The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-02-02

Congress Yesterday-No Vote ON Amnesty or
tho Chicago Relief Bn-The Syndicate
Transaction Endorsed by the House.
The bill to remove duties from the building
materials used and to be used in the restoration
Of Chicago was taken up again yesterday in the
Senate discussed during the morning hour,
and laid aside without action. Mr.. Chandler,
of Michigan, made his usual opposition to it
in the interests of the lumbermen OF his State,
and even Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, while favor
ing the measure, wished to have the vote
passing it reconsidered, so that the bill might
be amended by specifying the exact articles to
which it was to apply. Mr.. Sherman must
be aware that if that question be opened the
relief proposed will amount to nothing eff
fectual, for every industry that is now pro-
tected by the high tariff will protest against
permitting free trade competition with 1t,
even for such benevolent object. If the vote
be reconsidered, therefore, and the subject
reopened, it may be regarded as tantamount
to a defeat of the whole measures for it GER
tainly will amount to nothing, practically,
after running the gauntlet of the lumber inter-
ests of Michigan, the iron and steel interests
of Pennsylvania and the tin and lead interests
of Missouri. The protectionists could GER
tainly pursue no more suicidal policy than in
opposing this Chicago Relief bill, thus direct
! ing public attention more directly and specially
to their odious system of taxing the whole
people for the benefit of the few.
| The Amnesty bill was also taken up yester-
| day in the Senate, and speeches made upon
| it by Mr.. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, and Mr..
Garrett Davis, Of Kentucky. The former
questioned, in a very silly manner, the
endorsement of amnesty by the people Of the
North unless Summers monstrosity in the
shape of the supplemental Civil Rights bill was
tackled on to it. He may make his mind easy
on that score. The people of the North are as
anxious as those of the South are to have all
political disabilities wiped out and every bar
rier 10 q restoration of kindly feeling between
the two sections removed; and as for the
right of colored people to occupy palace cars,
and to set at hotel tables with them, they have
no particular desire to see that VIII i'm gratified
hy virtue of an act of Congress. They think
they can get along just as well without such
legislation.
Among the miscellaneous matters which
were introduced in the Senate yesterday was
a bill giving to the American ard East India
Telegraph Company the exclusive right, for
twenty -one years, to construct, land and main
tain submarine cables between the United
States and Asia, and bill to distribute one
hundred and ninety thousand dollars by way OF
prize money among the officers and crew OF
the Kearsarge at the time of the destruction
of the privateer Alabama. The Senate after
wards adjourned till Monday.
The House spent most Of the day in the
discussion Of the report of the Committee o
Ways and Means generating the Secretary Of
the Treasury from all blame in connection
with the Syndicate negotiation. After two
days debate the course of the Secretary wal
: sustained by strict party vote-ll0 to 81
!! So much for the influence of party politics
which cannot see in purely financial matte
, anything TO commend or anything to condemn
j, except as seen from a partisan point OF view
i When the trade of politics reduces men 10
It low point in the standard OF intellect an
y judgment 1t must stand condemned In 70
Q | minds of all independent thinking people