, 1874-05-23
Speech Of the Hon. 8. s. Coz on tho
Follies Of Our Diplomatic
Service.
Dol. Stoinbergcr's Scientific Ramblings
Among tho Soutll-Sca
Islands,
The Influences the Samoan Group Might
Exercise Over Our National
Customs.

Tho, Policy of Extension and Rep
resentation Humorously
Considered.
The Appropriation bill for the Diplomatic and
Consular aorvica being under conudorntion, lass
Saturday, Mr.. Cox, OF Now York, made very
happy speech, frt,nl which Wo reprint what fol
lows:
THE SOUTH AMERICAN MISSIONS.
AS q sample Of the South American missions
that asylum Of decayed and cxilca patriots,
20 to Ecuador, where ao1no man by tho name Of
numaey Wing flies his Eubasaadorial kito. Ho
writes from Quito tho day afler tho Fourth Of
July laBt-l hope 1t III because ho celebrated tho
Fourth:
Ham. F1sn: havn ths pleasure to report To yon.
slr TINT orr national anniversary. mir, Wan geubray
observed, sir, III ts city, sir. 1'ncoss s.e
Including exchange and contingencies Run'sey
Wings salary is as.747 total, as per financial
report for 1878. page %. What confederation
for such information n1ombors will porhapu
have obaerved q volumiuous correspondence
from Minister at Santiago by the name Of
Root. Ho is q doctor. Bong thoroughly vao~
cinatel le managed to catch the smallpox, got
well easily, aud turned his sanitary condition
into tic Siate Department, Although tho press
of Chilli intimnted TINT Mr.. Root is radically
wrong In mtcr1neddling In their hospitals. yet
always forgive tile physician when he has soule-
thing to propose for tho human race, especially
in South America for It is siclly continont.
In writing to 5Ir. Fish, ho anyH that ho perform-
cd the following remarkable mnrvel:
"1 dai!y ,ncdicate great nutnuers by proxy" "sy
system Ut aramont Is great succesB." " The grnnrt
been nancd nftor mo hero" III gcneraiy prefer NJ
eser osea Of o Il fDa Sc 500 of eons
pation, emo nado Of other acitulnted drinks" II
When an slcolloc stinlslt IL ndicated,s should bo
with as little acid Az rosaibu."
This gentleman haH bocn considered the most
remarkable plagte IN South Amolica. Yet we
pay for his performances, salary, exchange, md
contingencies. over 511 900!
It would 2e impairment for me to refer to q
Minister like Jay. lie had MI ancestor, He is
very much liko the bird Of his uanc, i'll plumago
End jabberiug. His funlo and fusBinchs III tho
VIennn matter is q simple hcandal to our time
nnd country, Let mo Hkip thone sedate, unln-
formed ilunkeys Of our ministerial sySson.
We come down to
no11ASI1o APPo,NTEEs.
'This brings ls to my friend Col. 8tenberger,
ar, i hiB report of tho South Sea Isnnds. 11o is
NO u religious rover like DR.. Newman. think
nh body will suspect him Of being particularly
pio us. Hc is q Aippant scicntist, man Of OBJ
sec yation, rhottGlc, and enterprise.
p,:d per candidate for the Goveruolship Of tho
dis aut Islands which he has surveyed. Ho il
sud denly called from his duties at Washington
t., s.he South Sea; why, no one can gncss. Will
t., learn tho locus in quo Of theao islanda2 We
ras told by shakespeare that
On such full sea aro we now nhoat;
Ind We 1nast take tho current when 1t acrvcs,
Or lo6e our ventures.
i suppose that on this authority the Colonel
tdls to tho South Pole. An Great Britain is now
o s1nexiug the Friendly Isles. must we bo ialo9
Ehy may We not seek for the Navigator's 1sles7
EAuH our Old jealouBiea are aroused.
NEW SOUTH BEA hubble.
Woll, Bir, my interest i'll these South Son
1Jlcs docs not CONC out Of tho bubbles OF Ais-
ory which the English missionaries and John
LAW blow in tho last century. 1t llna gontler
iountain. / onco knew giri whom I Travelled
with i'll AfricR, from tho Griaons in Gwitzerland,
'sho told mo her grandmother had n lover along
with Captain Cook in tho good SHIP Endeayor,
md was eaton iu tho Friendly 1slallda by tho
;cntle savage! llonce my absorbing aud ro-
uantic tnterest in those lands.
But, Dir. Speaker. while 1nny have ideas in
!tonsistont with those Of my honorable friend
proposed by thia bili, think, as m old traveller
into every continent, ought not to object to
tio rowing agents Of the Department OF state
:lho difference between tlcm aud myself is, that
]: havo travelled at my own expense, and pub
Itud yoto contingent fund. "Contingent
lnsans depending on chance, i. g., wherever
t,hore il q good chanco to help good goutlcnan
nf the church: like DR.. Newman, or q chovaler
a. lndustrio, like Dr.. stoinbersor, We do it Tho
jtev. Dr.. Newnlan's observations nro yot. to bo
published. Thut good Methodist is now oxam-
lining the Chinese wall Tor economical and arch
11octural purpoaea. l1o will then ekip over to
tho isle Of spitzenbergen and describe tho re-
1narkable breed of dogs there thon flop into
the equatorial regionB, whero
l., Chimborazo stands Sublime.
A landmark on tho Stu Of Tllnc.
Before the interest OF his exploration inlln-
dates tho moral and pous mind, let us take
glance at Col. Steinborgor. This gentleman was
hent to the Sanoun, on the Nayigator's isles.
His report is Executive Document No. IS, Forty
third Congress-, first session. Our Conami.toe
has recommendation, baned on his report, for n
Commissioner to bo appointed, with good sal
nry. to those iHles This IL done with u view to
q protectorato or annexation, Itn, discussion,
therefore. involves his report. and gives 1t m
nmphaHls not belonging wholly to scicnco or
journcying. We muAt vote Oh it. The "con-
tingcnt" fund is At stake. In this in involved
ass proper use. The hardy granger aud labori-
honest miner. dosiro to know tint their money
has been well invested in the South tSoa. III
other wordz. let rs prick this new South sea bulb
Bic.
For myself, I have borne my share of tho e1-
pouditure with joy. 1t is not much. 11y share Is
about oneninetioth part of mill. Especially
is this interesting IN view Of tho 7act that Eli
glaud has Just annexed the Fcejee Islands in
Tint quartor Of tho globe, and appointed Capt,
Grover, an Aahantee horo, MI lta ruler.
WHERE ARE THE SAMOAN 1sLEs7
Where, then, arc tlleao islea7 Look at this
rap You will peroelye, frat, tho Iale OF, Juan
fernandez well, about 5000 miles west just
above tho 1ropio Of Capricorn, and 40 degrees
epst Of Australia, you will lud them. Robinson
Crueoe wan ono Of tile nearest, neighbors, and
Botany Bay another. The islandB arc consider
ably conducive to solitude, hut not 20 much au
women of tho friday family on the islauds. Al
ready peom to feel thRt wo have annexed thcn',
Coutig1lity OF torritory maEes them so nonr in