The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-11
PANTALOON OF THE SENATE
/ "Reminiscences Of the Emma Mine
Scandal.

the w ed4Iny O4d55SS AWSAbS-bWO
Years Ago How He Placed a
worked-out Mine on the English
Market-Hardly Safe Man to Fol-
TOW as a Financier.
From the New York Times.
Washington, Oct. S.-To every child
chat has seen enough of the theater to
come to know the traditional Pantaloon
al sight the bewhiskered old gentleman
vbo is always in rage and always
shaking his weather-beaten beard at
C,own and Columbine, and constantly
receiving the largest share of the pats
from Harlequin's paddle, the appearance
of the rather stupid and vicious old fell
NV provokes immediate laughter and
eycites no sympathy whatever. Panta-
loon must always be in bad temper, and
he must always be up to mischief, and
no one ever speaks of his whiskers as
constituting a defense against the ever
lasting punishment to which he is sub
jected.
If he were at all funny Senator Stew
art of Nevada, the leader of the republi-
can and democratic filibusterers against
the vote on the repeal bill, would more
strikingly suggest Pantaloon. But while
he is not bit funny, he is always in
well-assumed temper, and he is never out
of mischief He has whiskers, long and
svery, after the most approved Panta-
loon style, and he has a ruddy skin,
which needs no makeup" with pigments
to afford brilliant contrast with the sill
very and silken whiskers. Like Panta-
loon, he is always about, lurking behind
corners in an exposed attitude, inviting
the paddle of Harlequin and springing
into the arena after each application of
the paddle as if there were some revivify-
ing power in the weapOa, or as if the ap-
plication of it to convenient portions of
his anatomy provoked cerebral activity
by sort of reflex action.
There never was much fun in Stewart
And when a man lacks humor, good man
ners, consideration for his kind, and re-
gard for the reputation of the public
men with whom he may be associated, he
ought to be powerful good' to redeem
all the other shortcomings enumerated.
To read one of Stewards speeches about
the "venal press" and the 'hireling'
managers of banks, his virtuous and eX-
cessive epithets against "monopolies."
his diatribes against wealth, the casual
observer, forgetting or not having learned
his history, might hastily assume that he
is really good, and that from his birth he
has been a fosterbrother in goodness to
Little Eva. In the languange Of Rip Van
Wrinkle, whom he also resembles, "How
soon we are forgotten"
There may be some gentlemen in Eng
land now advanced in years who read
about Stewart and his virtuous assaults
upon wealth" and the ''venal press"
with CHASTITY smiles of derision. They
know that Pantaloon is up to more of his
mischief, and that in this guise he played
prankS on them some twenty-five years
ago. PantaloOn had way, which he has
not yet forgotten on the stage, of cribbing
strings of sausages, which he allowed to
trail out of his capaciOus breeches pockets
IN tell-tale way. But this Pantaloon of
the Senate never by any chance allowed
strings of SauSageS to get out of his poCk-
cts after he had seized them out of the
baskets of temporarily amused bystand-
ers. He was too quick for that, and the
result seems to have been that the retrib-
utlve padding of the correcting Harle-
quin always fell upon PantaloOn's vic
TINS rather than upon the Contriver of
schemes that had not the first redeeming
streak of humor in them.
In the early spring of 1871 Stewart,
then senator of the United States from
my state of Nevada, became interested,
as the counsel of James r. Lyon of Wis
consin, in the sale of the Emma silver
mine in Utah. Lyon claimed to own one
third Of the mine, and Trenor w. Park
and Henry H. Baxter bought one-half of
the property for 1875, 900 and afterward
one-siXteenth interest at the rate of
$1,000 600 for the whole mine subject to
the claim in litigation of Lyon. There
a Of nj, I,,r,
the ownership should be adjusted, and
Stewart, who was not over-friendly with
Park, came to an understanding with the
parties opposed to his client by which the
mine was to be sold and Lyon was to have
100000 for his share.
few months later, or in August of
lS7l, Stewart put himself on paper in
letter to Lyon describing the terms of the
arrangement, and telling him that ''they
nave worked the mine up so in England
by the ore they have sent and the manner
OF sending it, that l have no doubt of a
sale from five to eight millions" He
found that the English people who had
seen this ore, said to have come from the
Emma mine, were crazy about the
nine" In the same letter, referring to
lne arrangement that had been made
with the Other litigants, Stewart de-
cared that the agreement to sell was the
best he could get. "The plan has this ad-
vantage he added, that we will not
be lighting for a worked-out mine"
Al this time Stewart was expecting to
get one-fourth of all Lyon was to make
OUT OF the business afoot. In September
ne and Park went to England together,
thelr unfriendliness adjusted. Rich ores
rom somewhere, but alleged to be from
T Tlle Emma mine, were constantly going to
Europe, The shipments were never
teH a. than just at the time Park and
2tSyeWart were approaching London with
.ue pan to sell out this ''worked-out''
Int IItiue, There they soon met one Fisher,
-" ~ was said to have done much business
' ~oouV Ihe American Legation in a legal
KY, and who presently put the two
~ lcan mine agents in communication
In witI promoters" the most important
w cue Delng Albert Grant, who was a man
prises
OUG5"drC and Park were energetic, for in
tSODOoer IL seemed that they had been able
" ~ Minister Schenck TO allow the use
ot u llI name as director, Mr.. Park having
N,1uCeo TO him the stock necessary to
t;Laole MN to act as director, his connec-
o on win the plan for selling the worked
NJ mlne being cured because his
proLiIueht ofhcialstation would hasten the
- lHdse OF stock at a time when the
i IN oI mining property were very slow
h. S5oauon. Grant & Co. were to
80 80 ScOO,0OO for allowing the eof their
sq5 81 10 the promotion" of the scheme,
si i'L men The public were asked to con-
oiG 1,S the prospectus.
4, Auls prospectus SET forth the value of