The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-12
SCHENCK.,

Gen. Poker. Emma N line Machado Schencl
II mot to be recalled from the English mission
- seems to be supposed in Cincinnati from
the afi davit of ex-Postmaster Green, of Day
ton, now on trial for embezzling public
money, who asks for delay, in order, as ht
alleges, to get the benefit Of Schenck's testi.
mony. There are various reasons, some re-
lating TO public affairs and others personal
Why Grant and Fish do not dare to touch
6chenck.
The secret history Of the treaty for the set
Element of the Alabama claims is yet to be
written. Many grave scandals connected with
that matter have long been floating about
Washington. It is believed that large sums
Of money were then placed where they would
do most good, and that high social elements
were enlisted in this service at the capital,
mover before suspected Of diplomatic or other
jobbery.
From first to last throughout the long ne
gotatlons the utmost secrecy was guarded,
especially on our side. The administration
was engaged in work that would not bear
the light Of day, and hence extraordinary
pains were taken to close up the avenues of
information, while at the same time the re-
tanned agents for the treaty, male and female,
wese using all the arts Of persuasion to create
. sentiment in its favor.
Schenck was one of the commiss oners, and
knows ell about the appliances that were used
% consummate bargain, in which this gov
eminent disgracefully retreated from all
its original demands, consented to eat hum
bio pie, and surrender to Great Britain princi.
pies that the United States had always asserted
n connection with the duties of neutrals in
time Of war.
The treaty was driven through the Senate
by party discipline. An amendment had to
be added to sugar the bitter pill. Even in
that form the Republican majority were afraid
to remove the injunction from the debate or
the vote, and to-day the extraordinary fact
stands of O treaty having been made and
executed. without the people having the least
knowledge of the reasons or considerations
that operated on its ratification.
For his services on this occasion, Schenck
was rewarded with the mission to St. James,
- Williams was nominated for Chief Justice
subsequently. It was q regular traffic, in
which the highest honors of the Republic and
its greatest trusts were paid out for real or
supposed aid in carrying this scheme through.
Hence all the exposures of Schenck's jobbery
in London, of his collusion with Wizard, and
Of the sale of his official position, have pro-
duced no harmful impression at Washington.
Reverdy johnson recently stated by authority
that the confidence of the Administration in
his integrity was in no way impaired.
But it he has not lost favor at the capital Of
his own country for ofenses which have
outraged all decency and subjected him to
prosecution in q foreign jurisdiction for
swindling, he has forfeited everything like
social respect in England. He must be toler-
ated officially SO long as this government
clothes him with representative capacity. But
beyond that formality, he has no standing,
and deserves to have none.
Thick as Schenck's hide is, he has not been
able to resist the shafts of scornful criticism
in the English press, or to endure the freezing
recognition of the society in which he ought
TO move with cordial greeting. Several
months ego he arranged with Fish to give up
the mission in May next and to return to the
United States. Thistact may be the founda-
ton for the story which comes from Cincin-
natl; for il has been known to the circle Of
Echepcks associates for some time past
Ne,o York Sun.
The golden Rer.de.lys which studded the
first royal standard OF France have been
variousiy interpreted. They have been
called lance-heads by some, bees BY others;
with others, lys is only corruption Of Logs
the signature of the first twelve Louises.
BY the addition Of a white cross, the blue flag
in process of years became white; but not
until the reign Of Henry ~ did the white flag
definitely become rovai. Two hundred years
aftsrward lin 1881 the union of the royal
white with the rebellious red and blue-the
colors of the dty Of Paris-formed the TIL
color cockade, the first tricolor flag OF red,
white and blue being unfurled year later,
and finally altered to its present combination
of blue, white and red.
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