Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-12
vANDEvER IN A RIDICULOUS LIGHT.

vANDEvER IN A RIDICULOUS LIGHT.
Elsewhere we publish a letter from
Hon. Stephen NJ. White in which he en-
closes kilograms from General Thomas
j. Clunie and Hon. S. L. Milliken, the
chairman of the committee on public
buildings and grounds, in which both
gentlemen assert that the appropriation
for Los Angeles will certainly pass. In
Mr.. Milliken's telegram a high compli-
ment is paid to the great energy and
efforts made by General Clunie in behalf
of Los Angeles. There has probably
never been a more ridiculous bleat
in the annals of California
congressman than Vandever's claim
that he was impeded in his
efforts in behalf of appropriations for
this county by the fascinating congress
man from the fifth district. On the
contrary, Gen. Clunie has stood ready
at all times to second any effort made in
behalf of appropriations for this city
and county. The shameless remissness
of the congressman from the sixth dis
trict can only be explained on very
different and not at all creditable
grounds, and behind it is plan which
has been Matched out in certain quarters
to shift the location of the postoffice
building from the present to an
entirely different site. We have
every reason to believe that Gen. Van
dever is deep in the councils and plans
of real estate syndicate who have
peculiar views about the site of our
public building, although what the mo-
tives are which influenced him to this
course we are not at present prepared to
say. We think, however, that the
venerable congressman from the sixth
district has not been in office exclusively
for his health. An unsigned letter,
supposed to be from Gen. Vandever, was
read in the chamber of commerce
yesterday, in which that gentleman
has the arctic cheek to make an attack
upon Gen. Clunie, ascribing to
that gentleman the miscarriage of the
appropriation for this city which placed
that measure at the foot of the list re-
ported from the committee on pnblic
buildings. In view of the fact that that
committee is Republican, and is the ex-
ecutive arm of a Republican congress,
that General Vandever is Republican
with a 1000 majority behind him, and
that General Clunie is a Democrat, there
is something more than funny about the
attitude of our representatives, is pre-
posterous. No wonder that the
venerable congressman declined to
sign his name to such an
extraordinary farrago. 1t would almost
Justify the calling of a committee de
lunatico inquirendo on the celebrated
holder of the fort. The confession that
in his second session, before commit
tee, majority OF which consists of
members of his own party, he has not
as much influence as democratic mem
Der in his first session, is pitiable in the
extreme. But the attempt to make this
Democratic member, who has been
chivalrous in his devotion to our inter-
cete, leePOllclplo lOl dlocN0t O"h
culpable laches, is something out OF the
common. 1t combines to remarkable
degree etfrontery and imbecility. 1t is just
possible that no signature was ap
pended to this document to admit OF its
reputation if the public sense of its alb
surdity and Indignation at its injustice
to General Clunie should reach too
lively height. General Vandever re-
fleets no credit on himself for such
splenetic and childish vaporings. The
people of this city and county recognize
in General Clunie a friend in need and
deed, who sprang into the gap to help
them out at time when their own
chosen representative was derelict in his
duty and Indifferent to their interests.