New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-31

using Customhouses to pack conventions and to secure
the reelection OF Grant The incident which gwen In
full In the regular report only served TO snow on Wna
political volcano the Senate Sits and how easy 1t would
he to drift into political debote when wouiu emu ohV
with the session.
Tho friends Of the amendatory Steamboat act charge
the Secretary of the Treasury with attempting to defeat
the measure 1t has gone through both Houses and all
points Of difference between the Senate and House have
been settled by Conference Committee. The report OF
the Committee been agreed to by the House but is
strongly opposed in the Senate The chlef oppOsltOn W
the bill comes from persons interested in certain
pateut lookup steamgauge which, under the present
law the Supervising Inspectors force all STEAMBOATS, W
The gauge is said by many of the steamboat men
OF the patent aud the Inspectors Inc anenu-
atOry act breaks up this monopoly by allowing IS uso
any good gauge and further modhes the law Dy re-
moving burdensOe restrictions from steamboat owners
without lessenng the effectiveness or tne
tarv boutwell, it is said has written two letters TO
Senators urging the defeat OF the Dlll promhIent
Republican from Pittsburgh said to-day that the useless
restrictions Of the present law which was assed year
ago. have greatly depressed the steamboat industry anu
the efforts of the Secretary, the Administration Would
lose 1000 votes in that city.
A report is in circulation, emanating, 1t is said, from
member Of the kitchen cabinet that the designations OF
three Cabinet officers will be asked for by the President
soon after the Philadelphia Convention, the secretary
State Secretary Of War, and the PostmaserGeneral
being the three. The purpose alleged is to srenetnen
the Administration by the substitution LOT te ousoS
Secretaries OF men VINO can command more seIe III
where IL is needed for Grant in the canvass MI Fls,
Iowa, Secretary Beknaps State, is regarded as certain
for Grant in any case and Maryland VIII 90 against i
in spite OF anything Mr.. Creswell can DO
The Discontinued Guarteunasers, who, at last, got
their bill through the to give them the increased
rank they think due in danger of losing 1t In
the Senate, where there Is some opposition 10 IT, on INC
ground that the quarermasters have no lawful right 10
the rank the bill gives Them and that 10 pass II would
lead to similar measures for officers IN the DINER sian
corps and the line and unsete the rank OF lne "hoie
army.
The Senate Committee Appropriations has dealt
with the Sunday Civil Appropriation bill in its usual
lavish manner and has reported it back TO the Senate
with amendments which increase the aggregate OF Its
expenditures about S2.OO0OOO together with several
items in which indefinite amounts allowed IN place of
the fixed by the House. On the other sde Oh lhe
account S50OOOO has been cnt out OF the House @ eN
ing the aggregate value OF the omnibus load AT sVOOO
Tie largest items added by the Senate COMMITTEE are
$4,000 for the payment of the Montana Indian war
claims $4,000 TO restore 10 the IIeeh vi oI1
much to which they are entitled under the tIeaes WIN
that nation $4,000 for the new Branch MINT az san
Francisco and $4,000 Tor tne coeSton Oh eapeu anu
abandoned property of the United States
Representative Palmer of Iowa to-day called at the
Indian Office and reported the murder OF one Of his con-
stituents named Dowel, Fort Laramie, on the 9Th
Of March, by band of Red Clouds men, who also stole
several hundred head Of CATTLE sheep and horses The
papers in possession of Mr.. Palmer represent that
nephew OF Red Cloud committed the murder; and Mr.
Palmer protested against action by the Department
which will prevent punishment for the murder ana rest
tuition of the stolen property.
The most singular point connected with the invesga
ton into the stolen records Of the Buell. Court Of Inquiry
is the fact that the Administration through its
here is attempting TO stow that Andy johnson was
more responsible for the missing records than Leet
Badeau, or Gen. Grant 1t says that at the tlDe Ile
records disappeared, Johnson was a ei.hauate IoF
second term and concerned that others III the
existence OF the Buell. Court.
The numerous friends of the Hon. s. 8. Cox twho has
been seriously III several days with pleurO-pneu
monia will he pleased to learn that his physician con
siders his condition more favorable this evening