New-York tribune., 1875-01-14

| cross examiners, Mr.. Beecber Is likewise w
be a witness, and in this case tho CROSS
examination will be curiosity.
Minister Pierce presented some interesting
facts in his argument before Senate Cohi-
mittee in favor of the proposed RECIPROCITY
Treaty. between the United States ana the
Hawaiian Islands. 1t was made very clear
| that wa ara I'm danger of losing what little
control we have over the commerce of King
| Kalakaua,s dominions. and that closer trade
relations between the two countries should
be established. Mr.. Pierce opposes the idea
that we ought to secure by purchase or other-
wise port near Honolulu. believing that IN
the fullness of time the whole group OF
Hawaiian Islands will be ours almost without
our asking.
Gov. Garland Of Arkansas. albeit Conser-
vatiye, must have the credit Of being the first
Chief Magistrate to take hold OF these stories
of White League Outrages in the right way.
Gen. Sheridan having included Arkansas
which he had not visited-in the list OF states
overrun by the White Leagues, number OF
ex-Union soldiers in Little Rock published
card denying the charge. Other ex-Unioh
soldiers reafirmed it, and approved Gen.
Sheridan's action. Gov. Garland thereupon
directed the Prosecuting Attorney to have the
signers of the last card brought before
Grand Jury to substantiate their statements
and point out the guilty White Leaguers, in
order that they may be punished for their
crimes. To this end he promises to enforce
the Ku-Klux statute enacted by Repubhcan
Legislature At last Arkansas has Governor
worth having.
The farce played by the Republican men,
bers of the Louisiana Legislature in the cleo
ton of Pinchback to the United States Senate
affords another evidence of the truth of what
Kellogg has often denied, namely, that the
negroes are dissatisfied with him and his gov
eminent and are parties to his plans only so
| far as they can secure their own advancement
| They invoked military assistance on the 4th
of January only because they wished an or
ganization which they did not have the legal
votes to effect he co0perated with them be-
cause he dreaded the impeachment threatened
in case of Conservative organization and In
order to secure another recognition OF his
Governorship by the Federal authorities. The
negroes having secured their object proceed
at once to give Pincbback another chance
for seat in the Senate, although they
know that in doing so they knock one OF kel-
lOgg's strongest props from under him. The
reelection of Pinchback is a virtual admission
that the Legislature of 1872, which declared
Kellogg Governor, was illegal. The carpet
baggers and negro Ofice-seekers in Louisiana
work together only so far as the selfish in
terests of both are promoted.
Private advices from Albany only confirm
the intimatons which have already reached
the public as to the probability of an effort
on the part of various members of the Legis-
lature to make their votes on the Senatorship
of some pecuniary value. 1t is said that
body of twenty or thirty members OF the
Assembly are ready to vote for Herman, OF
for Murphy, or for anybody else who will pay
them for it |; that they stand together, want to
| be bought together, and mean to vote together
We suspect that they will, but We venture to
doubt whether they get paid for it. The hon
est members have way OF disposing OF
that matter entirely in their own hands.
Let them vote openly in the caucus,
and bring everybody else to an open vote.
The bribed men will not show their hands
under such circumstances. Give us chance
to report for whom each man votes. That is
all the people ask. 1t is of less consequence
who gets elected than that the election shall
be fair and honest expression of the wishes
of the people as uttered through their repre-
sentatives. We may get that if they vote
openly and under sense of responsibility to
their constituents. A secret vote means a
hiding place for the members who want to
sell their votes.