The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-26
from the people of the United
States for q brief service.


Since attention was called to
| these matters, Mr.. Trumbuil has not
been so well satisfied with himself
We beg leave to remind him and
| the public of one or two other trans-
actions, reflection on which may
tend TO produce in his mind little
charity towards others. The ILL
nois Central Railroad Company re-
ceiVed from the Government the
most valuable land grant ever made
to a railroad company. In consid-
Grafton of it the company was
bound, in time of war, to transport
troops and munitions of war free
of charge. Its officers, however,
managed, amid the hustle of war,
to procure the allowance of large
sums for such services. When this
was discovered, a vigorous move
ment was made in Congress to COM
pei the Company to refund the sums
SO received, amounting, we think,
to over a million of dollars, and this
| movement promised to be success.
full until Senator Truml,uIl appear
ed as its tuntiring opponent. He
succeeded in defeating it, and with
in a short time a change was made
in the management of the land bu-
siness of the Illinois Central Rail
road Company, by which a thor
oughlys competent man was dis
placed and Senator Trumbull's no
more competent brother was put
into a good place. This was, of
course, done by some hocus-pocus
transfer of duties and change in the |
mode of doing business, but the |
general result was that the old in |
cumbent continued to do most of
the work, receiving good pay there
for, and Trumbull's brother got a |
good salary, which he continues to |
draw. The coincidence was so |
striking that Senator regarful of |
appearances woVld have been care |
full to avoid it. No doubt it is very |
wicked to recall such transactions as |
these, and is an evidence of our de- |
sire to "persecute" great men; but
still the truth may be told even of |
Senator Trumbull.
Mr.. Trumbull's course in perse-
cutting Gen Grant with requests
till he removed the wounded SOL
der, General Bloomfield, from his
pension agency, and procured the
of Senator Trumbull's
own brother-in-law in his place, has
been referred to in the Sem
ate. Emboldened by this success he
to compel the appoint
ment of his own son as Collector of
Internal Revenue for the district
which we know as the Territory of
Montana. But unfortunately for
him, there had been a little transac-
ton with the Marshal of that Terri
tory through which the character of
that son became known to the At
torney General of the United
States, and Gen. Grant preremptor-
lily refused to make the appoint
ment. 1t Mr.. Trumbull did not
vengeance for this refusal
he is greatly belied.
We commend the remembrance
Of these transactions to the Senator
from Illinois. 1t may have been ,
his knowledge, and against
his vigorous protest, that his broth
we think, law partner-got {
he good place under the Illinois .
Central Railroad Company. 1t may !
nave been defensible for Senator ,
Trumbull to insist upon the remov-
Il of crippled soldier, who, though ,
lie went to the war for the country
whose son he was, had not a BROTH q
,r-in-law who was a Senator. 1t
nay have been mere considerations
If duty to the Government and the l
people of Montana which led Sena- I
or Trumbull to select Senator
rrumbulPs son as the most proper a
person to fill an important Office. '
But the coincidence of all these
acts in connection with the ten
thousand dollars fee, and the one
recommendations for Of
flee, ought to leave criticism of his {
elbow Senators to some one who t
lad not been like himself and Sena-
or Schurz, persistent duns for Off I
les. He surely need not have des- Z
,aired of finding some one compe- 6
ent to undertake the task, If he had =
that among his pres {
mt associates is q Senator who is i,
o-day as unable to understand how Z
t happens that the President of the :
United States does not trust him, as r
lie was thirty years ago to under I
tand how stray package came to '
,e found in a mattrass. But then i
We must not presume to speak of 1
What Schurz or Trumbull or Upton :
ave done amiss, because they are
acred from criticism, while assum- +
ng the greatest license in criticising r
'thers.-fN n. Y. Times.