The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-13
week And even on Sunday they commit more
sin in secret than the poor topers of the dram


Tat With more care keep hoy day t'-i
The wrcnp than others the right way; iatf
compound for sins they ucincd Co.
by canning those they have no mind to-
Strange, that while in England the people are
shaking off the intolerable yoke which the tribe
OF modern saints" headed by Sir Andrew
Agnew, would fasten on them for ever, and re-
Gently even the government of shat country,
with standing army at its back, were unable
TO stop the bands OF music aud the assemblage of
mulltudcs in the parks of London on Sunday,
attempts are made here in the metropolis Of the
United States to revive the worn out aud ex-
ploded follies Of the past!
Cuba In the Senate-One Hundred Per Cent
Discriminating Duties Against Us on Flour,
Butter, Cheese and Meats.
The great Importance of the Cuba debate 10
the whole country induces us to give space to-
day to the speeches of Senator Foot, Of Vermont,
against the bill, and Of Senator Pugh, of Ohio,
in favor of it.
Mr.. Foot presented what he was pleased TO
call "a slight amendment" but which, if ad-
mitted in the bill, will have the effect of nullf-
ing it, for all practical purposes, ia the haads of
the President He supported his slight amend
ment by the old argument of Seward, that i!
proposes to take thirty millions of dollars out Of
an exhausted treasury and then, following
Seward strictly, be turned round and attempted
to prove that Spain would not sell Cuba, and
therefore the money could never be taken out of
the treasury. He was evidently careful not to
oppose the acquisition of Cuba, bearing in mind
Sew ards axiom that it gravitates to the Union,
and IIales confession that the question Of its ac
| QUESTION is already demoralizing the republican
party. Mr. Foot does not wish either that the
| proposition now before Congress shall be dis
cussed as if it were to obtain practical decision
| on the question, do We want Cuba? He thinks
| it ought to be looked at merely as a question
| whether the President should be trusted with
| sum of money to be paid before Mr. Foot and
Mr.. Seward have had chance to defeat the ac-
QUESTION of Cuba by treaty, if possible His
speech is q very cautious one, and evidently
shows that he is opposed to the acquisition Of
Cuba, but dare not say so.
The insidious attempt of Mr.. Foot to defeat
the practical virtue Of the bill, in case it should
pass, was met by Mr.. Pugh of Ohio, who pro-
posed a substitute for Mr.. Foot's amendment,
which met all his argument, and limited the
payment Of the thirty millions to its expenditure
on account of a treaty which shall not require in
all more than one hundred and fifty millions.
| This limits our offer for the island to that sum.
Mr.. PugA supported the acquisition Of Cuba i'll
an eloquent speech, discussing the question in
its political aud industrial bearings with marked
| ability. He demonstrated that our trade with
that island was how cramped by an ingeniously
! devised tarif which establishes discriminatve
| duty on American products Of from thirty -threc
| to one hundred per cent against us, notwith-
| standing our treaties with Spain to the con-
trary. He then took up consecutveiy the eide
arguments of the opposition Senator's, and
conclusively demonstrated their fallacy His
speech is worthy of perusal by every man
| who wishes to see the natural commerce of this
country freed from the barriers that now repress
! it, an immense and permanent market opened
for our agricultural and manufacturing products,
and new stimulus given to the industrial
mind of the country.
! This Cuban debate in the Senate has an inte-
rest for the public mind that reaches far deeper
than any question that has ever before been pre-
appreciate the question of opening market at
our very doors that would take million barrels
Of -four yearly, and now takes none; manufac-
turers have but one choice Oh the question Of
opening market for five millions worth Of
printed calicoes, or Of keeping it closed to them,
as it now is; and the darymen of New York and
Connecticut comprehend perfectly the difference
between question of discriminating tariff Of
fifty per cent against them, and in favor of Dutch
butter and cheese, and one Of no duties at all ou
the productions of their dairies The question of
the acquisition of Cuba comes home to the daily
labors of every farmhouse and workshop in the
land, with an assurance Of palpabe hard money
profit if the island is acquired; and the labors of
the Senate on the subject have to them far
higher interest than all the distractions in the
world on free labor, squatter sovereignty and
such nonsense.
TIE OFFENCES OF New YORK HARBoR-Es
TMATEs FOR MILITARY PuRposEs.-We publish
in another column an interesting communication
touching the defeuces of this harbor and the forts
recommended by General Totten to be construct
ed at different points in this vicinity. Though
there is no immediate prospect ofwar at the pre-
sent time, yet it is always well to be prepared
for an emergency, and it is the opinion Of emf
nent military engineers that New York is not as
well defended as it should be, either in the har-
Dor or on the Long Island shore. The estimates
for ls59-60 of appropriations for military pur-
poses have been made up, and we sec that they
provide for the expenditure of over quarter Of
a million upon the forts in the neighborhood of
this city. The total estimate for military pur-
poses is over eighteen Millions divided as fol-
lows -