Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-03-17
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON

Ex-Secretary Ramsey will not return to Min.
nesota until Mrs. Ramsey becomes stronger
The members of President Garfeld's cabinet
were sworn on Monday and entered upon the
discharge of their .uties.
The president has nominated Henry G. Pear
son postmaster of New York, and Thomas f.
Hall postmaster of Omaha, Neb.
Walker Blaine of St. Paul has been appoint
ed private secretary to his father, the secretary
OF state, and has entered upon the discharge of
his duties.
1t is reported that fears of an extra session
have subsided. The impression is that the
special session of the senate will adjourn about
the 18th inst.
The report that William Chandler was to be
assistant secretary of tate turns out to be in
correct Judge Bancroft Davis of the court of
claims, formerly minister to Berlin, and assist
ant secretary to Hamilton Fish, has been Of
fered and has accepted the position.
Conklng, Arthur, Logan, Cameron, Beck,
Thurman, Lamar, Morton and Ben Hill have
all called at the White House and had pleasant
interviews with the president Some of these
gentlemen had not previously allowed their
statesmanllke shadows to darken the doors of
the executive mansion in two or three years.
Senator Conkling is very outspoken in advo-
eating a called session. He says no party can
go to the people in the fall elections upon
Hayes veto of the funding bill or stand as the
apparent advocate Of monopolies against a prop
ositlon to save the government 81, 900, ,O0O
monthly and fund the debt at 3 per cent
The only letter written by President Gar
field to any member of the Golden club was
one addressed to the secretary in August last in
reply to a letter from him. In this letter Pres
ident Garfield said: 81 do not believe in the
principles of the Golden Free Trade club. but
would be pleased to see full discussion of the
question of tariff" President Garfield states
that the language attributed to his letter by the
London Daily Telegraph, are entirely incorrect.
The assignment of committees as finally
agreed upon by the Democrats of the Senate is
as follows: #
Privileges and elections, Salisbury; foreign
relations, Johnston; finance, Bayard; appropri-
ations, Davis, Nv. Va); commerce, Ransom
Judiciary, Davis Qllinois); military affairs,
Grover; naval offairs, Mcpherson; postoffices,
Maxey; public lands, Jones, tFla.); Indian af.
fairs, Coke; pensions, Grover; claims, Cockrell;
patents, Call; Territories, Butler; railroads,
Lamar; revision of laws Garland; agriculture,
Slater; manufactures, Williams; education and
labor, Brown: mines and mining, FARLEY: Dis
trict of Columbia, Harris; civil service and re-
trenchment, Walker; public buildings and
grounds, Vest; improvement of the Mississippi
river and its tributaries, Jones; TRANSPORTATION
routes to the seaboard, Beck; private land
claims, Edmunds; revolutionary claims. An
thony; engrossed bills, Oonkling; Enrolled bills,
Pugh; rules, Morgan; to examine the several
branches of the civil service, Hampton; census.
pendleton; library, Voorhees, presidential cleo
tIons, Morgan; epidemic diseases, Harris print
Ing, Hill, Ga contingent expenses, Vance