The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-28
Current Notes.

The New York World is enamored with
the British civil service system and says: eff
we should desire to have our civil service
what it should be we must render it an hon
orable and well-remunerated service. At
present the highest class of subordinate
officers are paid at rate which bears lu-
dicrous disproportion to the earnings of a
professional man of ability, whilst the Office
is wholly destitute of the sense of perma-
nency and the prospect of a pension and hon
orable recognition of faithful work which
compensate the English official for a salary
meagre as compared with that of a success
full practitioner in law or medicine" All of
which goes to show that the World has for
gotten for the time that potent Democratic
rallying cry: ''To the victors belong the
spoilsp
The Providence Journal urges the ap-
pointment of women upon the school boards
in that state. 1t says all that is needed is a
realizing sense of the need and importance Of
putting women on these committees, and a
little energy in carrying the matter through,
since no law stands in the way of women
serving in that state.
If the scale of General Buffers enmities
were to be published it would read some
what as follows:-First. last and always, E.
R. Hoar; nexr, II. L. Dawes; third, Presi-
dent Grant, who, whatever the apparent re-
lations existing between them, has never yet
been fully forgiven for ordering the hero of
the powder boat to report at Lowell, Mass,
and so contemptuously gazetted him as hav-
ing been ''bottled up' at Bermuda Hundred.
Boston Transcript. -
The Brdgton Neps is in an uneasy frame
of mind because it said that by mistake the
Trustees of the Insane Hospital were iegis-
lated out of existence, or words to that effect,
and the PRESS said that the Insane Hospital
had no existence or was hanging on the verge
of the government The Ne,cs fears that
what the PRESS said about the matter will
be laid to the Ne,cs, which it don't like be-
cause such statement is absurd. We do
love to be just.
The New Jersey Legislature has bill be-
fore it endorsed by scholars, poets, divines and
statesmen, which provides for an inspector
ofliquor offered for sale as beverage in each
county. Ten to one it won't pass; for that
home tipple, Jersey lightning, will not be de-
stroyed at its fountain head by Jersey law
makers.
The Philadelphia Press says: "We will
teach mankind that industry and integrity
make a people," The editor is favorably To-
Gated for giving instruction in this last depart
ment.
The Boston Traveller assures the public
THAI many New England merchants are in
favor IF an increase of the volume of cur
rency.
The Bottom Advertiser character:zes the
bill to "regslate railroad commerce between
the States" apiece of "pure bancombe." 1t
says that the experiment. of regulating rail-
roads when attempted by States has proved a
failure and it will b more certain to fail in a
more general application. From which we
may conclude that the railroad monopoly is
greater than the people~nd cannot be con-
trolled by them. A few bgoted people will
dissent III.
Only two Democratic Senator'S voted for
Mr.. Schurz's amendment to fix he legal lin
it of the bank-note currency at theold figures
of 1856, 100000.
Gen. Buffers Marshal Usher says hat he
nasrt been about the Massachusetts, State
mouse ouosau-holing members on the Ssna-
torial question.
The House vote on the Dawes amendments
declaring the limit of the legal tenders to be
$356.OOO,OOO, was made up as follows In the
negative, Republicans, 11s, Democrats, So;
in the affirmative, Republicans, 49,; Demo-
Gratis. a. The proportion of Republicans to
Democrats in the House is, roughly, about as
swo to one. 1t will be seen that this is nearly
the proportion in the above vote.