The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-01-25
WASHINGTON ITEMS.

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be absorbed in the fight between Conkling and
Hayes over the New York custom house ap
IpointmcntS. The President has appointed
Merit, Burk and Graham 10 supcr5clc the
present collector, surveyor, aud naval officer
who are friends of Conkln". The appoint
ImcntS have been referred 10 Conkling's com
Imitcc, and ne is determined to hold them I'M
lin he knows he can have their confirmation de-
lcatcd Meantime Hayes declares that if his
present appointments are defeated he Will call
IN extra session of the senate which will then
he democratic, and send to it the names of Au-
gustus Schcll aud John Kelly, the two well
known New York democratic leaders The
democrats, however, are more inclined 10 help
help the latter is to give him prominence AS IA
republican candidate for the presidency, with
a certainty OF losing New York to the demo-
Gratis, while to help Hayes can do the demo
Gratis no hurt
The Potter committee, having decided to
investigate the cyphcr dispatches asked the
house on Monday for $4,000 To- pay the cX.
pcnscs. Action on the resolution was STAYED
off until Tuesday, but then great interest was
excited in the expected debate on account of
what Butler, who had these dispatches so mys
tcriously in his possession, would say in eXpla-
nation ON the subject All he SAID, however,
was, that some 600 OF these dispatches had been
sent to him, he knew not by whom, and that
- Ia, bnI ID b,l pt
furnished for the press by him. And he added
in conclusion that IN his opinion neither party
would make anything by overhauling them
now The resolution voting $4,000 was car
ried, but is still pending IN the senate,
The yellow fever committee, after taking
several thousand pages Of evidence, made a re-
port making no other recommendation except
that Of the Presidents message IN regard to a
rigid quarantine.
President Hayes 1t is said, will veto the ar
rcars of pensions bill. JohS Sherman says the
treasury cannot stand the strain. Experts say
it will take $ljOOOo,O0O, and require heavy ad-
diuonal taxation.
One of the happlest men IN Washington
SIlbUlU Dt tpItNtilutlNt Did1H, u W SIN.
After all the Intellectual attempts Of Blaine,
Edmunds &C. to excite an angry sectional de.
bate, Bragg alone succeeded on Wednesday,
and by sheer accident. Il was on Il little bill
to refer certain southern claims to the court Of
claims for decision. Bragg opposed it, and
intimaed that by getting them into that court
any rebel claim, no matter how outrageous,
could be worked through for Jen DAVIS him
self could ret hundred witnesses to prove IN
that court that he had been a staunch Union
man during the whole rebellion, The speech
provoked angry rctorts from Ellis Of La. and
Martin of W. Va, and the debate threatened TO
be renewed with intensified heat next day
But during the night the southern members
had time to cool off, and the debate Will prOba-
bly, not be renewed. What ground the South
most was the fact that Bragg is a democrat.
VIM. b. Thompson, of Iowa, has been APP
pointed Chief Justice of Idaho, IN place of
Hon W. f. lIollister, resigned.
The friends of Gen Shields propose to give
him public reception on his arrival at Wash
ington as Senator from Missouri.