The Portland daily press., 1874-03-17
Current Notes.

-s Current Notes.
The New York Post thinks that zen. ou'-
Ter does not legally hold seat Ill congress
hacause since his election i'll 1917 ne mas III
the conduct of government cases lntlmated
IN the court that he was qualified as re-
ouired by law by oath as an assistant United |
States attorney, and as there has been no |
notice of his resignation, it infers that he now
holds the position which is incompatible |
with the Office of representative in Congress. |
The Boston Globe Washington correspond
ent says that it is asserted that President
Grant prefers Judge Hoar for Mr.. Summers
successor, and the impression is that Butler
prefers Mr.. Dawes because he dislikes the
latter less than the former.
1t is one of the sweetest and most consoling
reflections of the opening season of buds and
flowers, when the brooks shall be released
from their icy chains and there is fair
promise Of the gentle lambs skipping from
rock to rock and thistle to thistle, that the
snights rapidly growing hriefer an the
iron rod of the oppressive gas-man has been
broken at the fountain to some extent
Rochester Democrat. ge
The following obituary from the At
Gibson (Kansas) Champion is pointed, prac-
teal and comprehensive:
The Leavenworth Argus, scabby and
venomous journal, established some months
ago, has woodbined. If it had been a decent
paper it could not have lived, because there
was no room for it. Being filthy, SANDER
Gus, lying and malicious little nuisance, of
course its life was brief. 4l
The situation is getting alarming There
| is one more "Pecksnifr' and this time it is
the Kennebec Journal, 1t says: ''It needs
no argument or elaborate statement to show
the work now necessary to be performed at
once by all true friends of the country, by all
sagacious supporters Of the Republican or
gaiization. Administrative reform must he
granted at once, fearlessly and without re-
luctance and without. stint. The indications
of this popular demand and patriotic necessi-
| ty are obvious, manifold, and cannot be mis-
taken nor stifled. The startling revelations
OF the Sanborn contracts and of the over
whelming testimony before the Committee of
Ways and Means indicate the line OF action
to be promptly taken by Congress, so plainly
that there can be no excuse for the neglect to
cut up the poisonous vegetation at the roots"
The Washington Republican charges Con-
| gressmen Dawes with the New Hampshire
defeat. His financial speech did it. We beg
leave to differ. Perhaps however, Bos-
Shepherd contributed morsel to the result.
The Argus is wrong. Senator Cragin's
successor will not be chosen by the present
New Hampshire Legislature, as his term does
not expire until March 4th 1877, when if we
are faithful we shall have done with Butler
ism and a Republican or Mr.. Cragin himself
will be his own successor. For figures, see
Tribune Almanac page A. Price ofalmanacs
twenty cents.
In speaking of the corruption Of mer, the
Rochester Chronicle says We believe, on
the whole, that our age is better than any age
that has preceded it-that it moves upon
higher moral and intellectual planes than any
of it pfedecessors-else should we despairs of
| progress and conclude that civilization was
setting backwards. And yet if we are to
trust evidence that seems indisputable, there
was a higher standard of morality among the
public men of a century ago than now per-
tains. The corruptionists appear then TO
1 nave been e,,,e exceptional We hear h1Sle OF
| not read of magnificent fortunes being made
| by legislators from moderate salaries. We do
not think the average man of those times
was of superior moral fibre to the average
man of our times; but the best men certainly
had the knack of coming to the top. There
were not, indeed, so great temptations, and
moral composition did not have to bear so Sc
we're strain then, as it is now subjected to.
Great enterprises and colossal jobs were not
knocking at the doors of the national and
State capitOs. More moderate ideas of liv-
ing prevailed. Wealth seems not to have
been insanely worshipped." a-p
Some of the Boston papers have published
a statement that Hon. Mr.. Frye, Representa-
tive to Congress from this district, favored the
confirmation Of Simmons by the Senate. We
have the highest authority for saying that
there is no truth in the Reconsideration
Journal.
The Machias Republican says: 'There is
a disposition to considerable extent in this
State, and much more In Massachusetts,, to
elect women on school boards. This is right;
but with this right comes the pertinent query
why should not these same women, who are
considered fit for such situations, have the
right TO vote for themselves or againzt them
selves II they choose? Why should men on
ly vote for them, or why should men only,
vote to raise the money which these same
women are expected to expend?"
A corporation with soul. The American
steamship votes $1,000 TO the gallant Brady
Rochester Chronicle.
On the other hand, the Hartford Courant
says it was a bit of sharp practice on the part
of the Philadelphians as Brady could have
claimed and obtained twenty times this
amount as salvage. We are sorry that the
corporation hasn't soul. Perhaps, however,
the hearty thanks Of the Company are worth
the other $4,000.