The New York herald., 1872-07-24

dorscment Of treaty went very stimulate In
ton since obtained has shaped his DTsssS SSsSrv
This statement is true or else wilfully false be-
| cause although Forney might have misunderstood
the fact that Mr.. sumner afterwards admitted that
he had changed his mind. General Babcock certi-
nes IN writing that after the Int interview with the
the treaty carefully together; and that at the close
OF the interview, Mr.. Sumner said, 'That he could
administration IN the matter;' and further,
at .taat there was MOI. no objection y to the
ner havne meanwhe taken oence because hs
views and wishes In other matters were not de-
ierred to, became incensed at the President and
Mr. Fish, denounced them and among other things
the St. Domingo Treaty, and. raising an issue OF
veracity with three witnesses, denied that he ever
Ss he wsuS ss as cssy n
s,onsrs S1 to s.; Domingo ss NO cost beyond
the whole matter, and to ascertain whether,
as Mr.. Summer had charged lots in st.
names OF the President and Others This inquiry
seemed fair to most OF those who opposed and to
sn9se VINO .e hv ea oaa nd Mr. re-
ity OF the Foreign Relations Committee had joined
him In denouncing 1t he insisted that 1t should be
referred to that committee. The same familiar par
liamentary maxim about putting 'child to nurse
with those who care not for It," upon which he
rung the changes so often In
THE FRENCH ARMS AFPAIR,
was quoted to him IN vain: When the sale OF arms
was to be inquired into Mr. Sumner slandered the
Senate for appointing committee oil In favor of
investigating because the committee was not
biased In favor OF convicting somebody; but the st.
Domingo inquiry he insisted should go to commit
tee, or which q majority had declared In advance
against any inquiry at all. At the end OF a pro-
tracted and stubborn contest Congress authorized
commission to be sent, not, however, till Mr.
Sumner had denounced che President for not TAX
ing it upon himself, of his own authority, to send
gress. Now we hear from Mr. Sumner, not that the
President shrinks from his prerOga gatives, but that
he arrogantly oversteps them. Mr.. Wade, Or.
Howe, OF Boston, and President Andrew d. White
were selected as commissioners; they visited ST.
Domn o ana made report which few OF the
American people have read, but which will be read
when the din and passion OF to-day are orgOtten.
The report eXplodes utterly every calumnio Gus
pretance, and presents statement which leaves
no room to doubt the duty OF the Presi-
tlon Of St. Domingo, and to urge it upon
the attention OF the Senate and the country
1t may not be amiss here to allude to the effort to
rouse indignation over the so-caled ''remOval' Of
Mr. Sumner from the Committee OF Foreign Rela-
tlons. Mr.. Sumner was never ''remOvcdn at all
All Senate committees die at the ena OF each ses-
sion. All Senate comm tees are created anew at
been selected repeatedly for the Craftsmanship of
the committee referred to, and the question was
%way az looking oysr the whole Senate who would
sidered the best man for the place. At the time
In question, and for reasons easily stated, the
Senate thought 1t would not be wise to select
Mr. Sumner again for that committee, and he was
selected Tor another. This was not done because
Mr.. Sumner opposed st. Domingo, nor because he
President or the Secretary OF State wanted or did
not want Mr.. Sumner on this committee or on that
The reasons were wholly dYerent-they were rea-
sons OF the Senate alone, and reasons which have
governed the formation OF parliamentary com
mittees everywhere since such committees were
known The Committee on Foreign Affairs, in either
House or Congress-, ought not only, like other COM
mittees to represent the majority Of the body butt
for peculiar reasons, IL must be composed of men
who and will consult freely with the President
the Secretary q State, and their assistants. This
Is especially true OF the chairman, he being the
organ 'of the committee. Mr.. Sumner not only
welded his position as chairman in opposition to
the majority Of the Senate upon several important
questions, and boaSted In the Senate that the COM
mittee could not be changed, but his conduct and
language In public and In private had rendered il
those whom it was indispensable to confer
with freely, and impossible for them to
confer with him. Men cannot do business con-
veniently with those whom they denOunce and in
suit continually, nor with those toward whom they
assume offensive superiority, and the time came
with Mr.. Sumner, as chairman, when the Senate
was left In ignorance and business delayed for
weeks for lack OF information from the state De-
partment merely because Mr. Sumner did not hold
only cure for all this was to select another chair.
man. This was done, and nothing more, and it
having long lain buried I'm the committee after the
change OF chairman, were at once brought up
managing and espediting its own business, has
been made grave matter for public consideration,
and thrust at the President VINO had no more to
do with 1t than the Senate has to do with deciding
how many vegetables the President has on his
table. | leave this matter after asking one ques-
tion. Is there one man on this Continent, except
Mr.. Summer, who could with propriety have clung
to position after his associates who conf rred it
were unwilling he should retain IT. is there one
his being on this committee or on that
would lar the harmony Of the universe ~
Let me go on with the charges against the Presi-
dent. Few OF them figure more largely than ap-
gered the nation by the weight OF the dictionaries
encyclopedias and other big books which he has
finds it charged that POpes had children and called
them nephews, and lavished upon them the MONEYS
OF the Church; and he thinks that where public
office is to be filed aud good man is appointed at
the same pay any other man would receive, a case
has occurred like that Of the P0pes, provided the
gets IL are related to each other. This, II not use
full, is wonderful discovery.
From the morning o time common sense has dis
ttngutshed between creating useless and lucra-
tive snecure and bestowing 1t on a relative, and
selecting relative to do a service required to be
done. When Hannibal and Frederick the Great
and Napoleon and Emperor William put a brother
or son at the head Of an army, with rank and
titles, or even placed him on throne, the world
never thought 1t was like q sinecure for Papal
nephew. On the contrary in public and private
business, nothing has seemed more natural
than for those entrusted with affairs to employ
and associate with themselves persons In whom
they most conflded, whether relatives not. In
all such cases. II the person be 6t, little harm
whether he be a relative or not. II the appoint
ment OF relatives be crime, great many men,
including the busiest and most blatant 'berals' y
must be great criminals Andrew johnson, his
Cabinet and chief officers must have been huge
Offenders, for reasons which no one thought of at
the time, though every one knew OF them President
J0hnsOns son was his chief Private Secretary. Gov.
ernor Seward's son was Assistant Secretary Of
State. Edwin M. Stant0n's son was clerk in the
War Department.. Gideon Welles' son was CHIEF
Clerk OF the Navy Department.; and when Giddeon
to buy ships the scandal was not that he paid lust
sums to a relative, hut that he paid such sums at
all. Reverdy Johnson, Minister to England, made
his son Assistant secretary OF Legation. John A.
Dix Minister to France did the same thing with
his son. All this was under Andrew Johnson, but
when a drag net of criticism and Impeachment was
cast over him these things were not caught up.
Liberal" RELATIVES.
The ruenul ''refOrmers" themselves will not bear
examination this point Mr. Schurz pressed his
brother-n-law upon the President and obtained for
him lucrative Office. aud when Mr. Trunbull