FROM THE ARCHIVE1855·New York, New York

USELESS MISSIONS

Scanned from Frank Leslie'S Illustrated Newspaper, 1855

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Of 1e m in Ta 1 A Entered according to the Act of Congress in the year 1869 by FRANK Lxsui in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of. New York No 695Vor XXVIL NEW YORK JANUARY 23 1869 4 00 Yearty Price 10 Cents ig Wuexe 1 00 Useless Missions GeNERAL Buruer has carried in Committee of the Whole in the House of Representatives a very important amendment to the Diploma tic Appropriation Bill which we hope will be sustained when the bill comes up for final ac tion Oz rather we hope not only that his amendment will be sustained but made more sweeping. As reported in the newspapers General Butler proposes to consolidate the missions to Columbia Venezuela and Ecua dor in a single mission and to unite those to Nicaragua Honduras San Salvador and Costa Rica. He should have gone further and in cluded Guatemala in the latter group and he should have proposed the total suppression of the mission to Bolivia with which our trade in 1866 the latest report was 45817 or about six times the amount of our Ministers salary.

We doubt the propriety of putting Venezuela with.

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