Daily Kennebec journal., 1870-06-29


and the annual rush northward has commenc-
ed Everybody who can spare the money
and the time, leaves here during June and
July for some cooler place. They scatter
everywhere North and West, to California
even. July and August are very uncomfort.
able months in this city both day and night
They are really the only season of the year
except perhaps June, when tits not as pleas.
ant weather here as in any other city in the
United States. .s. .. -...- --.
CONGRESS-
is hard at work day and night; and well II
may be, because in order to pass upon one
half of the pressing and important matters
now before it, it has no time to idle away.
And yet one can hardly help being disguised
and believing Greeley about right in opposing
the appropriation for publishing the Globe,
when you take upa copy OF that paper and
read the doings of Congress. There is SO
much small talk, so much repetition, so much
nonsense and even worse than that, so much
personal vtuperation, that really it would
seem better not to keep record of it at an
annual cost of at least $3.50, 900. One would
expect that Senators and Representatives in
Congress, occupying, as they do, positions OF
great honor and responsibility, would feel i'm
pressed a little more than these reports show
them to be, with the dignity of their office
More than one-half of the valuable time (and
..time is money" here if it ever is anywhere)
is wasted in useless speeches and debates.
The personal encounter between Generals
BUTLER AND FARNswoRTH
on Wednesday furnishes striking example
of what have spoken of. Ro;lin White
some years since invented or improved a
pistol, but was unable to get the patent re-
newed. and after taking the case all the way
up through the Courts to the Supreme Court
of the United States, and there being defeat
ed, he finally appealed to Congress, and that
body passed bill re-opening the case before
the Commissioner of Patents; which bill the
President wisely vetoed. Butler commenced
to argue in favor of White, when Farnsworth
called him to order because he (Butler), hav-
ing received 50 900 from White to argue the
case, had no right to champion" it before
the House. Speaker Blaine ruled that the
point of order was not well put, as the fact of
a member being personally interested, though
it would debar him from voting, would not
prevent his taking part in the debate, which
was matter to be determined by his own
conscience and sense of propriety. Farms
worth, in reply to Buffers explanation that
he had received the $4,000 fee to argue the
case before the Supreme Court, accused But
Ter of taking the money with the understand
ing that it was not really fee for argument
before the Supreme Court, but that was only
subterfuge and the real thing expected was
that Butler should get it through Congress.
From this the debate waxed wroth, and But
Ter told his antagonist that he would not "give
way to be abused by a man who had more
beard than brains" which was rather hard
hit at Farnsworth's very long beard that he
so fondly loves to stroke. Farnsworth imme-
diately replied, 1.-The gentleman may curse
nv beard, but he shall not steal under the
shadow of my beard" Farnsworth accused
Butler of having been against this claim of
White in 1867, when the latter had applied for
a renewal of the patent, then without pay /;
while now he appeared before the House as
the paid counsel of White, and he ''arraign-
ed him before the country as being on both
sides of the question; first on one side with
out a fee, and then on the other side with a
fee" The Speaker here called Mr. Farms
worth to order for using imparliamentary lam
guage. Butler being allowed by unanimous
Of the House to reply to this as
sault said among Other things = -" "Will
the men who have had speech with me on tins
subject, will anybody schose heart is not as
black as he'll, and stepped in the gall Of dam
nation, undertake to say that have done
wrong?* y" And further on y "We
present the singular spectacle before the peo-
pie OF an attempted arraignment of one Of
our number, upon prepared charges, taking
him unaware; the btow Of eorard and as
sassin whenever made" At this point rap!
rap.. rap!!! went the Speakers gavel, when
Butler with his cool impudence asked, SIS
there message from the Senate, Mr.. Speak
err" The veto was endorsed by vote of IL
against it and lG8 in its favor. These two
prominent Republicans have had several SIM
liar tits this session; and if they were of the
'chivalry" would undoubtedly fight.
EMERY, THE NEW MAYOR,
as was prophesed, has placed democrats in
prominent positions in the city government.
He has appointed democratic superintendent
ofpubllc schools, and has stopped all improve
ment of the streets, alleging as a reason for the
latter action the great debt of the city. This
will drive away many colored people and their
votes will be lost to the republican party. 1t
is hardly probable that the democrats would
have allowed republican mayor to be elected
and even voted for him themselves, en- masse,
unless there had been some understanding be-
ween him and them; for with two republican
candidates in the field, they would have had
rery good chances of electing a democrat had
they chosen to put one up. y ~ ~