Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-11
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. SENATORIAL COURTESY. Victory in a Mild Way for
 Conkling. THE RESULT OF HIS ARGUMENT. A Temporary Postponement of the
 Fight. RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENT. No Overtures to the New
 York Senator.
RESOLUTION OF THE PRESIDENT.
No OVePfures to the New
 York Senator.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Over Robertson Temporarily Postponed Am Expression Of Senatorial Courtesy Two Fights on His Hands-Other Mat ters. caught the Republicans mapping this morn
 ing On the assembling of the Senate MT.
 Pendleton (Dem., O as usual made his mo-
 tion to go into executive session. Mir. Hoar looked around anxiously for his
 colleague, MT. Dawes, to antagonize it with
 his motion to proceed to the election of off,
 cers, but MT. Dawes, either by accident or
 design was absent, and no one else coming
 forward as the Republican champion, MT.
 Pendleton's motion was declared carried and
 the doors were closed. In executive session
 nominations were confirmed as follows, be-
 sides number of army promotions James
 Longstreet, to be United States marshal for
 Georgia Absalom Blythe, to be United
 States marshal for South Carolina. Samuel
 W. Melton, to be United States Attorney for
 South Carolina. Philip H. Emmerson, to be
 Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
 Utah. Albert Woodcock, to be Collector of
 Internal Revenue Third district of Illinois,
 John A. Hill, to be postmaster at Albuquer-
 que, New Mexico.
 Secretary Windom in letter to Thomas
 H. Wells, chairman of the committee on hoop
 iron manufactures, Youngstown, decides the
 cotton tie question, far the Treasury department is concerned, leaving manufac-
 turers only one more move. that is an appeal
 to Congress. The Secretary reviews the his
 tory of legislation, the decisions of courts
 and refers to the letter of Secretary Sherman
 on the same subject, and concludes by saying:
 II feel it my duty to allow that decision to l remain undisturbed, the rule of action for
 custom officers in the premises.''
 The President in conversation with per
 sonal friend sn the subject of the deadlock
 said: '1 presume there are great many | people who say why don't the President
 make some overtures to Conkling and there | by bring about a solution of the present diff
 iculty. Now if these people will stop to | consider that this government consists of | three great branches, viz, the executive, ju- dicial and legislative they will see that Conk- | ling is but small fraction of the latter, | whilst the Executive is one-third of the whole l It should not, therefore, in my opinion, be expected, and I do not think the people 1 would expect the President to make over | lures to so small fraction as one Senator 1 out of seventy-six." | This evening Dr. Pope was called to the 1 White House to hold consultation with Dr. | l Edson, the attending physician of the Presi- | | dents family. The occasion was the illness l l of Mrs. Garfield, who has been confined to l | her room few days with serious malaria. l | After close examination of the symptoms | ] they decided that the lady was in no danger | and that she would be in her usual health in | about week. All the inmates of the White | | House are more or less afflicted with malaria, l caused by foul and poisonous airs arising | l from the Potomac flats. The Secretary of the Treasury late this af- | ] ternoon issued circular extending the limit | of time for receiving six per cent. bonds un- 1 ] til the goth inst. The six per cent. bonds l | received and opened to-day at 4 D. m. | amount to $13, 3,679, $50, making the total 1 l actual known receipt $144, 955, 45O. There | are also remaining one hundred and eighty l | nine packages which have not been opened | and no satisfactory estimate be made. 1 Notices of intention to continue have also | been receive from many holders of sizes cov- | ering large amounts, and 1t is believed that | substantially all of the bonds will in due time l be presented for continuance. As the Treas
 ury holds ample means for purchasing addi tional bonds for the sinking fund, there is no anxiety in Treasury circles to have any more of the bonds come in for continuance than will in all probability be presented for that purpose before the expiration of the extend ed time as what will then remain can be ap- piled to the fund with great advantage. A letter received by the District commis- sioner from prominent citizen complaining that in permitting R. G. Ingersoll to deliver | Sunday lectures where anl admission fee is charged unjust discrimination is made against
 theatres and places of business generally has
 been referred to the District attorney for his opinion.
 The Republican caucus was in session to- day until p. m. and resulted in a temporary postponement of the whole matter until con- sideration. Early in the caucus it was evident that Senator Conkling's speech of Monday
 had made considerable impression No re-
 plies were made to it, but the debate was
 continued colloquially in the same train of
 argument as on Monday There seemed to
 hao 1a0i,-a f0 olyo t1ov o%i
 conciGation. No plan proposed but the hope expressed that there might yet be secured some readiustnent of nominations that would restore harmony. Conkling spoke briefly and reiterated deter
 mined opposition to Robertson's nomination. He courted no discord with the Executive but stood for the right of Senators to have a voice in filling important offices in their own State. A suggestion was finally made by a Senator whose affiliations had been declared
 that there was no great hurry for decision in regard to this particular nomination as l yet. Several others failed to see 1t in the same light. It was made clear, how~ver, that there was enough business before the Senate to occupy it day or two at least, and mo- tion to postpone caucus consideration until further attempts at cancellation might be
 made finally agreed to unanimously.
 Just what steps are to be undertak- en are unknown. The only hope lies
 with the Executive, with whom the strongest
 possible pressure will be brought for a rear
 rangement of nominations with a view to avoid public expression of opposition to
 the administration that might cripple it's suc- cess The result of the caucus is of course looked on as victory in 8 mild way for Conkling. Such it certainly is as far as the failure to take up Rebertson's nomination at
 once may be called. The knowing ones de-
 clare that it is only another fea- ture of Senatorial courtesy. Conk- ing's speech was made so gracefully and in ruoh ono6 feSta that Senators do mt l care to slap him in the face as soon as he sits down. They hesitate therefore that he may see their willingness to do all Tn their power to conciliate him, while at the same time they recognize the inevitable and are only post poning the day of evil. On the part of the administration it stated o-night that no | compromise was possible involving the with drawal of Robertson's nomination for the place he has been selected for. The Presi-
 dent is undoubtedly immovable on this point, and some of the wisest Senators admit that the nomination must come before the Senate sooner or later this session. Meanwhile that body has for it's consideration the adversely |
 reported nomination of Stanley Matthews for the Supreme Court and the favorably re- ported nomination of Don Pardee for fifth circuit judge. The former will come up in l executive session to morrow A long debate IS expected, but an eventful confirmation is considered certain. It is said that Conkhng will fight Pardee's nomination. It is sug-
 gested that one fight at time is all he can
 attend to just now. The Republican caucus
 will not meet again before Thursday or Fri day..
 Commander O. Kane, of the United States
 steamer Galena, who recently paid official
 visit to Chic, reports to the Navy department
 that in his opinion the loss of life on land
 will not exceed six thousand. He sent par |
 ties ashore to assist in extricating the dead bodies and tear down unsafe walls. He also
 established hospital tents where the wounded were cared for until taken of his hands by
 the island authorities. He says there are
 hundreds of people in the villages who have yet received no medical aid whatever. He
 has seen no evidence of want of food among the people, but the want of medical care is
 extremely pressing. The natives he says
 exhibit the most astonishing indifference to
 the suffering of their own people, and he had
 to employ force to compel them to help in carrying the wounded.
 Tho Woehinoto,, Post 1aaryaa that fhe Pf.sf.