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The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
The Pendleton Bill Again.

The Pendleton bill, providing for the ap-
pearance of Cabinet officers on the floor of
Congress so they may answer questions that
may be asked of them and mix in debates
about the affairs of their departments, is ia
vorably considered by the committee to
which it was referred, but is not likely to be-
come law this session. Congress has, or
fancies it has, too much else to do. But we
trust the coming Congress will pass the bill,
for by it public business will be expedited
and opportunity given for more intelligent
discussion of proposed measures. If Secre-
tary Sherman had been permitted, during
the debate on the refunding bill, to state
his view of the situation and to meet and
answer questions concerning his own
scheme of refunding, the House might have
learned something to its advantage and so
have been saved from the foolishness of
passing an impracticable BILL If Secretary
Schurz could have confronted Mr.. Dawes
in the Senate the wrangle over the Poncas
might not have taken place, and the Massa-
chusetts Senator would have escaped the ex-
coriation he has just received from the Sec
retary
There seems to be no good reason why
members of the Cabinet should not explain
their views to Congress, defend their rec
concentrations, and meet and answer ques-
tions and criticisms upon their policy. They
appear before committees now. Why
not before the entire body? They are
found laboring in private with Senators and
Representatives in the cloak-rooms. Would
not be better for them, and make them
less open to suspicion, were they to urge
their opinions upon Congress? Of course
some familiarity with debate, if not some
legislative experience. would be required.
But are not these good to have? and would
not the requirement of them make. stronger
Cabinets?
The objection that the Pendleton project
is an adoption of the English form of gov
ernment, is unsound. The English minis
try is merely committee of Parliament, and
. its members must be taken from that body.
The defeat of any important measure pro-
posed by it leads to its resignation or new
the Cabinet officers are not members of
Congress, nor dependent upon it, and the
defeat of their measures does not lead to
their resignation. They are quite unlike
the English ministry. They are simply the
Presidents secretaries. They are only
wanted in Congress to facilitate the trans
action of public business, to inform Con-
gressmen of the needs and workings of the
government departments. This can be done
to some extent, it is true, through written
reports and committees, as now; but it can
be far better done by the methods proposed
in the Pendleton bill. knowledge will be
more rapidly impaired, and the debate
which follows will clear up many points
that would remain doubtful or require
much delay before an understanding could
be reached upon them.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
AMPUTATION OF THE LEG.
The old Family Physician at Fault-Dr.
David Kennedy the Successful Surgeon.

Money is the universal necessity, and none but a
cynic or fool will affect to despise it, Mr.. Abram
Ellsworth, of Port Even, Ulster county, N. Y, had
realized this truth. His disease involved the whole
of his thighbone, and the suffering looked for
ward not without apparent reason, to death as his
only deliverer His family physician refused to am
putate the limb-assertng that the operation would
kill the patient on the spot. DIR. DdUid KENNE-
DY, of Rondout, N. Y, who was consulted, held a
different opinion and amputated the limb. The
Doctor then administered freely his great Blood
Specific FAVORITE REMEDY to afford tone and
strength to the system prevent the return of the dis
ease, and Mr.. Ellsworth remains to this day in the
bloom of health. The gentleman's disease was the
offspring of foul blood and Kennedys FAVORITE
REMEDY purified the blood and restored to him
the power more to enjoy his life. Are you suf
ferng from any disease traceable to the cause?
Try Favorite Remedy. Your druggists has it. ONE
DOLLAR a Bottle. Bear in mind the proprietor's
name and address: DR.. Darid KENNEDY, Rond-
out, New York. febSTuTh&S&w1n
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Cabinet Minister'S.
A New Era in American Ideas.
[Chicago Tribune.l

