The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-18


anew, and with as much vigor as ever Mr..
| Hoar, or Mr.. Edmunds. Mr. Chandler is not
an imposing man physically The carica-
turists have drawn him times enough to
make him well known. Short, slender,
brown haired, sandy bearded..hi frock coat
and eyeglasses seem to be all over the cham
| ber at once.
The Internal Revenue.
The Blair bill has been attacked several
times and at length. The internal revenue
however, is the main point of attack. Sem
ator Joe Brown of Georgia opened on it
and touched it up in his characteristic way.
The speech was queerly delivered, but full of
| good things. 1t first discussed the system
| abstractly, with many fierce dig at it on
| the Jeffersonian plan. Then applying it to
| the mountaineers of Georgia, he attacked
| the system of dragging men into court in
way that reads very savagely. German and
Mcpherson are both on his side, and with
the Republicans largely in favor of a tobac-
co, if not of whiskey tax repeal. An in
dicative vote would be very interesting.
Fish Commissioner.
The House moves slowly nowadays. There
| is little or nothing on the calendar. and thus
the leaders are afforded a capital opportun-
| that is of Importance, with more of field to
play in than before. But if the field is
larger and there is less clogging with many
measures, the field is better filed with men
who are already to filibuster or fight the first
thing that does appear The House has
passed two bills only thus far-that to estab-
fish the Office of Fish Commissioner and the
general deficiency bill. The former will
work well. G. Brown Goode, who had
started in to act for Fish Commissioner and
director of the Smithsonian Institution, do
ing the work of the former place for moth
ing, will resign at once, and I. b. Fer
guson, formerly Assistant Fish Commits
sioner, will be pushed for the place. Con-
gresham Mcdonald of Minnesota is also q
candidate The Fish Commissioner will
now be an important man with $4,000 year
behind him, and the industry should be
helped materially.
General Deficiency Bill.
The general deficiency bill will Re law
before the end of this week doubtless.
1t has many New England items in it. The
very first one. indeed, appropriates $4,000
for a national monument at Plymouth, to be
situated as near the rock as may be. There
is tan appropriation of $4,000 for the pay OF
Senator Pike of New Hampshire. and the
two men who fought all last year over the
seat in the second Rhode Island district, are
allowed $1,000 each.
A Bear Garden.
But the House in action has rarely seemed
so much like bear garden as it does these
days. The old members seem always to
think it is all due to the new members The
new member for the first week, is very quiet
and sedate. He keeps his seat and moves
about but very little. But then he is apt to
go lust to the other extreme, moving about,
talking and laughing with all the freedom,
and more than the liberty taken by the old
member. And you cannot have 200 men all
talking and clamoring at once and listen to
what is being said. The Speakers gavel has
to go up and down constantly then. Mr..
Carlisle breaks in the head of his sounding
board such great dents that one-half
session is all it can last.
The fish Commission.
The Fisheries Commission is still at work
in the State Department, but making very
little headway indeed. The Commissioners
are having a very pleasant time socially and
there it seems to stop. The Canadians are
not inclined to grant the concessions desired
and if the people close to Mr.. Bayard can
be trusted, he will not yield an inch to Ca
madam demands without having an equiya-
lent, The Fishery Bureau established here
by the American Fish Association is quiet
just now, but intends to present its case be-
come up for hearing. VAN.
The Thoebe-Cariisle Contest.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE report of the
election committee on the Thoebe-Carlisle
contest made to the House today says the
tactics of the contestant and his counsel are
such as to preclude him from asking further
| indulgence of the House. A very careful
consideration of the papers satisfy the COM
| mittee, beyond all reasonable doubt, that
none of the substantial ayerments of the
| contestant could be established by satsfac-
tory proofs. No evidence was had which
supports or tend to support any one OF the
| 55 specifications filed by the contestant. The
| witnesses proved nothing tending to i'm
| peach the fairness of the election.
Speaker CarIisIe's Illness.
| t125op. m. the condition of Mr.. Carlisle
was improved and the doctors are quite
hopeful that he will be all right again very
| soon.
Tonight Mr.. Carlisle is considerable better
| than this morning. He had another chill
| this Afternoon, caused by intestinal dis
| turbances, the result of overwork and disOr-
dered digestion. He is not dangerously or
even seriously i'll.
What Mr.. Reed Told Them.
Congress has been in session now for six
weeks" said Republican member of the
Ways and Means Committee, "and the coun-
try is no better off than It was. 1t is not to
| he expected that the Democratic members of
the committee will tell the newspapers what
| they propose to do or when they will report
the bill, because they refused the other day
| to inform Tom Reed when he put the ques-
tion to them; Upon their decllnation Reed
said he could well understand why the COM
| mittee could not tell him until they consult
| ed with j. S. Moore of New York, who, he
declared, was drawing the bill for them"
Happy Maine Pensioners.
Pensions have been awarded the follow
| ing Maine people:
| ORIGINAL.
Abigail A., widow of Daniel Mathes, Mechanic
Frederick w. Marong, Lubec.
| J2mes B. Cassabo0n, alias Ring, navy, East
Eleazer A. Addition, saco.
| REISSUE.
| Dennis Mahoney, Togus.
Notes.
Justice Lamar, Secretary Villas and Post
master General Dickinson, received their
| commissions today.
| Walter S. Goodwin was appointed postmas-
ter at North Fairfield, Somerset County, to-
1 W.
The following Maine patents were granted
TODAY: James W. Hall, and A. McGuillan
| Skowhegan, machine for burning and speck-
ing cloth; Elbridge F. Ranks, Lewiston, wat
er motor. J.,
The passage of the bill creating the office Of
fish commissioner as separate and distinct
office from that of secretary OF the Smithson.
ian Institute, both of which We're SO long ano
ably filled by the late Prof. Baird. calls tt
mind the fact that the first appropriation fol
the establishment of fish bureau, and the
investigation into the diminution Of food
fishes, was made through the efforts Of Sena
tor Frye.
Congressman Dingley introduced, Monday
a petition from the citizens of the District o.
| Columbia to prohibit the sale of Intoxicating
liquors in that District; also petition from
the citizens of Thomaston, Maine, to prohlbi
the sale of liquors in the District; also ont
from the citizens of Auburn, Maine, asking
that it be allowable to print on wrappers O
fourth-class mail matter.