THE Dauji gENiyg TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARQg 25, 1809. SPIRIT Or TEE PRESS. Editorial oraion or tri LiAinva jocbhalb vton ooRKin tones oompilto itiii , VAT FOB Til ITJUtnia TKUasATE. A Sensible Step for Congress. fVom fA N. T. Times. ' We are glad to Bee that the House of H- Eresentatives has taken time to provide for le Investigation of a question of the highest !raotioal importance to American prosperity. A Beleot oommtttee of nine has been provided for, whose duties are to inquire into and re pert at the next Besalon the oanses of the great redaction of American tonnage engaged an the foreign carrying trade, and tha great depression in the navigation interests of the Country. Alse. to report what measures are neoessary to increase our ooean tonnage, revive oar navigation interests, and regain for our oountry the relative position whtoh it onoe held among nations as a great maritime rower. We suppose the committee will hold moat tf its sessions in this city, as it is here it Will be most convenient to obtain the infor mation neoessarr te the answering of these inquiries. We trust it will call before it Some of oar great ship-builders or those who ence were our ship builders some of our Ereat shipping merchants, some of our great nporters, and some of those conoerned in the other great interests oonneoted with com merce and our mercantile marine. We trust It will listen to the opinions of the Chamber of Commerce; and we have no doubt that for khlfl occasion the Chamber will be able to agree as to certain vital interests that deserve the favorable consideration of Congress. After completing such investigations, the.oommlttee should visit Portland, Boston, and Philadel phia, so as to get a thorough comprehension pi the matter in all its bearings. When those of our leading men who repre sent the interests that are now broken down bare visited Washington to lav faots and arguments before Congress, they have not been properly reoeived. In many oases they liare been treated as merely selfish schemers, US men seeking their own advantage at any cost, as men whose advanoes ought to be re pelled, and whose projects or suggestions ought to be defeated. The great majority of the members of Congress know very little bout : the mercantile interests of the onntry. They bave made no Investigations such as ffould fit them to legislate on these interests, and have no experience such as would guide them la the right oourse of aotion. As a oou Bequenoe, the representatives of our mercan tile interests have long felt disoonraged in regard to any intelligent action on the part of Congress, and have felt that it was hopeless to Impress their ideas on the law-making powers. It Is on this account that they have drifted Into a state of indifference, and have oome to look hopelessly on the deoay of the Amerioan parine. It is a good sign that Congress has now fehown a desire to find out something about these matters. If it sets about the investi gation in a right way, it will have no diffi culty in obtaining information that will be f xoeedingly valuable in legislation. .. Oar National Finances. JJVoro th N. Y. Tribune. Whoever gave any oredit to the bulletin of Mr. Alexander Delmar, issued some eight or ten months ago, ia gleeful response to a call from a few of onr leading Copperheads, Wherein he demonstrated that our Treasury trould be empty and our finanoea utterly down at the heel by the 1st of July next, must be rather astonished to learn that, though no fraction of additional burden has since been laid on the people, we have still about one fcundred millions in the Treasury, whereof eeventy-five millions belongs there (the resi due being balanced by certificates of deposit afloat ), and are able to resume in earnest the extinction of our debt by buying np and pay ing off at least fifty millions of principal. We jnlght do this to-morrow without endangering the prompt payment of our aocrning interest; and we do earnestly hope to see the process of paying off resumed and vigorously proseouted at an early day. We are tired of printing monthly statements that our debt is about twenty-six hundred and fifty millions, from Whloh deduct cash in the Treasury one hun dred millions, and there will remain due twenty-five hundred and fifty millions, or thereabout: we want to state at anearly day that the cash lately on hand has been mainly devoted to the purchase or payment of debt, so that there remain but ten millions or 80 in the Treasury, while the debt has been actually reduced to twenty-five hundred and fifty millions. We objeot to the retention of so muob, or (indeed) or of any large amount in the Trea sury, on these grounds: I. It aggravates the premium on gold. The Government makes gold needlessly soaroe in tha street by piling