The Portland daily press., 1872-05-29

the country. The principal business of the
Senate is the consideration of the treaty
question in executive session, while that of
the House during evening sessions is calling
in its absent members in order to secure the
attendance of a quorum. That body ad-
journed this morning at eight O'Clock after
trial all night long to keep quorum in at
tendance, by bringing in the absentees and
hearing their excuses. The tariff bill has
been reported to the Senate by its finance
committee and its consideration will probably
commence to-day. The t. J. Be-
.r QUESTION OF ADJOURNMENT
is where it was when last wrote, and its
near approach brings the different lobby in
terests to the front in force and urges them
TO their utmost efforts.
The Senate Finance Commi tee has been
especially beset by the various cliques and
rings to be affected by the provisions of the
House Tariff bill recently considered by this
committee and req orted to the Senate. The
passage leading to the committee room was
literally crowded nearly all the time.
PIG IRON
was there and claimed to be the material par
the ship of State through future stormy wa
ters-in consideration of its usefulness as bal
last, suppose-while the Pemberton Square
Cloth Lobby tried ''to pull tcool over the
eyes' of the committee sufficiently to blind
them to all interests except their own. The
activity of another class shows that salt has
not ''lost its savor'' while coal adds heat to
the strife by clamoring loudly for protection.
Tea and coffee were "settled' long ago, so
these articles no longer furnish grounds
for complaint, in either House-except, per-
haps, the boarding house. Although pig iron
is little wrought up just now / think it
will not be "cast'' aside until the subject
is drawn into proper shape, although it is
charged by some that it is more question of
''steaF' than of iron. l cannot credit this
latter statement without feeling OF '.tem-
per-" and he that would "forge'' such fab
rication must be hardened" wretch. might
spin this out to greater length, but as am
convinced that it is too thin already, will
not attempt to "warp'' the mind of the reader
by continuing the ''yarn" by the use of wool
All these questions will probably be settled
before adjournment, to the general satisfac-
ton of the country. ......--.-,l ~ 4.
What has become of the old sI ID .-s s.~
DEMoCRA TIC PARTY! at I'D -
1t has not been heard from heard from here
suce the Cincinnati Convention. Does the
silence mean death or possuna. Voorhees,
smoke for himoalf in bo
has yet spoken for the great unterrified de-
mocracy. .t-.F Fef...f7V F.e r.r-.f-fh no.
Judging from the straits to which the New
York Tribune is now put, / should think the
stock of q. a. ii e.r MY -
was getting pretty low. The latest policy
adopted is for Greeley men who hold clerk
ships or other places in any department of
the Government, to make themselves person.
ally, as obnoxious, and officially, as worth
less as possible in their positions, and thereby
secure their justifable removal for inefficien-
cy. Then they are at once taken up by that
paper and advertised to the country as the
peers of John Rogers or Vallandigham in the
line of martrydom-such for instance is the
case of Mr.. E. V. Smalley who has heretofore
held the position of clerk to the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs. He was not re-
moved, however, until after his neglect of
the forbearance of the committee, and after
there was ample evidence that he had written
letters, not only insulting to the very COM
mlttee for whom he was clerk, but disclosing
the. secrets of their business, of which he
could only have become acquainted through
the opportunities affordedhim by his connec-
ton with them in that capacity. He is then al
most canonized by the Tribune, which paper
has, all along, published the action of the
m ffna olxx r.
Smalley is regular correspondent. He is
held out as much abused individual, and
described as an old and efficient clerk, who
had been removed exclusively for the reason
OF his adherence to the doctrines of the pa
per whose correspondent he was If the
facts are as appearances indicate, he has GER
talnly carried out one point of Tribune doc
trine--which is that it is no harm to steal the
secrets of others and publish them to the
world In the columns of the Tribune. The
facts are these: This --a9 r..f bad I'D 5fnI .
''oLD AND EFFICIENT CLERK 51-'
had obtained leave to- employ an assistant
to aid him in the duties of the Office
which he held-in order that he might
nave more time to devote to his jour
nallstlc duties, paying him, of course, from
his own poohet- IIe loft ehis y,eusI 10 tI, oil
the work while the .efficient clerk'' whose
martydom is proclaimed by the Tribune was
49,; IL mo Oic " 'hc BUSINESS oi disclos-
ing the secrets OF the committee and drawing
his pay. This is Tribune and Greeley
cNll service reform or winch we have had
previous case IN the stealing OF the treaty a
year ago. now much more OF such does the
country neeo &C., ...,..-..r ---....-.--
o,, Drlne tne hpeiy session OF the House last
oaenins our MEMBER from the second district
E - ~ .oH M ~ running ueoate with
browbeat 90 .'
Mr.. FRYE
he being Young member and Farnswortb n