New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-03-23

Washington Letter
From our regular Correspondent.

From our regular Correspondent.
Washington, March 18th, 1881
The crowd which has pressed upon
the President and his Secretaries
since the Inauguration is now dimin.
ishing. Some go away having &C.
complished their object, others with
promises to cheer them. and Others
because hope is dead. No admins.
tration since the war has entered up.
on it's career having to do battle with
such an army Of office seekers. I,
seems as though every Office under
the government had been suddenly
vacated, and the welfare of the coun.
try depended upon the rapidity with
which. they were filled, so great had
been the rush.
Barring this great demand upon
the new administration, everything
moves along smoothly; the Secretar.
les are all at their posts, and transact
the routine business as though used
to it. Secretary Window has al
ready rendered an important decision,
III relation to National Banks. It
will be remembered that when the
funding bill was about to become a
law, some Of the banks made haste to
deposite legal tender notes to with.
draw their circulation but now that
there is no danger from the bill, the
banks have applied to the secretary to
permit them to recall their legal
tenders, thus placing INSTRUMENTATION
on their old footing. The Secretary
denied the request. Treasurer Gil
fillan speaking of the decision of the
Secretary involves no new departure
in the practice Of the Department,
but is fully sustained by law and pre-.
cedent; that the effects of the deci.
sion would discourage in the future
any concerted action on the part of
the banks for the reduction Of their
circulation and render it impossible
for them to first contract and then ex.
pand the currency for purposes of
speculation; that had it been decided
to permit the withdrawal asked for by
the banks it would have lodged in
the hands of those institutions a dan.
gerous power, liable, under the most
favorable circumstances, to be abused
and which could be utilized at any
time to seriously embarrass the bust
ness Of the country, and cripple the
financial operations of thegovernment.
There was quite an exciting con-
test in the Senate over the reorgani-
zation. The Democrats have gone
on and named the majority of the
committees, and yesterday attempted
to adopt in the Senate the caucus re-
port: They failed, however, Senator
onkling led and said in the course of
his remarks that constitutional ma
jority Of the Senate was against reor-
ganization at this time. This is con.
strued by Republicans to mean that
Senator Malone will act with the Re.
publicans in this matter. In the
course of the debate, Senator Davis
the great party of one, arose in his
lonely might and defined his position.
tie said he felt proud of his indepen.
dent position, and that while not a
Democrat he considered it his duty to
vote with the Democrats on occasions
where it devolved upon him to choose
between the parties.
An effort seems to have been
made to create the impression that
Fred Douglass is not candidate for
the marshalship, and is not to be re-
tanned. This is not the fact, as as.
serted by many prominent friends of
Mr.: Douglass. They claim that no
stalwart Republican government
could with propriety displace Mr..
Douglass, who has been faithful and
efficient officer, and is satisfied with
his place. Howard.