The New York herald., 1870-06-20

indeed, by all accounts an impartial jury would find
extreme difficulty In coming to q verdict. The tes-
timony is said to be wonderfully connicting and
contradictory, botherlng the worthy Senators In a
most painful manneS az well as the newspaper men,
who differ as widely on this subject as national
legislators do on the question OF what
Is the real SIMON Pure infallIble panacea
for financial ills. The Perryites and Babcockers
are wide the poles asunder regarding the facts
in the case. Perry swears white, while BabcocR
and his friends swear black. Perry swears Babcock
told him he had large interests In common WIN
Cazeneau and Fabens In the success Of the treaty.
Babcock swears he never said anything of the kind
Perry says Babcock told him several times not TO
lntercede for the release oil Hatch. BAD
cock places his hand on his heart ana
declares no such words ever Issued from MS
military lips Perry says senator Howard ,ae5u .paeu
negotiations TO Secretary Fish. On The other hand
Howard says he has no recollection that he said tue
things charged by the ex-Consul. But the main
pOint-was Hatch kept In prison on account OF sup
posed hostility to the treary-appeals to be esaD.
shed airmativey IN spite s OF all the curious da". aa
TIERS Official despatch proves 1t, ana le,-
ters from Cazeneau and others to Babcock
corroborate Mr.. Perry's testimony on the point.
But 1t does not seem certain that General Babcock
after all Is responsible for the Hatch lmprsonment
ougn does see IN o Ga % soecay no cE When
he found 1t quite compatible with ms position 10 IN
tercede for the freedom OF an American sailor
But however this may be, believe IL Is mol as
puted that majority OF the committee VIII agree 10
acquit Babcock OF any Improper conduct ether M
the connection with the Hatch matter the treaty
negotiations II is known that the com
mittee is composed Of four annexationsts
and three anli-annexatonists, so that IN
he said to have been fixed from the start. But what
Will be the nature Of the majority report on the
Hatch petition pure ana sp is mos so fo
been sustained throughout the whole of this invest
gatlon, and that fact may go long way TO insure
hlm a favorable report.
some dirt has undoubtedly been spattered over
Perry'S character by the Babcockers, put In the
main he seems TO be a pretty good. well meaning
man. The charges against him as an army oI1cer
and consul appear TO have been answered IN ms
favor He has testimonials from sheridan. McClel-
Ian and even Grant himself. But, on the Otber
hand some Of his statements are curious and con-
tradicted by men OF high character ike Howard,
BabcocS, sackett and ingalls, Unaer such clrcui @
the whole Is spread before hlrnY
THE CABINET MAKERS
keep up their rumOrs OF more impending changes
Notwithstanding the fact that President Grant de-
nies thai he cOntemplates any swapping OF minis
teral horses just now. The other day he remarked,
when he read all the newspaper paragraphs about
his intention to reconstruct his CABINET entirely,
that these newspaper correspondents were 80 inge-
nious that they actually knew more about The
thoughts revolving his own mind than he did HIM
SELF lie declares that he mas no intention 10 change
his Cabinet at all.
Now it is little curious how this story OF Cabi-
net reconstruction originated. Several Senators and
Representatives declare that the President dld very
plainly indicate resolution to accept the resgna-
lions OF some Of his constitutional advisers, and one
Senator Is responsible for the declaration that the
PRESIDENT actually told him the SENATOR that he was
tired OF having men around him not IN harmony
with the views OF majority OF the republican party.
There Is evidently very considerable NIB somewhere
in the business, Whowill decidei
AS to Fish departing Official life, 1t Is not patent
why or wherefore. HIS policy is the very one that
has Just triumphed, although the most popular ee,
nents and al Capta1.dum dodges were arrayed
against i'll mean the Presidential Cuban policy.
There Is not doubt that the Dor poDuH goes Tor
Banks and his report and there is just little doubt
that the day before the Presidents message was sent
to Congress very handsome majority was ready 10
vote for the Banks resolutions In the House OF Rep
resentatives. But the message made sudden and
decided change When the vote occurred Banks found
many of his Old friends who cheered him at the start
were no longer with but against MN. Inc adnllll-
Icy received respectable legislative endorsement.
Such being the case, why should Fish go out? Why
should the President desire his Premier to walk the
plank? Clearly there is no reason. Whatever eX-
cuse or Justification there might have been months
ago, before the action OF the House, for an antlFish
crusade it certainly no longer exists
Mr.. Fish has had o bitter war waged against him,
and through 1t all has maintained quiet dignity
and reserve that reflect great credit upon him.
Oftentmes he has been abused for things for which
he was no more TO blame than your correspondent.
He had to bear the results OF the blunders
of the Cuban Junta and also the bitter reprOaches
Of thOughtless people for simply dong his duty In
enforcing the neutrality laws. He pointed out long
ago to the Cubans the true policy Tor them TO pur-
sue If they wished success and desired to avoid CON-
pllcaOns with our government. He told them how
they might ship arms and send away men from our
shores Without organizing them as regular hostile
expeditions, and that he would not then be obliged
to interfere. But the Junta IN Its foolish wisdom,
assumed TO know better. and now to cover up their
stupidity and laundering, turn all their hostility
against Mr.. Secretary Fish,
Perhaps 1t is not yet too late to profit by the eX-
perence OF their past policy. VIII they do itS