New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-11
THE POSTOFFTCE PIENIN.

jIawrs. VINO has gained some celebrity daring
the past fortnight as the PO't-Oire Plcman,
a celebrity which we may he permitted To
hope will be not unprOitIblc to him Ill MS
future business career. In the brcl GUtO-
biography with which Mr.. HAYES favor5 liz he
correct, the impression that he Is Memb
Of Congress from Nebraska. lie was elected
ga, q Member of tOngrcsI contingent the
contingency being upon Congress granting to
the state IN additional member, which he says
it declined to do. The roPlmand which
he gives the editors of Ncw-York papers
for their Grass ignorance of saw, in
Surprising that Lo could held at one
AMI the same time the position of Member OF
Congress from Nebraska and Pieman to the
New-YoIk POst-Ohice, seems to have been well
deserved. We DO not now recall the statute
which provides that the Picman to the New
York P0it-Ot.icc shall un'er no circumstances
be Member OF Con ,rcsS or OF the Cabinet OF
a Jude of the Supreme Court, but We have
always had distinct Impression that some
whc.e ia the written or unwrtteI law there
was such prohibition. The two relations
that OF Pcman 10 the 'Ost-Onice and lcglsla-
tor for the peOple-werc 40 manlte5tly mrOnsiSt-
cnt that we could not conceive OF the functions
being united in single individual. There ia
something in the moral attitude OF a man who
j. ntrtsted with the selection OF hnckleberry
lie for the General Public that seems utterly
inconglllors with the position of Il Member OF
Congress. No rigit-ninlei Public would toll
crate for IA sim le instant the thought Of hay
ing its hucnlebcry pie selected ami prepared
ny a Member of Congress. We were without
precise information regarding the special stat
ue which covers this case wo confess 9lit with
a strong presentiment that there mast be some
thing in tho written or unwiittcn or perhaps
international law touching this point, We
were particular to say that this gentleman
seemed to he Congressman.
Mr.. Uawts is not Membr Of Congress.
We congratul.te hin. Nor has he retired from
business. He did not eylalC, nor wane. nor
disappear. He moved to IN exceedingly ell
gibe location round the corner, and We are
clad TO Give Linn the benefit OF an advertise
mont of his place OF business at the corner
of Park place and Broadway. We confess,
however, that we do not understand the re-
mark of Alr. HAYES that zone OF orr Unit Il
States Senators" says "thiS stuff is in
turing our State" We could have wished
him to be more explicit as to the SEN
atyr and as 10 the State. Ncr do
Wo understand what stuff" is iDjurin5
the State. He cannot mean the pie. IL so,
what pei What kind OF pie! This is o
point upon which no United States Senator
can DO permitted 10 make sweeping and gen
eral charges. What kind of pie, we ask, in
the name of . community that runs the ga'lnt-
Let of all kinds of Summer complaints from
June to Scptembcr-what kind OF pic Is M
iurinc the State We call for tho name OK
the Senator and we demand II description OF
the pie. Ii is barely possible that the Senator
may have meant that the nOtOriety which the
p,eman was getting would injure the State.
But we cannot believe it. IL brought bust
ness to the Picnan aud credit to tho State.
The Picman earns an honest living in an hon
est way, and though crnsty Public did OBJ
iect to the scattering Of pe-cru't in Its path
IN the POst-Oiicc, there was nothing discrtd-
table or unworthy in it. There arc great
many Members OF Congress who would be
doing their country much better service selling
pie than legislating. But they would soon get
pcoplc out Of the way of eating pies. If Ne
braska Congressman all have as good a record
as Mr.. HAYES and mono Of them ever does
worse thing than sell pies and furnish little
innocent fun for the million, the state may
consider herself lucky and 10 Senator of hers
need get round shOudcred" over it.
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