np cords of it in the Trea sury. The gold certificates are the gold gamblers' chips or check, whereby they are enabled unduly to depress the publio oredit. We InBlflt that the Treasury shall desist from banking their pernicious gams. II. It subjects the people to a heavy loss. Had the surplus gold ia the Treasury been fersistently applied, from the 1st of January, 866, to the purchase aud extinction of publio debt, that debt would bave been at least twenty millions less than it ie. We have seen the time, not long sinoe, when seventy rjy lions Of gold would r." r' '. Inuty millions of boj- . j-ii ia3 pa&sad, never to return. W$Miuat now pay at least eighty millions fr ninety millions of bonds, and perhaps more. But our bonds are creep ing surely np to par, aud we should buy while we can still buy at a considerable dis count. At all everitp, we should no longer keep the Treasury full or gold ana pay in tereat thereon. III. There is danzer la this vast aooumula Hon. We presume a'l our Treasury officials are honest men, yet they are subject to tamntation. like the rest of us. Suppose one who had acoess to the treasure vaults should le persuaded, by some sanguine or desperate broker, that he could borrow 1100,000 from the millions without deteotion, and that the liroker had a "dead sure thine" for making a fortune suddenly therewith, when the gold nonld be replaced, two families male happy. and no harm done; and suppose there should ha a 'sIId-ud" in the "dead sure thing," re nnlrinir another $100,000, and then auother, and another, nntil the abstraction had run np to millions, and could no longer be concealed, would there be anything different in this lrffdT from what transpires periodically all around nsf When banks cannot protect themselves against defalcations, can .we rea Bonably expeot the Treasury to esoape for evert We should fuel a sense of relief if we should1 hear that all the spare coin lathe Treasury had been converted into bonds, and the bonds burned to ashes. We believe that such conversion, together With the redemption of the cold cerlituates would take tu at least half-way to resumption at onoe, . We make gold soaroe by hoarding It. Our hoard subserves no good purpose jt iiAnrer. it aoes not, u has Iwa asaerwa. maintain the credit of onr greenbacks, b '"H" I no amount of greenbacks will command a dol- I lar Of it. It does not buoy np tne prioe oi oar bonds; for that depends on their market value In London, and siuks or rises therewith. An embarrassed debtor, who shoull hoard goli In vast amounts on pretense that he purposed to pay some of his debts wilh it seveal years hence, would be hooted as a swindler, h try one would say, "Pay what you can now, and the rest whenever you shall be able." That is the true policy of nations as wrll. We will not debate the comparative wisdom of paying bonds or paying creonbaoka. We believe it best for all our creditors that evarjr dime the Treasury can spare should be de voted to buying np and cancelling bonis that we can thus bring onr greenbacks to par much sooner than otherwise. lint only use the cash on hand to pay off some form of dbt, and we shall be content. geographical Distribution or the Ureal Offices. From the IT. T. World. President U rant's first cast of a Cabinet so filled the country with amazement, aud his own party with consternation, that the ques tion ot geographical distribution was suuk and overlooked in the astonishment felt at the weakness, inexperience, and unfitness of his selections on personal grounds. The pro digious blunder of appointing a Beoretary of the Treasury who was legally disqualified, and, when the blunder was discovered, of asking Congress to suspend one or the most wholesome laws in the statute book to enable him to serve, and then, when even a Republi can Congress was shocked and revolted at so strange and impudent a request, back ing out of the appointment and re casting the Cabinet, so engrossed the publio attention with shifting exhibi tions of vaoillating absurdity, that it is no wonder . that the minor absurdity of the geographical distribution has, thus far, passed without much notioe. rereonai capaoity is, of course, altogether more important thau geographical fairness. A Cabinet of preemi nent fitness for the discharge of official datles, and strong in publio confidence, would not be very severely criticized on the ground of mere locality. But such medioore statesmen as General Grant has seleoted can be found in abundanoe in every part of the country. There is hardly a State in the Union which could not supply materials for a Cabinet Of more ability, weight, and experience than are comprised in either the first or the final oast of the new President. lie has, therefore, no apology for his flagrant disregard of looal fairness in the