The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-03-02
zen and Republican. and regret

ing OF condemnation; but Judge hInSspury
nor the Republican party should be made re-
sponsible for or allowed to suffer for the acts |
of these hot-heads. Judge Kingsbury has |
been fairly nominated and the Press will give |
him its cordial support. Will the Argus do
the same for Mr.. Putnam, or is its endorse
ment to be gagged only by the magnitude of
the expected pecuniary returns?
GEN. BUTLER AND HIS FRIENDs.-Ac-
cording to the n. Y. Times, everybody in
Washington is laughing over the serenade
fasco of Gen, Butler Saturday evening. 1t
was most ludicrous failure g A few soldiers
and sailors who are expecting prize money at
Buffers hands in the New Orleans suits now
pending there, and a score ofpolitical hangers
on who want Office, first met and defended
Buffers action in the Whittemore case and
then marched up to tender him serenade.-
When he came out he couldn't see the extent
of the crowd, owing to the darkness, and be-
gan complimentary speech, but when he
| discovered that his endorsers consisted of on
ly forty-nine persons, mostly of color, he cut
| short his remarks and disappeared.
THE SALE OF CADETsHIps AGAIN.
There are two more vacancies in the House.
Mr.. Deweese Of North Carolina and Mr.. Col
laday of Kentucky, having resigned to save
themselves from expulsion. Washington dis
patch es say the evidence of Deweese's guilt
was direct and positive, he having sold his
naval appointment for $500 to a lady in
Washington. The Committee had ready a
resolution for his expulsion, but he beat them
by about an hour The case against Mr.. Col
laday is for an appointment to the Military
Academy, the boy being the son of man
named Holdane, from New York. Holdane
has been under examination on two or three
different occasions, and the committee is sat-
isfied that he tells but part of the truth
The committee, however, are determined that
he shall state what he knows. The cadet has
been examined and he has always understood
that his father paid seventeen hundred dol
lars for his appointment, but he does not
know who got the money. The committee
will endeavor to find out all about this money
before bringing the resolutions of censure and
conservation. There is a report current
that Mr.. Golladay threatened personal vio-
lence to Holdane if he gave testimony crimi-
mating him.
| 1uC CdoC VI 4AAs DutiCl VA 1CAuCSoCc 10 COL-
cluded and report against him is ready, but
he has asked for delay for the purpose Of call
ing witnesses to show mitigating circumstan-
ces, among them Gen. Schofeld; aud the
committee has granted the request. The tes-
timony has also caught another man, the ire
pressible Mungen of Ohio. This involves the
payment of $500, the smallest sum yet men
toned. The worst feature of it, according to
Mr. Munyon's feeling, is that the boy he APP
pointed at this price tulns out to be the son Of
prominent republican. The case is not con-
Guided, but the present showing is bad fol
Mungen. The committee has received let
ter from Mr.. Blackburn, a member of of the
last House, from Louisiana admitting the sale
ofhs two cadetships, and coolly asking what
the committee proposes doing about it. Mr.
Newsham, another member of the preceding
House from that State, is also involved. In
these and other cases ofpersons not now in
Congress, the committee is of opinion that nc
| action can be had by the House, but the testi
!, mony will be presented and given to the
country.