The New York herald., 1870-03-15

| ner, "Wnat message snail lake from you 10 Inc
| people OF New Hampshireg'
"You may tell them,n said Grant, with the great
est cooness 'tkat the expenses of the admlnlsra-
tion viii be on the descending, not the ascending
acae.u
Dawes could not fail, or course, TO recognize Ills
own words, differently put, and Is said to have been
| somewhat taken aback. The President undoubtedly
meant to cut HIM, whether he understood 1t or not
! When Dawes returned from New Hampshire in de-
ndng himself against the attacks OF the democrats
! for the Inconsistency between his course in the
| House and his speeches in New Hampshire
| he shifted the blame Of the estimates
| from the Secretary OF the Treasury to
what he termed the heads OF bureaus IN the Trea-
sury Department He asserted that he had called
| upon these gentlemen, time alter nme TO get them
TO reduce their estimates, and all to no purpose. A
prominent republican member OF the House, who
has been giving good deal Of attention to the sub
ject, says he don't believe Dawes knows what he il
taSing ABOUT when he refers to heads Of
bureaus OF the Treasury. There is nothing
| In the statutes recognizing any bureaus in the
| Treasury except the Bureau Of Internal Revenue
and the Currency Bureau. .If," said this gentle
man, 'he means BY heads of bureaus the FIRST and
Second CompToers and the First, Second, Third,
Fourth Fiirn aud Sixth Auditors and General Spin
ner. the Treasurer OF the United States can certify
that he has never called upon one Of these gentle
men; that lie has never asked them or either OF
them TO reduce their estimates; that the estimates
as made out By them were Dotschanged by the Com
mitee on Appropriations and that they passed the
House in the Legislative Appropriation bill just as
they were originally made out by these so-called
heads OF bureausn
The Report Of the Committee ON the Sale of
Observation-Disclosures, of Tennessee, TO be
Censured.
The session OF the House Committee on Military
Affairs to-day was devoted TO the consideration or
the report which will be made to the House on the
cadet sale investigation. The Investigation is vir
tually closed, only one witness IN the OF Judge
ChurchilI remaining to be examined, anu he is not
deemed important. No new cases are reported
ana tie committee is anxious to get the
matter closed up, so that they may be
discharged from the further consideration OF 1t. 1t
appears that quite discussion took place In COM
Initee TO what should be done in the case or r.
II. Butler, OF Tennessee The majority thought
resolution OF censure would be sufficient While some
members of the committee favored resolution ex.
peliing Butter from the House. 1t was finally de-
cided, however TO report resolution OF censure.
The report in al! the cases investigated by the
committee and not hitherto reported viii be pre-
sented TO the House on "Wednesday, together with all
the evidence taken. The action OF the House, 1t is
SAID, VIII not be required IN any case except that
Butler. All the others IL Is understood VIII pe eX-
cuipaled fhere Is some talk Of minority report
III the cases OF Butler and one or two Others
but that has not yet been determined upon.
Decttne Oh American COmmerce--S ul,sidies
Required for American Bmiit Iron Ships.
delegation OF iron snip builders had a hearing
To-day before The select committee the causes OF
the reduction OF American tonnage. The following
iron shipbuiidnE firms were Morgan
M (ront a. W.,
Sons, OF Philadelphia; Pennsylvania Iron Works, of
Chester, Pa, and Harlan, HoIllngswortl & Co., of
Wilmington, Del The delegates asked the commit
tee to amend their bill so to have a rebate and
drawback On iron and steel plates, bars, bolts
beams and forgings, used III snipbuilding
lney urged that the proviso limiting the
amount OF drawback be stricken out aud requested
that the amount vr subsidy on iron steamships
may be fixed at So 50 per ton. The committee
agreed to make the amendments proposed and to
make the suesuy two dollars per ton to iron SHIPS
They have also agreed the operation Of the
act to ten yeats from the 1st or July next. The
members OF the delegation urged the immediate
passage OF the b ana stated that II it passed there
would DC immediate activity on lhe part
OF sbtpbuilders and capitalists to place iron
ships on the ocean. They did not doubt that
six months after the bill became law there would
be sixteen iron vessels Of 5000 tons each anoat
Immed late action they said, was necessary as all
the shipbuding inter ests OF the country were at
staldstill and at least thousand mechanics now
out OF employment would be at once put to work
The delegation also had conference with the Pres
dent to-day. It is SAID that he win send to Congress
tomorrow his message relative to the decline OF
American commerce and the means OF revivlng it,
and that he will take strong ground in favor OF the
bill reported by Mr.. Lynch.
Dissatisfaction with Logan,s Army Bill-yts
Injustice to Veteran Ofirers-Ipinrions Ef-
fccts the Personnel Of the Army.
The fact that Logan does not give his speech ON
the Army bill to the printer for publication eXcIies
considerable suspicion here and has very bad
effect public sentiment. IL IL sad to have con-
tanned 80 many grave errors that he means to have
it thoroughly revised ana corrected before giving it
to the people. The more closely this sweeping bill
is examined the more garing do its dangerous fea-
lures appear according TO leading army officers. &
is said that 1t will save to the people only u few
thousand dollars after all. while tbe injustice t
viii do to many OF the brayest and most patriotic
officers or the army cannot be estimated by dollars
and cents. 1t is thought that the bill strikes at and
aims TO degrade such officers as sherman, Sheridan
Thomas Hancock, Meade, Park, Humphreys
Barnes, the Surgeon General; Shlres, OF the Com
missary Department, and Dyer, OF the Ordnance
and as eTectualy destroys what glory they gained
for the military power OF the country during the
war as the rebels could have cone rad they been
victorious. II is urged that the only officers TO be
benefited by this sweeping Dill are the young, mex
perienced striplings, who gained positions in the
army after the war ended either through favor
itsm or the influence OF members OF Congress many
OF them being relatives Many members OF the House
say they allowed this bill 10 pass merely to save
time, and with q firm belief that it would
Ia VIII fruo A.vht
against IL would have To be made. 1t looks very
much, however, as II Messrs. Logan, Butler and
Negley, the originators OF the b were resolved on
reducing the social and intellectual status Of the
army to the same standard as that by which the
people estimate Congress itself at the present time
An Unieunded Rumor Quieted-I.ctting Of Cali.
fornin and Now Mexico Mail Routes.
story was put in circulation some days ago BY
Interested parties to the effect tnar some irrepu-
iarites had been discovered the contract branch
OF the Post ONCE Department, and would be the
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