The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-03-04
Currant Notes.

Analysis of the vote ION the force billy on
the passage of the bill shows that it was
carried through the house by the votes Of
Republican members, who were in many
cases not deemed worthy of denomination by
their constituents, and who were all defeated
last November. This fact creates good
deal of bitter feeling among the Republican
members who voted against it, and who are
reelected, and who will be held responsible
for this and other acts of the party in their
new position in minority in the next con-
gress.-N. Y. Herald Correspondent.
In General Traey's argument he says that
every large warehousing and importing firm
in New York maintains junior partner or
confidential clerk who represents its interests
at Washington or Albany, as slight change
in the tariff gains or loses for it hundreds of
thousands of dollars; and that this confiden-
tial partner or clerk cannot do all his work
with his own hands, but must be able TO put
his hand on some lever of public opinion
(meaning thereby that he must control the
utterance of a newspaper). General Tracy
is evidently drawing long bow. The news
paper press of this country isn't controlled by
confidential partners or clerks of importing
firms.-Boston Herald
Without the Force bill the Government
is impotent. The great powers it creates,
dangerous as they seem, can, we believe, be
safely intrusted to the President. Their use
depends upon the southern people themselves.
They can avoid the necessity for their exer-
e.-Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
Mr.. Speaker Blaine has shown not merely
a knowledge of parliamentary law, but a
pluck in decision, and an adherence to cor
rect principles, which prove him to be wor-
thy of his high place.-Proridence Journal
Some of the most important changes in
the new Senate will be in the standing COM
mittees, the chairmen of twelve out of the
twenty-eight regular committees retiring, viz,
Chandler, chairman of the committee on
commerce; Ramsey, of postoffices; Sprague,
of public lands; Buckingham (deceased), OF
Indian affairs Pratt, of Pensions; Brown
low, of revolutionary pensions; Scott, of
claims; Lewis, of District OF Columbia
Boreman, of territories, Stewart OF railroads
Flanagan, of education and labor; and Car
penter, of contingent expenses of the senate.
if the rule of rotation motion should be OBJ
served, the seven first named would be sue
ceeded respectively by Spencer, Hamin, Win
dom, Allison, Oglesby, Conover and Wright.
1t would be folly to suppose that views so
clear and so logically expressed as those of
Senator Carpenter would not win many ad-
herents, if they did not already have them.
But the fact is that Mr.. Carpenters speech
only put in more than usually distinct and
forcible form ideas that very generally pre-
vail in the north among Republicans. And
the same may be said of the speeches of Mr.,
Ward and of Gen. Hawley, and Judge Po-
land on the force bill. The Republican par
ty does not want that bill. 1t expressly wish
es not to have it. 1t does not believe it nee
essary. There has been no demand for it.
The men who have allowed Mr.. Butler to
bully and wheedle, and cajole them into vot-
ing for it do not represent the Republican
party. On the contrary, its opponents repre-
sent that party, and their policy-the polcy
of common sense-is the only one by which
the party can afford to stand.-Neto York
Times.
Mr.. Henry Watterson rises to explain. he
has been quoted as an authority in approval
of Gen. Schenck's rules for draw poker.
Finishing beneath the undeserved honors,
he remarks that as far as the judgment
of a Sunday school superintendent goes the
rules seem fair enough, but that from any
other point of view he knows nothing about
them. The rumor that Mr.. Watterson is
going to remove the CourierJourndl from
louisville to Andover or Princeton has not
vet been confirmed.-N. Y. Tribune.