The Portland daily press., 1874-05-01
Current Notes.


A bill amounting to one hundred dollars,
for extra services in vaccinating children, has
been presented to the Chicago Board of
Health, and some of the papers think it
smacks strongly of Tammanyism.
Our Dominion legislators are cudgeling
their brains to find the means of increasing
their revenues. Nearly $25, 0OO,O 900 is to be
met and the tariff only yields $21, 500, 600.
The question now is how shall the balance be
obtained without burdening industry. Build
ing railroads and canals will soon make de-
ficits in the revenues of any government.
Currency doctors will soon be as cheap as
corn doctors. DR.. Kelley M. G. still clngs to
his ''interchangeable-3.6 bond-elastic cur
rency'' plaster as though it was new three
years since. --u
The Toronto Globe urges the Dominion
government to strengthen its Notifications
along the border. 1t is entirely friendly to
the United STATES, but does not believe that we
are on the verge of the millennium.
The New York Evening Post holds that
while the administration can do nothing d-
rectly for the South Carolina, taxpayers, it
can do good work for reform by withdraw
ing its support from such managers in the
"affiicted" States as Moses, Paterson, Clay
ton, Kellogg etc. - ei,d ilt
Harper's Weekly for the present week is a
lighting number. In addition to an able lead
ing article in hearty commendation of Pres-
dent Grants veto message, it contains no
less than five illustrations of the discontinue
and misery OF Logan, Morton and Butler
Butler leading all the rest. d.
Uncle Bill Allen who sits on the executive
stool in Ohio should see to it: The World has
read the Cincinnati Enquirer out of the par
ty for its advocacy of imitation to which the
latter responds that the World represents
"only bastard democracy" Father Allen
should quiet these fellows. $3.50 o.H
For once, all praise to President Grant.
Most unexpectedly, and in manner the
most gratifying, he has come to the rescue of
our imperilled country, by interposing his
official veto to crush the designs of Morton,
Logan, Butler, Cameron and Co. The day on
which that veto was signed and sent, was one
ut to be observed with public rejoicings, for
delivery from great eril,-BeJdst Journal
The Boston Globe says that Messrs. Wat
terson of the Louisville Coarier-Jomnal,
White of the Chicago Tribune, Halstead of
the Cincinnati Commercial and Bowles of
the Springfield RepubHcan-four leading
journalists, once known as Liberal Republic
cans-met by accident in Boston on the occa.
sion of Senator Schuz oration-or rather,
they did not, meet for the purpose of forming
new political party. Those from the West
TOOK occasion to declare for hard money.
Inc Chicago Tribune publishes list of 116
newspapers, comprising all Of the prominent
journals of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wis
copsin. Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska
and Missouri, and the division is 81 in favor
of the veto, AZ against it and ID on the fence.
The st. Louis Globe thus discourseth of the
currency supply of the West; GAS the first
failure would seem to illustrate the easiness
of leading horse to water and the imposs-
bility of making him drink, under certain
conditions, it would not be asking too much
to request Congress to wait until the Western
horse had swallowed the twenty-five millions
which he refuses to absorb before stuffing his
belly with the fifty millions. -Four years ago