New-York tribune., 1875-02-15

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by his company If 80. there is clear steal
of not less than s2O,OOO.OOO of actual cash in
it, outside of oil questions of the propriety OF
granting a subsidy to build road into the
wilderness. Why should subsidy of great
many thousand dollars per mile be voted 10
railroads already built, the title to which this
company has in some fashion or other
acquiredf"
According TO the letter from Havana pub
lished on our second page, the prospects OF
the insurgents IN Cuba have so far improved
IA TO cause Captain General COncha some un-
easiness. While his solicitude has led him TO
take the field in person. the Government at
Madrid has 80 little regard for the exigeDcles
Of the service that it sends Count Valmaseda
70 supersedc him without waiting to see the
result of the present military operations. Un-
| fortunately for Gen. COncha, when he returns
to Havana to surrender his Office IL VIII
hardly be from o successful expedition against
! the insurgents.
The reduction in the working force at the
Custom-house, which was ordered last month
by the Secretary of tho Treasury, IS expected
| to 90 into effect this week, and the ak Will
| fall on some three score superfluous inspectors
and clerks. Councils of leading manipulators
in the Custom-house clique have been held to
| fix upon the men who can be Topped OIL
with least loss to their faction at primaries
and in district associations; consequently
great ouaking of heart and feebleness of
knees have prevailed among the henchmen
who at any time have betrayed the least wa
vering in their allegiance to the Adminstra-
tOn.
The WAYS and Means Committee was enter
tained on Saturday by Mr.. Rufus Hatch. He
drew very attractive picture of the transactions
of the Directors who managed the affairs Of
the Pacific Mail Company in the days when
its money was spent in lobbying for subsidies.
! Whoever may have been to blame, says Mr.
| Hatch, the Directors were not on The contrary,
they are surprised and indignant and propose
TO 90 to law against StOckwell, and Irwin, and
Schumacher, and everybody else who has
touched the missing money. His story was a
long one, but very amusing; it will be read
with curious interest by those who have fol-
lowed the testimony Of other witnesses in this
inv estigatiOn.
The check given in the Senate On Saturday
to the Morrill, bill for the reorganization OF
the District Government indicates still more
clearly that it has little chance of passage
during the present session of Congress
letter printed on another page shows that the
opposition it has encountered Is attributable
not so much to decided objections to its policy
as to ignorance of its provisions. Very
few Senators seem to have studied 1t
carefully, and indeed they have hardly had
! A.. a. fail of
measure is the less to be regretted in view of
the fact thai the citizens of the District seem
to have full confidence in the Commissioners
now in charge of the local Government.
The election Of DR.. De KOvcn to the Illinois
Bi.hopric has revived the controversy about
Ritualism, temporarily queted by the last
General Convention of the Protestant Eplsco-
pal Church. DR.. De KovenS acceptance by
the standing committees of the Church would
be likely to cause schism, and his rejection
would lead to widespread dissatisfaction. His
friends and opponents are alike active; there
is an unusual amount of plain speech on both
sides; and neither party is acting merely on
the defensive. We print to-day on our
third page another interesting contribution
to the history of the case. 1t is the memorial
to the standing committees of the several
dioceses, and is in the nature of a protest,
on legal as well as dOctrinal grounds, against
| his conservation.
1t is apparent that the country will be
little, if any. the wiser for the visit of the
Hoar Committee to New-Orleans. Our Wash
ington dispatches report the statements of
Messrs Wheeler and Fry, but these gentlemen
| throw no light on the situation. They seem to
have gotten hold of a mass of testimony which
they have been utterly unable to get into
tangible shape. Where their ideas are clearly
| expressed there seems to be concurrence with
the opinions of the Foster Committee but
over some important matters they shake their
heads doubtfully and mornfully. They seem
to be struggling between an honest desire to
do justice to a long suffering people, and
natural disposition to save their party from
bearing the disgrace which the Kellogg Ad-
ministration has undoubtedly fastened upon
it. 1t is admitted that the great body
of the people are loyal, well-disposed, and
| disgusted with politics, but mysterious ele-
ment-young men grown up since tho war
| is represented to have most diabolcal infiu-
ence upon this larger and better class. The
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