The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1881-11-03
The Attacks upon Senator Sherman.

LILO ACLackS upon Senator Sherman.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Tribune, Oct 81, furnishes that paper
with the following statement referring to the
recent Democratic attacks upon Senator Sher-
man:
Senator Sherman has at last succeeded in
securing the passage of his resolution calling
for the report of the Treasury investigation
which report Senator Shermans enemies have
for months been asserting would show his
lack of official and personal integrity. The
resolution did not pass without struggle, and
the defeat by strict party vote-except that of
Senator David Davis, who voted with the Re
publicans-of an amendment offered by Mr..
Farley, of California Mr.. Farley was ex-
| tremely anxious that the Testimony" upon
which the report was based should also be
furnished to the State.
Mr. Sherman explained that, while he had
no objection to the publication of this testi
mony, he supposed that large part consisted
OF ex-parte statements, not made under oath,
of anonymous letters addressed to the Depart
ment, of newspaper clippings, etc. No doubt
some of this loose and irregular material re-
fected injuriously ard unjustly upon certain
subordinate officers of the Treasury Depart
ment, and certainly it would be unjust to
them to publish it. Moreover, he said, the at
papers have been based upon assertions as to
what this report contains. If, after having
examined the report, the Senate considered
any further investigation necessary, COM
mittee could be empowered to conduct it in
regular manner, and he should offer no objec-
ton.
1t is evident that Mr.. Farley, the Democratic
Senator from California, does not read the
Democratic newspapers very carefully; other
l.. .kx.l
by some of the innumerable accusations against
Senator Sherman and Secretary Window
with which those journals have teemed during
the last four months; against Mr.. Sherman be-
cause of damaging disclosures contained in
the report, and against Secretary Window for
his turpitude in suppressing that document in
order to screen the guilty ex-Secretary Mr..
Farley's amendment was defeated by vote Of
% against 81, and the original resolution was
then adopted without division. Neither
Senator Sherman nor Secretary Window has
ever seen the testimony taken by the commit
tee of Treasury clerks. 1t is voluminous and
is of that character which would render its
publication, Id its present unfinished condi-
ton, an act of injustice. Certain subordinates
testified to the performance of work by direc-
ton Of other subodinates, which work the
witnesses believed to have been for the personal
benefit of Mr.. Sherman. No evidence was
and similar stories from the bulk of the sensa-
tional part of the testimony. All the transac-
tions involved were of petty character, and
all are doubtless fully explainable in way
that would leave no stain upon the reputation
of any of the high officials whose names have
been mentioned in connection with them.
Manifestly a committee of Treasury clerks is
not the proper tribunal to investigate such
matters. If they are to be Investigated at all,
it should be, and probably will be, by COM
mittee of the Senate.
SALT FOR THE THRoAT.-In these days
when diseases of the throat are so universally
prevalent and in so many cases fatal, we feel
it our duty to say word in behalf of most
efectual, if not positive, cure for sore throat.
For many years past, indeed, we may say dur
ing the whole of q life of more than forty
years, we have been subject to sore threat, and
more particularly to dry hacking cough,
which is not only distressing to ourself, but
to our friends and those with whom we are
brought into business contact. Last fall we
were induced to try what virtue there was in
common salt. We commenced by using it
three times day-morning, noon and night.
We dissolved large tablespoonful of pure
table salt in about half small tumbler full of
water. With this we garged the throat most
thoroughly just before meal time. The result
has been that during the entire winter we
were not only free from coughs and colds, but
the dry hacking cough has entirely disappear
ed. We attribute these satisfactory results
solely to the use of salt gargle, and most cor
daily recommend trial of it to those who
are subject tO dseasas of the throat