Year: 1874

shall receive notice of any application be
fore judge of a district court for the miti-
CATION or remission of any fine, penalty or
forfeiture he shall Immediately notify the
collector of customs for the district IN
which such fine, penalty or forfeiture is in
CURED, who shall thereupon notify the
person or persons who may be interested In
the prosecution of the case, in order that
he or they may attend and show cause why
the prayer of the petitioner should be re-
fused and said collector shall also furnish
to the District Attorney all the practicable
information necessary to enable him %
protect the interest of the United
States.


5. That no officer, informer or other per-
son entitled to or interested in part Or
share of any fine, penalty or forfeiture in
cured under the customs revenne laws of
the United States, shall be thereby dis
qualified from becoming a witness IN any
action, suit or proceeding for the recovery,
mitigation or remission thereof, but shall
be subject to examination and cross-exami-
nation in like manner with other witnesses,
without being thereby deprived OF any
right, title or share in any fine, penalty or
forfeiture to which such examination may
relate; provided thai in every case when
ever the officer, informer or person entitled
to any share of fine, penalty or forfeiture
shall appear as witness, the defendant or
defendants shall be entitled to testify and
be examined and cross-examined in Ike
manner. A ~


Ben Butler ImPeaehes George WASH


fngfon-


The bill reported yesterday by Mr.. Wood
ford TO prevent officers of the United States
from receiving or being paid any money be-
yond their fixed salaries came up and was
discussed, Mr.. Woodford explaining and
advocating The bill and MeSsrs. Dawes and
Butler, Of Massachusetts opposing it, as not
being sufficiently matured, the latter allu-
ding to criticism on the display Of Re
publican officials and contrasting the
modesty of the present day with the Osten-
tatious display of George Washington who
never travelled a rod without making a
requisition on the Quartermaster's Depart
ment for six horses and a coach for him
self and four horses and a coach for his
Secretary.


The Wives Of the Republican Party.


In the course of the debate Mr.. Merriam,
who had introduced the bill originally,
stated that on the morning after he had
done so, Government officer had pressed
himself on the floor, and in a very excited
manner approached him saying ''this bill
will ruin me. 1t takes away the carriage
which use and 1t is impossible for me TO
get along without it." He said it was very
hard on him, especially his wife, and he
saw no objection I'D her riding when he did
not want the carriage. He (Merriam) told
him as he now told the House, that the Re
publican party could not afford longer to
carry the wifes of public officials.


After further debate, Mr.. WoOdford ad-
mitting there were some practical objec-
tion TO the bill in its present shape, moved
to refer il TO the Committee on Ways and
Means. The bill was so referred, by yeas
159, nays 90.


Mr.. Speer moved that the Committee
have leave to report al any time.


Mr.. Maynard objected.


The House resumed the consideration of
the currency bill.


Mr.. E. X. Hoar opposed the bill.


The RumbIing Commune


Mr.. Conger discussed the question as a
conflict between capital and labor, between
wealth and poverty, between the few thOus-
and favored of fortune and the million sons
Of toll. From every quarter came ominous
signs of warning and low murmurs of dis
satisfaction. Scarcely had Mr.. Hawley, Of
Connecticut, proclaimed he would hold no
more cOmpaniOnShip with those who would
vote for more currency, than the citizens of
his own State took him at his word, and
with sorrow withdrew his communion and
Senatorial honOrs from his longing vision.
(Laughter.) Even the Granite State lad
cast off party whose leaders in the House
had forgotten the grand mission of the Re
publican party to care for the poor and low
", and protect the toiling millions from the
encroachments of monopoly and wealth.


Mr.. Garfield opposed the bill, and took
for the text of his remarks a sentence of a
very remarkable paper, written few years
ago by Thos. Carlyle, and the title ofwhich
was suggestive to-day,


shooting Mazari,"


and after discussing some things that made
up his title, he said that they had a very
vulgar, homely proverb in England, ''cheap
and nasty" There was pregnancy in that
homely adage which ought Tot to be mis-
understood. 1t was rude protest Of hui
man nature against the elements which
sought for quantity at the expense of quail
ity, which sought for bulk at the
expense of truth and usefulness,
that characterized some. His (Garfeld's)
opinion of the policy which seemed to have
been fixed up by majority of the House,
was that they were proposing now to make
surrender of realty in the name of ap-
pearance, to get empty shadows and names,
and lose the solid substance which the
names ought to represent. In the course
of eleven years he had seen no day so
fraught with consequences great and far
reaching as this day. Referring TO the eff
forts at reputation in 1867 and 1868, he
said that the American conscience had re-
sponded to those efforts in the election of
Gen. Grant to the presidency on the
marked and distinct issue that reputation
should have no name or abiding place in
the American republic. That verdict had
been sealed when, in his first annual
message, Gen. Grant declared no man
should have any place of honor, trust or
profit who did not repudiate repudiatiOn,
and who was not willing to do his utmost
10 preserve the public faith untarnished.
That great victory had been gained in the
name of conscience, in the name of honor,
in the name of country. The next great
battle was fought in 1870, when the de
mand for more money rang through the
halls of Congress as it rang through them
to-day. The pending proposition he re-
garded as proposition to tumble ont the
ballast, spread all sails and give the ship of
national credit


To the Lightning and the Gale.
He believed that the proposition was fraught
with immense and measureless mischief.
The gentleman from Massachusetts (But-
ler) had the other day compared the circu-
lating medium to quart pots and yard sticks.
He would take the comparison and would
reply to it that yard sticks were not re-
duced, but were kept to the standard of an
tiquity and Of law. That was what he
wanted TO do with the currency. He de-
sired realities, not shadows; not the git of
fruits which tempt the eye, but turn to
ashes when they touched the lips. He be-
lieved the day was not far distant when the
cry would come up from those lowest down
in the scale of humble1aborers, on whom
the dead weight OF all depreciation would
fall with the most crushing power, cursing
the day when they were deluded by leger-
demain and sophistry.


Wanted-LocaI Currency.


Al.