The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-04-04
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FIRMED.


wAsHINuToN, March SO.-The
nomination nf MuTai Hslstead, al
Ohio, To Ice minister plenIpotentiary
aud envoy extraordinary TO Eerma-
ny, l. uucOnfirmed. Mr.. Jones
made no vigorous opposition, but he
IL repnrted To- have explained his
vote on the ground that he opposed
HalsIead for what that editor had
written years ago about General
Grant. ID IL suspected, however,
that he IL actuated by desire TO
stand Ivy his intimate friend and
neighbor. Senator Teller, in getting
even with Halstead for unpleasant
comments in the past. The same
may De said Of ingalls, and CullOm.
Ia July. lSSG, IL was proposed to
investigate the election Of Mr..
Payne. of Ohio, to the United States
senate, Il having been charged that
his seat had heen secured through
fraud. bribery and corruption.
These charges were made at length
In the Cincinnati Commercial Ga
,efts, and Mr.. Halstead, A. editor Of
that paper, was particularly bitter
In his attack upon Senator Payne.
A committee TO which the matter
Was referred reported against an in
yestigation. The Republican men,
hers Of the committee were Evarts
aud Logan. Both were viciously
attacked hy the Commercial Ga
c'ftc. One L. still q member of the
senate, and voted to report Mr..
Halstead's nomination Iavorably.
The other IL dead. When the
question Of an investigation
came TO vote in the SEN
ate on July -. 1885, Messrs.
Cullom, ingalls,, Evarts, Jones,
Plumb, Sawyer, Teller, Chase, Lo-
ian, Miller, Riddleberger, Seweil
aud Van Wyek Joined with the Dem
ocrats In defeating the resolution.
The next day Mr.. Hslstead's paper
said:
The black list entire Is: Chase,
Cullom, Evarts. Ingalls,, Jones, Lo-
gau, Miller, Plumb. RiddIeberger,
sawyer, Sewell, Teller, Van wyck.
To classify in . single sentence, 10
II made up OF millionaires. servants
of corporations, Logan men, and
corruptionalists. There was not q
vote cast that was actuated by the
slightest regard for the honor OF the
In another editorial Mr.. Halstead
took occasion to remark:
THE broad and greasy hand OF
Doodle has been applied to the seu-
ate Of the United States.
There are q few Republicans on the
Doodle eide, to be sure, but that 10
the custom 81 the country. A few
Republicans always go to the devil
To- keep the Democrats company"
A few days later Editor Halstead
rave the following description Of
the senate:
"The senate Of the United States
IL sort Of club. The members are
pleased to cultivate each others
Importance. Each gets o share of
the common stock Of fiattery. The
corruption that has been eating into
the vitais OF the country has attacked
the senate In . stronger degree than
any other department Of the gov
eminent. The disease Of corrupt
and csrrupting men in the senate
has progressed without public at
tention being particularly drawn TO
it until the Payne case has exposed
the extent OF the gangrene. The
senators. did not want the club
damaged by Inquiries ~ to the en-
trance fee Of members"
There are several columns Of slim
liar matter regarding the senate and
the Individual members in question
on the files Of the Commercial Ga
sette for July, lsSs. Mr.. Halstead's
bitterness againet these senators
lasted for many months afterwards
and ingalls,, Teller, Jones and Gull
loFn, ~ we'll as the others, have been
severely criticised In the editorial
columns Of the Commercial Gazette
upon numerous subsequent oces-
sions and they evidently proposed
20 get even BY defeating his con-
6Fmation-