The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-18
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created that the law OF 1889 prevented
Mr.. Secretary Stewart from performing
the duties of his Office and compelled
his resignation. Nothing could be more
erroneous. That law has been virtually
repealed for years past. No Secretary
of the Treasury has ever been oouhu oy
it's provisions. Section eight, am"ng
other things, provides "that 10 person
appointed to any Office Instituted by
this act shall purchase by himself, or
another in trust for him, any public
lands or other public property, or be
concerned in the purchase or disposal of
any public securities of any State or Of
the United States"
Can Messrs. Chase, FesseDden and
| McCulloch state under oath that they
were not engaged or interested i'll the
purchase or sale of public securities
other than on Government accounts 7
As to Mr.. McCulloch, it is notorious
that he has been engaged in speculating
in public lands. Hon. VIM. Lawrence,
of Ohio, in his speech delivered Oh the
2lst of March last, exhibited schedule
showing the sale by the Government of
Indian trust lands from January |, 1864
to January /, 1868, by which you will
see that Mr.. McCulloch has purchased
not less than 70l4 acres.
1t was not the law of 1879 that stood
in the way. 1t had been dead letter
for years, and both houses of Congress
were ready to repeal it by a two. thirds
vote if it had been once brought before
them. Prominent members of the COM
bined tariff and Treasury rings have
told your correspondent that the dis
covery of the law was a godsend to
them, not so much on account of its
provisions, but it gave them an ostensi-
BILE ground for opposition-a rallying
point. Other members of the same ring
declared that no New Yorker in any
event should be Secretary of the Treas
ury. Others declared themselves OPP
posed to all New Workers, without re-
gard to age, sex or color"
To all the ring managers the nomina-
ton and confirmation of Mr.. Stewart,
endorsed as it was unanimously by the
entire independent press Of the Union,
came as thunderbolt. He was known
beyond peradventure as a man of un.
questioned integrity and capacity, thor
oughly Versed In the wants of every in
dustrial isterest in the country, and a
most excellent judge of qualifications
necessary in subOrdinates.
The ring managers knew too well
that they could neither cheat, control
nor corrupt him. The trading politi-
clans saw that four years successful
administration of the nations financial
affairs would create dangerous candi-
date for the next Presidency, and they
straightway resolved to prevent him
from taking his seat. AS soon as the
nominations were known, Mr.. Stiles of
Pennsylvania, moved and procured an
adjournment of the House for three
days, in order to prevent the repeal of
the law until the rings forces had time
to organize for the contest. A breathing
spell having been thus Obtained they
set at work with will. The most alb
surd lies were invented and set atiOat
respecting the new Secretary's lncapac-
ity and unfitness for the office. An hon
orable member from Pennsylvania rep
resented him as an inveterate enemy to
the entire manufacturing interests of
the country, though he well knew that
the house of AT. Stewart X Co. was
the largest purchasers of American man
ufactuTed goods in the world; that it
purchased more Philadelphia made car
nets annually than all the Philadelphia
merchants combined. The ckCrdlierS
dipduStrie of the Industrial League
ioined the chorus of lies.
In spite, however, of all their efforts
it was clearly seen that the obsolete
| law would be wiped from the statute
L ,rI, he
was permitted to remain before Con-
gress. An effort was accordingly made
to induce President Grant to withdraw
his request for its repeal. A few weak
friends of the President, frightened at
the camor of the trading politicians
and ring managers, were persuaded to
advise its withdrawal, which was re-
luctantly done, and the rings first tri-
umph over the President was complete.
IG remains to be seen whether the
corrupt rings will follow up their first
decided victory and obtain a complete
control of the new administration or fall
back to enjoy their ill-gotten gains of
the past eight years.
1t was interesting to observe the
amount of cOnscientiousness developed
while the question Of the SeCretaryship
was pending. Senator Sumner was so
profoundly" impressed with the i'm
portance of retaining on the statute
book a law that has not been in force
during the past sixty years that he for
got for the time being to urge the dou-
Die payment of the Massachusetts war
claim of 1912 or the Mrs Lincoln pen
sion job.
Senator Pomeroy forgot that ne was
ever President of the Atcbison and
Pixies Peak Railroad Company that re-
ceived a gratuity of about S2,O00,000 of
our national domain and "loan" of
81 600, 900 from our national Treasury
Senator Cattell forget that he was
President of the Corn Exchange Nation
al Bank of Philadelphia and that that
favored institution was blessed with
United States deposits free Of interest.
1t will thus be seen that there is moth
ing TO prevent United States Senator
from feathering his nest from national
Treasury, if he happens to be national
bank president, or at the head of a wild
cat railroad company. But a distin.
| guished merchant must be excluded
/ from participating in the affairs of the
government lest he should endanger the
revenues by partiaiity in the exercise of
his duties.
Perhaps the most remarkable exam.
pie of craftsmanship and conscientious.
ness shown In this contest of the rings,
was exhibited by Senator Conkling who,
with the care and grace for which he is
so justly celebrated, took strong
grounds on both sides, according to the
predilections of the listener. Two
! faced craftsmanship is evidently Mr..
Cenkling's forte. Though he seldom
fights corrupt rings, he often finds it
highly expedient to appear in the char
acter of their worst enemy and the peo
Piles champion. Great is hunbug. %
IH rPBoils, Carbuncles, Eruptions and
Pimples on the face, Sallowness of the
Complexion, General Debility, are
broug ght about by an impure state OF
Blood. Rosadalis has been found TO be
permanent cure for this class of dis
eases. 1t should be taken uRtll all the
morbid matter is carried out of the sys
TEN, and the blood is changed from Its