The New York herald., 1870-06-04
Another Heated Debate In the House
Over the Tax Bill.
The Proposition to Repeal the In
come Tax Defeated.
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General Butler ON the
Rampage.
JEWISH NASSAcRES IN ROUMANlA.
Facts Concerning the ST. Domingo
Land Jobs.

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Another Effort to Amend the
5. Tariff Laws.
WASHINGTON, June q, 1870.
The Sc. Domingo Lnnd Jobs-General Bnb-
- cock ExcuIpated.
lnasmuch as the publication Of my despatch rea-
tive to supposed scheming to obtain large conces-
slons Of land from the Dominican government by
certain parties, among whom were mentioned Gene
raj Babcock one Of the Presidents secretaries, and
Messrs. Cazeneau, Schumacher and Fabens of st.
Domingo, has led to very widespread comment
aud given the impression In some quarters that 1t
was intended as an attack on the pending treaty,
deem 1t proper to make brief explanation. In
the first place the sole object OF the publication In
addition to that Of furnishing facts your readers
was to bring before the attention OF the President
and Senate the statements which / had recei vedt
concerning the supposed schemes, in order. should
1t turn out that they were reliable entitled to ex
animation, that an appropriate investigation might
beset on foot before it would be too late to correct
the evil. In the second place, l considered the
source from which the Information emanated as
trustworthy, backed up, as the statements were In
the main, by Official correspondence, which was
allowed to read and examine, and which had no
good reason TO dscredt SO much, then, for my
motives. and now as totne other points. General
Babcocks name having been mixed up with
the affair, and the charges being Of so
grave character, l took occasion to cali
upon President Grant, with q view to ascer-
tain whether any solid foundation existed
therefor and feel pleasure In being able to state
shat the result has been to remove the suspicion
that he (Babcock) has been guilty of any act, in his
otrttl, ottatn
nexation Of st. Domingo, Of which he has cause to
be ashamed. President Grant has implicit conf.
dence IN the honor and integrity Of General Babcock
and believes that q careful investigation of the
charges and OF the material upon which they are
based Will demonstrate that there has been nothing
In his conduct In this matter which should
justly expose him to adverse criticism. It would
appear, from the Presidents frank statement that
General Babcock sent no letters to st. Domingo
which were not seen by the President himself. The
letter OF General Babcock which has been represent
ed as containing private request that Baez should
send Mr.. 'Fabens here as special commissioner, can
be briefly and satisfactorily explained. The letter
In question was not addressed to President Baez at
AL, but to Mr.. Fabens himself. General Babc0ck
enclosed to Mr.. Fabens number Of extracts from
different American newspapers, rejecting upon Mr..
Fabens and accusing him OF being concerned In c6r-
tain Jobs and schemes in st. Domingo THIS
seems to be the whole foundation for the serious
charge that General Babcock himself was in
tcrested in such schemes and jobbery. The
President states that there is nothing in any Of the
letters OF General Babcock excepting some refe-
rences TO family AFFAIRS that the whole world might
not read without dscredlt to their author.
Now as to the charges against Cazeneau, Schu.
maker and Fabens or course they are something
over which the President has no control and with
do not feel justified with the Information i'll nv pos
session in Withdrawing single line, still feel it In
cunbent upon me TO state that, whether true or
false whether trumped up to injure the treaty
OF not, they ought not and do not
affect the value OF the annexation pro-
ject one iota. As President Grant himself
stated In conversation to-day, under the provisions
OF the treaty grants or rights can be ceded away,
and IT, after the Senate shall have ratified the treaty,
OF which there now seems to he a fair prospect any
such grants or concessions made since the signing
OF the convention, on The Goth OF November, snail
be discovered, they will be treated as null and void
by the United States government. No respect
whatever Will be paid to grants cashng with the
provisions of the treaty, so that schcming grantees
will find themselves in no way benefited by their
plottings. An examination Of the express terms
Of the treaty Will demonstrate to all impartial
rights OF the United States government in this re-
spect Is the only sound that can be maintained
Therefore, supposing 1t even to be true that Baez
his Ministers have made large secret concessions
to private spectators since the execution Of the
vention last November it cannot In all fairness be
used as sound argument against the ratification Of
the treaty. 1t ought not to affect the vote Of single
Senator.
A New Excitement in the House-Generai
Butler on the Rampage.
General Butler, who has not troubled the House
much Of late, was heard from to day on the propo-
siton OF Mr.. Beck, OF Kentucky, to tax the United
States bonds by whomsoever held the tax to be col
lected at the Treasury when the interest is being
paid. Butler has all along stood with the democracy
on this question: and to-day he led that side Of the
House, with few struggling republicans from the
back townships. up against the ramparts Of the
.'bloated bondholders" or, as Butler has more re-
Gently christened them, the 'rascal bondholders.n
Had it not been for the stubborn resistance OF such
bulldog fighters as Schenck there is no telling what
mischief the Essex statesman would have wrought
among the 'rascas.n AS 1t was, there was great
trembling in the camp, and while Butler was charg
ing right and left one could almost see govern
ments'' going down like the mercury OF thermoae-
ter during hail storm In midsummer. Small fry
like Sir Giles Overreach otchklss, OF New York. and
Benton, Of New Hampshire, cried repndiation at
Butler, but that giant did not even degn to notice
them with "Shoo fly don't bodder me-" lie kept
right on after the 'rascas' all the time, shifting
them hip and thigh, defying the Jews Of Amsterdam
and Frankfort and swapping his fingers In the face Of
the Shylocks Of Wall street. The democracy took
new courage but they shrewdly allowed Butler to do
Bill the talking and to put in all the sledge hammer
blows single handed and alone. They, no doubt,
considered that he was more than match for the
''rascal bondh0lders" Schcnck said Buffers speech
was all ''clap-tap," intended only for the
'stump'' to make sensation. Butter said he