The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-03-28


waited honor, and vehem / tly denounces his
brother Senators as corrup for recommending
men to office. Now if the appointment of a
friend of Senator to Office is improper, how
can a fee of $4,000 for a few days service, not
interfering with Senatorial duties, be entirely
proper? Aside from this thele is positive
law against the payment of two compensations
to lang officer or any other persol" whose pay
is fixed by law. Mr.. Trumbull thought this
had been repealed, but did not show when or
how; and even if repealed as a question of NOR
atty his conduct was still unjustifable. The
law however, is still in force against everybody,
and is applied in all cases except to members
of Congress as lawyers. The question perhaps
is only interesting as traversing the old adage
concerning.the proper use of language between
the pot and the kettle in the matter of complex
ion. But Trumbull has the advantage in one
respect for he has pocketed the money and
there is no way to get it back. H 7gianar
AA THE SUBSIDY BILL
The bill to raise the steamship subsidy half
million per annum went by the board Had it
stood alone on it's own merits perhaps its fate
might have been different, but behind it stood
legion of schemes pushing like waters against
dam and only wanting little break, to rush
through and sweep all before them. The
schemers put all their interests together, and
irrespective of moral character or community
of principle, like guests at a crowded inn they
concentrate around the dining-room door, and
make for the good things beyond with irresisti-
BILE ardor and persistence The bad help the
good, and the good are so very good that they
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bad-which is called gratitude, or doing as you
would be done by id 1888 5Ett
i- THE CINCINNATI ELEPHANT.
The situation politically is interesting with
out being exciting. Mr.. Sumner was repre-
sented as consenting to preside over the Gin
cinnati Convention, but he denied it. I think
it safe to say that could his consent make sure
the defeat of Grant, and make certain the nom
nation of the most distinguished Republican
of New England it might with due persuasion
be obtained but ah! there's the rub, and in
deed it is puzzle all round A convention is
a verv good thing if the projectors know
what to do with it, but when they don't it is
troublesome, and this one is trouhlesome-very.
Some think if the Democrats would only come
in it would succeed but then it is not known
They know they are hard up, but whether they
are so hard up as to make it an object to try to
take shelter under the wings of Charles Sum-
ner, Horace Greeley and other old sin stricken
radicals. who are welded to negrophilism and
other denominations of that sort, they simply
don't know, and there is no one to tell them,
whose word they can trust. Chase thinks it
would be all right if they would nominate him,
and Trumbull the same if they would but nonl-
mate him, and Greeley knows it would be right
should the honor fall upon him, but the doubts
are frightful all round, and while they all hope
something will come of the "darned' thing,
they, like Sumner, prefer to view it at telescope
ic range for the present.
4s.f.. "HARK FROM THE ToAIBs."
Henry A. Wise has been here, and gave his
''views'' in Lincoln Hall, but they were not
much sought for, and produced no particular
sensation. Nobody seemed to remember that
Wise was formerly magnate here-one of the
huge fellows that did things, and shaped the
course of sovreignties and empires, in the old
rampant southern fashion with flourish and
whoop, CATO -nine-tails and halter All
that has gone by, and Wises celebrated long
finger points the way no more than fallen
guide board whose ends were reversed by the
wind when it was blown down.
DOLEFUL SOUND.
Bowles of the Springfield Republican
pendent-has been here. The independence
consists in condemning what his own party does
and praising the policy of its opponents. One
of his leading notions has been, that Congress-
men should make laws, and let the people
make presidents. Well, he was down here to
find out how many Congressman could be in
weighed into the Cincinnati mill for making
president, and wrote home dubious account of
the situation. 1t appears from his statement
that that mill would grind beautifully if Con-
gressmen would only turn the crank, which
they won't. They would, he thinks, if they did
not wish to be reelected, and here is where it
comes again. How singular that the ndepend-
ent press has not educated the people up to the
Cincinnati ideal, and how strange that Bowles
should be urging Congressman into president
making, to the danger of being defeated by the
people. The dilemma of Mr.. Bowles is but
another indication of the obstinacy of the peo-
pie in adhering to Grant, and the Springfield
man learns to his disgust that the people are
really going to do what he has all along advis-
the politicians.
PERSONAL
On dit that Gen. Butler has rendered the olive
branch to Senator Wilson, and so their little I'M
pleasantness has been made up They went
down the river together On an excursion, and Will
ncaved in ON the nomination of Buffers friend
Briggs to the Boston Appraisership after all he
had said against it. The biography of Wilson
has just been published by Mrs. Ellenor d.
lockwood of Boston 1t is spicy, brief and
pretty fair representation of the man, written
in the Wendell Phillips STYLE But Wendell
will be COMPOUNDED to learn that his model
statesman is again hand and glove'with the SEN
ator, with labor reform in the back ground once
more.
l have seen nothing from Phillips on the
nomination of old Judge Davis, but it seems to
me he will find the Judge pretty slow coach.
not at all accustomed to the breakneck style of
the Massachusetts, radical. HELEN
A JUVENILE BARNUM.-There is an embryo
sho Tman out in Virginia City, Nevada, who
has already made his mark in the world. He
is an interesting boy of nine summers, who
painted his little brother in the latest style OF
the fierce Sioux, and exhibited him as cap
tured son of ''Spotted TaiP' at twenty-five
cents a ticket. The exhibition was a great sue
cess, and the Juvenile Barnum was drawing In
the quarters at rapid rate, when his mother
came to see the show and recognized her Off
spring through the red oehre and lampblack,
whereupon circumstances over which the young
manager had no control put an end to his great
enterprise for the entertainment of his fellow
citizens.
A handsome young woman, an alleged widow,
is Enoch-Ardening New York with success
She gets man to engage to marry her and set