The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-04-07
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

CoNKIINa is considerably out of sorts.
SECRETARY BLAINE is improving in health.
TIE reduction of the public debt in March
was slight.
PosTMAsTxR LooE, Of Cincinnati, is not to be
removed.
TIE Senate is expected to adjourn by the 1lth
of April.
TEE Treasury Department for March Ia be-
hind on current expenses.
R. r. HTT, of Indiana, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary Of State.
A. J. HAY has been appointed Bank Examiner
OF Indiana, uice A. ID. Lynch, resigned.
PIScHBAcx, of Louisiana, announces himself
as in harmony with Garfeld's Administration.
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAaUE was the central
attraction in the gallery Of the Senate the past
week.
GENERAL MOVES will leave Paris June so.
Mr.. Morton, his successor, will arrive . few
days earlier.
MALONE says his party are not Reputation
lists, but they do not believe in promising more
than they can pay.
GOVERNOR FOSTER, Of Ohio, was in Washing
ton week using his endeavor to prevent the
calling of IN extra session of Congress.
Or all public men in Washington, it is said
Secretary Window has been most pronounced
in his objection to an extra session Of Con-
gress.
FIVE cent nickel coins having been presented
for redemption in such quantity as to show the
amount outstanding redundant, this coinage
has been suspended.
The delay in the appointment Of Marshal
for the District of Columbia is complicating
matters. and disturbing the Criminal Court
in the District.
THERE are but two men on the Judiciary Com
mittee who favor a favorable report on the
nomination of Stanley Matthews, and the
President will probably withdraw his nomina-
ton.
The rumor that Postmaster General James
would resign in favor of Robertson, in order to
heal the breach between the Conkingites and
the President is a canard. Postmaster General
James is in his element.
NOTICE is given that the Treasury Depart
ment will redeem on and after April, 1881, any
outstanding United States per cent. funded
loan bonds Of 1881, embraced in the 101st call
(Which will mature May q, 1881, at the rate
Of s1o1.26, in full payment for each 800 of
bonds.
The talk that the President would withdraw
the name of Robertson az Collector at New
York has no foundation, and Conkling, Platt,
and Arthur mean to fight him. All the Demo-
cratic Senators will sustain Robertson, believ-
ing they are sustaining Blaine, whom they
like.
BURG LARsentered the residence of Justice
Field, of the Supreme Court, and carried of
$500 worth of household goods. The mother
in-law of Justice Field lying at the point Of
death in the house at the same time, and sew
eral members of the family were up, yet the
presence of the burglars was not detected.
A MONSTER floral ship, representing the Ship
of State sailing in sea Of flowers, covered the
desk of Senator Hill, of Georgia, one morning
the past week. sent from the ladies Of Alexan-
dria. It was accompanied by . note compli-
menting Senator Hill on his "brilliant exposure
of the corrupt bargain made by the Senator
from Virginia"
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has telegraphed to
the President that he declines the appointment
as Charge d'Afaires at Paraguay and Uuru-
quay. This makes three declinations within .
The other two are General Badeau as Charge
dAfaires at Denmark, and Judge Phillips rs .
member q the Court Of Claims.
THE Treasury Departments report on
trichinn and trichinosis is nearly ready for dis
tribution. The folly of any Nation prohibiting
the entry Of pork from abroad, when in point
of fact no country is without trichine of its
own, is well shown, and it is held to be
ridiculous to assume that tic foreign variety is
more harmful than those of native production.
LIEUTENANT R. M. BERRY, Of the United
States Navy, is ordered to the command of the
steamer Mary and Helen on the proposed Arc
tic expedition in search of the Jeanette. Sec
retary Hunt furnished Lieutenant Berry with
list of the naval officers volunteered for serv-
ice, and he will be guided by any preferces he
may entertain in making up the detail OF officers
who will serve under him.
The crowd of ofice-seekers is perceptibly
diminishing in Washington. The pressure
| upon the President for the three weeks that it
has lasted mas been greater than at any OPEN
| ing of any Republican administration since the
| first The President shows the effect of this
very plainly, and though he is resting now and
recuperating rapidly, his appearance is very
much that Of man recovering from real at
| tack of sickness.
THERE is considerable interest felt in Wash
| ington in the notifications of the tariff in
| France upon agricultural products. The
| changes are all in the direction Of . heavy in
crease of duties, and are such as can not fail to
| have q serious effect upon our shipments of
provisions and breadstufs. 1t is believed that
| the administration will before long take steps
| toward negotiating o new commercial treaty
| with France.
THE difference between the position Of the
| Readjusters and their opponents in Virginia on
the debt question, which is made 30 prominent
| follows: McCollough's, or the Debt Payers,
bill fixed with the consent of the creditors, the
| debt Of $32, 600, 600, made the coupons receiv-
| able for taxes and other dues to the State, and
| the bonds non-taxable. It fixed the rate of in
| terest at an average Of per cent. The Rid
dleberger Bill, which the Readjusters stand by,
| fixed the debt at less than $20, ,000, 900, made
| the coupons not receivable for taxes, made the
| bonds taxable, and the rate Of interest per
| cent. It was proposed to make this bill q law
| without the consent of the States creditors, on
| the ground that it was just to both creditors
| and the State. The Readjuster Bill excludes
| from the State debt the interest accumulated
| during the war and the reconstruction period.
The McCullough bill includes this.