The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-21


has introduced bill into Congress which, II
passed, will materially reduce the amount of
internal revenue tax paid by Fitzpatrick, by
legislating him out Of Office. Although this
measure Of General Buffers may savor
slightly of revenge, there are to be found
people who profess to believe that it involves
o~inherent violation of Justice,
Fitzpatrick has been perambulating the
country for months, as stump speaker and
lecturer, and he has Just secured an extension
OF his leave of absence until March. 1t is also
stated that he has relinquished his pay during
his present absence from his diplomatic post.
Ihls circumstance, if it goes for anything, goes
TO substantiate the fact assumed by General
Butler, that his presence at Santiago, and his
Sl4OOO gratuity, are not essential to the pre-
servation of peaceful relations between the
Governments of Chilli and the United States.
Fitzpatrick is an orator of no mean preten-
sions, and doubtless did the cause of Grant
and COlfax considerable service. This was
not Objectionable, nor was it inexousable, for
the defeat OF Grant would, iu all human pro-
liability, have upset Kilpatriok's little
arrangement at Santiago. Yet it is cur
rently reported, and generally believed,
and doubtless capable of proof that Fitzpatrick
insisted upon receiving 500 for every speech
delivered by him during the late campaign,
and that he invariably carried his point. This
may not be, mercenary on the part Of Kilpa-
trick; but to persons who have not been in the
yearly receipt of $4,000 in gold from the
Government, ana who did not receive 500 per
diem for advocating the cause of candidate
whose election would probably secure their
annual income of $4,000 in gold against all
contingencies, it looks very much like avarioe.
Concerning one portion of the campaign receipts
of Fitzpatrick, General Butler has declared
that every cent of it was earned. This was
the $1,000 which he received from Buffers
opponents for stumpiUg the Fifth Massachu-
setts district against the erratic hero of Fort
Fisher. The result of Kilpatrick's labors in
thia fed was the election of Butler by the
overwhelming majority OF 6237 votes over two
competitors, one of whom was a Republican
gentleman, with the best blood of Massachu-
setts coursiDg through his veins" If Kill
patrick had been paid $4,000 for denounong
Butler, the vote of the district would pro-
baby have been unanimous.
And now we come to the pith and point OF
our farewell tribute to the memory of the late
and lamented Minister to Chill. He is adver-
tised to lecture this evening at the Academy
of Music, in this city, for the benefit of the
Twenty first Ward Soldiers Monument, his
subject being "Sherman's March Through
Georgia." concerning which he is well quail
fled to speak. But the avarice of the man is
so thoroughly rooted and grounded in his
character, that he has insisted upon receiving
$500 for delivering this discourse. AS the ex-
penses of the association in arranging for the
lecture have been very heavy, they very natu-
rally regarded this figure as rather large
one, and submitted that 500 would
be q proper amount of compensation. Kill
patrick could not be convinced OF the fact, and
demanded the full amount of $500, and 5000 he
will receive. What an inspiration this will
prove TO the orator Of the evening AS he
touches up in glowing terms, in high-hying
metaphors, and in smoothly-rounded periods,
the su1lerings and triumphs Of the "BOys in
Blue" how the greenbacks will glare at him
tear that he drops upon the dusty stage over
his fallen n-comrades in arms, a five dollar note
will slip into his breeches pocket with every
! grand flourish over the triumphal march Of
their survivors, a double X will steal into the
same yawning receptacle
We sincerely hope that the house will be
filed with people, crammed to sutfocation,
packed from pit to dome. Perhaps such a
tribute to the memory of brave and unselfsh
men who laid down their lives for pittance,
counting the welfare of their native or adopted
land as above all reckoning in dollars and
cents, as more precious than the life-blood
which they poured out without stint or COM
planning, may put to shame this oratorical
iobber who is unfit to be their eulogist, and
smite his conscience so keenly that he will be
tempted to disgorge the halt, if not the whole,
! of his hard earnings.
To THE PoINT.-The New York World of this
! morning contains the following pithy para
| graph:-"Flne-This fight between Fitzpatrick