The Portland daily press., 1874-04-20
Current Notes.


The Boston Heralds Washington man spins
yarn to the effect that on Tuesday night
80 or 40 Congressman met at Speaker Blalnes
to endeayor to arrange compromise on the
currency bill; and it was there agreed that
the Maynard bill should be accepted with an
amendment returning one dollar of green
backs for every dollar of bank currency is
sued. The next day the indationists refused
10 stick.
The New York Times says: SIN Gen. But
ler's case, perhaps the back-pay grab may be
pardoned, his conspiracy with Pendleton
may be palliated, his ancient and bitter pro-
slaveryism may be forgotten, the Mumford
case may be explained away, Fort Fisher
may be passed by as it was by the General
himself, the spoon story may be set down as
false-but when you have got rid of them all,
what's Butlera Avillage pettifogger. With
those additions to his fame, what is he? A
national pettifogger."
In two notable contests with the forces or
ganized TO control our politics in order to de-
grade them, Gov. Washburn has been our
standaI d-bearer. His elevation to the United
States Senate is as sigr ificant rebuke to
Butlerism as any possible choice could have
been. In the contest, unfortunately. many
concerning whose regard for sound politics
there can be no question were divided. Let
us trust that their union at last in supporting
Gov. Washburn is typical of readiness to
work together for the future. Neither party
has secured the success of its first choice, anG
each is therefore in a degree disappointed.
Both have need OF cultivating a conviction
that the past is irremediable, and that what
ever root of bitterness has sprung up must be
piuchcd out and dcstroyrd.-Booton Atsver-
tiser.
1t is said that there is no Tribune stock for
sale, and that the advertisement to that effect
was the work of rival. High-toned bust
ness.
Senator Morton's Indiana organ tells Speak
er Blaine that "when he comes nearer to NOM
ination day than he now is, he will find that
the people have more votes than the money
changers" The Speaker has>given casting
vote against initiation and been imprudent
enough to declare that lie doesn't believe in
fation good political economy or good politics.
Dominion Minister Brown returns home
from Washington greatly encouraged at the
prospects of reciprocity. Secretary Fish de-
clined to draw up such a treaty, but invited
the Dominion government to show its hand
on this subject, which it will probably do.
The New York Times says that the "pus-
sy" under the "Cuban recognition" of Sena-
tor Carpenter is that Casey of Louisiana,
owns half million Cuban bonds, and has
two millions more for distribution where they
will do the most good. In such connection,
even Mr.. Cox can't stir up the american
burd'' for Cuba without becoming the object
of unpleasant comment.
A Tribune correspondent who lost his silk
umbrella at the New York anti-infation meet
ing, where none but prominent financiers"
were present, asks if ''it is not possible to
bring property in umbrellas under the great
moral uprising to which we shall owe the pu
riication Of the currency, and whether any
one article can be excluded from the protec-
tion Of the conscience, as the umbrella has
been for SO long, without weakening in a
greater or less degree that sense of human
justice upon which human society rests"