The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-01-08
senator MaNey,

To the Editor Of tho Herald
1t is a notorious fact that President Hayes
and Secretary Sherman made desperate eff
forts to- remove the recently elected Vices
ProsideAt Arthur from the office of collector
for the post of New York, and as reason
for requesting his resignation, Secretary sher-
man wrote him the following letter:
"Gross abuses OF administration have con-
tinued and increased during your incum-
bency. Persons have been regularly paid bv
you who have rendered little or no service.
The expenses Of your Office have increased
while its receipts have diminished. Bribe.
or gratUilies in the shape of brides, have been
received by your subordnates in several
branches Of tho custom house. and you have
in NO case supported the efforts to correct
these abuses"
And President Hayes wrote as follows 10
Mr.. Collector Arthur:
"You have made the custom house cen.
ter of partisan political management"
He subsequently, sent this message to the
senate:
with my information of the facts in the
case, and with \ deep sense of the r, sponslble
obligation imposed upon me by the copslitu.
ten, to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed regard it as my plain duty to
suspend tho officers in question, and to make
the nominations now before the senate in
order that this important Office may be hon
esily and efficiently administered"
Mr.. Arthur could not DO removed excenl
with the consent of the senate and this Tho
senate refused by majority of one vote. Tho
aght over Arthur was bitter, and one of Tho
stalwarts led by Conkling against tho presi.
dent who had announced conservative
course for his administration with equal ius.
tice 10 the south. Had the president been
sustained by the senate, his sympathies would
naturally have been with the party that
supported him. Tho stalwarts would bsye
been hopelessly defeated, tho republican
party disrupted, aud to-day, Mr.. English, in
all probability, and not Mr.. Arthur, would
have been the next vice-presidsnt. Bat Mr..
Hayes finding himself beaten in the fight nat
urally enough fell into line with the majority
of his party, aud in course of timo also
became n stalwsrt. Now here wAs a
grand opportunity for tho democrats in
congress, and who will hesitate moment to
say on which side of the fight they should
have joined? 1t is charged against Senator
Msxsy that in this fight he left tho camp of
his friends and jOined Conkling ami his line
of stalwarts. 1t is also alleged that for SO
doing his course was very bitterly condemned
'by his brother democratic senators. The
friends and supporters of Senator Maxey
do not deny this, but say that he Is
not called upon to explain it because
1t all occurred IN executive or secre. session.
l would just like to SEQ one of those gentle
men charge old Dick Coke with having sided
with Conkling in that ,hght or done other
wise than everything in his power to su,.
stain Hayes atd then see il hs would plant
himself behind the secret sessions OF the
senate. That dodge will not do and
will not satisfy the people of Texas.
The vote OF every senator upon that question
is known, although IL was done in secret ses-
sion. The matter was freely discussed in
Washington, and the conduct of Senator
MaXey In that matter demands an explans.
ton at his hands, the more so because Il
was made known TO the world when it was
intended TO DO kept secret. II was certainly
considered very grave by his brother sena.
tors when they would no. keep It secret, but
condemned 1t before. the public as Il il
charged they did de. To say the least Of Il.
tne people OF Texas have heard sufficient OF
TINS thing to desire an explanation Of IT, n
] no longer one of the secrets of the United
states senate, having escaped in some vnv
and Senator Maxey, II he chooses, can give y 4,
come explanation of the business, SO let a,
H"'" JUNIUs,