The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-18
A Defence Of Gen. Schenok.

The Anglo-American Times, of London,
comes TO the defence of the United States
Minister to England, against those who as
sail him tor his connection with the Emma
Mine; and we have read with interest the
FIVE column article which the Times de-
votes to the subject. We copy portion
of it, the more willingly, because almost
every other journal, on both sides the
days, and the case seems likely to 20
against him by clsmor, rather than by free
consideration of all that 10 to be said on both
sides. The Times says:
He (Gen. Schenek) had become large
shareholder in an enterprise of which he
thought 80 well that he had hazarded his
income upon it; aud the General, but little
used to Diplomatic etiquette, took bust
ness view Of the matter, though at first be
deemed the position he held barred such
action. 1t was natural for him to desire to
be on the Board of Company wherein he
had placed so heavy stake, and the an
swer to the diplomatic objection was that
at the very moment the Duke of Saldanha,
Envoy extraordinary from the government
of Portugal at this court, was not merely
a director but chairman and promoter of
the Lisbon Steam Tramways Co., then Of
fered in shares to the British republic.
This objection which had REQUIRED again
and again to General Schencks mind, SO
far removed, he saw no sufficient grounds
for declining place on the board provided
no fault could be found with the names of
tkn. h. ,oI taI 10,
tors. 1nquiripg, he was soon satisfied, and
it will readily be admitted in this country
that his English fellow-directors were men in
high position, and in every way unobjection-
able. Perhaps the solicitors who have fur
nished the pirate report for the informa-
lion of the Emma shareholders are pre-
pared also to assert that the Minister'S name
was used to entrap them but very rigid,
nay, IT an insolent cross-examination of
Gen. Schenck by the counsel they employ
ed, only brought out distinctly the fact,
that it was their names which had induced
General Schenck to allow him to be enroll
ed on the list.
Those who have not followed the history
of the emma" may not understand the
motive for his persecution; nor do we but
1t is curious that they who pretend 10 have
been so DESTROYS of eliciting the truth,
should not have brought before the Com
mission, though requested by Parks coun-
sci to do so, Mr. Macdougall and Mr.. PAT
fard, the two who have come most prom
inently before the public in accusation.
In answer to the counsel's suggestion, Mr..
Gardiner said Pafisrd had no evidence to
give, while he positively declined to call
Mr.. Mcdougall. This counsel, shrewd
lawyer, remarked in our hearing-there
was not particle of evidence taken by that
commission which he would desire on his
clients behalf to have expunged, adding,
Sin his opinion the company would not at
tempt to bring the case into court, for the
inquiry had revealed that the prosecution
had no case whatever" If they had, the
board would not have retired in 20 undig-
nifed way.
To resume, however, 10 sooner did the
prospectus appear than the improperly of
the American minister lending his name to
such an enterprise became subject of COM
ment both on this and on the other side OF
the Atlantic, and as General Schenck tells
in his deposition we last week published,
he Immediately withdrew from the board
and thereafter ceased TO have any business
connection with the company. What had
passed unchallenged in the Envoy from
Portugal did not appear TO be permissible
in the Envoy from the United States, though
the latter had merely sat on the board as a
shareholder the former had promoted the
company. OF the 500 shares 25 had been
taken for q friend in Paris TO whom they
we're transferred at par, and on the receipt
OF $500 purchase money 1t was at once
handed to Mr.. Park, that being the fret in
stalment made by the General, who, ever
since, has been disposing OF property fer
the means of repayment.
However disagreeable 1t may be to any
gentleman, especially one who represents
a great nation, to have his private affairs
thus publicly discussed, it has become nee
essary in this case TO publish all to the doc
umenis which show General Schencks
connection with the mine, for nothing es
will dssipate the delusion under which the
public labor that the minister received somf
jonls for lending Ills name to the Emma,
that the alleged loan was not mere blind;
in word, that he did not stand in better
position than any other shareholder, where