Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-01
NEW YORK NOMINATIONS.
MESSAGE OF TIE persrnENr

the Presidents message sent to the Senate
to-day, relative to the nominations of Col
lector Arthur and Naval Officer Cornell:
10 the Senate: I transmit herewith a let.
ter of the secretary of the treasury in regard
to the suspension of the late collector and
naval officer of the port of New York, with
accompanying documents. In addition
thereto respectfully submit the following
observations: The custom house in New
York collects more than two thirds of all tho
customs revenues of the government Its
administration is matter, not Of local in
terest merely, but is of great Importance to
the people Of the whole country. For a
long period OF time it has bsen used to
| manage and control political affairs The
officers suspected by me are and for
several years have been engaged in the &C.
tive, personal management of the party poll
tics of the city and State OF New York. The
duties of the Office held by them have been
regarded as of subordinate Importance to
their partisan work. Their Offices have been
! conducted as part of the political machi-
merry under their control. They have made
the custom house the centre of partisan po-
| lltical management. The custom house
should be business Office. It should be
conducted on business principles. COL
James, postmaster of New York
city, writing on the subject, says:
''The postofice is business
institution, and should be run as such. It
is my deliberate judgment that I and my
| subordinates can Go mole for the party OF
! our choice by giving the people of this city
good and efficient postal service than b?
controlling the primaries or debating nomi-
nations.''
The New York custom house sho uld be
placed on the same footing with the New
York postotdce, but uuder the suspended
officers the custom house would be one of
the principal political agencies IN the State
OF New York. To change this they profess
to believe would be, in the language Of Cor
nell in his response, ''to surrender their
personal and political rights.''
Convinced that the people of New York,
and of the country generally, wish the New
York custom house to be administered solely
with view to public interest, it is my pur-
pose to do all IN my power to introduce into
this great Office the reforms which the coun-
try desires. With my information of facts
IN the case, and with sense of tho respon-
sible obligation imposed upon me by the
constitution to ''take care that the laws be
faithfully executed I regarded it as my
plain duty to suspend the officers in ques-
ton and to make the nominations
now before the Senate in order that this i'm
portant ONCE maybe honestly and efficiently
administered.
(Signed) r. B. HAYES,
Executive Mansion, Jan. 81, 1879.
SHERMAN.
Secretary Sherman's letter to the Presi-
dent, in reply to Arthur, is very long. He
repeats that all the allegations stated in the
department. letter OF the 10th inst are sus-
ceptible of the clearest proof, and says the
department is prepared to verify them, if it
is the pleasure of the Senate to give the op-
portunity.
AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
III executive session, after reading the
Presidents message and Secretary Sherman's
letter regarding the New York custom no use
nominations, Senator Conkling made
speech, closing with the expression of opin-
ion that the Senate should proceed to con-
slider and act upon the pending nominations
without further postponement. Senator
Matthews offered resolution providing:
First-That the message and accompanying
documents should be printed and laid
on the table, and that further
consideration Of the nominations should be
postponed until next Monday. The first
branch of this resolution was agreed to
without division, but the proposition for
postponement gave rise to extended discus
sion. Finally y vote by yeas and nays was
taken on Matthew'S resolution to postpone,
and resulted in its adoption; yeas IS, nays
26. The affirmative votes were cast mostly
by Democrats, and the negative votes by
Republicans. Matthews, Roar, Dawes,
Burnside, Window, Wadleigh, Mitchell
and Ferry, however, voted in favor of
postponement, and Eaton, Barnum,
Voorhees,, Davis of Illinois, and Mcpherson
were recorded in the negative. This vote
does not absolutely foreshadow favorable &C.
ton on the nominations, for several Senators
who voted for postponement are definitely
known to be opposed to them, but the advo-
Gates of confirmation have been greatly en-
couraged by it, and tonight they confidently
expect success in the final vote Monday.
GENERAL CAPITAL NEWS.