Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-14
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Masop, who Wanted to Kill Guiteau. to
b Q Tried for characterization Repub-
Iiean Speculation About the Party
Prospects in the Next House.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-Up to the close of
business to-day there has been S6,55S,250 in
5 per cent. coupons on bonds under the 105th
call, and 81 ,55S, 700 in registered per cent.
bonds under the 1O4th call, presented to the
treasury for redemption.
1t is.reported charges of disobedience of Or
ders and breach of discipline have been pre-
pared against Mason by the commanding & Off
Ger at the arsenal and forwarded to Gen. Han
cock
The result of the special Congressional
election held in the Second Maine district yes
terday adds another to the Republican mem
bers of the next House. Not counting the
four vacancies existing from New York, the
lower house of the Forty-seventh Congress
now stands 144 Republicans, 133 Democrats,
Greenbackers, 2 Rsadjusters from. Virginia
and | Independent Republican, Smith, of
Brooklyn, making membership of $50 men,
bers. The four New York vacancies will be
filled in December. Should the Republicans
elect three out of this they will then have
Just the number of votes required to organ
ize the house, LAT. 1t seems to be generally
conceded that the Republicans will elect sue
cessors TO Messrs. Miller and Lapham.
The Democrats will no doubt elect a successor
to the late Fernando Wood and they claim
they will send member to fill the seat vacated
by Minister Morton. Should they carry both
these districts that will leave the Republicans
with only 146 members. But it is
claimed that Smith, of Brooklyn,
will vote for Republican organiza-
ton. That would give them the
additional vote necessary to make a majority
of the whole house. There are five Green
back members who were formerly Republi-
cans, and who, it is reasonable to suppose,
will vote with them on the question of organ
ization as against the Democrats. They are
Brown, of Pennsylvania, and Rice, Hazeltine,
Ford and Burroughs, of Missouri. Jones, of
Texas, another Greenbacker, though formerly
Democrat, is now bitter opponent of that
party, and would be more likely to vote
against it than with it. Ladd and Murch, of
Maine, and Cosgrove, of Pennsylvania, would
no doubt vote with the Democrats
on the question of organization, should it be
a contest between those two parties. What
the two Virginia Readjusters may do there is
no means of telling yet. The result of the
coming election in Virginia will have consid-
erable influence in determining the political
status in the next Congress. The Greenback-
ers make up an element of uncertainty in re-
lation to the organization of the next House.
Their leaders emphatically declare that they
intend to make caucus nomination for
Speaker and stay by that nomination to the
last. Then there is good
deal of talk of coalition of Democrats and
Greenbackers, but such a combination
could not win unless the Virginia Readjusters
join it, provided the Republicans succeed in
electing two of the four members to be chosen
in New York Should the Democrats capture
either Miller or Lapham's district it might be
fatal to Republican ascendency in the next
House, as it would enable the opposition, by
combination,t to muster a majority. The chanc-
es are favorable to Republican organization,
but the vote is likely to be so close that sud
den death or case of illness on the part of a
member might upset all calculations.