The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-13
THE NEWS.
Notes from the National Capital.

NOMINATED.
WASHINGTON, D. e., May 4ih.-The
President nominated to-day Eliot c.
Jewett, Ofs missouri, as assayer, in charge
of the assay Office in ST. Louis.
THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS.
The Presidents attention having been
called u letter published this morn
iDg) alledged TO have been written by
him to Hon. j. 4. Hubbell, from Mentor,
in which he says: please say to Brady
that hope he will give us all assistance
possible" stated that there was not q
line in the letter that he would have the
slightest objection to giving TO the pub
lie; that the Star route contractors were
neither mentioned nor thought of; that
il was simply an expression of hope that
Brady, a citizen of Indiana. who was re-
ported to have made an immense fortune
IN telephone stock, would respond from
his ample means in aid of his party in
the life and death struggle then going on
in his own stale.
GONE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The senate has just gone into execn-
tive session. The motion was made by
Senator Dawes, who, in making il, repu-
dated the idea that by so doing he and
his associates were giving up the fight
over the senate officers, which he con-
sidered in its scope and character as pre-
senting question of great importance
10 the future welfare of the government,
involving, as il did, the right of the ma
i0rity TO rule.
The executive session of the senate,
from the information to be gathered, is
quiet, and only the routine business of
referring the nominations 10 the COM.
mittees, II is said, is INDUCED in. Sew
eral senators have left the executive SEES
sion, as there is nothing of any unusual
character going on. PendletOn request
ed Dawes TO withdraw for q moment his
motion for an executive session. Pen
dlcton wanted to reply to Dawes criti-
cism on the Democrats, but Dawes re-
fused to withdraw the motion, and this
refusal was in accordance with the ar
Engagements of the Republicans, who
shrewdly planned to get their arguments
in the Record without any answer. The
Democratic senators all regard this as a
break of the dead lock, and count upon
adjournment within three weeks; but the
Republicans stOutly maintain that they
are firm and united in the determine
uon to resume the fight for majority
rule and continue it all summer ii nee
essary to win. The letter of President
Garfield, however, TO Dawes, expressing
the presidents disapproyal of Gorham,
has crystalized the opposition 10 him
among the Republican senator's, and il is
not believed that they will again unani-
mously contend for Gorham's election as
secretary.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
WASHINGTON, d. C., May 4.-The sen
ate in executive session confirmed the
following nominations: Robert Hit,
Illinois. Assistant Secretary of State
Hiram Price, Iowa, Commissioner of In
dian Affairs; Alfred Jones. United States
Marshal for the northern district of I'LL
nois; Sanford A. Kasson, Wisconsin, As
sOciate Justice of the supreme court of
Dakota; Joseph o. Jones, Postmaster at
Terre Haute, Indiana. The foregoing
were all confirmed by unanimous con-
sent. The other nominations on the |
table were referred to appropriate CON-
mitiees.