New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-20
PHILLIPS on GRANT And SUINER.


OF HIS RESI- FRItNDs. ,-..
From Wendell Pttttpss Ne,ctOn Lecture, on Thursday
Erening
But General Grant says that Mr.. Sumner
lied remember the occasion. Pardon me II rece 1t
Mr. Sumner received from t9 hana on GS p vino
drove w TO his door while he was sttlng WIN some
friends at dnner-tabe. He said to the President: 81
will look at the bill. | trust VIII nave tle pieasule
OF supporting the Administration" They were words
med fhe instrument When he went home aud exam
ined IT, he found The dark re3chery TO the pacK race
The next day ho found General Grant and took PACK
the courteous WORDS ne pOlnteu odt tic
tons the treaty. laid before HIN tAe lmposseiitY OF
his supporting H. and urged nslderatiOn OF the ac
tion of the Administration. General GTaut listened IN
silence perhaps might say sulen silence. There was
iorty wears aud he came away with Mr.. sumner AS
they came down the stairs Of the Executive MIns1n,
the gentleman remarked: what Is the matter vi me
RESIDENT DO you think lac understands youIN
should think he might replied sumner; No. o,dd ne
stand anything" If Grant never heard that summer
took back tne courteous pledge in the chamber OF the
White House il was because his brain refused to per
torn its office He is no judge OF the veraciiy oil the
General Grant also refers to the action OF Mr. sumner
in vndIcajiOn Of bis friend Mr. Medley. Tine case Is
Who upheld our fame abroad. General Grant niimacs
that he no American. knew LotIop MotIcy lI0n
boyhood true nat in his earlier European life
he drank too deep of the foreign spirit In ana ISIS
he WAS largely European. But at ms return To- hs cou
try ten years before the war he tod ne " rms u tne
greatest country in the world. This is noble nation To-
work for IL Is the nOblest people nave come PACK
from Europe and have relca!hed the Naiuc OF Ameicd
have come home OF the humbleSt ab0reIs, 10 MAKE
justice and liberty prosper" II came NON MS hearl
lie was made INTO most enthu>lisllc American
was not sur,Tscd when he sprng To the helm In The
columns OF me Loacon Times 1t was an echo OF the
old talks the sidewalks. when Grant appointed nm
TO England, he appointed the warmest American heart
Now. when The Senator has been in Mount Auburn for
three years when his pen cannot Wie DENIAL nor MS
rrs utter rehukc, now from foreign s.9tt' DSlrlnga
lie UpIu its lips, comes TINS accusation lh't @ ocu"9l
who never WAS absent from the Senate one hour-Mi
sumner told the last wear OF MS me- never was
absent one hour I'M the last tWeiNriuohh init Hs
senator was removed for negligence. Find me one Othei
has not lost weeks, or even months y absence
Nj sumner refused opportunities to make hundreds of
dollars by ecurnS, because Ie was Douhd Dy Ills uues
IN, the quarrel with Mr. Motley the records in the
state Department, black ana white prove that the
oq'ed Slr sumner 10 take tie British Mission tod hun
he ought to 20 10 London. six months later the Minister
npon he opinion OF a great Northern senator Mr. sum
uer's indignant exclamation to Mr. FlSh was " Ii MI
dil you SIT in my study six months ago ana urge me 10 60
to England anu press my views on me A,aDIma claims
iJcnt for base purposes and this removal Is ont OF sp
And il true. The testimony ON the files OF the dp!o
DENIAL By EXsECRETARY FISH
BosToN, Mass, Oct. 19.-Ihe Transcript to-
day publishes an interview with eXSocrctary Fish,
in this city, relative TO the GrantSumncr controversy,
with regard to the alleged negligence of the late Mr..
Sumner while chairman OF the Foreign Affairs Commit
tee. Mr Fish said it was fact susceptible of proof
froln Senate records that drafts of treaties from
eight TO eleven i'll number remaiaed in the
hands of the committee for several months, some
of them, as near Mr. Fash could remember for more
than two years Mr. Fish did not impute this delay of
public business to negligence the part OF Mr. sumner
The fact however remained that business delayed
together with another fact, t1at after Mr. summers
rcracy the entire batch OF treaties was disposed OF III
The statement that President Grant placed the san
DOMINGO treaty into Mr Summers hands, related hy
Mr. Phillips. Mr. Fish characeuzrS as ndlcuOusiy I'M
true The President had the treaty papers IN his
possess on they ia the hands OF the secretary
OF state. The President III conversation with Mr.
Sumner laid before that gentleman the features OF the
treaty. This information was impaired orally. No
written printed document READ to the Senator
MI Sumner made opposition to any Of its features
indeed SO warmly DID ht is approval OF H. that
AT the interview VINO, prior To thdt
time mad placed himself III opposition 10 the measure
was made friendly 10 it, solely by gunentS used ~ MI
sumner.
Mr. Fish saws: Mr. Sumner continued to favor the
until the selection OF commissioner 10 san
Domingo came up for settlement, AID wien he found
that D. NJ. Ashley, OF Ohio not To be nominee, he
vcrsatiOn between President Grant aud Mr. Sumner took
toward the last OF December, 1863 or the rst OF
January following, and in February Mr.. Fish says two
Senator'S Mr. Schurz and MI stewart OF Nevada, gentle
and found that the Treaty could not pass That
body-thdt it was dead. Mr. Sumner was nos
removed from the Foreign Committee at tie re-
assembling OF Congress in the Fall nut, upon the meet
term had expired. lie was not removed He was not,
that tme speaking terms wi n either the PIcsid ut
secretary MIR Fish also denied that the mission
TO England was urged upon MI Sumner, as claimed
Sumner relative to Mr.. MOteYs removal,
wherein Mr. SImlcr reported saying; Sir you
the tool OF the President Tor base purposes, and this
oval Is cut OF spite"