Daily Kennebec Journal

Mr. Sumner's resolve to investigate the sale of arms to France appears to have no better foundation than an effort to damage the President. The allegation in the preamble that there is a discrepancy between the accounts of the War Department and the Treasury Department upon which fraud was expected to be proved, has been shown in the debate to have no ground to rest upon, and there is little doubt that the charge against the government of infraction of the neutrality laws is equally as baseless as the other. There is a strong suspicion that Mr. Sumner has been imposed upon by the shrewdness of the French agent, and has been used to further other designs than those which appear on the surface.