The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-05-19
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

Mr.. DORSEY has chance to vindicate him
self before the Courts of Colorado.
Sen MAJORS Edmunds, Bayard, and Mcmillan
oppose the domination of Stanley Matthews.
NEW Administration daily is to be started
in Washington. 1t will be an afternoon paper.
TRYING to comply with the exactions of
social demands is what prostrated Mrs. Gar
field.
The illness of Mrs. Garfield requires all the
Presidents attention, he refusing to see even
Senators. ~ s .
As BETWEEN Dorsey and Brady the opinion
is held at Washington that one is as deep in the
mud as the other. o.
CoNKIINe even now.denies that the President
has deceived him. The whole trouble is, the
two simply failed to agree.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD firmly declines to enter
into any compromise. .Robertson's name Will
positively not be with drawn.
The report that Senator David Davis, of
Illinois, will resign his seat in the Senate is
denied by that gentleman.
The Washington female lawyer, Mrs. Belya
Lockwood, has been denied admission to the
bar of Carroll County Court, Maryland.
THE Senate Judiciary Committee has failed
thus far to reach any action respecting the
nomination of VIM. E. Chandler for Solicitor
General.
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES has taken no
part or interest in the New York quarrel. He
kennel.
GRIER, of Pennsylvania, the original Garfield
man, has firmly declined the position of Third
Assistant Postmaster General, for which place
he was nominated, and his name has been
withdrawn.
THE New York Herald prints five-column
letter, written in Washington, attacking Presi-
dent Garfield. 1t calls him wriggler, and
purports to give history of the transactions
between him and Conkling.
GoRHAM, editor of the Republican, who is
the caucus nominee for Secretary of the Sem
ate, is making an attack on.the President, and
hence is making epemies among those to whom
he looks for support. 1t is just probable he
will not be confirmed in consequence.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, England's Minister
Extraordinary, is to be recalled from Washing
ton and transferred to st. Petersburg. Thorn
ton regards this as a promotion, as it will re-
quire considerable diplomatic skill to sustain
amicable relations with Russia.
CHAIRMAN JEWELL, of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, has issued circular inviting
expressions of opinion from Republicans
throughout the country in regard the best
methods or rules to be adopted for electing
delegates to their National Convention IN 1884
DEcAPTrAT1oN in the Postofice Department
| is moving along. French, Brady's chief clerk,
has been bounced, and Auditor McGrew, it is
stated, will be let step out in a few days. These
discharges are not made because the men are
guilty of swindling, but because, by the posi-
ton they have held, it is but reasonable to sup
pose they were cognlzant of the fact that frauds
were being perpetrated.
THE President has said to Senator. that
| he wished no misunderstanding with Sem
ators; that he recognized fully their constitu-
| tional right to reject every nomination he
makes, and if they should reject every one for
! reasons which appeared sufficient to them, he
would not complain. But he did object to the
| dilly-dally policy by which nominations of
great Importance were hung up, and neither
confirmed nor rejected. Although the Presi-
| dent did not say SO in 30 many words, his
manner leads to the belief that if Robertson
| is confirmed the other New York nominations,
embracing Conkling's friends, will be promptly
sent back to the Senate.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD, talking to few
trusted friends about sthe fight against Robert
| son, expressed REORGANIZATION to defend HIM
self if the Republican Senators banded together
| in support OF Conkling, and made remark
| that every Senator who should thus enter the
| combination against him would require letter
| of introduction to him for the remainder of his
| term. The President then said further that
he would not permit Conkling to confirm the
New York nominations which pleased him and
leave the only one which displeased him with
out action. 1t now appears that Conkling had
| intended and arranged to confirm all the New
! York nominations except Robertson, and would
| have succeeded but for their withdrawal.
| A SENATOR, who is one of Conkling's closest
| the statements to the effect that Conkling had
said the President had deceived him were false.
| That during all of the controversy since Rob-
ertson was nominated, Conkling had never
! spoken disrespectfully of the President, and all
| statements to the contrary were inventions
| of the enemy" Something similar to this was
stated in the caucus, and it was understood
| that the President was to be assured that Conk-
J, ling had neither attacked, threatened, nor de-
| famed him. This raised the hopes of some
| that the President might listen to theproposals
| of compromise when assured Conkling had
not in any way assailed him. The attack in
| the Herald, however, is generally regarded as
Conkling's publication of his side Of the case
ABOUT month ago Postmaster General
James sent special agents to Memphis to investi-
gate certain illegal irregularities and extrava.
gances in connection with postal routes center
ing at that point The result of the investiga.
ton, is, that the postal route between Memphis
and Wittsburg Arkansas, has been ordered
discontinued. The line extends down the Mis-.
sissippi River eighty miles from Memphis tt
the st. Francis River and up the St. Francis
River eighty-eight miles. Madison is the only
intermediate point of any consequence, an6
both Madison and Wittsburg are served witt
malls by railroad much better than they could
be by water. There are six other intermediate
offices, but their total receipts during the las
quarter of 1880 amounted to S22.99 or at thu
rate of about $50 year. The yearly prict
hitherto paid to serve these six offices wa
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