bestowal of the great offices. It seems pretty well settled that the mis sion to England is to be conferred upon Mr. Motley, which accumulates upon one of the small New England States three of the most honorable positions in the gift of the Presi dent. Massachusetts has the Secretaryship of the Treasury, the most important of the Cabinet offices, the Attorney Generalship, and the first in rank of all the foreign mis sions. But Mtssrs. Boutwell, Motley, and Hoar have no such superior qualifications, nor any such standing in public estimation, as vindicates this great accumulation of honors upon a little narrow district in the eastern part of Massachusetts. Mr. Bout well has been the Leal otta bureau in the Treasury Department; Mr. Motley has held a second-class mUsiou; Mr. Hoar is quite a novice in Federal politics. Nearly all the members of President Grant's Cabinet are taken from the Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Fish is- from New York, Mr. Borie from Philadelphia, Mr. Crufcwell from Maryland, which, with the two from Eastern Massachu setts, gives five of the seven members of the Cabinet to a narrow strip on the coast between the mouth of the Merriraao and the Potomac The whole vast region stretching from the Iludson river to the Paciilo ooast, and the whole vast region bvtween the Potomao and the Rio Grande, have only two Cabinet offices, offices of minor importance, and filled by men of so little mark or note that no other Presi dent than General Grant would have ever thought ot selecting them. General Rawlins was appointed for no other reason than be cause he has been General Grant's military chief of Btaff. Mr. Cox is a young man who has never been known in national politics. If the whole country west of the Hudson and south of the Potomao had been told that it was to have only two places in the Cabinet, and had been allowed any voloe in the selec tion, most certainly these two men would not have been its preference. General Urant is exousame enougu lor not reoognlzing the South in the composition of his Cabinet. He is under a party obligation to appoint only Republicans, and there are no Kepubiicans in the southern states who are fit for Cabinet places or foreign missions. The carpet-baggers get a great deal more than they deserve in local offices, and positions in the bastard Mate governments. But the slight which General Grant has put upon the West is inexousable. The Republican party has a larger proportion of capable men in the West than in the Eist. Moreover, that great and maguinoent section has not that weight in the legislative branoh ot the uovernment to Which its population entitles it; and there wu!d be a fairness in redressing the inequality by giving the West more than a proportionate share of the executive effioes. We are now in the last year before a new Feie ral census, aod daring the decade which is closing the growth ot the West has alto gether outstripped that of other parts of the country. In the redistribution of Congress men after the new census, next year, the East will lore and the West will gain a great nam ber of Representatives. A't-r 1870. the West, if nnited, will control the legislation of the country, and control the national conventions for nominating Presidential candidates. The West is equitably entitled to this superior weight now; but it cannot reoeive the benefit of its wonderful growth since 181)0 until after the ten years are fully up, whtn, by a sadden stride or leap, it will make a great advance in politioal isllueuoe. Suffering, as the West does, rout the inequality incident to the last year of a decade, it was entitled to a recog nition of Us real importance at the hands of the new l'iesid-ut by receiving a num ber of the great offices bearing a fair propor tion to its actual population, instead of that, it receives next to nothing; for even the two paltry Cabinet offices which General Grant has eetn fit to fill with two small West ern men, are leas a recognition of that ereat section than a recognition of personal services ! to mm&eir. as some men ia the wealthy Atlantic cities had rendered him more accept able services by large presents of money, while the West gave him nothing but honor and votes, General Grant has shown his sordid nature by rewaiding the money-givers with the lion's share of the spoils, the West has not showered down npon him gifts of houses, bonds, money, furniture, libraries, horses, coaches, plate, and wines; and so the West is treated with contemptuous negleot in the be stowal of the. patronage. Washburne is re membered; Rawlins is remembered; not how ever in recognition of that magnificent and populous section, but only in reooguitlon of their personal devotion to Ulysses Grant. One might suppose, at first view, that mere craft and ambition