The New York herald., 1870-04-26
Additional Subsidy for the California and
China Steamship Line.
THE SENATE ARMY REDUCTION BILL.
The Funding Bill---BoutweIl Sus.
tained by the Senate.
The National Bank Influence in
the House.


The Funding Bill-Secretury Boutwell, sus-
tained by the Senate-Tho Bank Influence
Developing Itself. tai
ine Ways and Means Committee held two hours
sessfonSon the Funding bill to-day, and much anxiety
wes manifested among members and others TO ascer-
eain the conclusion which the committee had
reached. As the members came out or the commit
tee room they were bcseged by parties who inquired
eagerly what had been done. In reply they merely
placed their fingers upon their lips indcate that
they had nothing to say. kilograms came pouring
In through the day from bankers in New York to
know the result OF the deliberations OF the committee
It was finally ascertained that while the committee
had not taken formal vote on any measure before
them they had discarded the Senate bill and mapped
out one OF their own The details OF this
measure could not be learned but in
ageneral way the members OF the committee state
that 1t s favorable to the national banks and that
the recommendations Of the Secretary OF the Trca-
sury with regard 10 the payment OF interest abroad
are disregarded. TIE Senate proposition on this
point win be sustained at the meeting OF the COM
mittee tomorrow 1t is understood that formal
vote will be taken on the bin proposed by General
Schenck The general impression seems to be that
no measure for the funding Of the debt can
oe matured that will command the support OF
the two Houses What will please the House win
The strength Of the national bank interest is begin
ming to develop ITSELF especially in the House. Mem.
bers from the West boast that measure can 90
through that Is inimical to the banks The same is
also true Of the Southern members. The indications
are that the Senate will In the main sustain the
secretary OF the Treasury while the House will stand
by the banks. The Ways and Means Committee will
report their bill this week.
Rcduction Of the Army-Locau,, BilI Dtscxr rded
by the Senate.
Tne senate Committee on Military Affairs today
completed their abors the question OF the reduc
ton OF the army, and determined TO discard the
House bill and report substantially that presented by
Senator Wilson in March last The committee have
made few changes, making the date OF reduction
january instead OF September extending the time of
applications for honorable discharge to October
instead OF September The filing Of the heads OF
"sn departments Is nxed to officers having the rank
and pay Of colonel instead Of a colonel OF cavalry
the pay of colonel shall not exceed 81 oo0 instead
Of 500, and the pay Of lieutenant colonel &s 5oo
instead OF $4,000. The present pay OF the army will
be continued until June 1, 1871, and enlisted men
shall not be employed servants. The bill will pro-
bably be reported tomorrow
Novel Rulings by the Speal<er-Dilemma Of
MIR. Blaine.
Mr.. Blaine, OF Maine, Is making for himself first
class reputation as Speaker. His method OF making
decisions and OF keeping order is something which
neither Banks, the king OF parliamentarans nor Col
tax, the smiling master OF the JefYersonian Manual
could boast OF. Mr.. Blaine has facile and varied
method which Is greatly assisted by non retentive
memory. He can within i've minutes give two de-
cisons on the point, and each as Numerically
opposite as possible. With the most remarkable
GOODNESS he can decide "Yea" for Dawes, or schenck,
or any other prominent republican, and .'.Nayr for
woodward. or Cox, or Eldridge, or any other demo-
crat He can pound his gave with an energy that
makes more rumpus than half dozen Congress
men gabbling together, but no order comes, no
silence is restored. He can make twenty times in
twenty minutes that awful threat OF "calling the
honorable gentlemen by namen unless they take
their seats; but the honorable gentlemen heed
not the impending calamity, and 90 on with their
walking and standing about the aisles as il the
Speaker had never uttered the dire cognomenical
menace. The fact is Mr. Speaker Blaine is not prov.
Ing himself the great man he was thought to be- He
does not come up to the scratch any of means
He has not displayed the genius in the chair which
his admirers fondy anticipated and never did he
show the fact more lamentably than to-day, during
the hauling over the Goals OF members absent from
the House on Friday evening last. A batch OF
these absentees theoretically In the custody Of the
dreadful Sergeant-at-Ar were called upon to give
their excuses and the House got into of its Gus
tomary muddes since Blaines advent to the Speakers
chair, and Blaine made things decidedly worse by
his conflicting decisions, irresoutc manner and spas
mOdic ffts Of daring and inconsistency. One minute
he ruled one way and the next moment ruled pre-
cisely the opposite. Whenever Dawes or Schenck
asked permission to speak he was always in order
though Others talking precisely much ont OF rule
Or within rule, were sienced by the impartial
Speaker. Nearly two hours were wasted by the most
impertinent gassing and buncombe, having about as
much relation to the subject under discussion as the
moon has to green cheese If Mr.. Blaine keeps on in
this style his chances OF reelection Will be very bril-
liant by the end OF the present Congress-
The California and China Mail Service.
Postmaster General Creswell has addressed a
letter to Senator Pamsey, chairman Of the Post Once
Committee He says that in his annual report OF
last year he called the attention Of Congress to the
question OF providing for an increase of service on
the mail steamship route from San Francisco to
Japan and China on such terms as under the cir
cumstances would be just to the contractors and the
government He was then satisfied the period had
arrived for establishing ct least q semi-monthly
steam communication with those countries In con-
junction with the greatly increased facilities Of
transportation across our Continent Afforded by the
completion OF the Pacific Railroad, II we
postal advantages, which the establishment OF this
service was Intended to secure to the government
and people of the United States. The valuable re.
suits which have thus far attended the establishment
Of this line OF American steamers and the great i'm.
portance to country Of preserving and extending
sue commercial advantages already gained, together
with the well grounded apprehension that these ad-
vAntages may be lost by failure to make the neces-
sary provisions for the proper maintenance OF the
service, are the reasons which induce him in the
present instance TO depart from the rule he has
adopted for his guidance in all matters Of application
TO Congress for subsidies In aid OF steamship enter
prscs, and to present the special reasons why this
great national enterprise should be sustained nv ad-
ditional governmental aid. This he does at some
length, showing, among other things, the large in
crease Of the trade with Japan and China since the
service was established, saying in conclusion:-
Unless the service is increased s abandonment mus.
oe considered ~ certain In case OF foreign Competition
xhich mua be regarded - being IN itself certainty, pro-
ytdet any Ii left for H. This would be . national mis-.
fortune greatly 70 bs deplced which, indeed would only