The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-06-22

Congrcss-Tho Frankius Privilege, Whitte-
more's Case and the AdmInIstrnsion's
Economy.
The Post Office Appropriation bill was
finally passed in the Senate yesterday, with
out the amendment abolishing the frankng
privilege. This kills the bill for the present
session at least, as there is now too little time
to bring up the House bill anew, especially in
Senate where the proposition is obnoxious
There was every appearance, up to the last
moment Of an honest desire to secure The
greatly needed reform, and the vote rejecting
it was only 2S to 90; but The. ways of the
Senate are deep and mysterious, and
there is no certainty that the final
vote was not fixed matter from the
first. As it stands now the Senate
must bear the full odium Of deliberately
defeating measure which would have made
our Post Office system source ofrevenue, or, at
least, saved us many hundred thousands OF
dollars, merely because 1t reduced the minor
perquisites of Senators. The Diplomatic
Appropriation bill was taken up and amended
by raising the position of our Minister in
Japan to a first class mission aud then laid
aside. The Naval Appropriation bill was also
discussed and amended by revising the entire
pay roll, which will send it back to the House
and probably cause long discussion at the
closing hours. 1t was also laid aside and the
adjournment.
The House passed great part of the day in
excluding Whittemore. Mr.. Logan opened on
him, first, with a resolution to return his Gre
dentials to him and declare him unfit TO be
sworn in as representative, having committed
an Infamous crime in selling his cadetship.
A discussion of greater length than the case
called for, and of more dignity than was
expected, ensued, but on the vote being taken
Mr.. Logan's resolution was accepted by vote
Of 13l to "a. Whlttemore, who had been
impudently seated in the rear Of the hall.
thereupon took his leave, somewhat disap-
pointed, but not in the least abashed. On the
contrary he proposes to publish card to
show that some of the prominent members of
the House urged him to run for another cleo
tion and that he was promised readmission il
he was elected. The statement will no doubt
be taken for what it is worth, especially when
it is remembered that he claimed in his
speeches that Logan himself was anxious for
him to return. Whittemore's leading charac-
teristic is impudence but when he tried to
bully the House as he bullied his ignorant
constituency into being as shameless as him
SELF he reached an extreme that even his as
surance was unequal to, and put an insult
upon the representatives Of honest constitu-
encies which they should resent by having
the full penalty of his crime meted out to him
by criminal court.
After Whittemore the House took up the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, the last of
the series. Mr.. Dawes in reporting it took
occasion to review the work Of the Committee
on Appropriations and to compare the esti-
mates with those Of last year made under
Andy Johnson's administration. It will be
remembered that he strongly assaled the pre-
sent administration early in the session for the
extravaganza of its estimates as originally
presented to him. Now he states that the
estimates have been reduced by the correction
of numerous errors until they show reduc-
ton of more than eight millions Of dollars in
favor of Grants administration over Johnson's.
Mr. Dawes showed himself true friend to his
party in fearlessy disclosing its shortcomings,
and other jealous partisans condemned him
for his course. In correcting those shortcom-
ings he proves that the present administration
is able to stand the criticism even of its friends
so far as economy is concerned, and to cure its
own defects. The bill under discussion appro-
PIRATES FIVE hundred thousand dollars for the
new Post Office in New York.