The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-02-16

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| ments, &c.
The Gndsden Treaty Speculation What
VIII the Senate Dos
The Gadsden-Santa Anna treaty, with the
amendment proposed to the Senate by the
President of the United States, having been
| laid at full length before our readers, they
| are prepared for a deliberate judgment upon
the merits of this extraordinary convention
| including the suggested notifications.
| 1t viii be observed that the treaty substan-
TALLY agrees with our reports heretofore, Of its
stipulatons, and that only two important
amendments have been made by the President.
In the third article, as agreed to by Gen. Gads-
den, the treaty provides that in relieving
Mexico Of all claims of American citizens the
Garay Tehuantepec company shall be expressly
included in the relioquishment. This would
leave Col. Sloo and Major Arnold Harris of the
Washington Union in full and undisputed &C.
cupation of the Tehuantepec inter oceanic
overland route-a very desirable consummation
to the parties concerned.
The Presidents amendment, on the other
hand, which proposes to strike out the specif-
cations touching the Garay contract and con-
tractors, leaves the Sloo company to fight it
out with the Garay association as best they Can.
This amendment also accounts for the trouble
which is said to have taken place between the
editors of the Cabinet organ and the Cabinet
itself upon this question. The moral courage OF
the President therefore, is very much to be
commended in matter so vital to the interest,
Of the proprietors Of his special organ. Gen
Gadsden's arrangement would be worth several
millions Of money to The Sloo company; where
as. by ignoring it. the Conckling or Sloo treaty
continues to stand in the light Ct an unla WIFI
supersedeas of the Garay treaty. There must
be something exceedingly rotten in the Soo
concern, when the President thus repudiates il
under threats of an explosion with the Wash
iDgton Union and its fnanciers.
The next most important amendment of the
President is the striking out all the specitica-
tons Of Gen. Gadsden's eighth article, for the
capture and punishment of dllibusteroes, which
leaves nothing but the general stipulation that
our government will cheerfully cooperate with
Mexico in suppressing all unlawful inyasions
on either side of the boundary. This may not
be very satisfactory to Mexico but as il pro-
vides a large loop-hole of escape to Col. Walk
er il is very likely the two California Senators
will use their best endeavors to carry the Presi-
dents proposition.
Excepting these recommendations of the Pre-
sident the result of frequent Cabinet councils,
the treaty stands approved by the Cabinet,
substantially as heretofore represented. We
are to pay the sum of twenty millions
of dollars for a margin of the deserts
CT Chihuahua and Sonora, literally worth
less, except as q more open field than the
ella boundary, for running down the Apache
Indians. OF these twenty millions in gold or
silver coin, fifteen millions 60 directly for the
relief of Santa Anna, and five millions to the
satisfaction Of an army Of hungry spectators,
stock ,jobbers and moonshine claimants upon
Mexico. The concurrence between the Mexican
Commissioners and Gen. Gadsden to "crush
OUT the Garay company being ignored by the
executive, the scramble will become all the
more interesting should the treaty, with the
Presidents notifications. be ratified.
What will the Senate do? Is the game
worth the candle? The country we acquire
being nothing more nor less than waste and
bowling Wilderness stamped with the inef
aceable curse ofthe Creator in all its lineaments
-" a country in which," as described by Kit
Carson, "a wolf could not make his living
it is absurd to consider it as an equivalent for
the 1.-THE oftwenty millions of gold aud silver
coin. But we are released from all liabilities
on account of our Indian depredations upon the
Mexican frontiers, as provided for in the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo; and that is something
We get comparatively open country
for our Southern frontier west Of the
Rocky mountains, where we may hunt
out the Apaches on horseback we get
the free navigation of the Gulf of California
which perhaps, may be worth navigating when
the Pacific Railroad is located on Cookies wagon
route; and we also'get Cookies wagon route,
along which the building of railroad will not
average much more than hundred thousand
dollars per mile. Last though not least, we
get pacific settlement, for the time being, oil
Tie Mcsilla boundary dispute In fact, all
cur troubles with our Mexican neighbors are
adjusted upon this basis ofdfteen millions for
the relief Of Santa Anna, and five millions for
The satisfaction OF the spectators concerned.
What will the Senate do b? Santa Anna is
waiting for his money only to establish himself
ia an Empire We shall. with the ratification
Of tie treaty. become the chief agent Ia the
erection Of despotc dynasty upon the ruins Of
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