would lead General Grant to treat the Wt less shabbily. Ia 1872 It will have a mnoh larger proportion of the Prts'deutlal eleotors than it had in 18(58, and no President can ever again be el icted with out the support of the West. Bat the West, When G rant has been weighed in the balanoe and found wanting, will doubtless prefer some other candidate; and General Grant seems to have deolded that he will do nithlog to pro mote, and everything tn h powr to obstruot, the reputation of every Western man who is oontiderable enough to be feared as a rival. But this small, ignoble came has no chance to win. It gives a handle to active, canting politicians, like Colfax, which they will not fail to ute and make the most of. All Western Republicans who have a natural asoendauoy over public opi nion will be secretly nnderuiinitig Grant dur ing the first half of his term, and openly aim ing to supplant him in the regard or the party daring the last half. Grant is already jealous of Colfax, aod appoints nobody to any offloe whom Colfax might be supposed to favor. Colfax is very muoh his superior in the arts of a demagogue; and resentment, ambition, and the abundant leisure of his present office will prompt and enable the Vice-President to practise such arts with considerable effect. Grant is destined to have no other friends in the West than the dependants on whom he bestows offices; and he will probably find, three years hence, that the outs are more numerous, capable, and influential than the Ins. Ilie Tropssed Compromise on the Temire 1" UfSce. From the A. T. Herald. It appears that the difficulty in the Senate in reference to a repeal or a suspension of the Tenure-of-Offioe law has been settled among the Republicans in caucus in an agreement for a modification of the law. The main object of iODgress in passing ine law was to keep Sec retary Stanton in the War Office during John son's administration. Johnson's po.icy of Southern reconstruction was not the policy of Congress. Johnson was dead-set against this polioy, while Stanton was an active ally of Congress and a complete check npon Johnson in the matter of those Southern military gov ernments. Hence, when it was hinted to Con gress that Johnson had resolved upon the removal or Stanton, the two houses hit upon the Tenure-of-Offioe law, providing among other things that the members of the Cabinet shall hold their offices, respectively, during the Presidential term of their appointment and for one month thereafter, subject to re moval only with the consent of the Senate. This section of the law the Senate has agreed in caucus to suite out, so that the l'resident may remove any member of his Cabinet at discretion, leaving him subject here only to the constitutional requirement of a concur rence of the Senate in nis appointments. 15ut the law, in view or the havoo whioa Johnson otherwise might make in the ab sence of Congress among the radioal office holders, including Stautou, was framed to head him off in the section providing that in the absence of the Senate the President may suspend any executive subordinate; but that within twenty days after the reassembling of tne senate ha snail give uta reasons for snch suspension, aud if voted unsatisfactory by the Senate the suspended efficer shall be rein stated. Under this provision Stanton was suspended by the President and reinstated by the Senate, the reaaous given for the supen-' eion being voted insuffiiient. The Seuate proposes so to modify the provtsioa that the President may make removals from office during a recer-s of Congress, and tbat with the return of the Senate he shall not be required to give his reasons for removals made, but only to report them; whereupon, if the Senate content, the removal shall hold good, bat if otherwise the party removed shall be relu ctated. Oar Washington despatch states that the Senate Canons Committee en Tues day evening waited upon the President, and submitted to him these modifications, and that he expressed himself satisfied with the bill in its proposed form. Here are some important oonoesalons to the President; but the reservation of the power of the fcenate over removals from office is still the main question. The Copperhead organ of the Manhattan close politioal corporation enters a just complaint against the shabby devioe of only suspending this office-holders' law for the benefit of a Republican President, in order that it may come into fall play again in the event of the election of a Democratic Prebident. But this Copperhead organ, through its party spectacles, can seto nothing in General Grant's desire to have the law re moved as an obstruction in his way exoept a purpose to gain the power so to manipulate the Republican party in his appointments as to secure another term in the White House. Thus