New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-04

In spite of their bold attitude believe the Infalli
blists TO be thoroughly alarmed their dehance ~
fun in the journals have mentioned cannot easily
be translated account of the dialect or local al
lusions The specimens have given show the gene
raj drift and aim of the humOr which IL now popular
here, rather than its peculiar character. b. I.
! GEN. VAN buren, AGAIN DEFENDS HIMSELF.
HIS INDIGNATION AT HIS TREATMENT BY THE AMER
ICAN PREss-THE CONTRACTS FOR COVERING
THE COURTYARD AND FOR THE ADDITION TO
THE MACHINERY HALL AT VIENNA AWARDED BY
MR. MKLRATH-rHE CHIEF COMMISSIONER AS
sERTs his ENTIRE INNOCENCE.
TO the Edstor Of TIE Tribune.
SIR: Since my letter to you of the 18th, L
have been favored by perusa OF issue of May l.
containing your Vienna correspondence OF April B and
your editorial ndorsing its statements. more inde-
fensbIe outrage than this whole treatment OF myself
and my associate Commissioners by the press OF our
country 1 cannot conceive Of We are here IN
foreign land deprived Of official positions, accused
Of some naDeless crimes the purport Of which we are
not allowed to know the subject OF secret invesga-
ton without permission the evidence face our
accnsers their witnesses and the safe
target every scrbbler who desires TO make sensa
ton. BY sweeping order myself and thirteen Assistant
Comm ssiones suspended from positions conferred
upon by the President, and the interests with which
wo have become identified and thoroughly familiar by
into the hands Of strangers The work Of putting our
department OF Exhibition In order arrested at once
Everyhngi thrown into disorder and this very state OF
things, the necessary result OF our suspension, Is
charged upon crime. OF the fourteen Commission
ers suspended you publish the names OF eleven who are
not suspected Of wrong but add that the Examining
Board recommend that be at present restored"
The gross Injustice OF this not strike you.
In your article Of the 18th Of April Of the avest
charges brought against my Commission was that some
OF the Commission bought their places at from $1,000 to
5000 each Not word Of this now, but exhibitors
have paid money TO Commissioners for places con
tracts have been awarded for percentage OF the prof
it's" &c. sc. defy particle OF proof of these infa
nous assertions When they shown to be equally
without foundation az former charges what further
excuses will be made for this scandaious playing with
character, II 10 we're football at the mercy OF every
idler ana vagaDondf
Your correspondent gives great credit TO MI Neil
ratb Who he saws. u incidentally az Vienna Mr..
McElrath appointed an Assistant Commissioner 0y
me, and came TO Vienna upon my orders anu u was DC
who signed the contract for covering the courtyard,
and who AWARDED verbal contract for building the
addition 10 the machinery nail when your eoresponu
ent positively asserts was gwen upon naAgteeinenl
that five per cent was to De PAID TO the Conmasoner
having charge OF the job. And Mr. McErath one OF
the secret commission which sits nJudgment upon inns
contract So too IN reference 10 the cnrge Ihat
per cent 10 be pad by the contractor Tor hitting
up the Ametcan department ms contract "ts never
made by me, OF by my authority, but, II At al,
whatever % dishonesty against Mr. heErath nor wond
believe il n made BY another without the most pos,
az 10 Judgment upon these charges IL seems also from
your editorial that we have succeeded in bullying the
imperial aahorites OF more space, and now nave
NO goods an 10 :" and correspondent SAYS that
aTcies nave beeu refused in order to extort money &C.
&c Who any body. did this bullying OF the Imperial
authorities - Certainly not myself or my Commission.
We went TO work ana constructed the additional space
| required and when left the United States had
enough goods 20 NIL every foot OF room at our disposal
Tne story OF exhibitors paying for space Oeeys 10 DC
as base fasehood ali the rest OF the ADeis against
the Commission. have never yet found an exhibitor
who knew anything OF TINS charge ana assert mat
exhibitors could make their views aud wishes felt this
dlsgracefu business would have been ended long ago.
ana would have had our department III very differ
ent condition from the present.
IL Is that there papers here and no
Commissioners 20 discharge the supply Had my Com
mission been nterfered with tue cargo OF the sup
ply would been landed in Vienna in the per
rect order in which IL shipped is idle to talk OF
Engands preparation. highlands appropriation
my appointment She Ia comparatively near Vienna
ali her exhibitors shipped their own goods aud paid
from portions OF country thousands OF miles from
the seacoast, without an appropriation, and shipped
the Atlantic ana through the Mediterranean 70
Trieste andithis IA few mouths and IN perfect order
Of May and I had written permission from Baron
schwsSs 10 bring them IN afterward on the lst OF May
there department OF the Exhibition 10 order ADD
scarcely one Is finished. l am rated in Tie
Neto- York Herald for leaving New-YOrk ana by lHB
TRIBUNE for being at Vienna before. am suspended
from my position because one Of my Commissioners
accused OF wrong without chance TO defend himself
Corruption IL charged in NewYOrk and Vienna without
proof, and held responsible for it all. Goods
here in great quantities and no buildings ready FOR
here and goods to MI t-al the Iaut OF the Chief
Commissioner
What will our people say when it is proved that all
charges OF corruption and neglect and want OF
pacity are baseess IabucauOnsi All the American
newspapers have seen as5ume that there must nave
great guilt somewhere IN the Commission, or 40
such violent action would have been taken by the Gov
ernment. Why the charges and proof published
so tnat people judge OF both. Tnis
mission still drdgs It's slow length along examines
into every bit OF street gossip and ,wnhOds ia
mlnOus evidence from the Department. We nave been
removed at tho dicUluOn OF the Hon. John
law and at the proper time Will tell yOu Why Your
Washington telegram saws that II Is determined not %
restore me- however innocent may be proved; but
an be- given paper reCtng my innocence. l cannot
believe this. have not lost confidence IN President
Grant, and believe he possesses that trueSt
which Will not hesitate 70 correct error for right wrong
when discovered NO eertncate az character Will con-
pensate for the tndgnitie have suffered. Ny char
acter truth and integrity will survive all the assaults
made upon it. Restitution my position here, the
graced, is my right, and believe will De given me by
the President the spOtess reputation OF life shall
not be wIested from by either minister with
impunty try to possess my soul In patience bat II
there Justice broad land, shall hope
IL one OF days, TINS whole shall be
sifed by correspondents who bask In the smiles OF
the American Legation at Vienna, nut by a tribunal
which Will not Do blinded by titles or influenced by
power. THOMAS b VAN BURES.
TINE FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO STATE IT'S CASE.
From The Ne0 York Evening
We have not hitherto had much 10 say In !
regard 10 che Vienna scandal is custom 10
Gscuss subjects whore the facts not accurately
known. But have heard in this matter Gen. Van |
Judge from internal evidence, his whole defense II
There any other charges against him That have
yet been made, or II the Government has still !.
against him which he has not met 10 Is time that
IL waa public. The removal OF the whole COmmls-
SION was, under the circumstances extreme
We are that Judging from and style
Of Gen Buren's letter. Judging especially from The
aot that he improperly in a subordinate /
rommssioner from the keeper OF tarant
had rUtlg he NJ