The Portland daily press., 1875-03-02
Current Notes.

amuses the Indiana men.
Current Notes.
Bowen, says the New York Tribune, is
walking about the court room with chip on
his shoulder which he dares either side to
knock off.
The truth Is, the New York Democrats
think they cannot get on without the ring,
and they mean to revive it and keep it going
again. Gov. Tilden is likely to be no more
satisfactory to them than was Governor Dix.
All governors are alike unless they submit to
Tammany Hall.-Prouidence Journal.
"He struck out for the wild West, and rung
the bells in the forest glades,' remarked Gen.
Tracy in his eloquent description of his client.
This is very beautiful and poetcal, General,
but it's rather rough on Indianapolis. These
glades are mostly made up of forests of spires
$1,000 per Indianapolis Journal.
Speaking of the force bill the Boston i'd
rertiser says: A minority of the party, in
cluding the most of those whom the country
deems the wisest and the most clear-sghted
of the leaders in Congress, voted against it.
Mr.. Butler and those who think with him
that the true way to heal the bleeding wounds
of the body polite is by more blood-letting,
and that slaves should be made of the most
irritating and corrosive agents, were for it.
They have had a victory on which they will
congratulate themselves, but it will be la
mentable thing for the country and most dis
astrous to the Republican party if this is to
be the elimination of Republican policy and
the final legacy of the party after fourteen
years of national administration. 1t is an
act that would be dangerous at any time, and
it is peculiarly unwise and uncalled-for now.
Instead of preventing a new rebellion, which
is the ostensible object of the bill, it will do
as much as any act of Congress could do to
increase the hostility of the southern people
and to give activity to the passions that lead
to war.
When we consider the mental wear and
tear, and the terrible nervous strain which
our American Eagle underwent, about the
Virsinius outrage, one is seriously tempted
to doubt whether the sum of $1S.000, which
Spain now proposes to give us, will even suf-
fee to pay the glorious old birds doctor bill.
Commercial Advertiser.
How the Democratic papers will howl two
years from now, when the Republican minor
| ity in the Forty-fourth Congress puts in prac-
tice few of the lessons in fillibustering which
are now being taught!-St. Louis Globe.
There is social, educational and moral
reconstruction needed in the South, but it
will never come from any legislative hall, state
or natlonal.-Gen Hdpley. -
1t seems that short-sighted. partisan zeal
has prevailed among the Republicans Of the
National House of Representatives, and that
they have put the force bill through, habeas
corpus provisions and all. 1t is to be hoped
that wiser counsels will prevail in the Senate
| and that this outrage upon the rights of states
| and communities will not be consummated.
| 1t is gratifying to see that there were some
| INDEPENDENT Republicans, and those among
| the very best men of the party, who refused
| to go with Gen. Butler in support of this
measure. We are especially glad to see among
this noble band so large proportion OF New
I England men.-Boston Globe.
The report of the Ways and Means Com
mittee on the Pacific Mail investigation is
both satisfactory and the reverse. 1t is salts
factory in so far as it speaks plainly, and re-
| commends vigorous measures against those
| who have not cleared themselves from the
charge of guilty completely in the scandalous
transactions connected with the procurement
| of the Pacific Mail subsidy. 1t is unsatisfac-
| tory in that it fails to show beyond question
| who were the most guilty persons. 1t is not
very surprising under the circumstances that
| the committee did not fully succeed, but the
| investigation is in such shape that it can be
| continued by the next Congress. No one can
| say that the report is "whitewashing" doc
| ument.-BOst0n Aduertiser.
Speaking of the force bill the Tribune says:
| Staunch administration men like Mr.. Willard
and Mr. Hawley opposed it with a zeal that
did them great credit and members who are
entitled by combining ability, fair fame and
large record of patriotic service (though not
perhaps by audacity and vulgar insolence) to
| be looked upon as the leaders of the party,
| stood against it in solid array. If every Re-
| publican Representative who thinks with
| Messrs Willard and Hawley had used as plain
| speech as they did, the bill would probably
| never have passed.
The Herald condemns the force bill from
| beginning to end, saying the limitation of
time Is no palliation for the principle involv-
| ed in the establishing arbitrary power and
| Cesarism upon the President 1t does not
| consider the passage of the bill through the
| Senate as probable. The fact that so many
| Republicans in the House voted against the
fOrc6 Dill Is goou symPIom'
The Times says both the civil rights bill
| and the force bill are unsustained by any
| clear authority in the constitution. Whatev-
er else they may do they accustom the coun-
| try to such a treatment of the constitution as
that instrument ought never to receive. 1t
must be respected if we expect to secure the
| advantage of free and well ordered govern
ment. There is one important indication by
| which we can judge of the probable effect OF
the passage of political bills on the party, and
| that is the attitude of leading Republicans
| with reference to them in Congress. Many
| of the best Southern Republicans were op-
posed to the civil rights bill. Mr.. Carpenter
showed by his admirable speech how it is re-
/ garded by another numerous section. 1t
would be folly to suppose that views so clear
and so logically expressed as those OF Mr..
Carpenter would not win many adherents il
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 generally prevail in the north
among Republicans, and the same may be
said of the speeches of Mr.. Ward, Gen. Haw.
lev and Judge Poland on the force bill. The
Republican party does not want that bill. II
expressly wishes not to have it. 1t does not
believe it necessary. There has been no de-
mand for it. The men who have allowed
Butler to bully and wheedle and cajole them
into voting for it do not represent the Repub-
lican party. On the contrary its opponents
represent that the party and their policy 1.-THE
| policy of common sense) is the only one by
which the party can afford to stand.
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