The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-17
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

GENERAL KnpATRIcK desires the Chilian
Mission.
IT is understood that Commissioner Raum ID
to be retained.
THE latest authority reports Senator Malone
as a conundrum.
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 the
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. SO1, ,937 Of gold bullion from
the New York assay office to the mint OF Phila-
delphia for coinage into eagles and half-eagles.
SECRETARY BLAINE has addressed note to
the British Legation on the subject of the false
reports sent by the acting British Consul at
Philadelphia in regard to prevalence of disease
among the swine of the Western States.
THERE is reason for believing that the Presi-
dentis seriously considering the advisability of
calling an extra session of Congress at an early
day, with an inclination in favor of doing 80.
What his particular motives may be is not well
known.
SECRETARY BURcH and the clerks of his office
MIR. Wheeler, the retiring ice-President. This
graceful action on the part ofia 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. I. Kirkwood, of Iowa;
Postmaster General, Thomas L. James, of
New York; Attorney General, Wayne Mac
Veagh, of Pennsylvania; Secretary of the
Navy, W. ii. 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, 100000. 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, 600 to
complete it by the end of the present fiscal
year. According to this estimate and exhibit,
there will be a surplus of S37,000000 available
between now and June 80, and which the Secre-
tary of the Treasury might use, under tho pro-
vision of the recent act of Congress, to pur-
chase bonds for cancellation.
A WASHINGTON correspondent of the Cincin-
nati 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 singular interpreta-
ton. The question has gone to Secretary
Window for final action, and it is believed he
will decide against the banks, it is difficult to
see how he can do otherwise"
The Congressional Committee of the Ma
tonal Greenback party has issued 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 q 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
1850, and in later years was Prosecuting
AtJOTuey Ill hnOA SOuUCy. 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
and q graduate of Yale College. He is a
lako r.
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.
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
vast concerns of the New York office are on al
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
| was q distinguished member of the
famous Yale class of 1853, and recog-
| nized there as one of the most
| brilliant orators of the institution. Notwith-
standing his second wife was daughter of sena-
| tor Cameron, he has been leader in opposition
| 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 1S45 to 1S47.
He settled in Iowa in,1S55, 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
1 chosen Governor of Iowa, and resigned the
office in January, 1877, on his second election q
4 United States Senator.