, 1870-07-04
WASHINGTON.
The Babcock-Baez Buying.
Protocol Extraordinary.
The Presidents Private Influence
Pledged
@sM1a1n's- the Word.
The Conspiracy against Davis Hateh--OniItge
on = Citizen.

The Conspiracy against Davis Hateh--0nirssr
on = Citizen.
IPR0a OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
WAsHIsGToxt June q.
TIE chief piece Of political news here ia the
publication Of the Ferry-Schu1z-yickers or Mi
nority report upon the Presidents San Do
1ningo labor.
TIE MAJORITY REPORT
of Nye Co. is considered to be foregone
piece of whitewashlng, aud the test Of this ia
that it contains no news. Bombastic and
noisy assertion, expensive and extrayagant
eulogy, miscellaneous puffory of people too
high to need putting except when in the wrong;
this IS the majority report. It might as we'll
have been written through all its numerous
pages:
Great Is Diana OF the Ephesansl
Great IS Diana Of the Ephcsians!
This report is one OF tho class that yilifles
pure and fearless legislation, and that is mere-
" the argument OF the lawyers OF Appius
Claudius in support Of their masters right
aud, so long al politics is politics, ind syco-
phancy is sycophancy, We shall have acres OF
such reports, that nobody will read after their
little day, and no historian will waste time
consulting them. Senator Nye, who took the
ground III the Howard Fremont discussion
that he would hayo no Frenchmans affidavit
to do injury to the story Of an American citi-
zen, seems to care nothing in the present mat
terabout the American citizen Hatch, and he ea-
tolls young Dabcock as some Of tho court poets
OF two hundred years ago e1tolled tho bloody
Stuarts. This report Is signed by Howard, Of
Michigan, an old man Of obstinate devotion to
special privileges, anu Of 6uch furious preju-
dies, out Of 1abid dislikes; by Warner, Of
alabama, who has q deficiency Of back bone
in backbone times, End no desire for martyr
dom; md by Williams, Of Oregon, IN able
man, fond Of office, and Mt present in need OF
it.
THE MINORITY REPORT.
Tho minority report is signed BY Carl
Schurz. A mnn Of such youth as might bo
supposed to be consonant with dreams or ter
ritoTial aggrandizonent, and whose history in
Germany made the highest model Of an ardont
republican patriot. 4 General, m orator, a
student, and man OF affairs generally,
Schurz has made up Ills mind that tho new
world Rhou1l redress tho ill ii has, rather than
fly to others that 1t knows not OF. Ferry, Of
Connecticut, was also aGenernl and > comrale
of the President in the WAT. Ho il by no
means negative man, Qucrulous man, or
that We are in no state to bo adding Territories
to tho Union when Wo are refusing reatl1niesion
to such States al Georgia. ono Of the original
thirteen colonies. Ferry's is mind adverse
to injustice, to causeless paro1ysms Of o1-
ecutiyo blnnder, and to that sort OF
administration which is three parts peH
and one mart haruun-skaruu1. ard which goes
On Wild goose chase, like a Spanish nay1ca~
tor, to pick up worthless island, willis The
whole frame Of things at homo is getting out
concur1ed in the majority tcport, is ono Of the
Oldest men in the Senate He Is an original
Methodist, a highly conscientious person. and
the leading LAWYER on the fuAintrr iaotated
eastern shore OF MARYLAND: Al the honors he
has attn,ned have been the result Of neighbor-
ly virtues and responsibility, and he has never
solicited an Office in 1,ia Life. During tho trial
Of Andrew johnson, when the Democracy OF
M.T1,ri a1nnoao5 +h,t ,nv ,,rataIt 1so-,X -
t.isJ .a"s 10y tie.oAt "o1su 70
LOT MS SEM ano LIE Vote, tAey haslly took mp
George Vickers aa the only man within their
t. uono souid obiect Soe for he IT, baen AN o
Wlig, and in tho first years OF the war lo was
State General Of Union militia
l. These thteo men-schurz, Ferry, and Yick-
ers-have brought MACS Of now and 1emaskA-
ble matter to bear upon the San Domingo pur-
is the now celebrated protocol, signed by Or
vile E. Dabcock, on behalf of President Grant.
and by Manuel Ma1ia Gautier, State Secretary
and Chief Minister OF Baez, the President Of
San Domingo.
