The Portland daily press., 1874-06-11
NEW YORK.
Mad InfafiOnists and What They Say Of
the President.

Mad InHafiOmists and What They Say Of
the President.
NEW YORK, June 10-Senator Jones gives
the following explanation of the reasons why
President Grant wrote out his memoranda on
the finance questions:
"Why, the fact of the matter is that the
President saw both Houses of Congress had
been tinkerng away at the finances for more
than SIX months and had come to no conclu-
SOn but were scoldlng away about them still.
First this one came to see him and then that
one. and each successive person, just as his
ideas seemed to strike him. said that the
Presidents views were first one thing and then
another, end as | suppose the President got
tired of this sort of thing and made up his
mind not TO be misrepresented any more. he
went to work, and that there might be no mis-
take, he proceeded at once to write out his
views.'
Washington specials differ as to the proba-
bility of the Presidents signing the finance
bill agreed to by the finance committee. The
Times thinks he will and the Herald the con-
trary. A dispatch to the latter says the lead
ing infationist Senator says that he is confident
the President will sign the bill, while the con-
trary opinion is entertained by western Sena
tor who is an intimate friend of the President,
though dsagreeing with him on the financial
question. He says the President has made up
his mind to kill the Republican party. he is
going to bifurcate it and organize new party,
taking sides with the hard money men of the
ter influence he will secure by alternating from
them 10 a certain degree, in the way he has
done in Arkansas, the negro influence and po-
litical control of the carpet-baggei element, and
this he will proceed to do in Louisiana after
manner entirely his own.
Sundays Storm.
Detailed accounts of the storm of Sunday
from different parts of the state show that
some damage was done by hail in the vicinity
of Rochester. Greenhouses and gardens suf-
fered badly at Pittsford. A large barn was
struck by lightning aud burned in the town of
Chill. A man was seriously injured and three
cows killed in Albion by lightning. Two cleo
trio balls of fire explded in the large square in
Utica, the Catholic church was totally wrecked
by lightning, the Congregational church had
its steeple taken off and landed in a neighbor-
ing yard, and the ornamental windows of the
Episcopal church were all smashed.
End of the Civil Suits against the Ring.
The Court of Appeals decision annulling ali
proceedings in the civil suits against the ring
thieves on the ground that action should have
been brought i'll the name of the city instead,
is what was expected by most members of the
bar from the start, but is a great disappOint-
ment to Charles OConnor and S. j. Tilden, by
whose advice the suits were thus wrongly
commenced. IN. Peckham says that the
suits in the name OF the city are all ready for
trial but it is now SO late that the trials will
probably De postponed till fall. By the time
JuugulcuI is obtained IL Is very doubtful
whether any property can be found to levy on,
and the city will probably never recover much
of the stolen money.
struck by lightning.
William Burke was struck by lightning in
9TH street last evening and dangerously injured.
tenement house in Pitt street was also
struck but no one was hurt
Reform.
The action of Commissioner Dsbacher, the
new member of the Police Commission ap-
pears to be in the interest of the citizens He
has had auditing committee appointed,
which already has discovered discrepancy of
$1,000, besides the illegal appointment of some
fifteen parfolmen, which involves some $15, 900
more. Quite number of reforms have been
initiated by the new Commissioner Disbacher
who is the only newspaper man ever on this
board.
Various Matters.
The sale of the Narragansett Steamship
Company, which was announced several DAYS
days ago, was consummated to-day, the Old
Colony Steamboat Company being the purchas-
ers The boats will run as usual to Fall
River.
The weather this noon continues hot with
west wind
The annual convention of the American
Civil Engineers commenced to-day, j. w.
Adams presiding. A paper was read on the
characteristics of rails used by railroads