The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-01-31
WASHINGTON.
The Chorpenning Swindle Eff
fectually Disposed Of.
Damaging Record Of a Pennsylya-
MIA Congressman.
Radicals Stealing Democratic
Thunder.
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Congressional Welcome 60 the
Exiied Fcnians.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION SERTLED.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 80, 1871
The Chorpenning Fraud--now tho Thing
Worked.
What appears to bsnone or the most garng ffauds
ever perpetrated upon Congress was exposed to-day
n the House by Mr.. Dawes, OF Massachusetts,. 1t
has been known as he Chorpennmg claim, ana has
already been alluded TO in these dispatches. To.
wards the close OF last session Mr.. John Cessna,
member OF Congress from PENNSYLVANIA, offered
joint resolution directing the Postmaster General to
. settle the accounts OF Chorpenning, as mail
tractor, amounting altogether TO s445,00o Cessna
seems TO have managed the case Tor Chorpennng
as sort OF attorney He wrote report, which
he placed In the hands OF John hin, OF New
Jersey, member OF the Committee on
Post Onces ana Post Roads. In favor OF
the claim. Ill., supposng 1t to to be all
light, adopted It, though 1t was never reported TO
the House. IL was. however, handed TO the Post
master General, who had the impression that 1t was
House report Mr.. Earle, late First Assistant Post
master General and the law partner OF Creswel,
IVES CAorpennings attorney, J.. Is saa Ae Aada
large Nhtageht Zee, and that he took advantage Of
his former position In the Post once Department,
as well his connection with the Postmaster Gene
raj, 10 manipulate the latter. Cessna, however was
the active man In pushing the claim through Con-
gress OF course there had been good deal OF lob
Dying done In advance by Chorpenning and his
friends, and when the joint resolution came
up it passed almost without debate. 1t
was hurried over to the Senate and put
through that body in the same preclpitate
manner twas then earned up to the President
and In day 1t passed Congress and was approved
by the Executive. Several OF the members evil
IDENTITY did not understand it nor comprehend It's
INN yrha nosca bta nf tim
many instances where the government is robbed by
the inconsiderate action OF Congress. There are
numerous claims ike this which go through anu
are never discovered. Mr.. Dawes seems to have
unearthed the matter after Congress adjourned last
session. Early In The present session he had reso
luton introduced directing the Committee on Appro-
priaons TO Investigate the subject and pending the
investigation the Postmaster General was notified
not TO settle the alleged account. The investigation
proved that Chorpenning has been paid for his mail
contract two or three times, and that there was NOT
the slightest jUst ground for his present claim
Hin, OF New Jersey, whose name was mixed up with
the affair, made an explanation which showed that
his action was based entirely on what he learned
from Cessna. Cessna had not a wori TO say about
10. The House sed resolution repeating the
former resolution directing the payment OF the
claim. and through the efforts OF Mr.. Dawes the
government is saved about half milen dollars.
This case Is only equaled by the famous Galphln or
Gardiner claim, which was rushed through the dc.
partments while Tom Corwin Secretary OF the
Treasury, and which came very near being paid
Woman Suffrage Killed by the uousr.
The House Committee on The Judiciary, IN their
report against the memorial OF Victoria @. Wood
hull, asking the enactment OF q law by Congress
which Shall secure the right TO vote with
out regard 10 sex, say since the adoption OF
the fourteenth amendment to the constitution, there
Is no longer any reason TO doubt that all persons
born Daturalized in the United States subject
to the jurisdiction thereof citizens OF the United
States and OF the State wherein they reside, for
this Is the express declaration Of the amend
ment. The words, "citlzens OF the United
States and citizens OF the States,n as employed
by the fourteenth amendment do not CHI ange or
modify the relations OF citizens OF the States and
nation as they existed under the original constitu-
ton. IL is undoubtedly The right OF the people OF
the several states TO so reform their constitu-
lions and laws as to secure the equal exer-
else of the right Of suffrage at all cleo
tons held therein under the constitution of the
United States to all citizens without regard TO sex.
AS public opinion creates the constitutions and
governments In the several States II is not 10 be
doubted that whenever in any State the people are
of opinion that such form Is admissible 1t will be
made.
General Butler made bid for the Irish vote to-
day by having joint resolution put through the
House expressing sympathy with the exied Fenians.
There has been Fenian delegation here for day or
TWO, composed Of Colonel Haniey, Captain McCloud,
John +. Seaman, p. w. Dunn and Others On Satur-
day they had an interview with the President and
they have had several conferences with Butler the
result OF which was the resolution that he introduced
to-day At first the democrats were not disposed to
he succeeded in bringing the House 10 VOTE and
only twenty-one voted against tall republicans.
The only significance OF the resolution Is that it
places the republican party In the attitude Of sympa-
thizing with the Fenians.
The Report Of Joseph Nimmo ON English
Commerce.
The Secretary OF the Treasury has transmitted to
the House Of Representatives the report OF Jose ph
Nimmo, Jr., Chief OF the Division OF Tonnage Mr.
Nimmo says
OF the total tonnage entered at the ports OF Great
was British, three per cent American and twenty.
nine per cent from other foreign countries; anu also
q the tSa entered at the ports Of The
thirty.sx per cent was American forty-seven per
Ssns eoau se 'y Ta"s ne SR sb
i ssg, dfsaias Per cent in Ssss 70 saiSs sH
' tonnage 'Sas aen '' to scoas one ams a
wnat it was in 1855. We have but thirty-slx per
cent OF the shipping engaged In our own foreign
commerce under our own nag, " nile England has
about seventy per cent OF the shipping engaged In
her foreign commerce under her nag. These facts
are graphically stated IN charts Nos. aud
., which, the author says tell the whole story of
our commercial downfall and OF Engand's CONNER.
clal triumph 1t further appears that since 1890
American shipping In our own foreign trade has
fallen or one-half and that British tonnage has IN.
creased nearly one hundred per cent. The question.
therefore he remarks, In the upbuild.
ing OF our merchant marine, Is not how
shall we protect our shipping Interests
against foreign competition, but how shan be pro.
tect IT, against British competition The causes OF
the supersedure Of American by British ships in the
international commerce OF the globe ale as FOL.
lows:-F1rst England was about ten years ahead
OF the United states In establishing steam navpa-
ton; secondly, the policy OF granting subsidies 10
ocean steam lines has been maintained by England
from the beginning to the present time. anu this