The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-04
Condition of the Louisiana Sugar
and Rice Crops.
Cost of Collecting the Internal
Revenue.
BOUTWELL, -pLEASONTON WAR.
Unlimited Control of the President Over
Appointments.

appointments.
WASHINGTON, July 8. 1871
Louisiana Planting Iuterest-Tho Sugar
Crop-areat Increase Of Productiou-Fail-
ure Of the Rico Crop.
The sugar crop Of Louisiana OF 1871 Is estimated
at 104, sS1 hogsheads, weighing l8S.S7S5s2 pounds
against 900 in 1s6970 an increase OF 57,T9l hogs
head, or over sixy-sx per cent This large increase
In the crop was made Notwithstanding that there
was great difficulty In obtaining labor just at the
planting season, and the weather was 80 cool and
dry In the spring that the cane did not sprout
well until june In addition to these draw
backs there was freeze In the middle Of Novem
ber which caused great deal OF injury, and the
still colder weather of December caused loss
OF about 800 h0gsneads. Had the season been
good one 1t Is probable chat the crop would have
reached nearly 600 hogsheads. or this crop
12e6s7 hogsheads, 147 .55S pounds were brown
sugar, made by the old process. and 1924 hogs
heads, o. q, s1eOo4 pounds, were refined or cari
fed sugars. The yield OF molasses was Immensely
large-seventy- gallons per hogshead The
entire yield of molasses was lo,28l4l9 gal
Ions, against 67A,256 In 1S89-'70, an IN
crease of nearly one hundred per cent The yield or
molasses the previous year sixty I'VE gallons to
the hogshead while before the war the average was
seventy gallons. The number OF sugar houses In
operation in 1859 SIT, or which 664 were worked
by steam and 1853 by horse power In 1870 the num-
Der Of sugar houses In operation was l05 OF which
s37 used steam and 26S horse pOwer-an increase OF
over thirtv-fve per cent. In 1861 there were 1292
sugar houses In operation. When the war broke
out the productive capacity Of the State was nearly
half q million hogsheads sugar and $4,000 bar
rels molasses. The finest sugar lands were
laid waste during the contest and improvements on
sugar estates to value OF many millions OF dol
lars were needessly destroyed. The first crop after
the war was only o. sos hogsheads. Many hundreds
OF negro laborers have been lately taken from Vr-
ginia, Tennessee North and South Carolina to
Louisiana, and the sugar interests have now been
re-established upon solid basis ana the crop or
1872 promises to be over two hundred thousand
hogsneads. and with q good grinding season Will
probably be two hundred and twenty-five thousand
hogsheads.
The rice crop of Louisiana Of 1871 is estimated at
forty-nne thousand nine hundred and seventy-one
barrels of 200 pounds each, against 100, TAO barrels
in 1S69-7O. A full acreage was put under culture,
but the drought OF the yield. The prospects for
the rice crop OF 1s7l-72 are favorable though the
acreage is small
Cost of Collecting tho Internal Revenue.
comparative statement OF the amounts ex-
pended from the appropriation for assessing aud
collecting internal revenue for the first six months
OF the years 1871 anu 1911 IL dS ioho"S'-
For SIX months ending June &c. 1870 total
expenditures. s4,ooe,s6O
For SIX months ending June 80, 1877, total
expenditures. ...........s....... o,<so,4oo
Balance in favor OF 1871 s7os, 4ls
similar statement OF the amounts expended
from the appropriation for detecting fraud Is ~ fol-
lows
For six months ending June 80 1870, total
For SIX months ending June 80, 1871, total
expenditures. ......................... i4'ooo
Balance In favor Of 1871. $685. 100
Total saving from both sources. ....,.... 743, 5S4
The Appointing Power of the President En-
larged.
The Civil Service Commissioners have stumbled
upon construction or the section authorizing their
appointment which will prove somewhat embar-
RAISING II nothing For the first three days Of
their session the Commissioners were engaged upon
the consideration to what the extent OF their
powers 1t now seems that they hold that the sec
ton under which they were appointed completely
revoutonizes the present system OF appointments.
They state that under the constitution the Prest-
dent is only limited In his appointing powers
to the cases mentioned therein. These are to for
eian ministers. members OF the Cabinet and to such
other officers as Congress may designate. Hereto.
fore there has been statute limiting the appointing
power Of the President, and heads Of departments
have been grained the power to appoint their sub
ordinates. This construction has been extended 80
far that not only have Cabinet ministers up.
pointed their subordinates, but collectors, as
SCISSORS, postmasters and the like have been
accredited the privilege OF nominating those
who have been dependent upon their choice. After
considerable discussion the Commissioners have
now almost unanimously concluded that under sec.
ton OF the Naval Appropriation bill the whole APP
pontment power has been vested In the President,
ttnat ha a q N
the New York Custom House OF Post Office without
the President has first designated the per.
son. This construction at first met with
considerable opposition, especially from those
Commissioners who were lawyers but after
the construction had been thoroughly dis.
cussed the Commission almost unanimously ar
rived ut the conclusion that 1t was right. II this
construction is sustained by Congress t ~ conceded
that the civil service will have been reformed so far
that the President will have been made entirely
responsible for all the appointments made, whether
In the departments at Washington or In any branch
OF the service where employees are engaged at the
expense Of the government
The Trouble Betweeu Boutwell, and Pleason-
ton Embarrassment business.
The trouble between Secretary Boutwell, and Conn.,
missioner PleasOnton. unless soon settled, IL likely
to embarrass business In many parts Of the country
IL IS not as has generally stated, confined TO
any one case. The differences OF opinion enter
tanned by Secretary to the jurisdiction OF the
Commissioner iDnumerable, but the one In
question Just now Is In regard to the award Of the
contract for furnishing paper for the revenue
stamps. It was intended several weeks since
that the new series Of beer stamps should
he issued on the LIST OF July. ON that
account stamps Of the Old series have not been
printed, and the failure to provide suitable paper
for the new series has resulted IN exhausting the
Old stock. At this season Of the year the demand
for beer stamps Is very great, and to-day the Inter-
nal Revenue Bureau could not Ill the acquisitions
made, especially for quarter-barrel and eighth
barrel stamps. There IL on hand In the Bureau OF