The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-02-24
Cox on Diplomacy.

In tne House OF Representatives., on the
9th, the bill making appropriations for the
consular and diplomatic service being un-
House. As the readers of the Journal will
be interested in knowing the labors per-
formed by the citizens ''sent to lie abroad
in the service of the county, we make
some extracts from Mr.. Cox's comments
upon the ministerial and consular de-
spatches-
l find also a despatch from Greece where
there is a description, and Il very fine one, of
the Grecian mode of voting for members of the
chamber OF deputies. They bring Il long thing
like stove-pipe and the candidates hold up
the stove-pipe. The sutlragan takes white
ball or Il black ball, runs his arm way down so
as TO keep his secret from all mankind and
drops III an "ay' or Il mo" for one Of the can
didates who holds up the stove-pipe [Cireat
| laughter. That is interesting for civll-seryice
| reform! He says also that if one hundred
nominate candidate for the chamber of dcpu-
ties the candidate can run his stoVe-pipe any
how, and this iayors the third party men
everywhere. 1t would suit some of our friends
like our honorable professor over there who
gave us the maxim Onne ignotum pro magni-
fico est. Laughter. If gentlemen cannot un-
derstand when u hand goes in that way, how
it comes out in another way and elects some
one whom nobody likes, it is only because it is
too magnificent an Improvement ON our system
sent to u, from Greece at an expenditure of
$4,000 year. Laughter.
But, Mr.. Chairman, there are other things to
be learned. will pick up our correspondence
| with China. 1t is a wonderful correspondence
about the young emperor, Tung. He argues
in this way-I will have to read it because it
| touches something so near the other side
| Laughter
| For more than ten years past, blessed with the
counsels of maternal love, have striven to reach
the highest path. Happily it has been so, that
| wherever the armies of the state came, the Taip-
| ingj rebels of Yueh (Kwangtung and kwangsi) and
I the Nent banditti were vanquished and subued
before them, and the insurgents among the Miao Sc
! and the Mohanimedans in lunnan, kweichau, and
| Shensi have all been conquered and brought into
submission.
Laughter
Now that is pleasant reading, and | do love
! to read when we have to pay $1,000 for intor-
nation. Laughter. | especially commend
| to the gentlemen who have not shown any in
cnation toward amnesty this extract
| Tranquility has been everywhere restored; but,
though the mseries OF war have ceised, the injuries
| and wounds of people are not yet healed and
whenever we think of them it drives away all sleep
| and repose.
| This seems to have been an occasion for a
centennial amnesty in China. Laughter.l
1t is equally hope that all our ministers and
servants both civil and military in all parts of the
land will unite in blicSplrited and loyal efforts
| for the common good each zealously dis charging
his allotted duty that thus they may uphold for our
adopted successor more and more glorious rule.
If this BE done, the cravings Of our breast will be
| pssuaged Laughter.
That, Mr.. Chairman. is one Of She C0ntucian
sentiments we learn which is really useful.
| We ought to pay for it large sum. Laugh
ter. | should like very much to 90 Il little
further into this book. NV friend from Illinois
when he was speaking passed. over to me II
most remarkable document. | should hardly
| believe it to be genuine but for the authentic
| source-the State Department itself. Gentle
men say that there has never been an inquiry
| or Investigation as to this particular diplomatic
business. There never was such Il handsome
raking as this State Department has received
! this session by this democratic committee Of M
vestigation. 1t never had it before or Since
| have been here. 1t ought to have been done
before and YOU gentlemen on the other side of
| the House ought to have done t and received
the credit for it.
| know gentlemen will vote for the bill after
| they hear that for certain treaty about Iur-
key and its minister of foreign affairs we have
| paid 81 ISL francs Now, what was ii p;ud for .
10 corrupt Turkish officials to obtain from
| them Il treaty? Comment is useless To this
| House on such scanCalous outrage upon NOR
aIitv 1t was paid by Mr.. Boxer " Satyct
Pasha, minister Of foreign affairs in Turkey,
| and his son and household But what for:
70 make treaty. Did you ever see that trca-
ty. 1t hats never been published. There is Il
reference to it in the Presidents message, but
you cannot find the treaty. Our minister, Mr.
