St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-16
WINSTON Tin A HOLE"
The Ex-Minister to Persia Placsd in
a Peculiarly Embarrassing
Position.
lie Secured Valuable Railway Fran
chlse From the Shah Without
Expense,
But the Minister for Foreign Affairs
heIused to Give Up the Firman
and Contract,
Oein ahd1ng as a Necessary PreIfm-
mary the Modest Little Bride
of $4,000.
Special to the Globe,

OPccIdi 10 Ine GlODe.
NEW YORK, June 15.-The Times this
morning publishes long letter from Tebe-
ram dated May 20, written by Wolf Won
ochlerorand, eX-United States Minister
Hmston's secretary, which says:
MI. +. IL. Winston minister to Persia. has
resigned. Inc letter giving his reasons for
JUS actlon to the state department. at WASH
lngton was mailed eight days ago. These
reasons are very simple ones. They recite
that there is neither commerce nor people of
the United States to project there.
except a score of Americans en-
gagged in missionary labors through
out Persia. Mr.. Winston has requested
acaplegram announcing the acceptance of
i LIZ RESIGNATION by June 10, and intends to
leaVe mere as soon as the dispatch arrives.
After send ing his resignation ON Wednesdsv
VI !asI week, ne applied for franchise to
pullo a railroad from Teheran to Mobam-
Lne 3G, or some other port on the Persian
gun Gun, was present at the interviews had with
aHa1rs), and they were brief and tn the
point. HIS highness stated that the shah
WAS wiling to concede to the builders of the
projected road all the mines in Persia. of what
ever description, not worked at the present
uour ana also the mines now worked at the
same Terms now existing. The railroad was
10 De begun within three years and to bs
!s WITHIN seven pears, the franchise to
nolo good for ninety-nine years. The minis-
Tor stated expressly in the draft of the con-
CracI Drawn up before his majesty granted
.he hrman, that he had no pecuniary interest
III Ine Wnole scheme and that he merely en-
gagged himself to try and bring together
american capitalists with a sum total of
S1uO,oo0,O OO to invest in the road. The pre-
hmlnarles having been fixed upon as indi-
Gated the Shah granted the frman under his
own signature, approving of the whole thing.
and pledging his royal word to stick to the
terms agreed upon.
BUT NOW COMES THE RUB,
or the joke, if you will. Mr.. Winston had
peen slyly congratulating himself upon the
easy way in which he had succeeded. without,
Sne expenditure OF copper, in Wrestling
iroh Inc PERSIAN government q grant said t&
be worth millions Of dollars, The firnaT,
having been signed, he imagined himself.
1alrly out OF tie woods. and the contract al
good as II In his possession. But he reckoreS
W WI ms host: The Mousher Ed Dowleh if
and ane is ef0e . man - OF the shay
habits of life, so that despite
the large salary and the gigantic brides both
from Russia and England he ''eats'' (that's
the Persian word for it-Khordan), and de-
spite the fact that the shah himself has more
than once paid his debts, he is head over
heeis IN debt. He conformed to the general
custom OF the country-in his case there be-
ing perhaps the more urgent need for it than
ID usual-when he, on his part sought to
make
GOOD ROUND SUM
out Of the grants, enough at least to paw his
more pressing debts and leave nice margin.
he had not contradicted the minister when
the latter had told him he had no financial
interests to serve in advocating this railroad
project, nor intimated in any manner his
doubts OF this. But that he nevertheless did
diu not believe Mr.. Winston was shown by
"a ha
in his hands and sent around to Mr.. Winston
to tell him that before shutdown yesterday he
wanted 10000 tomans ($30,00O) as
the first ms allment in the shape of
remuneration for his trouble in
the whole affair, adding that he intended TIA
be reasonable, and that there never before
had been matter Of this magnitude put
through so noiselessly and expeditiously in
Persia, and Minister Winston is in hole. 1t
is, believe, an actual fact that he has no
interest whatever to subserve in this railroad
scheme beyond the one to put it before the
American public, to take up or let alone as
the latter may seem fit. He does, therefore,
not like to lay out large sum (for before he
is done with the minister, the Mousher Ed
DowleI would have
SUCKED THE LEMON
to the tune OF 100000 at least), for which he
whould have no return, and the payment of
which would, besides. seem to plainly indi-
cate that he has pecuniary interest in tho
project. On the other hand, it is pretty GER
tain that he can never convince the Persians
that his motives in obtaining this franchise
were entirely unselfsh-such a thing being
beyond their comprehension-and that if he
does not 'pony up he will not
get his franchise or firman As a
matter of fact, Baron Reuter-, who
some years ago obtained similar
franchise (afterward repudiated by the Per-
sian government on technical grounds held
valid by the Russians and worse than flimsy
by the English) had to spend over 100000 in
brides alone before he as much as obtained a
firman and the experience of others before
and aftet him was Of a like nature. Still
Mir. Winston will not pay and 1 fear the whole
scheme will go to pieces in consequence. In
fact, am quite sure OF it. Perhaps tits q
Dity 'tis true-DerhaDs