New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-08
TIE EMMA MINE SCANDAL.
MINISTER sCHENCK's DISGRACE

MINISTER SCHENCK'S DISGRACE.
FURTHlR ATTEMPTS AT yINDICAnoN-HIs DEFENSE
DIsTRUsTED--GRAvE SUSPICIOUS JNREMoVED-
THE LEGATION DIsHoNoRED-GEN. sCHENCks
FAME AS A POKER PLAYER PFRPETUATED.
PROM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBuNE.l
LONDON, Nov. 20.-The AnglO-AmGicdn Tunes OF
this week returns, with perhaps more zeal than
Judgment to Gen. Schencks defense III long artl-
Gle which purports TO explain the transactions be-
tween Gen. Schenck and Mr.. Park. 1t publishes the
documents, OF some of them, which passed between
those two gentlemen touching the so-caed loan OF
$4,000 by Park to Schenck and the guarantee to
the latter of per cent interest on the Emma stock
he was supposed 10 purchase with this money. IN
happily this long narrative does not cover all
the points necessary TO Gen. Schenck's vim
dication. 1t has never been doubted that
papers could be produced which should
be regular in form. The production Of such papers
goes for nothing with those who believe that the III
ducements which led Gen. Schenck to permit the
advertised use of bis Official title as Minister III con-
nection with the Emma Mine were not OF KIND to
he recorded in writing; or that, IL recorded, thc
records not among those now given to the pubhc
Gen. Schenck's apoc fist has done too much OF not
enough. Too much if, as he intmates, diplomatic
reasons have compelled the United States Minister
TO keen silence when he had good defense
TO the calunnes widely circulated III
London and so widely believed Too little, be-
cause he has not published the whole testimony on
which be bases Gen. Sohenck's defense. Nothing
will clear Cen Schenck but the whole truth. If
that will for my part shall be heartily glad. II he
can be cleared. a stain which through him has long
rested Oh the honor of the country he represents
will be washed out. But it cannot be done by pub
fishing selections from his exaInnatOn-in-chef, aud
suppressng the whole Of his crOss-eXamina-
ton. The latter is described by his pres
ent advocate as "insolent." / have heard
it described very damaging. Whether
il be damagD not, the suppression of IT IS dam
aging. One side-tbe partisans of schenck-treat
his evidence as an exoneraton. The ether side-the
representative of the deTauded shareholders OF the
Emma Mne-treats it as proof that lie was brlDed.
Until il is all published, and until all other attain
able evidence is published the public will, at best,
suspend its judgment.
What a position, meantime, Is that Of the Amer-
can Legation aud of Americans in London! An
active discussion going whether or not the
American Minister was OF was not an accomplce III
one of the largest frauds ever perpetrated, and
whether or not he was brbed TO become an accom-
plice For years a considerable part Of the English
public asserting and believing that he was. Ills own
advocate says this week:
As the most conspicuous OF those connected with the
tbe failure of the enterprise hardened into calumny.
whereby he represented as having lent MS name IOf
MIN by his Government to dcude the English pubic into
fraud The story nosed over Europe and America has
% DSgT %s 81 ali others IN which Americans. feel nr
sensitivey, the Minister OF te United staes nas
had to for years not ony fire OF press nVectVe
but in society an underlined feeling Of repioacn
"IndeGned" is not the word which correctly de-
scribes the rcproacles leveled at Gen. Schenck.
In society and elsewhere they have been only too
well defined. But what Gen. Schencks own cham
pion-whO has evidently been supplied by himself
with a malicious selection of dOcuments-nOw says,
is only the reaffirnation and proof of what every
impartial person long since felt and urged Amerl-
cans have right to be represented in London by
Minister who-no matter how innocent he may be-
has not incurred these reproaches, nor subjected
himself TO suspicion. Probably President Grant
might have taken the view, had lie not regarded
Gen. Schcnck like Richardson and Delano and the
rest Of the martyrs, under fire"
Irecret to hear that Gen. Schenck has expressed
strong dsapproval of the article OH Poker III the
ne,g volume of the American Cyclopeda, This is
surprising because on turning to the article it is
avowedly based OH the celebrated treatise on that
game of which Gen. Schenck is himself the author.
Nor can ne complain that credit IS not given him. for
if is clearly stated that the account there given of
the manner Of playing the game Is substantially
that contained IN q paiDphIet ny bci' hopoIb -
Sehenck, published in England. And, in fact, the
Cvclopadia article is almost a reprint of Gen.
Scheucks manual with the exception OF such
changes as were necessary TO make II good En-
glish He is thus recognized, and VIII be
handed down 10 postcrity, the first living
authority on a game which he has assiduously
lahored TO introduce into England, with some sue
cess and which he has himself long sssldu0uaiy
practiced both at home and abroad, also with some
success but it is said with less than such persistent
aBpcation deserves. II may be that he thinks these
labors and this lifelong devotion on his part to so
noble a pursuit ought TO have been more expressly
recognized-tbat be expected fuller appreciation
az 80 honorable an ambition. j think my5eu some
such tribute might have been paid him. 1t certainly
might have been stated that the INTRODUCTION OF
Poker among the British aristocracy is one OF the
two things which have made, and VIII long
make Gen. Schencks mission to England
directOrship Of the Emma Mne). Probably, now
ever these more personal matters Will be snitaDIy
dwelt upon in the biography OF Gen. Schenck which
will appear IN future volume 1t must be admitted
nevertheless that 10 was an oversight not 10 luehty
the author of the Poker treatise more particularly
He is spoken of simply as Cen hopert " ecntG Lis
whereas il would have been more Just 70 add his
title las il was added in both cases when he was ad-
vertsed as trustee and director OF the Emma Mine)
as limited states Minister at the Court OF ST. James
This omission may fairly justify his complaint but y
can scarcely excuse the terms III which he Is reported
10 denOunce the Cycop9dia, ITS publishers, edItois,
and everybody connected with IT. HIS Language
wa ~ correctly reported painfully violent, ana
even IL il said-though hope thus IL not uue-pio-
fame He forgot, for the moment, the maAin Win
which he concludes his excellent discoursc' that
success in the game land Il 10 true OF Diplomacy ne