The Portland daily press., 1872-02-01

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worth OF Naples, changed with ID Mr..
Holden to the peoples side. Howard of Lew
iston, Remission Of Boothbay, Lord of Blue
hill, Walker of Newport and White of Rock
land who voted in favor of indefinite post
ponement, were absent or did not vote Tues
day. ~ & ~. ~. = ~. e.'i 80. ~, liz Els
THE BARBARIsM OF CoNsoLIpAT1oN.-lWe
take from the Kennebec Journal what is evil
IDENTIFY veybatina report of the speech made on
Tuesday by Mr.. Carleton of Whitefeld, the
man who has most fifty become the leader of
the House of 1872. The occasion of this states
manlike effort was an order of inquiry as to
the debt of the consolidated roads Mr.. Garlic
ton said: ~ s3.ao
MI. Speaker and Gentlemen Of the House.
regard this proposition not only stab in the
dark at the Maine Central, but an insult on the
House. Whenever a member of this House
has been DESTROYS of giving a speedy and i'm
partial trial to any applicant upon subjects pro-
posed, and thereon rendering just Judgment
without delay he has been assailed by that
Shiny sheet, the Portland Press, and branded
with the label of "Mollusk, p aohich being
translated means colossal soft, shabby, Jour
FOOTED beast soithout backbone. And now comes
another chapter from that same western direc-
ton in the shape of a morbid overfoio Of their
contaminated SesoerS, so much so that their
aokole system is saturated to a stopping o0er
of sling stencil. Thty have walked up the wrong
passengers and too many of them-a load
which when placed upon their sore backs will
make them scringe worse than they do now.
My advice to them, therefore, is that they had
better pick up their dud, and double-quick get
out of the range Of the peoples guns. -
1t is entirely in harmony with the nature
of things that the author of this speech
should be at the same time the most conspicu-
GUS advocate of consolidation and the most
noisy opponent of school reform. With such
a fearful example of the evils of illiteracy con-
stantly before it, any other Legislature that
ever assembled in Maine would pass the COM
pulsory attendance bill without further parley.
COMPETITIVE ExAMINAT1oN.-A Washing
ton despatch says Postmaster General Cres-
well has practically tested a system of compe
titive examination, which may not come up to
the standard of theorists, but which is of sub
stantial value. The Grand Army of the Re
public having ascertained that a clerk was
boasting of his exploits in the confederate SER
vice made it necessary for him to tender his
resignation, and the Postmaster General imme-
diately ordered competitive examination to
select competent candidates. Twenty-Five per
sons presented themselves and were iex-
amined, and of the three designated as most
suitable the Postmaster General appointed
George e. Hale of California to succeed Mr..
Roxbury as a frst-class clerk in the Money
Order Division. AS soon now as clerkship
pcoonrcs-r zrourcc appu-
cants of the time and place of the competitive
examination, and of the three most suitable re-
ported by the Examiner the appointment is
made. p n5d5 ~ 1lfisiA - ssa..fi t'e ,a3H
The SENATE RErRENcHMENT COMMITTEE
The committee have thus far examined about
one hundred and ten witnesses in connection
with the New York Custom House irregulari-
ties, and have subpenaed large number of
Others besides having a long list of persons to
be called if necessary. The most important
testimony yet to be taken is that of ex-Collector
Murphy. r t'4 ttiieip
The committee will be engaged at New York
ten days or two weeks yet, and it has not been
definitely decided whether they will go to Bos-
ton or not although it is quite certain an inves-
tigation will be made there. AT any rate the
committee has been requested to do so by the
Maine Legislature, in resolution ON the sub
ject instigated by parties in that State who be-
lieve they have been unjustly and unfairly dealt
with at the Boston Custom House. Hs la
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A LONDON despatch says the impression pre-
walls there that the Geneva convention will
necessarily disappoint the hope of its friends
and that in the end it will prove failure If
the conference should decide in favor of the
claims, no English government would accept
the result and no Parliament would vote the
money. Hence the movement would stop.
The proceedings now are pretense. The ar
gument of the Times is that England should de-
muir to the claim for indirect damages and if |
the court rejects the demurrers she should with
draw from the case. This is not an argument |
addressed to the government or put out as a |
feeler. The government says: "We can't ac-
quiesce in a construction which we are deter
mined not to acknowledge if proved against
u.s."
THE question respecting the character of |
savings bank investments is creating considera-
BILE attention in other States as well as in |
Maine. The suspension of several of the New
York city banks has been traced to improper |
investments and stock gambling by institutions
that were designed to save the small SURPRISES
of the poor. In the New York Assembly the
other day, bill to amend the charter of the
bate, by striking out the clause authorizing it
to invest in 1.-The stocks of any of the United |
States."' ~ l@1tE
MR.. LYNCH committee on expenditures in |
the Treasury department are now holding sev.
en- meetings week and are proceeding verv
thoroughly with their investigation They
have discovered that the defalcation of John
son began as far back as 1866, and have had
before them bankers both in Boston and in
New York, through whom he carried on his
speculations. 1t also appears that Marden, an
other recent defaulter, borrowed from johnson
the money with which he carried on his opera
tions, although they were entirely independent
of johnson. a1al a s -5.,. .....-
SENATOR Brownlow is preparing to reply to
an attack made recently in the House of Repre-
sentatives by Mr.. Beck of Kentucky upon the
hepuohcan State governments of the South. In
TINS speech Mr., Beck was called to order for
saying of the State officials: 'eHated and de-
spised, their only refuge, if they can escape the
fenltentiary, seems to be in the Senate of the
onited States" He made other indirect alu.
sions 70 Mr. Brownlow, and now that gentle
man proposes to go for him. in his peculiarly
forcible style.
H.