The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-19
NEW YORK.

Society OF the Army of the Potomac.
NEW YORK, April 18-The twelfth annual
rebnion of the Society of the Army of the Po-
tomac will he held at Hartford June 8. Gen.
Wright will preside and Daniel ,Dougherty of
Philadelphia will be orator and Captain Sum-
ner of Bridgeport poet of the occasion. 1t is
expected President Garfield and Generals
Sherman, Sheridan, Slocum, Hawley and 9TH
err officers will be present.
New York's Malarial Streets.
The investigation of the charges preferred
by Mayor Grace against Police Commissioners
Nichols and French for maladministration of
their Office was continued to-day The testi
mony given by Messrs. Drexel, Sherwood and
Emmerson was stricken from the record. Po-
lice Commissioner Mason then put in an an
swer pleading not guilty to the charges and
specifications in the complaint. Charles E.
Whitehead, lawyer, was called by the prosecu-
ton and gave evidence touching the filthy con-
dition of the streets he had inspected. On
cross examination he said the mayor had asked
him to examine the streets.
Charged with Poisoning
WATERFOWL, April Isl. Cummings and
G. Grinney have been arrested on charge of
poisoning Louis Jarvis by inducing him to
drink from dinner pail from the effects of
which Jarvis died to-day.
The Whitaker Trial
The Whitaker court martial re-assembled to-
day. Ex-Gov. Chamberlain called Thomas
GuWdiu odteCIttlWditos ~, W LILO WlLu6SS
stand. Dr. Satterthwaite is an expert in the
use of the microscope, and when looking at
the note of warning said he saw many signs of
erasures. He also said after examining
thoroughly Whittakers letter to his mother
which Expert Southworth claims joins exactly
with the note OF warning, that this latter had
been tempered with.
The Legality of secretary WINDOWS
Funding Plan Questioned.
Boston, April ia Washington dispatch
to the Journal says
A former Secretary of the Treasury express
es the opinion that the new Treasury policy is
illegal and ought to be abandoned before MAY
10th, and that upon that day, or before, the
Treasury should announce that it will pay all
son that the Government has abundant re-
sources with which to meet them. This gen.
tleman is of opinion that the call for the SKIES
which has been issued terminates the loan,
and that to continue bonds at lower rate of
interest is a contract which the executive
branch of the Government is not authorized
under existing laws to do. He fears that the
Democrats may make trouble for the Admins
tration when the next Congress shall convene
unless the leading men in both Houses pl edge
themselves now to support this policy. 1t APP
pears, however, that Mr.. Bayard is the only
Democrat who has given his sanction to this
policy, and it is by no means certain that if
the stress of party should be placed upon him
that he would not change his opinion, or at
least fail toIsupport the Administration, as he
is reported now to have promised to do. The
opinion of this ex-Secretary is that Secretary
WINDOWS circular is based upon bad law, and
would establish dangerous precedent, that if
in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treas
ury the interest upon Government bonds may
be reduced, he also may be the Judge of an
emergency when he may think it wise for the
interests of the Government to increase the
rate of interest, and that if the head of any
executive department may make one law the
executive department. as a whole may make
all laws and do away with the necessity of
Congress altogether.