The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-22

republican, to which party ne has persistently adj
hered. He was not identified with the liberal re-
| publican party during the recent canvass General
Mcmillan married sister Of Governor Dennison,
| OF Ohio
sheIlabarser's Scheme to Establish a
| Bureau OF Commerce Debated In the
| House-Mr. Cox's spccch-The Bill Prob
ably Killed.
| The feature in the proceedings OF the House to-
day was the bill from the Committee on Commerce.
Mr.. Sheabarger, OF ohio, presented the arguments
| in its favor. He made what is considered an able
ana exhaustive speech for subsidies. It was eiab
OrateIy prepared. 1t was already printed and he
read It from the slips. It was delivered with much
| effect. His bill creates commission or Bureau of
| Commerce. That commission is made up OF the
| President and Cabinet. 1t gives them power over
all commercial matters; almost absolute power. 1t
makes them bounty gtvers in allowing them to
give gratuities to certain favorite designated lines
Subsidies indefinite in amount and lines
of steamships and lines OF travel are
provided for with royal munincence and
Partially. 1t bosses immigration; 1t is. in
fact, new departure in our commercial hstory
bold. If not bad. Mr.. Cox obtained the moor after
Mr.. Shelabarger. He IL Mr.. Shellabargers old Ohio
opponent They have beaten each other In war
times; Cox ahead In 1852, Shellabarger in 1854.
Both are on the marine business now. The points
made by Shellabarger were all answered on the in
slant by Mr.. Cox. Mr.. Cox predicated his argu-
ment on his cid bill, the policy Of which has been
SO often commended by the HERALD; that free
registry Of foreign built vessels was our only sys-
tenn Of maritime revival or salvation. He offered
an amendment to the bill authorizing free registry.
1t may or may not be ruled in order.
Mr.. Cox evidently desires vote on it. 1t
Of tho
French and German war, when General Grant
recommended and General Schenck introduced
it. Mr.. Cox showed that all nations but our own
could buy outside of their own boundaries. He
repeated that Congress would not let us build, by
their infamous tariffs, and they would not let us
buy. He was interrupted by Lynch, Of Maine;
Kelley OF Pennsylvania; Conger, Of Michigan, and
Shellabarger But his attacks on the subsidies in
the bill, discriminating and unequal as they are,
have massacred the measure. 'Why," he asked,
"hep six lines and leave the ninety.four to help
themselvesS' "Why does the government aid a
losing adventure in commerce by subsidy, when
others do not ask subsidy but adventure without
itY' His points on the representatives Of the
farming interests must have told. They gathered
about him, he plead for the equal rights of all
before the law-subsidies for ALL or nonel"
He preferred the latter. Mr.. Cox's speech
of the seas and the liberaties Of tr ade made this
session. 1t developed a progressive spirit, es-
pecially in the West. When he asked Mr.. Lynch
whether Pennsylvania had not comm anded Maine
to cease from her demands for free iron and steel
to build her ships Mr.. Kelley bowed acquiescence
as Pennsylvania meant to keep her power
Mr.. Kelley then obtained the floor, and in an
able and well prepared speech, full Of his old
and earnest facts and figures, endeavored to re.
spond. tbs believed that the bill is killed. The
measures hitherto adopted have been failures, and
the House must go forward either for the repeal OF
the tariff on the component parts of vessel or
give free registry. One OF the points made by
Mr.. Cox to-day with the most emphasis was that
when Congress had voted the Treasury empty for
the internal Improvement system, which the House
had favored by initiative measures yesterday
there would be nothing left for the additional
piracy proposed by this bill. The name of carpet
baggers is now synonymous with Treasury plum
derers
The President Congratulated ON His In
s.t dian Palicy--Ks This Satires
letter has been addressed to President Grant
by George Whippe, Chairman Of the Convention OF
the representatives OF the various missionary and
other organizations cooperating with the govern
ment in the case Of the Indians recently held in
this city, enclosing him copy of the resolutions
passed by that body endorsing his Indian policy,
and concluding as f0llows:-"The committee
having waited on you in person, and collec-
lively and individually expressed to you their high
appreciation of the policy referred to, their great
qualification at the success reported from all parts
of the field and their profound conviction that a
few years. continuance of that policy will place it
beyond the fear OF hostile Intervention and insure
its ultimate triumph in the civilization OF the In
dians it only remains for me, Mr.. President, to
assure you Of the continued and cordial co-opera-
ton Of the various bodies represented in the meet
ing and implore for you the continued presence
and blessing of Almighty God.
The Goat Island Grab.
President Stanford, Of the Central Pacific Rail-
road Company said at his interview with the
Senate Military Committee that IL the cesslon Of
part of Goat Island is contemplated his company
will make no special charge for transshipment OF
freight to and from San Francisco. The prospect
of relief to commerce from this arrangement, how
ever, was destroyed by the admission, in response
to questioning that the cost Of transshpment from
Goat Island would be about the same as that from
the present terminus, and that this cost would
necessarily be taken into consideration when tx
ing the tariff Of charges.
A Batch Of Pardons by the President.
Pardons were issued to-day from the ONCE of the
Attorney General to the following persons
Francis M. Johnson. convicted in Maine in De.
cember, 1872, OF smuggling and sentenced to sixty
days Imprisonment; c. W. Landon, convicted in
February, 1872, OF violation OF the internal Reve-
nue. laws in the Southern district OF Mississippi;
Lewis Wright, convicted In 1871. in Iowa. OF coun-
terfeting, and sentenced to five years. mprison-
ment George sylvester Wright, convicted in South
Carolina of violation Of the Enforcement act, and
sentenced to two years. imprisonment; John
Tucker, convicted In Indiana In 1854 Of robbing
the mails, and sentenced to ten years imprison-
nent George 8. A. Doherty, convicted October,
Massachusetts. elttClll 6e-
sert from the naval service, and sentenced to two
years. Imprisonment; William Stacey, convicted
In Kansas, october 1869, OF nsappropriating gov
eminent property, and sentenced to four years
and six months Imprisonment.
In all the above cases the District Attorney re-
ported favsraby on the applications for pardon.
The petitions were signed by prominent citizens
and of1cials.
MIR. Stanley Lecturfng Before the Chill
dren OF the franklin School.