The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-06-10

WASHINGTON, June S.-A very large number
of visitors called at the Executive Mansion to-
day to pay their respects to the President
Among these many delegates to the Philadel-
were on their way home. About forty mem
bers of the Typographical Convention, which
has been in session at Richmond, also called at
the White House. 5iI 90 -saEss lgrlev sLt y
Nomination.. sr.-.fHag' o.. o.
The President this evening sent to the Senate
the nomination of William II. Cheeseborough to
be Assistant Secretary of Legation at London
!, vice Maxwell Woodruff, resigned. aE .rgg q
g.s The Last Might of the Session.
WASHINGTON, June S.-The conference re-
ports on river and harbor appropriation bills,
have been agreed to by both houses. H
The galleries at the Capitol were filled to-
night with spectators. Many are anxiously
waiting for some turn in events to bring up
measures in which they are interested, but the
greater portion is attracted by curiosity, winch
always attaches to night sessions on the eve, OF
final adjournment.
MIR. Coifax and the Vice Presidency.
number of the Indiana delegates to the
National Republican Convention, with the lndi-
ana Congressman, called at the Vice Presidents
room at the capitol yesterday, and Judge Den
. ny addressed Mr. Colfax as follows:
Mr.. Vice President: -Those of the Indiana
delegates now in the city, on their way home,
with others of your personal and political
friends, are unwilling to leave without making
= this call and expressing the high appreciation
of the invaluable services rendered by you to
the Republican party and to the country; and
while we as individuals regret your defeat at
the late Republican Convention, where we ear
nestly labored for your nomination as candi-
date for the office of Vice President, we at the
same time feel proud OF your patriotic conduct
in joining with us in a hearty and cordial en-
dorsement of the ticket there nominated, and
we heartily approve the sentiments contained
in your telegram to Col. Foster. We feel well
kln4 .,trx bot
bears the names of men whose respective pri-
waite and public characters are so pure and high
that the country must approve them at the bal
lot box in November. 70
j. Before closing this interview we cannot re-
frain from expressing also our high appreca-
ton of thehonorable manner in which you saw
fit to conduct yourself during the earnest can
vass made by the Indiana delegation at the
convention to secure your renCmination While
we cannot resist the impression that if you had
consented to make personal efforts in your own
behalf, such as all candidates are permitted to
! make without loss of character manhood,
success might have crowned our efforts. We
are at the same time constrained to admit that
the dignifed course which you choose to adopt
deserves greater honor than could be conferred
by an office within the gift of the American
people. We beg leave to reassure you of our
gratitude for the patriotic services you have
rendered the country and of our personal es-
TEEN and confidence.
MIR. Celfax replied that he was proud to be
recipient of such warm and earnest friendship
as that exhibited by the delegation of Indiana,
and other States, and so kindly expressed in
Judge Dennis cordial remarks. He bowed to
the decision of the convention without MUIR
mer or regret and should prove hereafter as
faithful to the Republican creed in private life
as when he had been standard bearer of the
cause. He rejoiced that after eighteen years of
public life, with all his acts like the open pages
of book before the people, the worst that
could be said of him at Philadelphia that he
had written stating his Willingness and desire
to retire from official position, and had after
wards consented to accept denomination if
the party deemed it best. This charge he could
not deny, but he had never written nor said
anything broader that is found in the express
sions of that mnch quoted letter. "a tH I -ali
w 80 much has been said about it, that now the
convention is over he felt he had a right to tell
his home friends what his lips had been sealed
on heretofore, namely; that it was not written
for publication. 49,
He had expected to submit the desire he felt
and which was expressed In it, to leading Re-
pubcans in his own St1te and elsewhere,
when Congress reassembled, for their advice,
and he said he mnst add in justice to the valued
friend to whom he wrote, that it was not mark
confidential" and being from public man,
on public question, that friend had an lun-
questionable right to infer that it was not pri-
vate and therefore he justified him fully in print
| ing it. L Which he decided last November at the
appeal of many active Republicans from Indi-
denomination, or his retiring, was question
which the party should decide, rather than him
self; he felt that it would be improper to cleo
tioneer with any one On the contrary he told
every delegate he saw, that his name ought not
to be presented, if another could insure greater
unity and certainty of victory to the cause he
loved far better than political honors.g
The Republican organization whose great
deeds for libetry, humanity, justice, and nation
atty during the late decade, are unapproached
by any political party in any age, has other ad-
| vancing steps in progress and reform to take
| before dsbandment or furough from duty.
@Whle going himself therefore, to the retired
list without the slightest unkind feeling towards
any one who desired a changein the Vice-Presi-
dency, and wishing especially decisive victory
in October nour closely contested State, he
would join with them in November, in cordial
| iy supporting q. S. Grant and Henry Wilson
| for President and ice-President.t Il I rs
The Sundry Appropriations Bill. 4
! Later accounts state that the two Democrats
ofthe Conference Committee, Messrs Stevenson
and Niblack, withdrew from the committee,
| leaving the members to frame a report in ac-
accordance with the wishes of the majority,
| which they have done with several modifca-
tons of the original proposition. The report
| will be presented to the Senate as soon as they
| shall meet tomorrow morning, and having
been agreed to, will be sent to the House. 49,
| 70. Some of the Democrats tonight say that
/ they will endeavor to prevent its its adoption in
that body by fillibustering, as they were assur-
ed on Saturday that they would lose none of
their rights by conserving the disagreeng
amendments to the bill should go to the Com
mittee of Conference. Other Democrats, how
ever, are inclined to let the report be adopted,
| saving that if the bill should fail and an extra
session be called, the majority would not only
/ pass the bill containing the Objectionable cleo
! ton law features, but other measures to them
equally distasteful. Eh33 Hah.l r i.s,g &
| Should the Democrats continue dilatorial mo-
| tions until noon in order to defeat the sundry
/ civil expenses bill, an extra session will be
| called and it is even said by some Of them that
they understand that the message conyoking
| the two Houses has already been prepared by
| the President. There is much comment and
I speculation everywhere concerning the events