Boxer, paid to Satvet PaSha, minister OF for
eien affairs, according to this account, 54,lSl
francs for himself and other Turkish officials
| to run Il treaty through the Sublime Porte.
Laughter. Now, what does thai mean: !:
You honest republicans ought to understand
| it. Iaughter.l just look at this Item tire
last one in this bill: "Four cake-boWls, round
feet, style of Louis XVI, toliage-handleS, with
| birds; four silver bowls, Scallopcd border, as
| sorted to match center-piece; four cast bay
| trees, chSeled on the castings; chlscled gar
| lands; flat channel, chiSecd, in the center Il
bouquet of chiseled flowers, gilt and gold bot
TOM 3171 trancs.'' The whole thing was
''chiseled." Great Laugbter.l Certainly it
was; but | should like to know who else was
chiseled. Iaughter.]
| Now let us look at the other items. let me
| read this French. | wish | could do il better.
| but | never could understand English well
enough in this House. Laughter the gentle
man will only remember his wrongly quoted
motto, "Omne ignotum pro magnlfico est"
| will read him only one item to satisfy that mot
| to. Laughter Here is the bin rendered to our
State Department from Mr.. Boxer by M. Man
anian, lubricant ioallier, rue de RicheIleu. No.
H. doit NJ. son excellence Monsieur Boxer,
Paris lie 6 un 1870" Laughter. That means
that Mr.. Boxer is excellent; and 50 he is. But
his bill does not look so excellent. 1t amounts
to 10, 700 francs. And it is settled-"Pour acquit
| Paris, lie s juin 1873, NJ. Mananan." Here are
some of the items: "Epingle de cravatc, fer a
cheval, pierres variees, 1000 francs.' DO you
know what that is, gentlemen from the West:
| TGreat laughter. My friend from New Eng
| land Mr.. Seeye knows what it is. 1t is pin
| for a crayat in the form of an IRON horse, with
various stones set in it. Laughter -Four
| thousand francs. Nearly thousand dollars
for that locomotive, put as brea>tpln IN the
| cravat of Il son Of Safvct Pasha, the minister of
foreign affairs. Perhaps he gave it to one Of the
| houris liz his harem. Here there is another
ltem SO boutons de chemse en- blllantS, 1000
francs" That is, three shirt-buttons. Laugh
ter. How will our hard-workcd mechanics and
farmers like these items?
Well Mr.. Chairman, gentlemen say that we
laugh this bill out of court. We do not mean
that. We simply mean to show up, after the
modest and logical manner of the reductio ad
absurdum, precisely how you have conducted
the best-conducteu Department in your Gov
ernment If this can be done in the green tree,
what can be done in the dry: If they can DO
this in a respectable Department. presided over
by an ex-governor and an ex-senator from New
York, a distinguished man. an honest man, and
do this without accountability, what will they
do in the Indian Department, God only knows.
| Laughter.l
Now, gentlemen, will go to Greece, although
there is hardly Il grease spot LETT! Laughter.
| However, there is something very interesting
| in connection with Greece, which would like
10 IplGI 10. ttO IOt tHliih IL HAS 'Ooh ~
Eausted altogether, The gentleman from Hi
nois, Mr.. Springerl anticipated me Il little. as
| | was the first man to find out the interesting
letters which he has quoted. My friend Judge
Holman also anticipated me, but he did not
find, read nor comment on the most interesting
eplstles Here is one:
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES
| Athens March s, 1879. (teceived April 5.)
SIR: magnificent ball took place on the 3D. in
| stant. On that occasion the American minister had
the honor to be selected TO lead contradance with
| the queen.
Now that is something that like. 1t makes
me wish to defend in one sense the minister to
Greece. | will defend anybody that has been
50 abused as this minister. Why what do we
not owe to Greece? Think oft! The land where
''burning Sappho loved and sung and all the
rest of Byron's fine ode, which you, Mr.. Chair
man, rehearsed in your boyhood. Think Of
| Athens-the eye of Greece, and the Piraeus,
which had been called the ''eyesore of Greece" /"
Think of the arts of war and peace which
Greece illustrated two thousand years ago.
| Think of Marathon and Salamis, and the ships
by thousands" which used to lay below, but
which do not lay around there at all now, es-