New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-01
A DIPLOMATIC SCANDAL

The Administra ion press appears 10 Dc DehI
upon running Special Envoy Scdgwlck 1he
Ner- York Times published a sensational &C
count of his alleged dcbauch with young boods
If the Mexican capital, which for the credit
Of American diplomacy ought to have been
immediately contradicted by the State Depart
mont. The World in it's Washington and
Mexico dispatches has promptly sustained the
serious charges made against the Special En-
VOWS private character, publishing among other
things the following telegram from the Consul
General at the City OF Mexico:
T r B.YARp Secretary Of STATE. Warrington.
orr .,.csi envoy has dsgraced himself Demand his i'm
mediate recall We feel Inundated and bowed down with
,hame Further particulars. desired. viii be furnished
snece TO saw that found dead drunk In house OF
and the stock OF the Mexicans
PORCH Consul
This telegram also appears in The Herald
with the explanation that it was not forwarded
+, Washington. inasmuch as Mr.. Scdgwck 5
friends succeeded in adiournlng for twenty
four hours a meeting Of the American residents
convened for the purpose of demanding his
recall. The World, moreover, publishes the
following revised version of this diplomatic
cscapade:
Cry or MEx1co Aug so-one Of the reports Of the
at Jockey club ball places the affair." far as MI
sedewick the special agent Of the state Department con
cerned a much better hight This son 10 a. ioio"s
The Mexican Club ball Friday night to when
MT sedgwck invited He arrived about 10 O'Clock an
.oor hogan 10 play billiards during the
ing with Sebastian Camacho prominent Mexican capitalist
and ANY leading officials Al oco all SAT down 70
.unner sedgwck did but with some others re
NAMED AZ table morning he. IN company with
seven others all well known society left the
Jockey Club Dom and the lturbde Hotel segwicks
residence directly N front OF the Jockey CuO All
were very Sedgwick did not 20 TO his rOOn Du'
with the others went into second patio yard and began
10 dance sedgwck and other fell down Five OF them
then took common stIeei whom was sedgwick
The cab way to a gay part OF the town
With such direct confirmation OF the orig
inal disgraceful tale we regret to say that MI.
Scdgwick's own denial of having committed
any offences against official decorum does not
dispose of the scandal nor is 1t possible 1ol
ms TO unite with The Sun, much as we would
like to do So in acquittng HIM out OF hand.
Unless the official dispatch of the Consul
General. published in the The " GRID and The
heraId, is a forgery, the Special Envoy sent 10
Mexico by Secretary Bayard has succeeded in an
Incredibly short period in disgraclng the coun-
try. MIR. Scdgwicl's personal friends in this
civ are very loud in their protcstatons of in
crcdulilv and very quick TO nslnnate that hc
Greet. however, for them to impugn Minister
Jacllsons motives, since apparently he has had
nothing whatever TO do with the publication
of the charges and it is fatuOus for them TO at
tribute tnls exposure of the vices OF Mugwump
diplomacy to political or professional jealousy,
since it was made in the first instance by
The Ne,u- York Times a sheet wholly In SYM
pathy with The Erening Post, and The Nation.
with which Mr.. Sedgwick has been for many
wears prominently connected. They will show
greater presence Of mind by accepting The
y orlds benevolent theory that The SPECIAL
Envoy has been the victim of high attitudes
and sudden change OF climate
There are many about but from all the facts
It certain that sedgwlck neither dragged there
any foul play to be the where the altitude
has played It's trick who accustomed to
live 900 feet above level Of the Mexican Dispatch
The World.
This is an excellent hint for Secretary Bay
| ard, who has protested TO lie ANXIOUS to i'm
prove the diplomatic service, but has not
| known exactly how to do it, A scientific com
mission should bc instructed to ascertain by
lialloon experiments or otherwise the precise
altitude above sea level at which American
tlvlomatists can lie employed without being
,,p,>cd to the risk of dsgracing themselves,
then families and their country. When the
limit is accurately known all diplomatic ap-
bointInents to posts where the density Of
he atmosphere is below the safety limit should
| ic cancelled. In this way American diplomacy
would be delivered from pcrllOus attitudes
| where rar,lied air proves so dcmoraAng
| Obviously the country urgently requires a
sea-level diplomacy.