The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-04-09
AsHINcTON
Irregularities in the Treasury Be-
coming More Apparent.
SOUTH CARoLINA's SORROWS
Little Hope for the People
Of Louisiana.
IDLING LEGISLATORS.
Conjectures About the Finale Of the
Financial Farce.

Conjectures About the Finale of the
Financial Farce.
HM WASHINGTON, April 8, 1874
The Louisiana Matter TO Come Up In the
Senate Again ON Monday-Little Hope
for the People or tho state-Judge
Durell Not Anxious to Resign.
In the Senate to-day the regular order was con-
tinued. and several private bills passed. Sem
ator Carpentersgave notice that on Monday next he
would can up mis- bill ''to restore the rights OF the
stare Of Louisiana" This grave and important
question waaiaat discussed In the splendid and
telling speech made BY him In the Senate on March
2omJX stn(e then, owing to the alleged urgency
Of che nnapoes for settlement, the debate has gone
over for the time being, and the Senate has been
almost steadily engrossed with the requirements
OF the natlonal currency. Now that 1t is over,
I since no more serious and responsible demands
can possibly be made upon the consideration OF
the Senate, 1t is matter OF profound anxiety to
many statesmen, as well as those who are distln-
gusned for patriotism. that this terrible stumbling
block shall be removed from the pathway OF the ma
tton's progress. Conscientious republicans feel that
this administration is In some degree responsible
for the tyrannical state OF affairs forced upon the
people OF Louisiana in the usurpation of Kellogg,
though the President is not held directly answer
able, nor as having mad any intention to persecute
them. They DO not want this accountability to be
charged 10 their party, and want 1t corrected be-
they Obliged to go before the people again
for their SURFACES In the present temper OF the
Senate there Ia no hope Tor Louisiana unless some
change comes over the spirit now actuating them
In legislation, or there are additional reasons pre-
sented why view dinerent from that heretofore
entertained should now be taken by them. The
governments OF Kellogg has been at work absorb
Ing everything all the time, and hence now pre-.
sents In its acts for the time being something to
commend It to the people. Serious doubts are en-
tertained whether the notorious and indecorous
Judge Durell can ever be displaced ana. as to his
res1gntng, there are good grounds for saying that
De viii under no consideration help himself out of
once by resgning.
Removal or Commissioner Of Customs
Haines and Confirmation OF His Sue
cessor-Too Much Zeal In tho Honest
Service or the Government the Cause.
The confirmation to-day of h. O. Johnson as
Commissioner OF Customs successor to Mr.. NJ. T.
Haines, which was toreshadowej IN these de-
spatches some weeks ago as about to be done in
the interest OF the reelection OF Senator Scott,
has erected considerable excitement here among
of1cials and politicians, the former of whom feel
unsafe IN their positions and the latter confused
on account Of this strange Interpretation OF the
civil service regulations. But another lar more
serious complexion ID given to 1t since it has
been developed that there is another cause under
lying the change and one with which the interests
OF the general government are largely and In
separately connected. 1t appears that the
law which allowed tropical fruits to be
entered duty free and which it win be
remembered created an excitement In the
Senate debate Of February 10 was hungled
or Intentionally garbled in Its punctuation. Thus
fruits came In duty Tree. and consequently there
are a large number OF cases wherein claim for
refundment Is made against the Treasury Depart
ment. They emenate from Boston and New York
principally, and involve q payment from the Treas
ury OF about $500. 900 now, and prospective loss
to the government OF about s., ZOO, 0o0 The Com
missioner Of Customs, Mr.. Haincs, protested
against these as fraud against the government,
and the unseemy haste with which the claims
were being rushed through the departments. He
declined to approve them and he was sent for i'm
medIately by Mr.. Richardson, the Secretary of the
Treasury, and the screws were put on him at once.
He was given instructions promptly to audit the
Aforesaid claims. de positively declined to
do 1t, unless the Secretary OF the
Treasury would give him written
order TO that effect This was finally done,
by letter. which was recalled after some $4,000
were paid out under it, and the instructlng clause
was struck out 1t having been discovered by the
astute Secretary that it was serious mistake to
do 1t and grave responsibility to interfere with
the duties Of an oicer who is by law invested with
the authority OF comptroller, but the record oft
remains in the Final Accounting Department.
There ID ring interested in this fruit business,
which, 1t is said, some high officials have con-
nection with, and the object is to ceraud the
government out OF thousands or dollars. Mr..
Haines mas been removed because he was in the
way and tried to save the government about
50. 900, 900. To effect this, as he was appointed
from Pennsylvania, Senators Cameron and scott
were appealed to by the Secretary OF the Treasury
stating that the resignation Of Haines on April
would be acceptable and that they could nominate
his successor. He decided to decline resgning,
and the frst named Senator withdrew nom the
advocacy of his successor, but Senator Scott,
through the influence OF Assistant Secretary
Sawyer, persisted IN making room for pliable
incumbent.
Opposition OF Citizens and Representa-
tives Of South Carolina to lnterfer-
cnce with Her State Affairs.
The subcommittee of the House Committee on
the Judiciary, consisting OF Messrs. Tremain. White
and Eldridge, to-day heard committee, appointed
by the Republican state Central Committee of
South Carolina, in opposition to q delegation from
the Taxpayers Convention OF that State, who were
heafo iast Mohaay. Ii " S"ipen'o1, eulsor VI
Columbia journal, first addressed the sub-com-
mittee, saying that the State constitution guar
antees equal justice to all, both white and black,
and protesting against any interference blythe
general government. He urged that the system Of
taxation and representation which prevails In
South Carolina was precisely the same which pre-
vailed IN every other State In the Union 1t
was not true, as alleged, that those who
pay the taxes have no hand In levytng
them; but 1t could be shown from the records that
many OF those who talk loudest about oppressive
taxation pay taxes at all. not even the poll tax,