The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-25
The Ten MIRRORS Of Slle Gadsden Treaty-Ffve
Days to Congress.

rive day or &c still rema 10 y ngrcss ioI
heir acceptance Of the Cad en- treaty. in
this interva they fail to tie least seven of
the ten millions, we presume that tie treaty
falls to the ground TIE caption of the treaty
is as follows -
TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND THE MEXICAN GEPUBL c, CoNcLUDEp AT THE
CITY OF MEXICO, DECEMBER 80, 1858.
And the following is the third article
ARTICLE
In con dera.ion of the foregoing s'ipuations, the
government OF the United States agrees Gay to the
Of NJ xico in the city Of Ne YorE the
az ten millions Of collars of which seven millions shall
he pair Immediately upon tae exchange OF he ratihca
ton cf this treaty and the remaining three millions as
the boundary lines shall be surveyed, marked,
and established
And the limitation of the ninth article is ex-
pressed in the following terms
Ihis treaty shall be ratified and the respective ratid
cations hall be exchanged ut the city OF Washington,
within the exact period of six months from the date OF
its signature, or sooner II possible
The date of the signature is the 30th of De-
cember The seven millions are to be paid
Immediately" upon the exchange of ratiica-
tons, which exchange must be within the ex-
act liod of six months, )" or sooner if posi-
| bic, from the date of its signature. From the
30th of December-the day Of the signing the
treaty-to the 30th June, we have 1.-The exact
| period of six months;" so that from this day
the twenty -ffth-Congress have but five days
remaining for the privilege of yea or nay to the
| exchange of the notifications.
| There is no express stipulation that the treaty
| shall be null and voil' in the event of
failure to pay immediately upon the exchange
of ratiications" but the alternative is dis
tiuctly implied in the exact period of six
months" The very term exact" signifies
day beyond which it will be too late to ex-
change the notifications or to pay over the mo
ney. To be sure, Santa Anna would not stick
upon the trife of day or two, OF even week
or two, beyond the prescribed Limitation. The
danger is among those hair-splitting members
| of Congress, who in the event Of the appropri-
alton being held back beyond the thirtieth of
| June, may insist upon the strict construction
| of the law.
This accounts for the milk in the cocoanut"
this explains the alacrity of Mr.. Houston,
Chairman on Ways and Means, in reporting the
necessary appropriation BILL and this is the key
to the apparent anxiety of the administration,
and to the rumor that, as a last resort the seven
millions Immediately" and the contingent
| three millions, are to be tackled on to the gene
raj appropriation bill-that miscellaneous bag
gage car, in which, failing of regular passage
50 much of the plumber of the stockholders
spectators, and spoilsmen is slowed away
Nor are we at all surprised to be informed from
Washington, that the appropriations will be car
ried within the time appointed The admins
ira ion have decreed it - they who resist will
| be communicated he who asks to look be-
hind the II cord will be marked; and even Ben
ton is powerlcss before majority of the House,
under the previous question. The whip and
spur of the administration, and not the merits
Of the treaty, are relied upon to carry these ten
millions for the relief of Santa Anna and his
associate stockholders and specu ators imme-
diately through.
Still. from sense of duty to the public, to
| the ends of public justice, and public morality,
! and from proper regard to discriminating
economy in the appropriations of the public
| money, we admonish the members of the House
of their responsibility to the people in this bu
siness. What are the equivalents we receive
| for these ten millions of dollars The sewage
of desert-without timber, mainly without
| living water for half the year without rain,
and without population, or any prospect of po-
| pulation, except the wandering Apaches. We
| undertake to say that tract Of country Of more
frightful sterility apd desolation cannot be
| found. of corresponding geographical dimen-
sons, on the continent OF North America. AS
far as we know from the accounts of official
explorations and reliable travellers this Gads-
den treaty country is, in its topography, geo.
logy soil and climate, almost precisely the
same as "the bowling wilderness" in which the
children of Israel were detained for forty years,
as punishment for their sins, being subsisted
in the meantime, by the miraculous interposi-
tions of the Almighty. But no mama falls in
the Gadsden country, and the flocks Of quails
among those volcanic mountains and sands, are
| 'fLile angels visits, few and far between"
In this connection the GOODNESS of he high
contracting parties to this treatry-the states
manlike gravity with which they discuss "the
grants of land within the territory ceded"-is
the very perfection of diplomatic humbuggery.
1t would be funny, exceedingly funny, if it
| were not too expensive and too brazen for a
joke Upon par with the Glands acquired
is the concession Of the navigation of the Gulf
Of California, the geographical position of
which renders it utterly useless to us, and the
foreign trade of which is about equal to that of
| the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The release from
| the Apaches amounts to nothing. With or
without the treaty, we are bound to protect
our frontier settlers and emigrants; and the
best that we obtain on this point is the guar
dianshp of an increased number of bloodthirsty
Apaches within our own jurisdiction.
The disputed Mesilla valley, which we &C.
! quire, has been shown by our late Boundary
Commissioner to contain nothing more than
Mexican settlement of some eighteen hundred