New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-11
THE BUSINESS OF CONGRESS.
GENERAL ARTHUR TO RESIGN.
TIE LATEST INFORMATION AS TO Tnr NEw-Yo

.rrSr INFORMATION AS TO THE NEw-YOIK
crsrow UoUsE-A SOUTHERN WAR CLAIM De
prArFp-GENFEAL NEWS.
Il il stated at Washington that the names
If General Merritt and General Graham
o,a 70 be rejected General Arthur
oDd Mr.. Cornell are to resign their
commissions as officers OF the Custom House,
and the Presidents appOntees are then TO be
confirmed The House defeated the William
and Mary College war claim yesterday 10y
forty majority. \ report has been made to
the House by the Committee on Education
and Labor, against the Chinese. The OPPOSE
ton to the Army bill still continues to man
fest itself. The closing arguments of the
sugar importers were made yesterday.
THE NETWORK CUSTOM HOUSE BUSINESS
GENERALS MERRITT AND GRAHAM TO DE REJECTED
-GrNgRAL ARTHUR AND MIR. CORNELL TO RE-
sIGN-GENERALs MERRITT AND GRAHAM TO BE
RFAPPOINTED AND CONFIRMED.
WAsHixGroN. Jan. 1O.-The precise truth about
the present status Of the New-lork Custom
House business Is probably this: Mr.. Coukllng
has from the outset been DESTROYS of avoid
ing difficulties or further dispute the question Of
the Ncw-York appointments, but has not seen
how he could consistently abandon his atti-
tude of last year. His New-York friends have
taken the same view and there has therefore, been
no time since the rejection OF the fTcS-
idcnt's appointments year ago 10 succeed
General Arthur and Mr.. Cornell, that they did
not feel bound to reject any similar appointments,
and for the same reasons. They say
that they see no warrant now Tor
abandoning the ground which they then occupied.
They have, therefore determined 10 reject the nom
nations of General Merritt and General Graham.
in Ia gli =
est degree. upon any objection whatever
10 the nominees but rests solely upon the
ground that there was no sufficient reason
for the removal Of their predecessors lhe
Civil Service platform Of the Republican
party IS cited, rs well the Civil Service attitude
of the Administration. The essence Of Civil Service
Reform Is declared to be the requirement that
In officer shall be secure in the tenure
Of his office during the term for which he was APP
pointed. unless III cases of misconduct 1t
Is maintained that no charge Whatever
has been preferred aCaingst Mr.. Cornell,
and no serious or tangible charge against Cen
eral Arthur; and that in the case OF the
former the removal without cause was az
rayated by the fact that be was as yet
only in the beginning of his term. The removal of
these officers, therefore, VIII not be advised and
consented to by the Senate, unless for sufficient
cause.
The Commerce Committee, it is understood,
are, therefore, tolerably certain to report
adversely to the nominations Of General
Merritt and General Graham. 1t Is confidently
declared by Mr.. Conkling friends that this report
will he sustained by the Senate by an even greater
majority than the similar report of last year re-
.eived. The result Of this action Of the Senate,
they think viii be the immediate reinstatement Of
General Arthur and Mr. Cornell
1t is now believed that, in full anticipation Of
TIN, result, these gentlemen have already decided
apon their course. Neither wishes TO resume LIS
Did Office. Each insists that under the Civil SET
yce doctrines of the Republican party,
md under the Civil Service professions Of
the Administration. there was no warrant
Tor his removal. Each Is unwilling to continue TO
serve. and upon being roiustated VIII Immediately
resign
1t has all along been understood that IN
ca,e his appointees were rejected, the Iresi-
dent would Immediately send IN new
nominations The proposed action Of Cen
eral Arthur and Mr.. Cornell however viii
relieve hun of this necessity, and be can, If he
chooses send IN again the old nominations. II he
should do So there is little doubt that they Will
then be promptly confirmed