The Portland daily press., 1873-03-08
WASHINGTON.
Nominations.

WASHINGTON. March THE President sent
the following nominations to the Senate to-day:
A, U. Malloy, u S. Marshal in Western Texas;
A. NJ Hughes, y. S. Attorney for Middle Ten
nessee; Thomas G. Young U. S. Marshal in
Oregon; John NJ. G. Parker, Surveyor of Gus
toms at New Orleans; VIM. Sherman, Assist
ant Treasurer of the United States at San
Francisco; Adrian Vandine, Collector of Gus
toms at Aroostook, Me-; G. A. j. Sampson,
Consul at Jerusalem. Postmasters: 7. o. Dun
r. I. E G. Waite, Naval Officer at San Fran
cisco; G. III. Gray Surveyor of Customs at
San Francisco; George Jerome, Collector of
Customs at Detroit; A o. Adds, j. B. Howell
and Charles Ferris were reappointed Southern
Bennett for Eastern Michigan; E. A. Colds
borough, Maryland; s. B. Packard, louisiana;
c. ii. Murray, Kentucky; B. H. Campbell
Northern Illinois; S. 2, Evans, Eastern Ten
ncssee; c. A. Newcomb, Eastern Missouri; w.
o. Smythe, Georgia; John Dunn, Delaware;
P. r. CALL Connecticut p. H. Emerson, AS
sociate Justice, Utah Territory; A. B. May
nard, U. S. Attorney, Michigan; c.. w. Bah
cock, Sarveyor-General of Kansas; Capt j. NJ.
b. p. Smith to. be Commander; Commander
D. B. Luce to be Captain; Capt. A. Bryson to
be Commodore; Commander j. L. Davis to be
Captain in the Navy. Capt. James Biddle to
be Major of the 9th Infantry; Capt. III. @.
Bankhead to be Major of the 4th Infantry; also
uunDer Ol prOIuULlUllS VI OlllCSTS III bllc ARMY
and navy. I'd
The Cabinet session to-day was unmarked by
any matters of unusual character
The Supplemental Convention RatiAej.
The Senate, in executive session, this after
noon, ratified the supplemental convention be-
tween the United States and Mexico, extending
for two years from the second day OF February
last, the time for the adjustment of the claims
of the respective countries through joint COM
missioners This supplemental convent On
awaits the ratification Of the Mexican Congress.
Another Fremont Suit.
= j. @. A. Warren of New York, left here to-
day for that city to press the contin uance of
his suit against Gen. Fremont, for damages re-
sulting to him from his arrest and detention in
Paris inH1S69, at the instance of Fremont. Pro-
best & Co. owing to certain statements of Mr..
Warren, contained in a circular exposing al
legged frauds in the sale of bonds of the Mem
phis, Ell Pazo & Pacific Railroad Co.
Address of James BROOKS.
Hon. James Brooks has prepared the follow
ing address to his constituents:
enemies have taken advantage of my phys
ical prostration from maleria, contracted in
India, and too long neglected, to offer up Cakes
Ames and myself to public camor, in which
two Vice Presidents of the United States, sew
eral members of the Senate, and eight other
members of the House were mose involved tina
myself. The sacrifice of Democrat was
deemed indispensable to offset if not to protect
them, and hence early in December q commit
tee was organized, seemingly so as to bring in
my name with theirs so as to make me respon-
sble for the 150 shares of stock in the Credit
Mobiler obtained by G. A. Nelson. The GER
tifcates of this stock were VIGOROUSLY in the
full possession of Nelson as long ago as Dec.
u, 1867-see evidence, page 59-but OF these
certificates, the committee, in January, 1873
choose to make me the owner, upon the pre-
tence that he being my son-in-law was only the
apparent owner.
The committee was thus organized, say for
there were put upon it such men as Gen. Banks,
chevalier, D'industrie, for years living in
Chateaux en- esapgue because of his known
hostility to Americans, who, when asked refus-
ed to subscribe with certain rich Bostonians to
free his Waltham house from heavy mort
gage, and Merrick of Maryland, an ex-rebel
judge of this district, at the opening of the
civil war, whose court Congress had to extir-
pale to be rid of him, and who therefore was
sore and souri, now more than ever, and hates
the whole human race because of the defeat of
his aspirations to reelection to Congress, 18th
Niblack, very, very small man in plastic fing-
ers of such sly, sleek and crafty chairman as
Mr.. Poland of Vermont, whose antecedents in
railroads at home are worse than anything al
legged against the Credit Mobilier.
This committee, after setting two mont his
and half, purposely neglecting the explora-
lions of many rich mines of testimony, fiercely
fell upon me in eleven different sittings when
my physical prostration was such that the
newspapers daily reported that was dying, and
at last, after refusing me a hearing, which L
earnestly demanded, a fact which they sup
pressed in the first report of 523 pages, which
no member of Congress could find time to read
so late in the session. When it was made it
coupled me, Democrat, with Mr.. Ames, a
Republican, for expulsion, while they let off
had handled Credit Mobilier, when not share
had come into my hands. The House and the
country from the start secuted such an absurd
report the moment they could get at it, by re-
fusing to vote on expulsion at ALL
They did not cenSure AmeS or myself but
only condemned an act as old as 1861 in order
to thus carry off as on lightning rod electri-
city that had been generated by batteries of the
press up Congress and the country; but even in
this House they did me an injustice because it
was not in Congress when it was alleged that
my interest began in Credit Mobilier, or if, as
alleged, 1 had any interest it was fully disposed
of before went into a directory. Some Dem
ocratic members of Congress assented to this
injustice in the belief that they could then con-
denim such leading Republicans as Dawes, Gar
field, Bingham, Kelley, Scofeld and Hooper.
But in this they justly failed because the great
intelligence, high character and well known an
tecedents of these men are such as to make rid
iculous the charge that Ames had bribed them,
or that they were his dupes, as the Poland COM
mittee reasons and did not know what they
were about"
Mr.. Brooks says he shall appeal to his con-
stituents if God restores him to health, and
continues: I shall demonstrate to you that
neither myself nor Nelson were guilty of per-
jury as Poland charges, and that both of US
told the truth when testifying that had no
hand in the Credit Mobiiier dividends, allot-
ments or profits in any form. He concludes by
reference to his official career for the past TWEEN
ty-five years.
6l3F @9S Various Matters. ol. i13
Vice President Wilson has appointed as his
private secretary Samuel Hunt, formerly clerk
Of the Committee on Military Affairs, of which
Mr. Wilson was chairman. -,--.s.