Year: 1873

Department can issue $A0OO.0sO just as well
as 81, coo 0e0 if il thinks it expedient.


Mr.. Geo. s. Boutwell, has succeeded I'D BUS
canvass fer the chair in the Senate mace
vacant by the election of MIR. Wilson 10 the
Vice Presidency. This result seemed certain
after the preliminary baliotings of Tuesday
That Massachusetts has always sent 10 inc
Senate men of weight is probably the reason
why the election for Senator in that STATE mas
attracted more attention outside than Is usuai
with similar canvasses elsewhere. Mr.. BOUT
well goes to the Senate with noble examples
before him in the history of his own State;
and, we doubt not, with noble AIMS


1t is a mere fancy of men who occasionally
originate theories about the harbor manage
ment that Sound steamers passing through
East River endanger life and shipping. On
the contrary, it is the irregularly running and
unmanageable sailing vessels which incumber
and obstruct that highway and make travel
dangerous, not the Sound steamers, whose
hours of passage are known. 1t will not add
at all to our safety to prohibit these vessels
from passing below Corlears Hook; and 1T will
duadruple the expense of carting goods to and
from the vessels. The subject ought to be
dropped at once; the project is premature.
Nevertheless, it would be only fair to hear the
views of the ferrymen, and of the men who
cross the ferries. 1t is quite probable that
they might see the question in another light.


The Senate. finding that the wording of the
resolution reported in the Caldwell case "can-
mot hold water" is preparing the way for
one that will. The debate, yesterday, indicates
that many Senators who think Mr.. Caldwell
ought not to sit with them object to the pas"
sage of resolution which declares that he
was not legally elected by the Legislature OF
Kansas. The report of the Committee took
decided grounds as to the bribery employed,
and recommended that his seat be declared
vacant by resolution that his election was
illegal. 1t is now likely that resolution OF
expulsion will be substituted for this, IN order
that the nice technical point may be met. But
the House has substantially decided that the
morals of a member have nothing to do with
his standing in that body. If the House could
not expel Mr.. 0akes Ames for the immortality
of bribery. can the Senate expel Mr.. Caldwell
for a similarly immoral proceedingf


Inquiry of various merchants familiar with
Custom house practices shows that if the al
legged deficiency in the CustOm-house returns
of the warehousing business (Which was no.
ticed in our yesterdays Washington dis
patches) does not conceal fraud the method
of keeping accounts is so loose that ample
opportunity for fraud is offered. The revela-
tons made in other columns are of culpable
negligence certainly and possibly careful
investigation would show that there is also
criminal completely between warehousemen
and officials. At any rate the system which
leaves vouchers to be eaten by moths and
rats, neglects to make entries of transactions
for six months after they have been con-
cluded and fails to hold bondsmen response
BILE for their defaultins principals, thus suffer
ing the Government to pay what others
have agreed to make good, ought to be
overhauled and remodeled. Such method
of doing business would bankrupt any private
merchant. 1t seems it results i'll deficiency
at a single Custom-hOuse of millions which
the Government must repay from other
sources.