The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-02-11
The President Forced to a Denial of a
Revolutionary Policy.
INDIGNATION OF CONGRESSMAN.
The Republican Party Shrinking from Re-
sponsibiIity for the Administration.
THE NEW TARIFF MEASURE.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

By THE AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS.
| The alarm ana indignation excited here among
| republicans as well as democrats by the Arkansas
Message OF His Excellency begin to bear fruit.
There Is good authority this evening for the state.
ment that the President said to-day positively
that he did not mean to be understood as intend
ing to interfere In Arkansas unless Congress
should direct him; and that, If Congress chooses
to give him no policy or directions he
will not interfere In any way in the
state. This statement does not rest on ri.
NOR, but on the word OF prominent Northern
republican, not member OF Congress, who saw
His Excelency the President to-day and whom
His Excelency said this to. The star also this
evening has a sem-on1cial statement to the same
effect 1t says:-"H Congress adJourns without
deciding the questions at issue 1t is more than
likely that the President will consider that Con-
gress acquiesces In tho present political status of
Arkansas and leaves Governor Garland to manage
the AFFAIRS OF that State.
HIS ExcELLENcY's DENIAL OF REVOLUTIONARY
PURPOSES NEEDFUL AND PoLrT1C-THE
CABINET NOT coNsULTED-A1ARM AND m
DIaNAT1oN IN CoNGREss-THE NEW POLICY
sTULTH1oAr1oN OF THE PAST.
This denial OF revolutionary purposes comes
none too soon, and It was SAID tonight, in repub.
lican circles, that II the President were well ad-
vised he woulA send In another Message to explain
the first, or at least take some decided means 10
reassure the public and Congress; Tor there has
been. during the last two days. growing feeling
OF deep uneaslness aud alarm on all Sides The
President was understood by everybody 10 mean
that no intended to interfere, whether Congress
gave him direction or not, and "the logic OF that
policy Is" said prominent republican to-day,
"that though he may wait for laws to be en-
acted, II none are enacted, he will act
without law" This was the universal i'm.
preston and belief, and for. perhaps the first
time In our history Congress felt authority slip
ping out Of Its hands. and began to think how q
President could be curbed who, men were per-
suaded had declared bis intention to act whether
the law.maktng power gave him authority or not.
What added to the Irritation and the
alarm was that 1t became known TO-DAY
that the Arkansas Message was not only not
submitted to Cabinet meeting, but was not even
shown to any member Of the CABINET. Even At.
torney General Williams was not taken into coun.
sci, aud 1t Is said, on what seems to be good au.
thortty, that Mr.. Alexander Shepherd was the
only person to whom the Message was read before
1t was sent to the Senate. This would not
be strange, for, except the President, no one
is so strongly committed 10 the present govern
ment In Arkansas as the Attorney General As to
the President, he would seem to be committed to
the present government by stngularly strong
tie, Tor though it may be true that Brooks, In 1872
had majority OF votes. IL was o fact which ought
not to be forgotten that Baxter and Grant were
both counted In at that election and that, when
General Grant made haste to recognize Baxter 1t
was a declaration also that the state had gone
against Greeley and for Grant. 1t was in conflr.
nation of that decision, which gave the State to
Baxter and Grant, that the President re.
fused to sustain Brooks turned him out
OF oflce by proclamation recognized Bax.
ter and commanded Brooks to disperse
his forces. Nor should it be forgotten that
Dorsey and Clayton, VINO are the most vehement
adherents Of BROOKS, were originally Baxter's
most vigorous supporters. The following tele-
grams snow this sufficiently
New YORK, June g. 1873.
To Governor ELISHA BAxTER:-
You have The unqualified support OF myself and
friends The revolutionary Proceedings instituted
s. W. DORSEY.
NEW YORK, June 8, 1873.
To His Excellency ELISHA BAXrEK:-
The quo 1cdrrdntO proceedings against you have
been inaugurated without my knowledge or ap-
prevail and are, in my opinion, unwIse and highly
%H TO ala tn9 not Of the state
action, because l did not believe that
s s"Gn sou
calling out of the militia as premature, nor would
now advise any show OF force unless forcbe
attempt should be made to GUST you. believe
you are the legal Governor OF Arkansas, and as
much as regret to see our State digraced abroad
by distractions at home, l hope you win stand
hrm regardless OF results.
POWELL CLAYTON.
moreover, we remember said q republican
to-day, 'that before this the President has refused
to interfere In other States, even when there
were plausible preteXts He not only
recognized the Baxter government when
that recognition gave the electoral
vote OF Arkansas to Grant. but he refused aid to
Governor Davis. OF Texas. He refused Governor
Ames help at vicKsburg last year. He refused to
interfere In South Carolina. Why, then, this sud.
den change ?"
THE PRESIDENTS PARTISAN SCHEMES
"If the present government in Arkansas is al.
lowed to stand" said the President lately to O
prominent republican, mississippi may in
q very short time change her constitution
and hing out Governor Ames. Other States
may follow in the Same direction under
this precedent. AS soon as Congress adjourns
they may change their State governments ana
the whole South may be lost to the party in the
next election"
1t is not unfair to presume that here Is the rea-
son OF the Presidents change and the motive for
his Message and for his reported attempt to lnfu-
ence the Arkansas Committee to make q re.
port different from that which they have
made Meantime the danger Is not
over, for there is disposition to treat the South
ern governments with great contempt. When
the Attorney General was lately examined before
the Alabama Committee as to the reason
Tor directing the movement OF troops in
that State from here, he unequivo.
cally answered that the orders were
given without consultation or advice from the re.
publican Governor OF the State, nor was he asked
for advice or whether he was abe to suppress The
alleged Instructions in the State. The Attorney
General, In answer TO another question, said
he thought the friends OF the President we're quite
as competent to Judge OF what was necessary for
good government in the Southern States as those
who held oiices OF mere local Importance there
Again. Mr.. Snyder administration member from
Arkansas, said to-day openly, I'll Congress does
not take some notice OF the Arkansas matter and
leaves 1t to the Presidents discretion, we Will
alter Congress adjourns endcavor to seat