The Portland daily press., 1871-02-23
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Especial Dispatch by International Lne.l
GEN. FRY AND THE PAPER CREDIT COMMISSION
| AUGUSTA. Feb. 22.-To-day Gov. Perham
transmitted to the Legislature communca.
ton from Gen. Fry, late Provost Marshal Gen
eral, now at Louisville, KY, through the War
Department, in relation to the charges made
ae ainst him in the report of the paper credit
commission. General Fry says that he never
knew that such an investigation was being
made; that he has never been called upon for
any information, Which he deems a little
strange, as his station might at any time have
been ascertained by application to the Depart
ment. The only notice that he now has of the
report is from copy of newspaper contain
ing an extract of the same. AS to the unwar-
ranted orders which it is alleged has been
charged by the commission that he issued, he
says that all such orders came from the Secre-
tary of War. As TO the marine corps lists,
they were certified by Maj. Nicholson, Inspec-
tor of the Marine Corps, in an official letter
dated Oct. 7, 1864, with the request that they
be credited to the localities set opposite their
names. OF the Cochrane and similar lists he
has no knowledge; he only knows that he new
er signed any thing In blank, but If the list il
wrong it was obtained through fraud OF is a
forgery. He has never seen them, those COM
ing from Maine beiog the only lists thus com
planned Of; he has n ,ver had an opportunity to
investigate them. He was at Washington en-
gagged with the charge Of the department. that
had to do with a million of actual men and
with the drafting and recruiting for the whole
army, and could not be supposed to DO &C.
quainted with matters transporting in distant
localities. He claims that the general govern
ment set the example Of paying bounties to
actual men alone, and hopes towns were not so
unpatriotic as to pay out large sums to bogus
names. The letter covers fifteen closely writ
ten pages. Gen. Frye closes by saying that he
would gladly have appeared before the COM
mission, not merely in defence of his official
course but to aid it in detecting, and possible,
Furnishing the perpetrator of such frauds. Thu
communication will be printed.
THE ARoosTooK RAILROAD BILL
The consideration of this bill led to lengthy
debate, rather the warmest of the session. Mr..
Pike regarded it as the creature of the e. & N.
A. Railway Company. He gave history of
all the transactions Of that company during
obtained the lands and public money. $65,OOO;
reviewed the transactions of the ten gentle
men who are sometimes styled the "ten
thieves" doubted the good results of the E. &
N. A. Railway, and secured the adoption of
an amendment creating the Governor aud
heads of departments board to examine into
the transactions of this corporation; making it
a rather queer bill SeYall of OldtoWn rather
had charge of the bill, and allowed IL the
amendments to be attached Keegan, the
young Madawaska prince, who now enjoys the
Ducal estate of Dickey, made a neat little
speech, in which he neatly disconnected Aroos-
took and its people from the sins of omission
aud commission of the E. & N. A. Rnilway
Company. The bill passed without division.
STATE LIQUOR AGENCY.
The defeat OF the bill to abolish the State
Agency illustrates the plans Of the Liquor
Dealers Association for one more year.
Ex-Gsv. Chamberlain is in town tonight in
with the Trustees of the Agricul.
tural College.
GRAND PARTY.
The party given by Hon. Hiram Bliss of
Washington, last night, is said to be the most
brilliant aft ,ir in its line for years. Every
thing went "as merry as marriage bell" The
Penobscot, the Kennebec, the Androscoggin
and the natural seaport as the gateway of the
State were represented by their "fairest and
brayest"