Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-03
GRANT AND sCHURZ.
The President and the Liberal Move
ment i'm Missouri-Facss Regard
ing the Treatment of Senator
SchurZ at the White House-The
President Bitter against the Mis-

Ihe president and the Liberal Move
ment i'm Nzissouri-Faces Regard
ing the Treatment OF Senator
Schurz at the White House-Tht
President Bitter against the Wis
souri, Senator.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Some interest.
ing facts have come to me to-day regard.
ing the Presidents eccentric treatment Of
Senator Schurz, in connection with Mis-
souri, politics, and the latter's visit to the
White House fortnight ago. These facts
may be relied on as authentic When the
Presidents letter to Collector Ford, of st.
Louis, reached the eye eff Senator Schurz,
that gentleman wrote respectful letter to
the President, inclosing a COPY O
the letter, and stated his belief that some
portion of the Presidents letter had been
omitted in its publication. and that he
thought the President would not wire
such letter without some qualification.
de merely wrote to ask if the letter was
genuine. To this letter, which was couch
ed In the most respectful language, the
President made no reply, and the cam
paign proceeded, with what result the pub
lie is well informed Senator Schurz ar
rived here on Tuesday, the 18th inst, the
receipt OF his letter not even having been
acknowledged in the meantime by the
President. The Senator was engaged on
the day Of his arrival in arranging his
household affairs, and did not call at the
White House, and the Chronicle here, the
following morning, took conspicuous
notice of the fact in q printed edi-
torlal paragraph. On Thursday Senator
Schurz visited the White House and found
small delegation of Quaker Indian agents
IN the waiting ICON. He sent a card in
the usual manner to the President, soon
after which His Excellency summoned the
Quakers to his receiving room. leaving
Senator Schurz, contrary to all the usaees
which have prevailed in the intercourse
between President and member of the
Senate, waiting in the ante-room. Soon
after the Quakers were admitted. the Presi- |
dent sent word to Schurz that he was very
busy with Revenue case; that when that |
should be finished he would be engaged
upon another, and in fact he would not be |
able to see him on that day. Upon this |
Senator Scurz quietly left the building and |
mas not entered it since, nor has he re- |
celVed, either from the President or his
friends, an explanation of the affront. |
The Senator feels that be has been dis |
courteously treated by the President. and |
his friends here believe that it was inten-
tional.
Ia the same connection the Presidents
treatment of one of Schurz' especial friends
may be mentioned. Mr.. Kaufman, an
influential German, and the defeated Re-
publican candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor of New York, who ran about ten
thousand votes ahead of his ticket, called |
on the President during his visit here last !
week, to psg his respects. The common
clVlllties had hardly been exchanged, when
the President assailed the course which |
SchuIz had pursued, and spoke of him in |
no hattering terms, at the same time init
mating that he should not regard favora-
bly, the claims of certain German Office
nolders. In view of all the facts in the
case, the friends of Senator Schurz do not
hesitate to express the belief that he will
make public recital of the facts from his
place In the Senate at an early day in the
session. In the meantime the Senator de-
clares that he is still Republican, and
that he intends to remain in the party:
that he is net interested in the formation
OF new organization, nor has he sny
for the movement.