The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-06-03
Current Notes.

Speaking of the Louisiana relief bill the
Richmond Dispatch sharply says: "General
Gordon and General Ransom can vote for the
bill. They were gallant Southern soldiers.
But your Northern democrat cannot violate
the rights of the States except in time of
war;
The Philadelphia Press asserts that too
few fraudulent claims are contested by life in
surance companies, and says it is time that
the false and senseess criticism about life
companies iitigating too much is stopped.
They should be bound By the most rigorous
laws to itigate every suspicious claim until
such claims become unknown.
The Tribune thinks it is not very f1atter-
ing commentary upon the educational system
of the country, in its elementary stages, that
one-thiId of the aspirants for military honors
at West Point were sent back TO school be.
cause they could not write, spell or cipher, or
were not familiar with maps or grammar.
The New York Journal of Commerce thinks
that if our Government rejects the present
overtures for renewal of the reciprocity
treaty with Canada, it will never have anoth-
er stroke of good fortune. We quote: The
proposals emarating from Canada, and
warmly sustained by the British Government,
Enthusiastically make for the advantage of this
country. There should be no hesitation
but, on the contrary, the utmost readiness
in accepting the terms which have been an
nounced from Washington on semi-official
authority as the basis of the new treaty.
If the restoration of the treaty is
orr nj fn 1,o+ = "a,
almost vital to some of the industries of the
United States, and it seems the height of in
fatuation to repel the liberal offer now under
consideration at Washington. There is no
disagreement among the American boards of
trade and chambers of commerce about the
necessity of a new treaty. The people of
both parties-all but few incorrigible pro-
tectionists-want it Secretary Fish can in
no way better enhance his claims upon the
national gratitude than by making it set
tied fact 81
Portland, Maine, has been swooped down
on by female SkiIlings, who lays claim to
only seven acres right in the stomach of the
town. We predict that she will come out
short, just about seven acres.-N. Y. Mail.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
opines that the Democrats are going into bus
mess for themselves again, and says Allen in
Ohio, exhumed from the debris of disinte-
grated systems, and Eaton in Connecticut,
mounting the phrases of defunct Ca,hounism
and expounding political doctrine whose
falsity has been established by the outpour of
Unlimited blood and treasure, are the expo
nents of 'the fundamental ideas and historic
cal policy which are to be made dominant.
Give the Pope rest, Mr.. Gable Reporter.
Let's hear how the youngest child of the
King of Portugal is getting along with the
mumps, or when the Khan of Tartary's baby
will commence teething
The only man of mark, to-day, in the Re
publican party who aspires to the succession
is James G. Blaine of Maine, the Speaker of
the House He is strong, able, ambitious
man; but there are those who predict that
President Grant will know how to make him
unavailable before two years are over
Washington letter to the Graphic.
The Springfield Republican does not be-
lieve in that kink of rotation in office which
is likely to retire so valuable congressman
as Hon. Charles W. Willard of Vermont just
to give another man chance. 1t very prop
erly thinks that the people have better
right to an able man than any one man has
to be elected.
The San Francisco Bulletin doesn't cher
ish warm regard for the, Sutro tunnel
scheme. and says it was and never will be
matter of national Importance. 1t never
ought to have secured ten minutes attention
from Congress. 1t may or may not accom-
plish all that its projectors have claimed for it,
1t is local affair, relating to the interests of
a few mines in particular neighborhood,
and having not the remotest connection with
all the other vast fields of mining enterprise
on the Pacific coast.
The Republican Congressional Convention,
for the Second District will be held Friday,
June 10Th.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has an entirely
new application for the word "parricidal."
1t says Senator Scott, in voting against in
fation, "aimed parricidal blow at the peo-
pie who have loaded him with honors." On
which the Tribune comments, ''To refuse to
split the new ten-cent piece in two and make
twenty cents of it then is to kill your father.
This is getting serious"