St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26
A PARNELLIrE ANALOGY.

Mr.. Labouchere'S Paris correspondent
recalls a scandal in som points anal
ogouS to the one which now agitates
the Irish party at Westminster. 1t was
the CatacaZy one, which caused zeal Tor
social purity and the keeping up of APP
pearances to boil and bubble twenty
years ago at Washington. The late
Prince Constantine CatacaZy was a brill
liant Russian diplomat, having wit, Sa-
gaclty and penetration, and being ia
nous for his repartee. He was counted
the best dispatch and precis writer I'M
der the RUSSIAN foreign office. Daniel
Webster, in 1S49, thought him the smart
est young man that Europe had ever
sent to Washington. Catacazy went
there for the first time at the close of
1S4S, and gave Webster his impressions
of the European governments, perIha-
nent, provisional, quaking and reaction
airy, of that year, and of the revolution
lists who had surged up.
There never was 4 greater favorite at
the White houSe than CatacaZy Was
when he was first attached to the Rus
sian legation at Washington. In an evil
hour he vas sen back to Washington
somewhere toward the end of the SIX
ties. The situation into which he had
in the meanwhile fallen in Italy YVES as
much that of correspondent as Italian
manner admit of. The lin all but
name) fair respondent was with him,
but ignored by Washington society.
However,, the equal rights party thought
it ScandalouS for CatacaZy 10 De an So
ciety" while she was condemned
to keep in the shade Some
ladies' of that party called on
Secretary Fish and warned hilH chat if
he did not ask Prince dortSchakoff to
send another minister the papers would
ring with the irregularities OF Prince
Cafacazy's life. 1t was arranged that a
number OF ladies were TO protest against
his presence at the " lite house by
leaving it in a body whence the prince
entered the drawing room. Secretary
Fish tried to quiet them by reminding
them that the ear was a notorious
breaker of the seventh commandment.
To punish the Russian minister for
relatively venial SinfulneSs would be 10
cenSure the master, who was a thousand
times worse. The ladies' thought it all
the better that Alexander Ii. should be
shamed by the shaming of his minister.
Mrs. Gen. Grant was appealed to. She
was a religious Methodist and could not
understand why the cars feelings were
to be spared. Gen. Grant said that a
man who openly violated the seventh
commandment was not a proper person
to send TO Washington as minister pleni-
potentiary. Fish found himself Obliged
to ask Gortschakoff to recall Catacazy.
The poor car asked whether the gov
eminent of Washington might not be
brought to tolerate the diplomat until
the Grand Duke Alexis had visited the
nrQSldanf Lon fNranf nnnCnntaI lnk
under conditions so humiliating that
II wonders how CatacaZy could have
put up with them. The offending diplo-
mat was only to go to the White house
with the grand duke, see nobody there
but the president, and to keep out of So
clety where there was a likelihood of
meeting secretaries of state, senator's.
congressman and their wives, and ne
was to be recalled directly Alexis sailed
for Europe.
Gorschakoff's and Catacazy's eonten-
ton was precisely that which has been
urged by the Parnellites as against Mr..
Gladstone, but Grant would not have
it." In return, CatacaZy called him
1.-THE head of a gang of thieves" Grant,
on reading this in a paper, Said he did
not mlnd what an angry man said of
him; but, at any rate. if he had thieves
around him it was not a reason for add
ing to them a contingent of breakers of
the seventh commandment. CatacaZv
had to go, and no other government
would receive as minister or ambas-
sador a diplomat who had been kicked
ont of Washington. He subsidized into a
secret service agent, having chiefly
Paris and Rome for the fields of his op-
erations. The existing Franco-Russian
entente was mainly his work.