Year: 1876




General Schenck, excited by some evil
dence given before Congressional COM
mittee in relation to the Emma Mine.
He appeared then to the minds eye
as one fretted beyond endurance at
the assaults on his good name, and raging
with impatience, as o lion may rage against
the bars of his cage, at oil the obstacles that
stood between him and the committee that
seemed to have him on trial-at the three
thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean and
some other obstacles equally difficult to a
man with a nice sense of propriety. 1t did
not surprise us when we heard that General
Schenck had obtained 'leave of absence" to
come and confront his accusers. But we
were apprehensive lest, in his just and virtu-
Gus rage, in his haste to get home, in his
fury against his accusers, General Schenck
should forget some of the moralities Of his
position. He was, for instance, accused of
completely in a gross violation of English
law 1t was charged that he was swindler.
His diplomatic position protected him from
trial but his honor, not to mention
the honor of the service in which
he was engaged, required that he should
step down from his diplomatic castle and
meet the law as other men are compelled to
meet it, and vindicate himself from scandal
in fair trial for the man who is aspersed
by slanderers does not want to be screened
from the law by his Office. He wants the
law to protect his fame. We were afraid
that in the hurry of his indignation General
Schenck would forget this that in getting
leave of absence to come home, while still
protected by his diplomatic character, he
might not remember his moral engagement
with British justice, and we suggested that
he should put himself under some positive
obligation to return to England after he had
vindicated his character in Washington.


How just our fears were is now plain to
the naked eye. In his rage to get at his ira
ducers General Schenck actually forgot that
he had resigned his Office. Some persons
served warrant on him ut the station, and
he referred them to the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs. That would have been
Minister; but it was not proper, rs he had
actually resigned already and was not Min
lister, and this fact he quite overlooked. Or
shall we say rather that he was giving Eng
land final lesson in the great game of poker
When they anted he blinded the ante, and
afraid to call him. They believed he held
the Ministership, which is equivalent to
four aces, when straight flushes are barred, as
they are in good company. Apprehensive of
a hand of that sort, they dared not force him
to show; and in simple truth he was "bet-
ting his tens of thousands with nary pair
in his hand" He was simply running away
from the officers of justice. He had resigned
the place that gave him immunity, and if
this had been known he would have gone to
Jail; but it was not known, so he put a bold
face on the matter and so is safely at sea.
Is there any further humiliation than this to
which dishonesty can make nation subject?


Non-Resident Traders In Maryland.


A case was decided by Judge Gilmor in
the Baltimore criminal court day or two
since, which is of considerable interest to
the class known as commercial travellers.
Mr.. w. G. McCarty, travelling agent of
Henry Mayo & Co., of Boston, was arraigned
for selling goods without license under the
State laws, and was convicted and fined
This case arose under the same Maryland
statute as the case of Ward VS.. Maryland
some time ago, when the decision of the
State court was appealed from, and the
United States Supreme Court decided that
the Maryland law was unconstitutional and
void, in so far as it required larger license
fee from outsiders than from citizens of the
State. Judge Gilmor holds that only so
much Of the law was declared repugnant to
the constitution as makes discrimination
against the citizens of other States, and that
il is valid so far as it requires the same
license and the same fees from residents and
non-residents II is argued that the Mary
land traders would be unjustly treated if
they were required to pay license from
which the agents of other traders are ex-
empt The effect of Judge Gilmor's de-
cision is that the State of Maryland has
right to require licenses of its own traders
and TO enforce the same uniform rule on
non-residents doing business in the State,
the decision of the United States Court
merely annulling so much of the law as
made determinations against non-residents.
1t is possible that Judge Gilmors decision
will be appealed from, but not probable that
the appeal will be sustained.


No REVOLUTION IN SERvIA. How a story
gathers in going A row at communal
election swells into a fight with Communists,
and before the story reaches the frontier it
has carried Prince Milan along with it and
left republic in the princely void behind.
This is fine specimen of the odndrd