The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-05
w WASHINGTON.
FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

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WASHINGTON, June A, 1870
THE DEADLOCK BETWEEN THE SENATE AND
THE HousE-coNpIrIoN OF THE ApPEoPRIA-
TON BILL-THE SENATE OPPOSED TO RE-
TEENcHMRNT YoR POLITICAL REASONS
DISASTERS LIKELY TO FOLLOW.
The deadlock between the Senate aud the House ON
the Appropriation bills continues Tomorrow Tues
day now Conference Committee the Consular and
Diplomatic Appropriation bill will be appointed, and
he Senate has already disagreed to this
and the Military Academy bill Tho Legislative,
Executive and Judicial Appropriation bill is
under discussion in the Senate, and the Post Office,
Naval and River and Harbor bills, having passed the
House, now in the hands Of Senate committees
All these bills will be amended by the Sem
ate, and will thereupon become the subject OF
consultation by conference committees and Of
probably, prolonged discussion, as The Senate Is in
clined to differ widely from the House upon almost all
the matters involved There remain but twenty three
working days in June. The two conventions will in
tcrrupt the working power Of the House greatly, and
good deal OF industry will DO needed, under the cir
cumstances TO get the appropriation bills Indispensable
to the working OF the government machinery passed
and signed by the LIST OF July, which is tho beginning
of the fiscal year. Tho Secretary OF the Treasury
the Treasury unless the appropriation bill pertaining
his department Is passed by the LIST OF July, and the
President said to have threatened to recall our
Foreign Ministers and Consus If tho Consular and Dip
lomatic bill Is not passed in time. Such threats
these however, do not help the two houses to agree
but rather stir up temper among the disputants The
House has undertaken to enforce economy In the ad-
minstraton the republican Senate rcsists and while
in some details il Is right there is plainly among tho
republican Senators feeling that II they consent TO
my extensive economies originated by the democrats
the House they Will thereby condemn themselves
aud tho last Congress for cxtravagant and sess
legislation, and give the democrats advantage
In the fall canvass This is one powerful
reason for the opposition Of the Senate to the
appropriation bills sent II by tho House.
Unlucklly for the democrats OF their measures
of rctrcnchmcnt crude and Ill advised and thus
tho Senate has good cause for disasrccing in
particulars The practice, which has grown up
in tho House. Of referring NIL appropriation bills
to the Committee on Appropriations, is largely
TO blame for crude legislation II Is not possible
one committee to scrutinizc thoroughly and with
wisdom the whole estimates Formerly the different
appropriation bills referred each a proper com
mittcc, which was supposed TO have among
its members specially familiar with the operation
Of tho department covered by the bill Thus
pcricnccd hands. For years the entire mass OF
expenditures has passed into the hands OF CON-
mlttee. and has there been ground through and this
has caused, in previous Congresses, wasteful and
careless appropriations Of money and causes in this
one, efforts at economy some OF which crude and
mistaken. No single committee has either the experi-
time or strength TO properly scrutixzc all the
estimates and the sooner the old practice Of division
of labor is resumed The better Il Will be Tor legislation
SECRETARY BoDEsoN AND HIS RELATIONS WITH
THE CATTEILs--AwKwARD POSITION or THE
CABINET oFrIcIAL-THE NEGATIVE TEsrI-
MoSy OF THE HEADS or DunEAUs-aRAvR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AND JoBBERy BY THE
sgcRErARy's FRIENDS DEVELOPED.
Secretary Robcson has shown himself better bust.
man Than lie was thought TO be in his evidence
before the Naval Committee, and tho disposition to
blame him and hold him responsible for the Cat.
tell business somewhat increases, as II is seen
that he is not easy going person. ignorant
OF business, but singulary astute man OF
affairs. The commissions extortcd BY Cattell
we're obtained iron contracts and purchases in tho
bureaus of Provisions and Clothing and Steam Engineer
Ing and on live oak contracts The aggregate drawn by
Cattcll from these sources amounted to $500 600
Mr.. Robson has brought forward number OF bureau
officers who swear that he never in any manner IN
nuenccd them or dictated 10 them in the matter OF
contracts He has got to call, however, the officers
who had 10 do especially with the bureaus from whose
contracts and purchases Catte made his commissions
These officers whose evidence is ssary James
H. waisnough, chief OF Bureau OF Provisions aud
Clothing, Mr.. Hanscomb, naval constructor, and W.
W. Wood, chici OF the Steam Engineering Blu
rcau. These persons must be called and when
they have testified there is good to
believe that, II raymastcr Bradford is brought
back from Europe, he Will be able to give the
mittec correct idea OF the peculiar and meth
DDS used by tho Cat,cs to impress upon contractors
an idea OF their influence with the Navy Department
LIS already in evidence that Bradford acted tho part
OF go-bciwccn to cx,tcll and Matthews Bradlord's
continued absence In Europe the subject
OF remark here. The committee asked 10 have him
recalled two mcn,hs ago. but tho Secretary appears
have been reluctant TO summon him. Mr.. Robson
owes u 10 himself TO recall Bradford once and II he
delays the committee will demand the reason.
IL will also be necessary for the Secretary TO show
that he was the posscssor OF considerable property
fore he became Cabinet officer, thus TO account
Tor the large expenditure aud accounts show
and this especially because his friends the Castells
have sworn that he was poor and s'had very
little money" But IL Is understood that Mr. Robeson
Is able 70 show that Ia 1895 be paid income tax on