New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-09-01
SENATOR VEST IN A RAGE.
HE DOESN'T REGARD THE TRIBUNE AS HIGH
AUTHORITY

DELIVERED FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
| AND GoAHED TO DESPERATION IN
THE SENATE.
| FEY TELEGRAPH TIE TRrBUyEI
Washington, Aug. 81" would as soon quote
| from the writings of Tom Paine to Christian
congregation as to quote from The New-fork
Tribune any statement which it might make
against the Democratic party shouted cho'crio
little Senator Vest in the Senate to-day, and then
he added in his shrill voice II is simply i'm
possible for a sheet partisan that to do justice
to the opposition party, however great may be its
delinquCnces. or its faults
This, of course, is very severe The Tribune
but it will probably survive the attack. II it
does n, {, il will have the melancholy satisfaction,
at least, of feeling that it treated Mr.. Vest with
conspicuous fairness at all times, and that IL gave
no cause of fence, knowingly, which would have
warranted him in yielding to a fit Of Indigestion
| 1t Published, for instance his Dear jim" corrc-
spondence in the matter of the Indian leadership.
1t was not satisfied with garbled extracts. 1t
gave to the public the whole thing including those
touching references 10 Indian Commissioners At
| llinss irreerLious and impoverished friends
! What more could Mr. Vest desire? Did he want
The Tribune to publish the reasons upon which
his reluctance TO engage Mr. ingalls, in debate Is
based? Or did he want to go into detail abouo
his interview with Dark Lantern Dick OF St
| Louis
|, must be confessed that the provocation given
| Mr. Vest for his outbreak to-day was an exceed
| ngly slight one Mr.. Cullom was responsible Tor
it in the first instance. but Mr.. Hale was the ini-
mediate cause. Yesterday Mr.. Cullom IN tho
course Of his speech on the Presidents Retaliation
ssagc, referred to the insncerlty OF the Admii-
ISs5'sS@ proiesslons 5" $sid'T Said he: 10 ~
Administration has been from first TO last one o.
and pretence 1t has made pretence OF economy
but has been extravagant we have had for
many years II has made pretence OF favorng Civ'l
Service reform while there has been one that 80
utterly dsrcgarded It. / have in my hand a newspaper
which gives an account OF Civil Service reform in tho
great city OF Chicago in my State in connection with
the post office there the law partner OF the Post
put card upon his door, and sent cards to tho
various employees telling them TO over and see hm
says that the aneroom Of the dstinguhed
lawyer the partner OF tho Postmaster az Chicago, was
full Of people knocking the door get I'm 10 make ther
contributions that they might not lose their places
| This is what started Mr.. Vest to-day. lie
had been supplied IN the course or the morning
By Tho Physical Wreck with letter written
by Mr.. Cullom to Commissioners Dudley Blacks
predecessor in Office, in which the request was
made to furlOugh with pay certain b 'r
Cowpcrthwaitc, so that he might attend TO SONS
political duties in Illinois. Under the law every
cmpOye Of the Government is entitled TO thirty
days leave with paw. If ne takes additional leave
it has to be without ray Cowperthwaite 10
appears was entitled to twenty-seven days with
pay, but as he stayed away thirty days. three
he returned. There was nothing lrreguar III
this, nor in the request Of Senator Cullom. Bus
Mr. Vest, with that astute reasoning for when ne
enjoys certain reputation argued that ~ was
request TO jet off the man in order that he might do
some campaign work and yet draw pay at the
same time from the Government OF course,
there was nothing to justify such an nterpre-
tation of Mr.. CullOm's request, and especially MS
the latter frankly admitted the probable genuine:
ness of the letter. though Mr.. Vest was compelled
TO acknowledge that he was reading IL from the
! Campaign Book of the Democratic- party
! Most ludcrous, however. Mr.. Vest appcarcd
when he accused Mr.. Cullom of going out OF ms
way in the discussion of an international question
TO aSsail the ID mOcratic party Apparently no
did not care to remember that only few days
ago he had himself joined in the debate on the
Fisheries treaty rs an excuse for attacking General
Ilarrsons so-called Chinese record.
The climax of Mr.. Vests anger reached
when ,Ir Hale had sent 10 the clerks desk q
Washington dispatch TO The Tribune in which
it was shown that Mr. Traynor. the secretary OF
the Congressional Library Commission, paid az
the rate of Sl.S00 a year by the Government. IS
now engaged in the work Of the National Demo
cratic Committee at New-lorl being IN charG,
of the document room. II was the reading OF thai
dispatch which threw Mr. Vest in such raGo
and which induced him 10 den0unce ne lrlpuno
as already stated.
Mr. Hale urged Mr.. Vest to make pgrimage
to the Interior Department ana nave ne Sesre' %
! Traynor and either bring him home or remove
him. ~,
Mr. Hale continued: "Or promote him. and Il
The Senator fail with the Secretary II Is MS
duty TO lay the case before the PRESIDENT
This completed the collapse Of vest lie re-
covered only temporarily at certain sage OF inc
debate when some one turned to prod him with
a quotation from Mngwump paper. .,.,.
" II there is anything Of the Mugwump aooue
me- he cried indi 4nantly. | would like TO know
| it, so ! could get rid OF it
IT was the only credtabe thing he had said in
the course of the whole discussion