we are told that "General Grant wants a seoond term; he knows he can be re-elected only by getting the Republican nomination, and the power of removal during the last year or two of his present term is his chief relianoe for packing and controlling the Republioau Convention." This is a Copperhead view of General Grant's polioy. It covers, too, the old Demo cratic game which smashed the party into flinders under poor Pieroe and Baohanan; and yet our Copperhead Bourbons will learn no thing. They are firm in the fallaoy that the President with the spoils at his oommand oan boy another term as President, and that ht rein lie all the objections of General Grant to this Tenure-of-Offioe law. We presume, however, that the Copperhead oracle whloh lias been flaunting these views of the Man hfcttan ring before the publio will consent to the reported compromise as agreed on by the Republican majority cf the Senate, because it still denies to the President a decisive voice in the matter of removals from office; so the 8m ate may still checkmate him if they eatch him "packing the Republican Convention" of 1872. But diauiisbing this absurdity in re gard to General Grant, the question recurs, why is thek'enate fo tenacious of this appel late jurisdiction over removals from office f There may be a few Presidential candidates among the conscript fathers who desire to re tain a check upon General Grant as a dan- perous rival, but we apprehend that the in licences operating upon the radical majority in behalf of this proposed compromise have very little to do with the Presidential suc cession. General Grant contemplates a searching diag nosis of retrenchment aud reform, lie is evi dently in earnest in this business. Bat the affiliations of the whisky rings, the touaooo ring?, the various other internal revenue rings, the custom house rings, and the Indian treaty and railway land and bond speculating rings and thtir mercenaries of the lobby, enoom- pass the President on everr side. This power tul coalition of Treasury leeches have their allies in office, who have, we fear, their friends in tne (senate, and if so. Ueneral urant must be careful in treading on the toes of these favorites, or the Senate may oheok him in his mad career. Here we suspect, at all events, may be found the solution of this proposed compromise. Where hundreds of millions of money in lobby jobs and whisky frauds, etc, are at stake, retrenchment and reform must not go too fast nor too far. for. after all. what is the Government to the powers that be without the spoils t Of the law in controversy we still trust that General Grant will insist npoa an absolute repeal. Fresh from the people, with the House of Representatives, he direotly repre sents the will of the people. Ouly one-third of the Senate represent direotly the eleo.lons of 1SG8. The other two-thirds, excepting re construction, were eleeted npon other issues. The House therefore should not yield to the Senate npon this office-holders' law, bat hold fast to the ultimatum of the administration. Cuban Conquests and Spanish b'crlni mages. from the JV. T. 7Ume. Were not the' memory of our own "little unpleasantness" so freeh, the daily Spanish official war news, whereby it is made to ap pear that "the Cuban insurgents have been defeated in a severe battle, aud their cause is hopeless," might be deceptive; but "we have been there;" we, too, have seen times wheu fcvery trivial skirmish wa magnified by "offi cial advices" into a great victory, and the accidental discharge of a musket might echo like the roar of a Waterloo from Maine to Missouri. Aooording to the Government re ports, the Cubans are worsted in every en counter, and the "last spark of the rebel lion" is just going to be "trampled out," precisely as, in our favorite figure, the "back bone of the Rebellion" was always on thepoint of being broken. Everybody remembers when, in 1831, "heavy firing near the Chain Bridge" ued to come off each afternoon with great pano tualitv "just in time for the evemug pa pers." A satirist described one of these diurnal battles, whloh began, as usual, with "a series of loud explosions ou Arlington Heights." Twenty-four reporters, according to him, immediately telegraphed to twenty four papers that 500,000 Rebels had attacked our lines with 2000 rifled cannon, and had been repulsed with a loss of 14,000 killed Federal loss, "one killed and two committed Euioide." Bat when General MuClellan oame to inquire of an orderly about the particulars, there'turned out to be "no firing at all, but only Villiam Brown, of Regiment 5, Mackerel Brigade, Which has a horrible cold and sneezes in that way." Villiam was warned accord ingly to telegraph to the War Department whenever he sneezed, to avoid any more of those harrowing mistakes. Spenit-h victories