Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-22
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. EXTRA SESSION GOSSIP. A Refunding Measure the Principal Business. OTHER MATTERS LIKELY TO ARISE. No Restriction to be Placed
 on Congress. A Scare About the Crops. Disastrous Effect of Storms in the
 West.
A Scare About the Crops.
Disastrous Effect of Storms in the
 West.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

Persistent Office Seekers-MarshaIsL Look ing After Their Fat Berths-A Persis- tent Female Seeker After OAlcial Pap Extra Session Rum0rs and Ta1k-NO Remonstrance From Business Men President Garfield Not to Restrict the Members From Transactfng Miscella- neous Businsss-Other Matters. WASHINGTON, March 21.-Still prom l inent among the busy ones in this city are United States marshals who have been working hard to save their heads since March 4th. This office pays $6,OOO per year. The announcement is now made that no changes will be made in this line at pres ent, and not at all but for causes One of the latest appointment rumors is that the President has decided to appoint First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner to a vacant judgeship in the Court of Claims and appoint Captain Henry, of Ohio, first assistant postmaster general. Henry served in the same regiment with the President. It is also stated that Fred Douglass reappoint- ment as marshal of the District of Columbia is assured.
 President Garfield received great many callers at the Executive Mansion today, and after 12 o'clock threw open his doors for a few moments and welcomed many who called merely to pay their respects. Among the more prominent callers was Postmaster General James, who came with Assistant Postmaster General Tyner.
 Mrs. Van Lew, ex-postmistress at Rich 1 mond, spent the greater part of the week in the corridors of the Executive Mansion, and is one of the persistent seekers for reappoint- ment.
 The Department of State publishes letter from the accountant of the Bank of England 1 to the United States Consul General at Lon
 don, warning the public against one Alfred H. c. Prudence, a notary public of St. Louis, ! who has been doing thriving business for strength of an unauthorized recommendation by the Bank of Engla1ld.
 The signal corps station at Little Egg Har- bor, N J., reports at 5:42 p. m., that the ! barkentine U. N. is total wreck. Her cargo, consisting of 7,600 sacks of coffee is nearly all lost. The remainder is damaged. The cargo is consigned to French ,Edye & Co.,, N. Y. Cannot ascertain whether it is in sured
 The signal corps station at Portsmouth, N. H., reports as follows: The schooner Golden Eagle, of Gloucester, went ashore in this harbor this morning. The Anchor Buoy from the navy yard has gone to her assis- tance.
 Nothing was done in the Senate to-day be- fore going into executive session, where among other nominations confirmed were the following: Levi P. Morton, of New York, to be envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary to France, vice Edward E. Moves resigned; s. Dana Horton, of Ohio, to be secretary to the United States Commissioners to the International Monetary Conference at Paris Barron R. Colt to be United States District Judge for Rhode Island.
 It was erroneously stated to-day that pro- tests against an extra session were begin ming to pour in to the President. The fact is
 that the President has received letters from
 business centers asking if an extra session was called whether it would be confined to the consideration of the funding bill. Busi- ness men are not anxious for the transaction
 of miscellaneous business lest there should
 be disturbance of general conn mercial mat
 ters. This question was submitted to-day
 for Secretaries Blaine and Windom, and they
 suggested to the President that if a call was
 issued for a session the particular reasons
 for the call might be stated in the special
 message which, as matter of course, would
 be sent to Congress: The President was re.
 minded that legislative experience must
 have taught him that Congress
 did not always confne itself
 to the subjects mentioned in presidential
 messages. The President said he understood
 that fully, and if an extra session was called
 he would recommend only such matters as
 the interests of the country should demand,
 but he added that when in Congress he never
 recognized the right of the Executive to die
 tate to legislative authority, and he wanted
 it understood that if he called Congress to-
 gether he recognized their right to conduct
 their own business in their own way, expect
 ing of course that the majority would regard
 the wishes of the Executive department. The
 whole question will be submitted at the Cabi-
 net meeting to morrow for consideration.