The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1881-03-17
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

GENERAL KnpArRIcK desires the Chflian
Mission.
IT is understood that Commissioner Raum ID
to be retained.
THE latest authority reports Senator Mahons
PRESIDENT GARFIELD is reported as COM
pletely tired out.
general AND Mrs. GRANT breakfasted with
President and Mrs. Garfield the past week.
IT is regarded as vely doubtful whether tbs
President will renominate Stanley Matthews.
LEVI P. MORTON, of New York, has been.
nominated by the President as Minister to
France. General Noyes has made no effort to
be retained.
The Treasury Department has just ordered
the transfer of "a, S01, 1897 of gold bullion from
the New York assay Office to the mint at Philar
delphia for coinage into eagles and haif-eagies.
SECRETARY BLAINE has addressed note 10
the British Legation on the subject of the false
reports sent by the acting British Consul ct
Philadelphia in regard to prevalence of disease
among the swine of the Western States. *
THERE is reason for believing that the Prssf
dent is seriously considering the advisatilify q
calling an extra session OF Congress at an early
day, with an inclination in favor of doing so.
What his particular motives may be is not well
known.
SECRETARY BURCH and the clerks of his office
at the Senate presented gold headed cane to
MIR. Wheeler, the retiring Vice-President. This
graceful action on the part of Democratic
officer and his employees was wholly unexpected,
because unusual, by Mr.. Wheeler, and he was
much affected.
The following is the new Cabinet: Secretary
of State, James G. Blaine, of Maine; Secretary
of War, Robert T. Lincoln. of Illinois; Secre-
tary of the Interior, s. T. Kirkwood, of Iowa;
Postmaster General, Thomas L. James, of
New York; Attorney General, Wayne Mac
of Of ft,a
Navy, W. III. Hunt, of Louisiana; Secretary of
the Treasury, William Window, of Minnesota.
TREASURY officials estimate the surplus reve-
nue. remaining for the four months of the pres
ent fiscal year at $45, 600. This estimate is
based on the expectation that the receipts for
March, April, May and June, 1881, will equal
those of the corresponding months last year.
The Sinking Fund will require $S,000.000 to
complete it by the end of the present fiscal
year. According to this estimate and exhibit.
there will be a surplus of $37 ,000, 900 available
between now and June 80, and which the Secre-
vision of the recent act of Congress, to pur
chase bonds for cancellation.
A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Commercial says: "The indications are
that the National Banks which hastily with
drew their circulation because funding bill
with disagreeable features was about to pass,
have got themselves into trouble. The most
of them are now trying to get back their circu-
lation, but the law is plainly against them, and
having gone out of business, they will have to
stay out-at least that is the view of all promi-
nent Treasury officials except Comptroller
Knox, who gives the law q singular interpreta-
ton. The question has gone to Secretary
Window for final action, and it is believed he
will decide AGAINST the banks, as it is difficult to
see how he do otherwise"
TIE Cons. C.aonal Committee of the Ma
tonal Greenback party has issued an address
to the people Of the United States. The ad-
dress opens with the assertion that National
Banks, through years of unwise and unjust
legislation in their interest, now assume to
control the Government and defy its sovereign
right to issue and regulate the volume of cur
rency; charges the National Banks with having
rebelled against the Government causing bor-
rowers Of money to pay at the rate of 500 per
cent. annual interest for its use." Railroad and
telegraph companies are charged with conduct
ing their business in violation of private rights
and fundamental laws of the eminent domain.
The address concludes by maintaining the
wrongs complained of cannot be corrected
through either of the old parties because both
are allied with such abuses, and therefore
earnestly advises the formation Of clubs in
every city, village and township in the United
States with view to thorough organization
and final triumph of the National party.
THE NEW CABINET.-Senator Window, of
Minnesota, Secretary of the Treasury, was
admitted to the bar at Mt. Vernon, Ohio, in
Attorney in Knox County. subsequently he
removed to Minnesota, and in 1858 he was
elected to the Thirty-sixth Congress. From
that time to the present he has served continu-
ously in Congress, having been ten years a
member of the House and ten years member
of the Senate. Robert Lincoln, Secretary of
War, is a son of the lamented President Lincoln
aged 40 years, and a successful lawyer. Judge
William II. Hunt, of Louisiana, Secretary
of the Navy is native of South Carolina
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staunch Republican, and has for number
of years conducted p highly successful
law practice at New Orleans. In
1878 he was appointed Judge of the Court of
Claims in which position he did himself honor.
Thomas L. James, of New York, Postmaster
General, was Deputy Collector in the New
York Custom House in 1872, and was appointed
thence by Grant as Postmaster of the City of
New York. He has long been regarded as its
most efficient officer. The management of the
most as large scale as those of the Postoffice
Department itself, and his training there, and
his most successful management are regarded
as thoroughly fitting him for the duties which
have now been intrusted to him. Wayne
Mcveagh, of Pennsylvania, Attorney General,
famous Yale class of 1858, and recog-
niZed there as one of the most
brilliant orators of the institution. Notwith-
standing his second wife was a daughter of Sena-
tor cameron, ne mas been leader IN opposltlon
of the Cameron faction in Pennsylvania. s. T.
Kirkwood, of Iowa, Secretary of the Interior, is
Marylander by birth. He was admitted to
the bar at Mansfield, Ohio, and was Prosecuting
Attorney of Richland County from 1845 to 1847.
He settled in Iowa in 1856, when in the follow
ing year he was chosen State Senator. He was
elected Governor in 1859, and again in 1861.
He succeeded James Harlan in the United
States Senate in 1866. In 1875 he was again
chosen Governor Of Iowa, and resigned the
Office in January, 1877, on his second election ~
United States Senator.