The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-14

on which Mr. FISH appears to rely are 10 be
credited an army of thirty or forty thousand
men has been for four years baffied in its at
tempts to subdue the rebellion by q handful of
ragged, half-starved, half-armed Migrants. At
this rate the three thousand Cubans to be
thoroughly armed and equipped by the Edgar
Stuart's cargo will be likely to turn the scale
against the Spaniards. At all events the sue
cessful running of the blockade by General
Aguero is another strong argument in favor of
extending belligerent rights to the Cubans,
and we trust that Secretary Fish will study the
precedents we have laid before him, and will
deem this fitting opportunity to cast off the
Spanish cloak and to suffer the nation to ap-
pear before the world in its true character as
the friend of those who are fighting for per-
sonal freedom and republican institutions.
Congress-Tho Postal Tclcgraph-An-
other Great Lobby Job the Pub
lie Lands-Thc Iron-Clad Oath, &c.
In the Senate yesterday MIR. Logan made
personal explanation in reply to charge OF
Western newspaper that his sudden conversion
to the administration side during the Presi-
Dental canvass was due to the appointment of
a relative and namesake as agent to disburse
the appropriation of half million dollars to
the Teton Sioux Indians. The Senator pro-
duced evidence showing that nothing of the
sort had been done, which spikes that Quaker
gun.
Mr.. Ramsay gave notice that on Monday
.Lo H. .lc1 I'LL y,
bill for discussion. This is measure of great
importance, as it embraces the emancipation
of the public press, uniform rates, and ma
terial reduction of telegraph charges oil over
the country We hope that Mr.. Ramsay will
push it forward
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, called up the bill
for the further endowment and support Of
agricultural State colleges. He moved that
the proceeds Of five hundred thousand acres Of
the public lands be given to each State and
Territory having such a college as is contem-
plated in the bill. Of course, with such an
offer each State and Territory will get up such
a college on even ten days notice. How
much land, then. will be required for the pro-
posed bounties to these colleges? There are
thirty-seven States and there are ten Terri
tories, including the District of Columbia and
excluding Alaska, that stupendous empire of
the white bear, the sea lion, the walrus and
the Esquimaux. The States and Territories
that will come forward each for this college
bounty of half million acres at one dollar
and quarter per acre are, then, forty-seven,
and the aggregate of the public domain at a
dollar and quarter per acre to be swallowed up
by these colleges will be twenty-three millions
five hundred thousand acres. Now, when it
is considered that from the great Plains to the
Pacific not over q fifth part Of our public
land is worth ten cents an acre, if after the
occupation of the best of the arabic lands in
our new States and Territories we appropriate
these twenty-three million five hundred thou
sand acres to these colleges, what will become
of our actual settlers and our poor soldiers
and sailors? No; let us have an end of this
squandering Of the public lands upon corpora
TONS The public domain should be hence
forth reserved as trust for actual settlers and
paramount.
But Mr.. Morrill, does not propose to take
the public lands, after all. He proposes only
that the proceeds of sales to the amount indi-
Gated shall be given to these colleges. In
plain English, he proposes to take so much
money out of the public Treasury-that is to
say, the sum of $29, 375, 900 for these agricul-
tural colleges Why, then, this beating about
the bush, this trckery of legislation? 1t is to
humbug the country with the idea that as all
the States and Territories have an equal right
to the public lands or their proceeds, the
lands-or the money from their sales-ought
to be divided as proposed for these colleges.
But the money from the public lands is the
same in the public Treasury as any other
money, and if the States and Territories are
each to be provided with agricultural schools
by the national Treasury, why not say so?
This bill is q trick and job, full of corrup-
ton, and it ought to be cast out of the Senate
as an unclean thing. We are glad to see that
at all events, it is not to pass without an
honest and vigorous opposition.
In the House Mr.. Beck. of kentucky
moved to take up the bill to repeal the IRON
clad test oath of loyalty but the vote-123
to 66-falling short of the two-thirds required
in such cases, the motion was lost We pre-
sumo, however, that on another trial or two
this relic Of our late civil war will be removed
The repeal of this test oath means general
amnesty, and the time has come to obliterate
all these rebel disabilities, if, North and South
we are to be one people.
Mr. Sheldon of Louisiana, in his motion
to suspend the rules in order to proceed to a
resolution for joint committee OF inquiry of
the two houses on the Louisiana elections,
preached question which ultimately will fall