Show FEDERAL FLASHES gnadl humits conduct criticized by 17 the th protein Fro teus court of inquiry Shor ap lib ia in the senate a do silver subject br asad to the feb 13 the house oils committee on public land lauds railed failed to ft got a quorum this afternoon and postponed the consideration of the meation question of the forfeiture of the hor 4 thern pacific land grant un until til tomorrow to morrow the report of the court of inquiry was transmitted to sto today to day the court find finds garlington Gari ington made an in error of judgment d ant in annot innot not wait waiting lug longer loncer at pa pandora T or 11 harbor bor but the ilia error waa was committed in n the exer exercise cise of difficult and unusual discretion cret for which he should not be held accountable it is also duo due to garlington Gari ington to aay say that in the general conduct of the expedition prior I 1 or to the tile loss of the ship he be dar displayed alyd ical eal energy and efficiency in bucce successfully conducting the command through the long perilous peri loui and laborious re treat treatie in the boats to a place placed of safety while awarding credit toi general hazen forth for the beat best intention concern t ing the res rescue cue of the greely party the court Is i of opinion that in many particulars and in some of the the gravest moment moments he failed in the adequate comprehension of the necessities of the case and the measure measures and means essential to meet them the court specifies the numerous crave grave eiron and omissions in his hi action among them are the following first firstin that greelis Gre elys supplies would be exhausted in the fall of 1883 when in fact he was provisioned for mere there than three ye years a ra from the summer of 1881 the effect of this was to urge garlington Gari ington to undue hute haste to reach lady franklin F second bay yd ili his persistent rejection of the to take on the north ward voyage a relief ship and leave depot supplies at little island third in falli failing tig to perceive the necessity for a second vel vessel until late in the season fourth the lax and negligent method ot keeping ft a record of pu lic business and conducting the correspondence fu pon il deuce dence in the signal office as illustrated lust rated in lit the tle action cf ef the chief signal officer in IR r regard ozard to the noa c balled lied supplementary instructions or orders to aarli n which thoon the court rt says ass in f fait lt no to order orde r at all al though published to the country as luab and made the basis basin of the charge that he had been guilty lof neither aas was this tills mamoran duto duin an in order nur nor did it properly carry rry any force even as a suggestion to garlington Gari ington the court comments severely on this mischievous manner of conducting official bu business sineas and lays says while the crave grave errors arid ornis lions ment mentioned luned either directly led or largely contributed to the failure of be the expedition yet athey as they are due to 0 the lack of sound judgment and unattended by any wilful neglect no further proceedings before a general court 5 martial art lal are cal ledfor in the senate Sh sherman ermid offered an amendment amend nent rient providing that if any bonds bond deposited should bear a rate of annual ln interest terest higher than thin three per cent additional circulating notes should be issued equal in amount to one half of the interest accruing on such bonds before their maturity in excels excess of three per cent per annum such amount to be ascertained bained and stated by the comptroller of the currency on the first of J july alv of each year hereafter sherman then proceeded to address the senate and in in the course murse of his remarks expressed the following views concerning the A silver liver question he ile saw no solution of f it at present the state of public opinion fully represented in Cong s I 1 would not a allow low the n odthe coinage of the silver dollar and no adoption by the united states of a abw abw ratio for the coinage of or silver and sold gold according to r the market value of these two precious metals all wo we could do was to drift along until the inevitable exportation of gold ita its disappearance from circulation and its coave conversion into an article of of mor chandise should reduce all Mil mines vAble to a silver standard when no doubt the practical good sense gens ot of our people would lead them to chirr according to their value fifty year years azo he lie would natt have alluded to alio the silver question except was inevitably with the banks and banking it waa was already casting a shadow upon the future etwas if was rapidly convening converting our railroad securities into bonda bonds expressly payable ingold coin cola it was creating distrust in in vestments made upon in a gold basis but which sagacious men knew know donld d by the failure of crops or of banking homes boules orb or by some unforeseen vent event suddenly bring us to a the doubt would thou aries ribe it had even already arlinn whether by an adjustment at a new ratio between gold a and nd silver the tile quantity of silver silve r fold m 31 dollars dollard would be inere increased 4 or th the a quantity of gold would b reduced a d una ine T r the other would have to be done As the question wi s derided n would the nor nominal price und and value of gIl gollands lands investments becu and currency rise or r fall A question ti estion no so controlling aa as this till a did aal and would affect the th banks hid d banking in all their phase and slid for forum 8 but sherman Shern tan believed it to 10 be utterly althie at session to change the tile existing iab as to the tile coina voina se le of if clr ver we would have to go flu inozu vollia inn ipg and nd filing up tip iff lp the ajr vault allver that we at at discount whid which h we e could n nut nt t cincu late isle and which we As t line ge sell 11 1 at l a discount or reduce all other culliney tu to tho th nine same standard until thid standard as so finally bet set tied lied the tile coi coin r were 4 dangerous danL erous jo lorms rm a of currency rr ency all i were as a now treated UK ad gold certin fl jaes rats hey would be freely taken as an equivalent to each cacti other but hat with the tile first appearance ppe arance of or a it ditre difference rence in the in market arket valan between and ilver silver coin colu the same would appear between the gold old an and d silver cOrtili cst and the gold olti certificate would disappear from circulation sad bt be boarded abber 8 her man then went on n to 10 speak of the difficult difficulty I 1 in maintaining ti t the b e cincu circulation ia of the til a national banks ban gk a because b because of the rapid payment of the US bondi bond and entered into particulars as a to th the nature of the t s t a u d I 1 prices etc boudria lie ile fald d t the b a national bank currency was the beet beat in the world and at laded alluded to the fact that even in the tile darkest hours of the panic of 1873 our bonds never varied more than six or seven per cent in conclusion sherman advocated his amendment mcpherson spoke in support of his bill then the tile senate went executive session and soon adjourned the president sent to the senate a report from the sectary of state with regard to the case cue of alexander trimble whose extradition was de do banded b by the tile government of hex ice but wao who was offer corre correspondence open d ence upon the subject discharged disch arged by the american authorities the secretary in his report holdre that according accor dint to his construction of the law an amori ameri can citizen cannot legally be held under the treaty with mexico for ex tradition but be he proposes to inform the officers in texas that if another arrest is made and a made out the president will not on oi the ground of citizenship interfere with the order of surrender ear render if such be made but be requires that the accused be informed that if he orthey wish hearing before the supreme court of the united states an aab corput cor as to the power power of the president in the matter of extradition or as to the true construction of the treaty before the surrender be actually made elve every facility for such hearing will willbe be irr afforded for ded should the court hold that the president has discretionary power of of citizens proven guilty of ofer crime itne tue the evil apprehended will not be realized and should the court hold the president has tho the power of extradition only when bound by b treaty to do so congress can then if if it should be its pleasure by statute confer the discretionary powers |