The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-13
BY TELEGRAPH.
The Vienna Exposition Management
REPORT or INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
WAsHINGroN, Aug. 10.

The investigating committee on the
Vienna exposition management have sent
to the state department full report of the
correspondence between the state depart
ment Minister Jay and the implicated
commissioners are treated with testimony
by witnesses, all details of which are al
ready published.
CORRUPT MANAGEMENT DISCOVERED.
In conclusion, the special commission
find as the result of their investigation that
the commission to Vienna has been manag-
ed corruptly and for personal purposes TO
the great detrimcnt of the American de-
partment and in violation of American
honor, and that such corrupt management
has moi only lost to the country an oppor-
tunity of exhibiting art. industry and cul-
turc of the Republic in their fair proper
tions to the most intelligent representa-
tives of all nations in manner calculated
to enhance our national prestige and COM
mcrcial prosperity, the that it has exposed
us to national humiliation at Vienna aud
throughout the world
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AFFAIRs.
Touching the responsibility for the bust
ness active part taken in it by Gen. VIM.
Mayer. first assistant commissioner, has
been either openly acknowledged or dis
tinctly proven OF the other assistant com
missioncrs none appear to have been close
ly connected with the management in New
York, excepting Albert f.. Strasny and
Robert III. Sargent. of these Strasny alone
appears to have known that moneys had
been Improperly taken. and there seems no
reason to doubt his declaration that he
heard it by accident and protested 10 May
cr against it, and that he was excluded
from confidence in regard to this part of
the management
Mr. Sargcnts conduct as commissioner
in the loading of the supply and guard and
his remaining at New York in violation of
his engagement, to report at Trieste for I'M
loading of vessels, seems to demand cx-
PLANTATION. The evidence shows M taking
of money by members of the commission
except Gen. Van Buren, and Mr. Mayer.
THE SHARE OF GEN. VAN BrREN.
In regard to Gen. Van Buren, the special
commission do not hesitate to report that
they dissent from his justification of the
taking Of $500. as loan from lIlt2cl.
under the circumstances shown in the evil
dcnce that they hold unsatisfactory.
The explanations given by Mr.. Van Blu
rem touching ~ 900 which he received
from Messrs Boehm and Wiehl, that they
find an utter want of irankncss and uncN-
cusablc disregard of cXactness in state
mcntS made by him to the secretary of
state in his letters of the 18th and 18Th of
March in regard to the number of conces-
sions for bars and touching kilograms from
Vienna reporting the character Of the cor
ruption, and that in the eNactEeSs of aSsur-
ance then given misled the government into
the belief that no Irregularities had been
committed, demanding au investigation at
New York, and thus compelled transfer
of enquiry at Vienna.
THE COMPLETELY or MAYER.
As TO the justification set up by Mayer
that all he did in taking and asking of
moneys was done by him as = subordinate
with the knowledge and approval of the
chief commissioner, and as to various ques-
lions of vcracity raised by the evidence be-
tween Gen. Van Buren, and Gen. Mayer.
touching the alleged complicity of the for
mer in the proceedings of the latter and
the sharing by Gen. Van Buren, of the see
ond thousand dollars obtained from Boehm
and Wiehl, the special commission re-
frain from expressing an opinion for
reasons,
First-That they do not deem the dis
cussion Of these points essential to General
Mayer since no such approval of acts nor
partition of moneys would, in theiropinion,
render their acts proper, or constitute n
valid defence for their commission.
I lSecond-That the testimony indicates
that additional and more conclusive evil
ence on these points is attainabc at New
York than can be found in Vienna.
Third-That we do not conceive. for
reasons to be previously stated, their judy
ment on this point is necessarily embraced
in the scope of their instructions.
THE NEGLECTED DUTIES.
They hold that it was the duty of the
chief Of the American commission to en-
crcise so wise vigilance in the appoint
ment of each of all of his assistants, and
especially of his first and confidential as
sistant, and so exact a supervision of the
management of the commission as to pro-
tect it from the smallest faint of suspicion
of corruption, and enable ii to accomplish
at Vienna reasonable success, and fully
to represent the integrity and honor of the
government.
Were the special commission to admit
Justice of Gen. Van Burcn's defence for
acts which he acknowledges and were they
to pronounce unproyen every charge made
against him by General Mayer of having
approved and shared his eXactions of
money there would still be grayer charge
than corruption which could be preferred
against the chief of the commission ap-
pointed to represent an assemhage of ma
tons the industry, the culture and fair fame
of our republic, the charge of having per-
mltted through period of months from a
want of clear sighted intelligence and due
vigilance lose the management indicated
by the testimony, marked by irregularities
which have arrested the success of the COM
missioners and brought dishonor on the re-
public,
a sCATHlNG REBUkE.
The special commission therefore with
out entering at all upon the charges of
cnmnliciiY made aganst him by Mr. MAYER