New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-30
TEuUANTEPEC CLAIMS.

TEHUANTEPEC CLAIMS.
Aswe learn from Washington, the Senate, after a
long debate yesterday refused 20 remove the njunc
ton Of secrecy from the proceedings relative to the
GaGsden treaty. even while afixing to it the final
seal of approval BY passing the bill TO pay Santa Anna
the coveted ten millions. This is not surprising
1t would seem that the evidences Of intrigue, corrup
ton and bribery were so abundant, and dsgricefu
that even the opponents of the treaty must have
rhrunk from making the whole story knowa to the
world The same regard for public deceney that
leads the Press TO omit the details OF depraylfy when
are often elected in the Courts OF Justice, has no
doubt influenced the Senate in keeping the seal OF
eecrocy upon the developments which attended the
original rejection Of this scheme of public plumber
in comparison will which all previous Mexican frauds
are Getty and insignificant. The original programme
copterated the transfer Of several millions OF dollars
in the form OF indemnity to the parties who for the
psst ten or twelve years have been dabblng with the
project hrs, OF Il shp-canal then OF railroad, and
finally of pla road across the lsthnus OF Iehuante-
pee On this head little history may not be
uninf ructive
Five years ago one senior Garay, Mexican, got
rant fer communication across Tehuantepec from
his Serene friend Santa Anna. lie transferred his
grant it is alleged, to the English house OF Macin-
tosh from whose hands by some unexplained pro-
cess il got into .he possession OF Hargous d Co.
Iu, somehow with I'll subsequent transactions the in
itsbe Garay always connected, 50 that It IS gen.
uay beieyedthat the transie sand sales in which the
small, =: amounts entoned millions, were financial
prcterses and nothing BY adrot management the
affair was brought to that state of completely which
WIS necessary for the foundation of claim" for
some millions of damages. The Department of State
being induced to make it national question, Com
n,cc OF the Senate next gets in report, in which
tie country is told that its honor and interests
Involved in protecting the rights OF the Mexican,
Garsy, Who however, now appears under the name
and firm If Hargous 4 Co. But even with all this
the case is hardly strong enough; it is requisite
that Hargous, alias Macintosh, alias Garay, should
be more severely damaged. Accordingly. Garsy makes
snother reconsideration, and under the OF Sloo
gets new contract for opening Tehuantepec, to the
utter exclusion of the previous one. Garay and Com
papy have now case; they have been fesrfully out
iased they had spent untold and incompatible thou
sands of dollars in survey of the Isrhmus had been
general, badly treated, and completely done
,urate indemnity; they must be protected: in fact,
they have been " damaged to the amount of five
six millions! Five millions for ALL Garay Macintosh,
Harcous and Sl,o million each after paying all
bills And as for Garay's friend, Santa Anna if he
will only inexorsbly refuse TO let the Legitimate
Owners" have Tehuantepec, he too shall receive
the wherewitha to emulate bis great Hayden pro-
,oiype and rival the imperial glores of Faustin l.
This plot works we'll its contamination is almost
reached; il passes the White House and comes be-
fore the Senate. South Carolina, whose diplomatic
hero has achieved this brilliant result. is all in costa
cies Garay and his doubles afflicted because they
sre be deprived forever of their beloved Tehuante
pee. with only paltry five millions to comfort them
for the loss and Santa Anna exultng in the prospect
OF imperial power, contracts for vessels and guns,
Galatians and Calitornisns and locks to the realization
Of tie dreams of lturbide Even TIE lean wolves OF
Sonora utter hswi of delight, in the prospect of a
meal on the miserable wrotches who may be in
duced into the parched deserts of Northern
Mexico to seek those rich aud invaluable, bat yet
undiscovered, mines of the precious metals, in which,
Mr. Gadsden assures U.S. the whole country abOunds.
But alas for human calculations and all the comb
nations of mortal wisdom The Gadsden treaty i.
arrested in the Senate; eected; but immaculate
Senator actuated solely by the Hottest of public
duty its reconsideration; it is dissected every
application of the knife of investigation discloses, a.
We bound to believe corruption, fraud and folly
until finally, by what influences know not, it is
| dUced in It's dimensions; the twenty millions for tn,
aid ofSanta Anna and Garsy cut down to ten ant
in that diminished form it is passed Yesterday saw
the last of in Congress We hope; and doubtless be
fore these lines the morning tables of our read
the hasty hand of the President will have aix
his signature, making the appropriation a. law, an,
putting the ten millions We hope at the tOmman,
of the persons who have worked for it through thcl
and thin.
But the public would greatly err to suppose tina
the projectors and efficient agents of the scheme hay
lost the stake for which they played. 1t is true tn
comfortable provision for damages on which the
built their hopes OF competence Is LOST for the pre-