor and his clerks had been
accommodated in the building occupied by the state De
pertinent but the Secretary requiring the rooms for his
clerks requested the removal OF the Fifth Auditor
and his clerks and building rented and that officer
moved TO it The rented buildings not as safe for the
records the of the Treasury building and there
great in having part of the clerical force
out of the building and beyond immediate control.
Attention is also called TO the fact that James Collier
late Collector of San Francisco indicted for failing
pay the collected by him. and for loan
ing in violation of law He arrested under writ
issued accordance with the laws of the United
when about to be conveyed by the Marshal Caornato
answer the Indictment was taken out OF his custody by
writ of habas corpus, issued by Judge Of the State of
TO United States Judge and provision for
peal from the decision of the State Judge
Attention is called to the acts of Congress giving author
W to rent warehouses and other buildings for the use OF
the Custom Honses There TO be no limitation TO
the authority rent other than the discretion of the Col
ector and the sanction of the Secretary Under petense
of this authority contract was made by my predecessor
with Edrdge under date of the 2sth August 1871 TO
sruct four warehouses in San Francisco 10 be finished in
months and to them for the of 10 years from
time of completion at the agreed rent of 81 500 per month
each subject to revaluaon every two years Another
contract made the oath Of February 1883 with
Theodore Adams to construct another building and REMIT
for 10 years at $4,000 per year the rent to be fixed anew
every two years, Upon examination il thought that
there authority given the Secretary make these
leases The Edrge buildings had been constructed and
about 10 months rent paid - months of it in advance TO
the LIST of January 1854 and the Adams contract had just
been made Notice was given to Eldridge that the con
tract with him considered to have been made without
sufficient authority and that the buildings would be
doned after the time to which the rent had been paid ad
vance Notice given 10 Adams that the contract with
him considered 10 have been made without authority
of law and that the building would not be accepted
the contract rent considered binding on the States
The attention of the Department has since been called TO