OF all State papers which ever got up to the
Senate by misfnke, Or were sent there by q
Ecrupulous Secretary, this protocol is at onco
the most stupid and the most serious. The
pith Of the paper occurs in the Hrrt six of its
propositions. The paper itself Is writtoi3 ID
Spanish. and had to be translated for the con-
mites The 5sfs u r. marks q %
pnrt oi President Grants Daboock to Presi-
dent Baez to out-lobty Congress- and carry The
treaty through by appliances tustifable neither
at law nor in morals.
TIE PROTOCOL -
This is the first paragraph of the document
in question:
..1IIs Excellence. Ccnero1 Gram, prcattens Of the
United states. promises prtypteY a uee Iii hfs
encc In order that the ides Of the annexing Of the
Dominican Republic 70 the United States may ac-
sEg ~ ~ - w VII & ne necess e 10 3or l!s aeso-
Han 10 hit hlV IN the snhIecf min nj ,, shaii r.
certain that It is approved by majority.n
The rea.lar. wf,o cares mora to know vhetber
General Grant be- = slrewd business man thsn
whetber he be scrupnlous rnler. viii obscrva
con1mittal Of his purpSse Il, naner E;s schcMa
has boen a completo fmiuro. Ifo haa mt him.
self into iran, and yot. with ali Ts aecrst
service. he has mt hrnuCht tha Ecn,fa m r.
his IDEAS Of aunexstion, Baez ia maf;e a fooI
before his people. and the Presitiont nf tha
United States has Demonstrated before In
that be can be- p.ecipit3te to eet up Scheme.
but not cepabie to carry It ont trh;s ia thn
enallcst sida ri tl,a 1nattor-t},at wifi, ali
Babcock's running to and fro. with all tha dis
regard Of Hatchn nersncntion with ali fho
sefyitude OF aIorton. and the noieo nf Y,
Chaudler. the United States Senafa vesterf1ay
refused to take M tho treaty at
ali. contrary to its own nromisa
because tho senators wore t1iaeustci
with it, No Senator. after tic publication OF
this protocol, cared to have it understood that
perhaps he was one OF the members OF Con-
eFeBs with whom It had been privately made
popular. The Senate felt offended in its honor
that the Executive could think 80 lightly OF it
as to coerce it to do the bidding OF his Aldes-
de- Camp and their confederate LOBBYISTS. It
eecms that the bottom is out Of the whole
JOB, and that everybody has had enough Of
scandal, jesuitE, and conspiracy about an
island which we hover wanted, aud which We
had better have sunk to the bottom Of the sea
than have permitted its acquisition to be, as
now, stigma upon cur diplomacy, and an oy-
dence Of tie low STANDARD OF ecSupulousuess
in high places.
less humiliated by his persistent folly III the
matter of this island than by the crnyo fsct
that he las rtsuacitated a system OF govern
ment which has not been in vogue either in
America or England since tie time Of tho Rev.
olurion. mean the fashion OF The Executive
TO buy up portion Of the legislature oitiler by
the direct ueo of money or bT tho distribut1on
OF offices and emoluments.
Pc1laps tho President means much Iess
than this when he "promisos privately to use
ali his influence in order that the idea Of this
na1ticnlnr ANNEXATION NAV annnire sncb a DO
Tea Of no,,ulariiy with membeTa Of Conpresa
AZ yonln be necessary to ensure its nccom.
plishment.
And. again. how mucL OF tLig iufluonca wsa
reauisi9e to popuIarizs in The Senate Whit no