The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02

absolutely and positively by preventing vessels
sailing away with people on board to be drowned,
1t appeals to the favor OF every One and as 1t takes
no money out OF the Treasury but guards the Treas.
ury, by preventing rebates in duties on damaged
goods imported, unless the extent OF the damage
is certified TO- 1t recommends itself to all. The
inspectors are subject to imprisonment and fine
Tor iraudulently or ignorantly reporting. 1t is
hoped Congress VIII make Mr.. Houghton's bill
law at once II for no other reason than to stop the
waste OF valuable lives, as OF late, on European
gong steam vessels. Fines and penalties will not
do this, but such law will.
State Dinner to Mr.. Cushing.
General Cushing has been making parting visit
TO "Glebeland,' his country seat in Virginia
about nve miles from the capital, where he Will
leave his valuable law library. TN Monday even
ing ne Is to be entertained at dinner by Secretary
Fish, who has invited q party OF his friends to
meet him. He Is in excellent health.
Pensions for the Mexican Veterans.
The House Committee on Invalid Pensions has
appointed subcommittee Of five to consider the
question OF giving pensions to the soldiers OF the
Mexican war. 1t is believed the committee will
report such bill with great unanimity.
The Abolition Of tho O Hice of Brfgadior
of the Marines.
The marine officers are In trouble as the Senate
amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill not
only abolishes the office Of brigadier general OF
the Marine corps after the death OF General Zeilin,
but also that OF colonel commandant If this is
passed the Marine corps win have to be nnder the
command OF colonel who can have no aide-de-
camp TO draw forage, and who will not he able to
sustain the Inequalities OF headquarters with his
pay.
The Story About Eight Newspaper Cor
respondents and the Centennial Conn
mission.
Joseph X. Hawley, President of the Centennial
commission, tonight made public the letter Of
A. j. Gosn0rn, Director General OF the COM
MISSION IN explanation OF the charge recently
made That eight correspondents, representing
leading newspapers, had offered for compensation
to lobby an appropriation bill in behalf OF the Exhi
bition through Congress. He says that the an
nouncement greatly exaggerated the facts. only
one person having made any proposition, and that
mad nothing TO do with Congress, but was regarded
as All advertising scheme, considered by the CON-
mission purely on its merits and rejected after due
elaboration.
Recognition Of a Vice Consul.
me president has recognized Henry C. Adams as
Vice Consul Of Brazil at Boston.
The Proscriptivc and the Confederate
Elements In the Composition Of Com
gress.
Your correspondents attention was invited
during late conversation with prominent man
in public life, and as a marked feature OF MIR.
Cushlngs unsuccessful race for the Chief Justice
ship, to the manifest revival OF a proscriptive
spirit IN Congress toward those who took the
wrong side In the late war, as well as those who
were tardy In cutting loose from the leaders of
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gentleman takes the ground that, though the OPP
position TO Mr. Cushings nomination began and
was protracted in baseness and treachery, it was
the letter to Jefferson Davis that secured his
actual overthrow, by calling up bitter feeling Of
partisanshp, or afrording pretext for it, on the
part OF Senators who otherwise would have volun-
tarily, or in fear Of Presidential displeasure,
voted 1Or confirmation, and so have made
Mr. Gushing the Chief Justice. In the
course OF the same interview reference was
made to the il-concealed disfavor with which
the Confederate delegation in Congress are looked
upon by their fellow members OF the more radical
type, and to the stage whisperngs in Congress.
sional circles OF calamity to the nation, the party
and the freedmen, II the rebel army element in
CongresS1s to go on increasing in the way it
threatens to do. Two remarks Of Senator Gordon
in his late speech on reduction OF salaries were
private comment about the Capitol: the first, his
complaint that late adherent Of the COnfederacy
in Congress was in danger Of having his rebellion
record thrown into his face as often as he took
issue in matters Of public policy with
any whose loyalty was of the iron-clad
sort; and the other, that il the settlement
OF the war had been left to the men who con-
fronted each other on the battle field for the four
years Of its continuance the country would have
been spared the misf0rtunes that have since over
taken the South These two chance remarks have
been applied to the composition OF the present
Congress, wherein are thirty members, in botn
houses, with q rebellion record available for use
against their present fealty whenever it Shall SO
please the iron-c'ad members to stop their mouths
break the force OF their arguments against
pending legislation, while the thirty are confronted
by sixty-nine OF the men whom Senator Gordon be-
lieves could have made an honorable and prosper
Gus restoration of the Union at Appomattox Court
House. 1t Is to be noticed. however, that while
the Confederate army element has grown stronger
the Union army element has been largely
replaced by men who took no direct
part in the war, and this very TACT is
suggested as partial explanation Of the reappear.
ance OF the Old spirit prescription that immedi-
atey followed the war, and was first renewed
when Andrew Johnson's rupture with his party set
the North and South at variance again. 1t is mani
fest, however, that the President has no share in
the smouldering hostility in Congress to the pres
ent results OF reconstruction and Is, from all ap-
pearances, better pleased with the advent of real
representatives OF the southern people, whatever
their politics, than grleved at the thinning out Of
the carpet baggers for whom this present admin
istration has no further nor affection. The
conservative tendencies lately attributed to the
President are not much regarded by the better in.
formed class OF politicians, who discern clearer
evidences of tendency among the radicals to get
up another rallyng cry Of danger to
the constitutional amendments and the re-
suits OF the war for service in the
next Presidential campaign. 1t is an opinion very
freely expressed here, in quarters entitled to at.
tentve hearing, that the republican party, as now
constituted, will have nothing on which TO 90 be-
lore the country in 1876, except third term for
Grant or fresh crusade against the lost cause. b"
The third term has unlikely look since the
events Of the present session. and as the alterna-
tive suggested may be the only one two years
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