The Portland daily press., 1880-12-22
WASHINGTON.
Executive Nomination,

Executive Nomination.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-The President sent
to the Senate the nomination of Henry P. Dill
of Maine, to be U. s. Consul at Fcrt Erie
Canada.
Preparations for the Inauguration.
The committee on inaugural decorations
recommended series of 3S arches of gaspipes
over Pennsylvania avenue with appropriate
decorations representing each and decorations
of all statues in the city.
Moody Boynton Championed by Weaver
General j. B. Weaver is preparing minori-
ty report in the election case of Boynton VS.,
Loring. He finds that, by Mr. Boynton's
showing, he should have had a plurality of %,
and that if ballots without any Office were
counted, plurality of 100. When the case
comes up after the holidays, an attempt will
be made by Mr. Boynton's friends to show that
when he was candidate against DIR. Loring
the laws of Massachusetts, disfranchised over
1000 citizens OF the district by educational, tax
and property qualifications. The case will be
debated as having a bearing upon the four
teenth amendment North and South.
Nominations Confirmed
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
Geo. b. N. Tower of Massachusetts, as Super
vising Inspector of steam vessels for the second
district, and Midshipman John N. Jordan OF
Maine to be ensign. and Lieut. Commander
Franklin Wildes Of Massachusetts, to be Com
mander,
Opposition to Judge Woods.
In the discussion of the nomination of Judge
Woods to the Supreme bench in the Senate
Executive session to-day, considerable cppcsi-
ton was manifested on the ground that he was
an Ohio man and an extreme partizan. The
case was suspended.
New Mexico.
!, Senator ingalls, introduced bill to-day for
the ADMISSION OF New Mexico to the Union.
Contested Election Cases,
Reports in che cases of Holmes VS.. Sapp and
Wilson vs. Carpenter, from the Sth and 9th
congressional districts of Iowa. granting leaye
OF contestants to withdraw, We're ordered to be
printed.
Gen. Schof1eld and Major Gardner.
The Secretary of War to-day transmitted to
the Senate, in response to the resolution passed
oy that body on the 14th inst, copy of the
correspondence of Gen. Schofeid and Major
Gardner, OF the corps OF Judge advocates, in
regard to the proceedings of the Fitz John
Porter board of inquiry. The correspondence
consists OF several letters which have passed
and the War Department.
A communication from General Schofeld to
the Secretary of War, under date of West
FONT, April q, characterizes Major GARDENERS
action IN procuring copy of the report as "a
ag h AN PEI persistence in the line of conduct
wh,ch had already compelled the Board to
withhold all confidence from him."
This letter CT General Schofeld's Major
Gardner characterizes as an extraordinary
communication, one which renders the writer
naoie TO action before the common law for
Ii3ei, ara asserts that the 61st Article of War,
le.atlve tie pteferring charges of conduct unbe-
Coming AN officer and gentleman, is applica-
Bile to its utterances. He then proceeds to
show that the Boards report, as printed, con-
tanned material errors of fact, and asserts that
the ground taken by General Schofeld, that
the Boards report should not have formed
part Of the record, was intended to do him
(Gardner), if possible, a private injury. He
closes by asserting that: GAS the Secretary of
War decided merely to file General Schofield's
communication in the private archives and
not to entertain it further, this fact gives me
no claim beyond filing this paper, particularly
as it is the conduct Of the Hon Secretary Of
War and the President which is principally
concerned 1t is for this reason alone that do
not take further action against the writer for
this grossly libelous communication.