The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-06

THE GADsDEN TaEATY-WoRsE AND WORSE
1t has been reported, for some days past, that
the correspondence connected with the concoc-
ton Of the Gadsden treaty, on being laid be-
fore the Senate, disclosed such an extensive and
complicated conspiracy tc plumber the treasu-
ry, that the Senate, from sense of shame and
self-respect, refused to allow the correspon-
dence to be printed, for fear that through some
mysterious agency or other, it might find it's
way into the newspapers In addition to this,
the ST. Louis Democrat says -
We hear rumor from Washington that the instruc.
tions called for BY the Senate obtained under an
Injunction of secresy and that the Senate refused to
print them for the Of its members or to allow ex
tracts to be taken from them. What kind of instruc.
lions were these which require much secrecy It is
rumored moreover that the instructions authorized the
purchase Of three lines of railroad all outside of the
United States and propose to give fifty millions for one
thirty five millions for another and fifteen millions and
nve millions to the Garay underers for the third The
Instructions authorize all this money to-be paid for
railroad track, which it is deemed unconstitutional for
Congress to make.
Yet Notwithstanding all this, according to
all our advices from Washington, the lobby
count upon the ratification of this Gadsdcn
treaty; and not without good show of success.
1t is the great question among the outside le-
gislators and diplomats at Washington Just
now. The Nebraska bill is considered dead,
and the correspondence upon the Cutting and
Breckenridge imbroglio may thus be read rs
the epitaph of the Nebraska bill, SO that that
bone Of contention is substantially, for the in
term, out of the way. But in point of fact,
The Gadsden treaty among the lobby members
lxva va haan nf :ncr 81 Il:
Importance than the Nebraska bill. Upon the
bitter measure there are only few little
torthless Territorial offices depending, while
be Gadsden treaty involves the magnificent sum
twenty millions of dollars hard cash. Some
lie millions of this amount is to be set aside for
lother schedule of Gardner claims, to be adj
sted before another board of commissioners
ost likely like the Gardner board; five millions
rhaps, are to go to the relief of the lobby
ents others, to brokers of Santa Anna in
sshington and in Mexico while ten millions
to be used in putting down Gen. Alvarez,
!. Walker, and the Mexican people, and in
ting an emperor, under the protection of the
owned heads Of Europe, over Mexico and
(tral America and that emperor, the I'M
apulous and ambitious Santa Anna.
orrupt as this treaty is, yet, under the
rsure of the lobby, or under mistaken no
ts of public policy, it is possible that it may
htifed-yes, it is possible that this grand
hof twenty millions may be confirmed, un-
d'he delusive and preposterous idea of fix
irhe landmarks of a lasting peace and friend
sfwith Santa Anna. But though the Senate
mratify this monstrous abortion-this naked
aiabominable iniquty-though the country
mbe kept awhile in the dark as to the Of
ht log-rolling and stook,jobbing in
tllthing for the pubic plumber, it has
veto pass through the crucible by
tlHousc of Representatives. The House
mi appropriate before the money can
detained. The three millions, cash down,
rered by Santa Anna on the ratification,
wilord the proper occasion for demanding