The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-10-30
POLITICAL.
The Iowa Congressional Delegation.

The Iowa Congregational Delegation.
BURLINGTON, Ia, Oct. 29-The Hawkeye
publishes letter from Secretary McCrary, in
which he expresses an opinion that according
to the law of precedent, the next House will be
compelled to admit the Iowa congressman
elected in October. The Republican House in
1871 admitted the Democratic delegation from
Tennessee, under similar circumstances. The
the state authorities interpreted the language
OF the state constitution, that the interpreta-
ought to be accepted by Congress.
The Greenbnck Movement Dying Gut in
Ohio.
New YORK, Oct. 29.-The Tribune publish
es an interview with Congressman Hurd of
Ohio, in which he says that greenbackism is on
the decline in Ohio He has no doubt that the
present Congress will attempt to repeal the re-
sumption act. but probably without success
He thinks Thurman the proper Democratic
candidate for President. Tilden is not avala-
BILE, though Hurd does not think the cipher
dispatches injured him. He does not believe
Tilden had anything to do with them. Hurd
said Hayes was never elected President, and if
the Demo Gratis find any way to unseat him
without disturbing the peace of the country,
they will be justified in doing it.
The Political Troubles ia Texns
WASHINGTON, Oct 90 The u. S. attorney
telegraphs the Attorney General in regard to
the arrests in Montgomery county in that state
for political offences, that they were made
principally upon complaint of persons promi-
nenty identified with the Greenback move
ment and not upon the complaint of the Re-
publicans.
Ex-Treasurer 9 dinner on the $50 Treas
ury Notes.
UTICA, Oct. 29-T1e Utica Hera Id publishes
an open letter from ex-U nited States Treasurer
Spinner. 1t is in reply to letter containing
the following:
"rhe National Greenhack-Labo Party
claims you as one of its members, and you are
announced in certain localities as giving to
that party your sympathy and support, which
is chiefly based upon quotation from one of
your published letters, wherein you state that
the 7.30 Treasury notes were intended, pre-
pared, issued, and used as currency"
Mr.. Spinner says:
''As no copies of the mary letters that
answer are kept, 1 am unable to say whether
the quotation is correct or not but l presume
that it is. As have not the letter here to
which it was an answer, l cannot now say
what the question was, or whether the context
of my letter would fairly bear the construction
that this single sentence does. But, be that as
it may, it is certain that when it was written
had in my mind the original issue of $4,000
900 under the act of July II, 1861, and had no
thought of the larger issue of these notes of
$0OO,OGO,0OO. that was negotiated through the
agency Of Jay Cooke & Co., at the close of and
after the war for the preservation of the Union.
The first named were principally paid out over
the counters of the Treasury as currency to
paymasters, quartermasters, and government
contractors; but the latter and much larger
amount was issued as loan, and was never is
sued as currency. I am surprised that any one
who knows me should doubt my loyalty to the
political and financial principles that have
alwas prOfessed, and still more surprised that
there should be any doubt anywhere as to my
support Of the very excellent ticket of the Re-
publican party