Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-18
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. WORK OF CONGRESS. Both Houses Pushing the Work of Legislation.
 REFUNDING IN THE SENATE. Reapportionment Discussed in
 the House. REORGANIZATION OF THE SENATE.
REFUNDING IN THE SENATE.
REORGANIZATION OF THE SENATE.
Senator Davis to Act with the
 Democrats.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL,

The Apportionment BilI-Mr. Cox Deter mined to Push It-An Anti-ConkIing | Nomination Withdrawn Senator | Davis with the Democrats in Reorgan- izing the Senate.
 | WASHINGTON, Feb. H.-The Republicans expected to hold a caucus this evening to
 map out the course of action to be pursued on the apportionment bill and other meas
 ures, but just before the adjournment of the
 House MT. Frye said that as a good many members had left the hall the conference would not be held until to morrow night. Mir.
 Cox has determined to try and get vote on
 the apportionment bill Saturday. As to-mor-
 row is Friday, it will require a two-thirds
 vote to set aside private business. This
 number will probably be difficult to obtain if
 it is proposed to continue the consideration
 of the apportionment bill.
 The President to-day sent message to the
 Senate withdrawing the name of George H.
 Forster for United States District Attorney for the southern district of New York. It is said that Elliott F. Shepard will be nominated instead of Forster, and that Conkling will be satisfied with Shepard and will support him. It is also said that by withdrawing Forster the chances of Stanley Matthews confrma- tion will be improved.
 prominent gentleman, who is intimate with Senator Davis of Illinois, told reporter that he would vote to maintain the present organization of the Senate that Senator Davis said that a movement by the Repubi- cans to reorganize would be entirely and es- sentially partisan effort for the benefit sole- ly of the Republican party; that to support such a movement by his vote would be for him to sustain frank partisanship," while in voting to continue the present status he maintains his independence therefore if any change is made in the Senate it is by General Mahone's voting with the Republicans. un- less Pennsylvania shall delay the election of a Senator until after March 5. That would leave the Democrats an easy victory.
 There has been another failure in attempt ing to secure the payment by Congress of the expenses of persons who visited Louisiana in 1876 to supervise the electoral count. The amount of the bill is $483, ,656. Secretary Sherman, who was one of the visitors, in- cluded it in his bill, but the Appropriation committee decline to insert it in the bill
 The river and harbor bill, which finally passed the House today, will go to the Senate tomorrow. It will be loaded with amend ments in that body, and as usual increased seven or eight hundred thousand dollars. Then there will be conference committee over it. Owing to this and the short time left this session, it is not altogether certain that the bill will become a law
 It has come to the notice of the Treasury department that advantage has been taken of the rules of the department to ship to Canada American alcohol in bond and there mix it with quantity of shellac, and it has been then reimported into the United States upon payment of duty of 50 cents per gallon and 20 cents cd 0Ggorens, while the minimum duty imposed on distilled spirits is S2 per proof gallon and the internal revenue tax is 90 cents per proof gallon. In order to more thoroughly guard the revenue the depart ment has directed that all compounds or of which distilled spirits is component of chief value shall be subjected to no less rate of duty than that imposed upon distilled spirits, whether they are spe- cially provided for in the tariff or not This does not apply to bay rum, which pays duty under it's special enumeration according to proof.