The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-20

OF THO buDJocC. In the meantime Ills Majesty
of Italy does not occupy very enviable posi-
ton in the eyes of the members of the Sacred
College.
Tho Fifth Avenue Hotel Conference
Mr.. Carl schurx.
Inpursuance of the call signed by Carl Schurz
of Missouri; Jacob d. Cox, of Ohio; William
O. Bryant and Oswald Ottendorfer, of New
York; David A. Wells, of Connecticut and
Jacob Brinkerhoff, of Ohio there will be a
conference this day, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
''of gentlemen who are opposed to the present
administration and its continuance in Office,
and who deem it necessary that all the ele-
ments of the opposition should be united for
common effort at the Presidential election "
The signers of this call, however, are not salts
fed with the Cincinnati Presidential ticket,
and the general inquiry is, 'What are they
going to do about it," One of them says that,
the Cincinnati Convention having "turned out
an impudent imposition and monstrous
fraud" these gentlemen of this days confer
ence, whatever they may do, will not make
fools Of themselves by ratifying the Cincin-
natl ticket. But there are other parties con-
nected with this conference who, it is conf
IDENTIFY declared, have joined in the movement
for the purpose of uniting upon Mr.. Greeley.
Some surprise and much curiosity have been
expressed among the party journals as to the
position and the object of Senator Schurz in
calling for this conference. Some say that his
object is another bolt; some, that he only wants
to try diversion against Greeley for the APP
preaching Democratic Convention, and there
are some who profess the fullest confidence in
tho idea that the real object of Mr.. Schurz is
to harmonize all these disaffected free traders
upon Mr.. Greeley But, as Mr.. Toots would
the object or the efforts of Mr.. Schurz may be
in this Fifth avenue meeting. II it is his object
to arrest the movement Of the opposition ele-
ments upon Mr.. Greeley, he comes too late,
and if his meetings. intended to give helping
hand to the Cincinnati ticket at Baltimore it
is a superfuous affair. In any event, this Fifth
Avenue Hotel conference has ceased, since the
call for it was issued, to be matter Of any i'm
portance insomuch as in the interval prob
ably two-third vote has been secured for Mr.
Greeley in the approaching Democratic Ma
tional Convention.
AS President of the Cincinnati Convention,
and as member Of that body, assisting in its
proceedings from the beginning to the end,
Mr.. Schurz, as signer of the call for this Fifth
Avenue conference, places himself in very
equivocal position. In expressing his desire
for union Of all the opposition elements he
leads us to the conclusion that he
is not satisfied with the Cincinnati ticket, to
the nomination Of which he was in the Con-
vention a consenting party. In other words,
after participating so far in the acts Of that
Convention as to be morally bound thereby, he
has no right to sit in judgment against it.
And whatever may have been his personal in
fuence as republican bolter against the con-
tinuance of General Grants administration, he
will surely sacrifice this influence as bolter
against Mr. Greeley. It is charged by the
Grant republicans against Mr.. Schurz that,
had he been given all, or the greater portion of
the offices and spoils demanded by him of the
he would not have turned
against it; and now, should he appear as
leader in free trade diversion against the
candidate Of the anti-Grant republicans, to
whom he was fully committed in the Cincinnati
he will find himself without party
and reduced at last to the alternative of Grant
Or Greeley.
We understand that there will be o large
ne ntsG
democrats in this anti Grant conference, and
that the object of the callers of this meeting is
4 diversion in favor of a new opposition fusion
ticket at Baltimore in the place of Greeley and
Brown. 1t is probable, however, that the
spontaneous movement Of the rank and file Of
the democratic party in favor Of the Cincin-
natl ticket will lead the men of this Fifth
Avenue consultation to the wise conclusion
that they are too late to resist the heavy tide
which has set in for Baltimore in favor of
Greeley and Brown for now it is only in this
direction that Mr.. Schurz and his mysterious
little tea party as anti-Gmnt politicians, can
recover the ground they have lost.
The Alabama Claims Arbitration In
Geneva
A HERALD special telegram from Geneva,
dated in the Swiss city yesterday, re-
ports the proceedings of the Alabama
Claims Arbitration Court during the day.
The progress was exceedingly agreeable
and pleasing to the very point of
an important crisis in the history Of the nego-
of adjournment Even this