lChicago Tribune
The right of Congress to call on the heads of
departments for information on any subject
without their knowledge or jurisdiction has
been recognized from the foundation of the
government. There is no reason why this in
formation should be communicated in writing
instead of orally, or why the demand for it
should be put in the precise form of resolu-
tion. 1t would clearly be an advantage to
Congress to have the information it desired
brought to it in person by the official supposed
to be most competent to present and explain it.
In many cases the statement Of the heads Of
departments might change the whole course OF
legislation, and it would deprive Congress of
the sorry excuse, too often made for bad legis-
lation, that it was adopted in ignorance Of
fds s s infect KoPsla sSbn,z be- had ,sr n
take the floor OF tina House or Senate and state
what the appalling consequences of the arrears
of pensions bill would be, we question whether
Congress would have passed it, or if it did,
1t would have been unable to Justify its action
before the country. The Secretary of War, IL
he were an able man and good debater, might
in the same manner put the truth in relation
to the annual river and harbor grab before tn o
country in such way that any honest men,
Der would shrink from the responsibility of
voting for it.
OhquooeiOuduiy dioo tuo ouoCt VI I6tOrQ
would be to improve the character of the So
called Cabinet, as men of great ability and long
experience in public life would be needed to
pass the catechism on the floor Of Congress.
Certainly the dignity and influence Of the
Presidents official advisers would net be i'm
paired by the change. 1t would be more be-
coming that they saould say what they have to
say in public before Congress and the country
rather than in private, in the lobbies or COM
mitteo-rooms. The fact that Mr.. Bl-ine and
Mr.. Allison, who are commonly assigned
places in the. newt administration, have
affixed their names to the new report,
gives it special interest.
1t would seem as if new era had dawned
in American ideas of constitutional govern
ment, If these able public men should appear
weekly in Congress as the representatives and
defenders OF President Garfeld's views. The
plan wisely stops short, it will be seen, of the
English cabinet system. which would require a
constitutional amendment and the desirable
ness OF which is open TO very serious debate
especially since the encroachment of the En-
glish cabinet on parliamentary prerogative
has become so clearly apparent.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

The London Academy has been reading
the linguistic experiences in England of DR..
Stark OF Kentucky, and remarks: 'He
found that the natives talked the American
language, but talked it badly, not nearly as
well as it is spoken in America. There
were many dialects and vulgarisms about,
and frightful displacement of the initial
b. Even an Anglo-Saxon Professor, too,
called which 'wich,' and another light of
Old English pronounced hard 'hawd'; the
letter was generally swallowed. The Doc
tor was also terribly prosecuted by con-
spiracy of malignant folk who would tell
him they were very pleased, and did not
know that very ought not to be applied to
participles. He was gratified at finding in
the House of Lords that the two speakers
he heard-the Duke of Argyll and Lord
Granville-were able men as we'll as Lords,
while the rest of the Peers who only gabbled
were unknown nobodies. His remedy for
the reporters not being able to hear the
Lords speeches is simply an Aneric an elo-
cutionist to teach the Peers how to use their
voices. DR.. Stark's article is lively read
inoo
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Books Received.

The Lost Casket. Translated from GA Main
Coupee of F. De Brisgobey, by S. Lee. Paper, $40
pp., 60 cents. New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons
Portland: Loring, Short 8 Harmon.
Lite Stories and Poems of John Brouxh.
am. Edited by William Winter. Cloth, 4s1 DID.
$500. Boston: j. R. Osgood & Co. Portland :
Loring Short g. Harmon.
Ernestine. Novel by wilhelmine Won Hill
lern. From the German by s. Barring Gould
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DON j ohm, No Name Series. Cloth, 3S9 DID,,
81. Boston: Roberts Brothers. Portland: Lor-
ing, Short & Harmon,
Browsing Among books, and Opher Essays.
By Abba Goold Woolson. Cloth, l243 pp., 81.
Boston: Roberts Brothers. Portland: Lornz,
Short & Harmon.
Chinese Immixratiou, in its Social and Eco
nomical Aspects. BY George F. Seward. Cloth,
421 pp., $3.50. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Portland: Loring, Short b Harmon.
The Demon of Cawnpore. By jules Verne.
Translated by A. d. Kingston Cloth Illustrated,
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Sons. Portland: Loring, Short h Harmon;
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Health lis Wealth

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MENT; specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Con vul
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The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

A wooden Indian ought properly to be tho
sign, not of tobacco shop, but of loan Of
fee. 1t would indicate to the pawner that
within he would find the Pawnee. Catch the
idea?-Post
Fresh young man to lady he has Just escort
ed to the diuing-room at a literary gathering:
care you partial to Lambs Tales? Indig-
nant young lady, after xhibiting much un-
called-for surprise: mo, nor 'm1tton-heads,
either. r."-Yonkers States an.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

DURING the last campaign Democratic
sympathizer with treason flew rebel flag
in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The Phila-
delphia Press called the traitor by name and
properly denounced the outrageous act;
whereupon he sued its editor, c. E. Smith,
and the jury has rendered verdict in favor
of the defendant and requiring him to pay
all the costs of the suit.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

