The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-18
HARLAN, FRELINGHUYsEN AND
SCNURZ.

continued on Thursday, Senator
Harlan and Frelinghuysen appearing
for the defense.
The Administration was unfortun,
ate in the selection of one of these
advocates. Senator Harlan's repu
tation can do the Administration nc
good. He has been connected in the
conscience of the country with toe
many financial jobs to retain that
unsullied repute essential in an ad
vocate. 1t mas been long noticeable
that whenever a scheme of the cor
ruptionists has been threatened with
exposure, Harlan vas always ready
to champion it. He has made him
self notorious as a steady defender
of thieves and rascals in every de
partment of the Government !; and
it is generally believed that the i'm
mense fortune he has accumulated
during his Senatorial term has been
wholly due to his corrupt connection
with Just such contracts as this now
under investigation. His own State
having repudiated him, and elected
his successor, he is clearly not the
man to appear for the Administra
ton in this crisis. Frelinghuysen
is a different sort of a man altogether
Harlan boldly denied that the Ad-
ministration knew that the arms sold
were for the French Government :
but in this assertion is fatty contra
dicted by the company itself to whom
the arms Were sold. Through the
Tribune the Remington Company
explains that 1.-THE company's pur-
chases were made through proper
and responsible persons, who adj
hered to the strict letter of the law.
nor vas there the least concealment
that the arms were bought for
France"
The balance of Harlan's speech
seems to have been limited to an at
tempt to impugn the correctness Of
some unimportant, Incidental details
charged by Summers preamble.
Frelinghuysen's remarks were in the
nature of a general denial, and seem
mostly aimed to effect a parliament
tary strangulation of the subject by
keeping Sumner off the committee
of investigation.
The country is more interested in
Schurz's opinion than that of any in
dividual Senator. A German by
birth, he is popularity presumed to
express the sentiment of his nation
ality in America on a matter directly
affecting his native country. He is
reported as follows:
Schurz followed in a long speech in
favor of the resolution, arguing that
there were the strongest of reasons for
the belief that the Government must
have known or had strong reasons to
believe thai the arms sold to Richard
son and TO bennington We're Intended
for h French Government. He de
clared that suspicious of this fact We're
current at the time of t e sales, both
in this COUNT and abroad, and he
said the subject WAS forced upon his
attention a year ago by letters, reSOlu-
tons and circumstances from German
born citizens, who believed that the
Government was selling arms to the
French. and urged him to attack the
Government for 1t in the Senate, but
he had forbOTne TO do so because he
did not think it prudent TO introduce
The subject at that time, IeStthe friends
of the Administration might be driven
justify its action, and disturb the
good feeling existing between it and
the German element. He had. how
done all he could in private to
sop the sales. The Secretary of War,
applied to, said that the Govern
had the right to sell arms to
citizens, and that he did not
know that the arms went into the
hands ofthe French. and that be saw
no reason to stop the sales. Sub>e-
luently the Secretary of State promised
% interfere, and finally they were
stopped; but the action of the officials
in the matter aroused his suspicious
that there was a job in it. He did not,
however, suspect the Secretary of W r..
believed him to be rather a viz N
than a cO-actOr. SchurZ said he w.
Of the impression that there was a mil
ltary ring somewhere, which was eX-
.r,ing a damaging influence on the