in Cuba remind one of Ench historic events. Our Havana corres pondent has just shown up in a most ridicu lous light the three last "battles" in Cuba, proving tbem to have not even the propor tions ot a cross-road skirmish. He qualifies the affairs as "sorimmaees," and of the grand storming of Mayari lie remarks that this Sebastopol ia 'Viualler than Miller's Hole, California, and its iutrenohinents somewhat larger thau an apple-woman's stand." In plain truth, there has as yet been no measure of strength between the Spanish and Cuban soldiers, no "auaoonda coil" drawn ronnd the rebellion, aud no "backbone" broken; the accounts or battles are moon shine. But, on the other band, the present sluggishness of the struggle is no proof that it will not ere long break into n-rce activity, As transatlantic spectators checked their aiii th over the bloodlessness of Sumter and its eequenoe when the rain of battle pattered heavily on Ball Run, and the full thunder storm broke over the blood-drenched field of Shilob, so we may yet see terrible carnage in Cnba. It is for the advantage or the spa niaids to settle the question promptly, but for that of the Cubans to delay it. The troops of the former are already disciplined veterans, those of the latter comparatively raw re cruits. Time helps the latter, not the former. And, besides, while the Spaniard Stands the winter's climate of Cuba very well, he will find fighting in summer to be another affatr We are probably at the beginning rather than the end of the insurrection. FINANCIAL. Union Pacific Railroad. 1040 MILES NOW COMPLETED. 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Tbi-y were enbi--id o the uiofltlnteu- nmt, and Hanoi-dsn much pletutorn to tuforui yoi that after rocoTfriui; ihmu from ine ruin, w found upon exwu I r.mlob tbnt ourbooitd, pafvjre, aud other valuabis ere all In ikjj r i oonJi Uon. Tours, very ipwifolly, J. K. CALJJWKLL, b CO. 11IJK ONlr Nlfr lJI F.X1M8E TO THK MKE IN (AMIWELL'S NIOKK Wl'.KGrAKEL, II1.HUIMU dt CO. FHU.4ni:t,PHiA, Jan. 18, La Meoum. FARKKL, HIwiKIfcU S CO., Cneauut siroC Ueolierueii: oil toe night of the l.'Ku Instant onr iargj store, W. W. corner of Ninth and Chea nnt Mtrvers, was, together with our heavy stock of wall napera, cutireiy destroyed by fire. We hud one ol yonr PATENT CHAMPiyN FlllE-PKOOF MAFKtt, which contained onr principal books and papers, aud although it was exposed to the most 1 -.tense huat for over HO boors, we are happy to say It proved ltoolf worthy of oar recommendation. Our book and papers wertt ail preNerved. We oneerrally tender onr testimonial to the mauy already published, In givine tue UEUKINO SAFE tha orodH and confidence it Justly merits. Yours, vety repootrully, HOWELL A-liKOTttEKA STILL ANOTHER. Philadelphia. Jan. 13, last, Messrs. FARRtX. U ERRING CO., No. 62) Chesuat streot. Gentlemen: 1 nad cue of your make of galea in the basement oi J. K Caldwell A Ou'a store at the time of tue great Are ou the night ot the 18th lnrnaut. It waa removed from the rains to-day, and on opening It I found all my books, papers, green backs, watches, aud waton materials, etc ail preserved. I feel glad that I had one of yonr truly valuable skmb, aud shall want another of yonr make when i get located. Yonre, very reujicctfaily, F. L. KIKKPATRIOK, with J. E.-Caldwell 6 Uo., No. KID CUeauat stre4. FAUiiEI, UGllUIAQ & CO., CHAMPION SAFES, No. 620 CMESNUT Street, n tc PHILADELPHIA,' C R E AT BARGAINS I IV BAFES. IN OON8EQTJBNCK OF ILL HEALTH I WILL BELL Hf BTOOK OF 8 A F E 8, E T C, With Two Years' Unexpired Lease of Store, No. C39 ABCU Street, AND TWO VICHY S0PEKIOR D3,XV1KV HOUbKb, WAGON, ETC, lercssb or la ex. change tor Jeoirble property. Parties wishing to make such purchase will pleu call at my store beiw.eu ten and tnree o'clock. BAFKtt BKLLLNU AT GREATLY KEDOX'ED PBICES. 9ioiheim - M. ('. SADLER, Agent, O. L. M A 1 8 B X Qiiv I kiAnrrAoroBKa or . FIBls. AND iiUIiULAh-PIiOOF SAFES, LOCKSMITH, BM.L-HANUBR, AND DKALK IN BDILD1N' H AIlDWAJUfi. lit NO. tit RAfJB WtrwiH CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, ETC. JAMES & L C SI, HO, 11 KOHTU NKI'OSII UTtttUT, Bicn. of t h Golden Itttuib, Are now receiving au N riu NKW STOCK or Spring and hum mcr Coalings, To which tbey Invito the aitentiou ol the trade aad others, (I W w AT WOLKtALB AND RKTAIL, IH IRE C U A RD for store fronts, asylums, facto- RIKS, KTC. ' Patent WJre Hailing, Iron Bodstead. Orna mental Wire Work, Taper makers' Wires, and every variety of Wire Work, manufactured by li. WALKER & BOSS, 88fmw No. H N. SIXTH Street . LARZCLSRE & DUCMEY, Custom House Brokers and Notaries Public, No. 403 LIBRARY Street. All Custom Ilonse linslness transacted PA88PORT0 PROCURED -4 i ., .. , . , Ml., I I -- ' r" ' I ' " " ' '
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