THOSE of our legislators who are think
ing of acts additional to the liquor law will
be wise to bear in mind the dictum of Judge
Stiners of Rhode Island: ga law that is
stable and remains for long time in force
grows in respect with the people. while one
that is constantly changed has little effect
upon public opinion
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

HARTFORD Courant: The price must be
broken before the telephone begins to be
what it may be, and the people care little by
what means it is accomplished. The time
will come when it will be in more general
use than servants, horses or carriages, when
every family will have to have it, and we
take it the time has already come when all
large business concerns recognize their need
of it. Let down the price of telephones aid
increase the number of words allowed in
telegraph messages and lively impulse will
be given to social progress. 1t is only
question of time
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

The Hartford Evening Post makes the
in Connecticut because that State does the
divorce business of New York. The Con-
necticut laws are looser than those of New
York, and are regularly taken advantage of
by the minated couples of the latter State.
Maine cannot make that excuse, and we
have yet to learn that New York leads Con.
necticut in point of morals.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

THE Boston Transcript wants it under
stood that there is not word of truth in
the statement that "by the terms of the
agreement between the Associated Press and
the Western Union Company every paper
in the country is powerless to advocate any
opposition to that Company" GAS a mat
ter of fact" it says, "the Western Union
has no more exacting customers than the
newspapers, and none that speak their mind
so freely and effectively as the papers which
make up the Associated Press
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

The Advertiser justly says of Boston
fool who asks the papers for free advertise
ment: $50 foolish is he that he actually be-
lieves each of the editors of New England
newspapers to be as big a fool as himself
and then falls into the fool trap and pub
fishes the main part of the Boston mans
advertisement, even to giving his post-office
address. Evidently the Bostonian was not
wrong in his estimate of some New England
di.ors.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

The Hartford Port says: ''Mr. Reed is
an exceedingly able man, of large Legisla
tive experience, and would adorn the posi-
ton of speaker. The New England dele
CATION in the House will probably be sub.
stantiallysolid in his support
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Reform Club Meeting.

The Quarterly Cumberland County Convention of
Reform Clubs will be holden at North Gorham on
Saturday and Sunday, Feb II and 13, 1881.
1t is earnestly hoped each Club will be represent
ed with a full delegation.
Free entertainment to all.
l.. w. WEIGH, Sec'y
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
REASONS WHY
all should use the
ReactdiOnary Health LIT.

every man or woman in every walk of life. 1t fur
nishes an exercise which may, and should be intro
duced into every house; which may be practiced at
all seasons, in all kinds of weather, by persons of
both sexes all ages or degrees of strength weak
ness, alone or in company No cpn say too
muchi n praise of it, and no one can .fford to do
wthoutit. All who investigate thor dghly, use it,
and consider it invaluable and Indispensable 1t is
the safest, simplest, cheapest and most efficient
medicine ever discovered. No claim is set up for
it which is unscientific or impractcable.
Generally is the best of rest. 1t is perfectly
safe. No harm ever came from its use. It strains
no portion of the system 1t directs the vital forces
to the affected parts By its the health is easily
maintained. The purchase of Reactionary LITTER
is the best kind of economy. The convenience of
having one in the house is very great.
:; Mind and Brain 1t nvigorates and strength
ems the brain and renders it more active and eff
eient in all its operations.
sleep.-It is the simplest and safest narcotic.
1t is the most natural and probably the best
of inducing sound and refreshing sleep.
Nerves.-It is wonderful tonic to the whole
nervous system. 1t is most eficacious remedy in
paralysis. if taken in time.
Lungs, Throat and VOice.-It gives special
expansion and greater mobility to the chest en-
tion, and brings the voice fully under control
AS preventive and cure of lung diseases it has no
equal.
Exercise.-It is the most perfect exercise for
man or woman, furnishing the best form of physi-
cal culture and development in the safest, easiest
most thorough and expeditions manner. 1t is bet
ter than the gymnasium, and free from it's dangers;
and infinitely better than drugs in a majority Of
chronic diseases. 1t rounds and hardens the mus
cles, and educates them into ever ready, faithful
and efficient servants of the will.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pubca-
tion but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

THE Democratic Vicksburg Herald says
''The partnership with the Northern Demo-
Gratis for twenty years is now brought un-
der review, and the ablest leaders in the
South pronounce it unsatisfactory"
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

IT may be recorded that on Monday, jan.
3lst, resident of New Orleans was COM
planned of for not cleaning the snow off his
sidewalk
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

