The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-06-27

the separation should take place. But
when the hour struck which opened the
door that for two years had been barred
against their entrance, cries OF JOY could
not be suppressed.
Mr.. MoRmLL's appointment TO the Treas
ury means simply that the President has
secured an obedient Secretary, with whom
his slightest wieh will he law, and who has
no power Of resistance when the behests of
party are 10 be served. Mr.. MORRILL, be-
longs 20 the order OF negative men who
sail with the current, have no pronounced
opinions, and are glad to yield to the COM
mand Of more positive minds.
In the Senate his part has been 10 follow,
and never to lead. As Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations for several
years, he is more responsible for the
vicious legislation by which those bills
have been disngured than any other men,
Der OF that body. He aided In the afro
cious extravaganza of 1879 when the back
pay grab was saddled on the Legislative
BILL and he pocketed his share Of that
plumber without a sign Of hesitation.
After permitting the appropriations TO
he loaded down with every form OF prodi-
gal expenditure, and with subjects wholly
foreign to their nature, Mr. MORRILL, now
has the efrontery To arraign the House for
not continuing this outrageous system and
for insisting upon rotrenchment, because
this economical policy is ut war with the
existing laws" which he and his nsso-
| ciates passed In defiance Of tho statutes at
that time existing.
| Mr. MORRILL, may TO q mau of good in-
tentions, as his friends claim for him, but
| he has no nerve, no sternness of will, and
no backbone to continue the work of Mr..
BRfsrow In the Treasury. OF 60 oppose the
powerful influences that will press him for
patronage and for the protection of the
thieves who lost their accustomed plumber
during the last two years of honest man
agement He will succeed BRIsTow,
but il will he ms night succeeds day.
with CAMERON IN the War Department,
| CHANDLER in the Interior, RoBEsoS in
the Navy, FISH in the State Depart
mcnt, JEWELL III the Post Once. and
morrill, in the Treasury, under the dis
cipline of GRANT in the White House, il 10
easy TO imagine what sort of an admins
tration the country may expect during the
remaining nine months.
Two principal motives are operative in
the matter. In the first place, Il is
hoped, IL HAYES should be elected.
he might be persuaded that the sup
port of the Administration had been
sorviceable, aud therefore he would con-
tinue GRANTS relations in office, and
allow his friends to have their present
run Of jobbery in the departments.
The other reason lie even more powerful,
and concerns GRANTS Administration and
the Republican party alike. All the inves-
legations thus far have barely scratched
the surface of the robberies and frauds on
the Treasury. There Is reason to believe
that bonds and notes TO an immense amount
| have been issued and reissued, and that
| successful forgeries have been perpetrated
involving many millions. No human be-
ing could unrnvel these mysteries without
patient examination Of the books and
vouchers, and that task would involve
time, labor, and expert knowledge.
A variety of interests. political, official,
| and personal, have heretofore combined 10
prevent any thorough and scrupulous i'll
vestigation Of the books and accounts OF
the Treasury. Defeated the Republican
party in November means exposure Of
these great iniquities, in which leaders in
and out Of Congress are more or less in
volved, the opening Of n new set OF books,
and honest instead Of corrupt government
A change of Administration in this sense
would show also that the expenditures
could be reduced twenty-five or more mil.
lions beyond the reforms already made by
the House, and thus cut of the shameful
prodigalty which Is now kept up for the
benefit OF the party alone, and TO run liz
machinery AT tho expense of the country
No wonder, therefore, that all the rivaI
chiefs and factions have united on HAYES
as the only mode Of saving themselve:
from ruin, and that the Administration i:
in the field with all the power OF q desper
ate President TO impel IT.
When GRANT departed from the honoreC
precedents Of all his predecessors, and ap
peared upon the stand of the ratifca
ton meeting at Washington as a par
tisan, he gave public testimony Of his I'M
worthiness TO occupy any high trust, an(
Of his nxiety TO elect n successor in who's,
hands the secrets OF his scandalous Admin
istration would be safe for four year
longer. The motive that drove him Their
will drive others less important, but equal
ly interested in concealment.
Hayes to Blaine.