Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-07
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THR SPECIAL SESSION. $ IA Tardy Influx of the
 Senators. BOTH PARTIES FOR HARMONY. But Determined to Have
 Their Rights. The Contest for the Offices. A Number of Candidates
 for Secretary.
The Contest for the Offices.
A Number of Candidates
 for Secretary.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

The Extra session-senators Coming in | s1owIy-A General Feeling for Har- \ mony-President Arthur Anxious for It. ! No Countenance for Omce Runters- Other Matters That Excite Interest at the Capital.
 | WAsHNeToN, Oct. 6.-Though the extra ! session of the Senate is near members come ! in slowly. The latest arrivals include Sena. | tors Lamar, Plumb, Vest and Pendleton. Senator Beck will arrive tomorrow and Sen | ator Voorhees, on Saturday. The Democrats | will hold a consultation at the residence of l Senator Pendleton tomorrow night to decide ! whether and when caucus shall be held As ! the time for the assembly of the Senate ! draws near the prospects that the session will be protracted grows more probable. The Senators of both parties say they will adhere closely to their rights and be very guarded in their tactics so that one party shall have no undue advantage of the other. The Senators generally seek harmony and have been in formed that such is the desire of the Presi- dent and will endeavor to come to terms of amicability, but will not give countenance to scheming or unreasonable power. Senator
 Harris, of Tennessee, says Senator Bayard is
 entitled to the presidency of the Senate in consequence of seniority, but he would run
 for the position if his friends insisted on it..
 MT. Harris in speaking of the question of
 pairs said he did not think there would be any difficulty for the Senators to secure pairs except for Senator Malone. He supposed this Senator would find it difficult to secure pair as no one had ever been aware of his true politics. The greatest interest sur rounds the contest for secretaryship of the
 Ienate There are many aspirants for the place. Candidates now here and at work are
 Colonel L. Washington of Georgia, Colonel
 R. c. Wintersmith of Kentucky, Colonel Will liam H. McArdle of Mississippi, Russell B. Edmundson of Tennessee, General Prince M
 B. Young of Georgia and ex-Senator Withers of Virginia. General Young is Thought to have the best chance.
 A near friend of the President says that it has been finally decided to make no changes in the Cabinet until the December session, unless some of the present Cabinet shall in-
 sist upon the acceptance of their resigna 5ions The same authority says that no ex- ecutive business will be brought before the
 Senate except nominations to fill existing va- tancies, and that the question whether the vacancy on the United States Supreme bench shall be filled has not yet been determined.
 The first Cabinet meeting of the new admin istration will be held next Tuesday, by which time, it is expected all members of the Cab inet will have returned to Washington. The President positively declines to hear any applicants for public office, and thinks that the minor offices now vacant should be filled by the heads of the various departments.
 The President is looking well and is in the best of health.
 The State department issued the following on the French haryests of 1881 to-day Minister Morton, under date of Paris, Sep tember 13, 1881, reports on the condition of the French harvests for the current year, fhotf a Ivn ton of the principal points and facts from four or fine French agricultural journals (the figures from which do not differ essentially from those brought forward in the official iocuments) the following approximations are reached: Rye in 69 departments-S very good, 32 good, 13 fairly good, IA ordinary, indifferent and 1 bad; barley in 61 depart ments-6 very good, IS good, IT fairly good, l5 ordinary, bad and l very bad oats in Y departments-6 very good, 21 good, IT fairly good, A ordinary, bad and 1 very bad maize in 23 producing departments-7 good, fairly good, ordinary and bad. The Algerian harvests are: Wheat ordinary in the province of Constantine and bad in chose of Algiers and Gran; oats fairly good in Constantine and ordinary in Agiers maize bad in Gran barley ordinary in AL siers, bad in Constantine and very bad in Gran. The good harvest varies from 100 to l15 million hectoEtres and moderate ones seventy-six million. Thus early in the sea- son the figures are necessarily approximate estimates, yet it clearly appears that this years harvests will be somewhat inferior to last years, but considerably in advance of those of 1877, 1878 or 1879, probably eight or nine million hectolitres less than in 1880. From the above an idea can be formed of what the French markets will be for home consumption and possible exports
 The signal corps station at Cape Hatteras, N. G., reports that an unknown three. masted schooner came ashore near life saving station No. Is. Seven men were lost. Further par ticulars as soon as possible.
 The pastors of the churches of this city will pay their respects to President Arthur in body tomorrow afternoon.
 Secretary of the Interior Kirkwood and General Peter A. Bacon, of this city, are per haps the only two men now living here who turned out in the procession which welcomed the former distinguished French visitor Gen. eral Lafayette to Washington on the 18th day of October, 1924. They were then school mates, about eleven years of age each, in the seminary, the pupils of which school partici- pated in the ceremonies of that brilliant day in the early history of the federal metropolis, and they both expect to join in the welcome to our French visitors next week.
 An Interview With Guiteau-Stiu Claim