THE undersigned have this day formed copart-
l. nership. as successors to Hodgdon g. Soule,
under the title of HODGDON BROS. for the tran
saction of Wholesale Produce, Fruit and Commits
the past, we hope to maintain it completely in the
future. G. l.. HODGDON,
feb10 DIT f. G. HODGDON.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

IN BANKRUPTCY-D District Court of the
Il United States, District of Maine. In the matter
of Charles S. Murch Bankrupt.
This is to give notice that petition has been pre-
sented to the Court this Twentyeighth day of jan
rupt praying that he may be decreed to have full
discharge from all his debts, provable under the
Bankrupt Act, and upon reading said Petition,
1t is ordered by the Court that a hearing be had
upon the same on the Fourth day of April, A. D.
1881 before the Court in Portland in said District
at 10 o'clock A. M and that notice thereof be pub
lished in the Portland Advertiser and the Portland
Press, newspapers printed in said District, once
week for three successive weeks, and once in the
weekly Advertiser and Press. the last publication
and that all creditors who have proved their debt
and other persons in interest may appear at said
time and place, and show cause, if any they have
why the prayer of said Petition should granted
VIM. P. PREBLE,
Clerk of District Court, for said District
jan29, 9,feb5&12&w1w5
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
THE PRESS.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 12.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with a Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
of every person claiming to represent our Journal a
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

CASE, the Pennsylvania Democratic State
Senator who failed to qualify because he
had unlawfully used money to be elected,
has been re-nominated.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
WOman's Christian Temperance Unioy
The Annual Meeting of the Maine Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union will be held in

Augusta, Feb. 18th and 10th,
at the rooms of the W. c. T. o.. on Water Street,
where reception will be given to delegates and
visitors Monday Eye'g, Feb II, Members of auxil
larry W. c. L. Unions will please address Mrs. c. L
Hooper, Augusta, for places of free entertainment
Half fare may be expected on railroads.
On Tuesday evening, Feb. 15, Mrs. j. Ellen Fos-
ter, the eminent Iowa lawyer, will deliver an ad-
dress in Granite Hall.
MRS. L. NJ. n. STEVENS, Pres.
Mrs. G. C. HUNT, Cor. Sec'y
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
CONTRA.
ASSETS. IS

r. B. FULLER, Pres't. THOS. H. LORD, sec'y.
j. s. WINSLOW e. CO., Agents.
jan26 dim
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
COPARTNERSHIP.
DISSOLUTION.

DISSOLUTION.
HlHE copartnership heretofore existing between
IL Bernard G Donahue and Edward Brady
known as DONAHUE & BRADY, is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. All accounts will be set
tied by EDWARD BRADY, who will continue the
Grocery business at the old stand corner Fore and
Centre streets.
BERNARD G. DONAHUE,
EDWARD BRADY.
Feb. Sth, 1881. eod1w
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

Quiet Hours Boston Roberts Brothers;
Portland: Loring, Short & Harmony. This
little volume contains choice poetic selections
of meditative character, chosen from among
the writings of many poets. 1t is similar in
design to the first series of the same title, and
will be welcomed by the many readers who
have already found pleasure and consolation
in the pages of Quiet Hours.
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

The Orthoepist By Alfred Ayres. (New
York; d. Appleton & Co.. Portland: Hoyt,
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Dissolution.

VNHE copartnership heretofore existing between
l. Loren d. Austin and Edgar E. McKenney un-
der the style of AUSTIN & MCKINNEY, is this
day dissolved by mutual consent.
EDGAR Z. MCKINNEY will continue the bus
iness aud adjust all accounts at the old stand 181
Middle Streei.
Portland, Feb. 1, 1881. feb1 eod2ws
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
Haviland Copper Mining Company.

nyHE Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the
i HAvILAND COPPER MINING COMPANY,
will be holden at the Office of Rollins g. Adams,
DAY, the 21st day of February, curreot, at 10
O'Clock A. M, for the choice of officers and the
transaction of any other business that may legally
come before them.
GEORGE s. WINN, Secretary.
Portland, February z, 1881. feb7dd
The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12
Beautiful Fancy Cards.

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The Portland daily press., 1881-02-12

annual MeeunS.
MNHE annual meeting of the Deering Acton S. M
Il Company will be holden on the twenty first
of February, 1881, at their Office, No. SO Exchange
street, at ten of the clock A. M.
feb9 dtd. NJ. K. MOORE, Secretary
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