The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-04-07
WASHINGTON BRIEFS.

CoNKLING is considerably out OF sorts.
SECRETARY BLAINE is improving in health.
The reduction of the public debt in March
was slight.
POSTMASTER LoeE, of Cincinnati, is not to be
removed.
THE Senate is expected to adjourn by the 11th
of April.
The Treasury Department for March is be-
hind on current expenses.
B. r. HIT, Of Indiana, has been appointed
Assistant Secretary Of State.
A. J. HAY has been appointed Bank Examiner
of Indiana, uice A. D. Lynch, resigned.
P1NcHBAcK, of Louisiana, announces himself
as in harmony with Garfeld's Administration.
Mrs. KATE CHASE SPRAauE was the central
attraction in the gallery Of the Senate the past
week.
GENERAL MOVES viii leave Paris June 80.
Mr.. Morton, his successor, will arrive q few
days earlier.
MAHoNE says his party are not reputation
ists, but they do not believe in promising more
than they can pay.
GOVERNOR FOSTER, of Ohio, was in Washing
ton a week using his endeavor to prevent the
calling of an extra session of Congress-, FE
Or all public men in Washington, it is said
Secretary Window has been most pronounced
in his objection to an extra session of Con-
gress-
FIVE cent nickel coins having been presented
for redemption in such quantity as to show the
amount outstanding redundant, this coinage
has been suspended.
The delay in the appointment of a Marshal
for the District of Columbia is complicating
matters, and disturbing the Criminal Court
in the District.
THERE are but two men on the Judiciary Com,
mittee who favor a favorable report on the
nomination of Stanley Matthews, and the
President will probably withdraw his nomina-
ton.
THE rumor that Postmaster General James
would resign in favor Of Robertson, in order to
heal the breach between the Conkingites and
the President is q canard. Postmaster General
James is in his element.
NOTICE is given that the Treasury Depart
ment will redeem on and after April, 1881, any
outstanding United States s per cent. funded
loan bonds of 1881, embraced in the 101st call
(Which will mature May 81, 1881, at the rate
Of $101.26, in full payment for each 800 Of
bonds.
The talk that the President would Withdraw
the name of Robertson as Collector at New
York has no foundation, and Conkling, Platt,
and Arthur mean to fight him. All the Demo-
cratic Senators will sustain Robertson, believ-
ing they are sustaining Blaine, whom they
like. .,
BURG LARsentered the residence Of Justice
Field, of the Supreme Court, and carried OF
$500 worth of household goods. The mother
in-law of Justice Field was lying at the point of
death in the house at the same time, and sew
eral members of the family were up, yet the
presence of the burglars was not detected.
A MONSTER floral ship, representing the Ship
of State sailing in sea Of flowers, covered the
desk Of Senator Hill, of Georgia, one morning
the past week, sent from the ladies of Aexan-
dria. 1t was accompanied by note compli-
menting Senator Hill on his brilliant exposure
Of the corrupt bargain made by the Senator
from Virginia"
GENERAL LEW WALLACE has telegraphed to
the President that he declines the appointment
as Charge d'Affaires at Paraguay and Uuri-
quay. This makes three declinations within q
| short time of men nominated by the President.
The other two are General Badeau as Charge
| dAfaires at Denmark, and Judge Phillips as q
member of the Court of Claims.
TIE Treasury Departments report on
trichin@ and trichinosis is nearly ready for dis
tribution. The folly of any Nation prohibiting
tina entry of pork from abroad when in point
Of fact no country is without trichin@ Of its
own, is well shown, and it is held to be
ridiculous to assume that tx foreign variety ID
more harmful than those Of native production.
LIEUTENANT r. NJ. BERRY, of the United
States Navy, is ordered to the command Of the
steamer Mary and Helen on the proposed Arc
tic expedition in search of the Jeannette. Sec
retary Hunt furnished Lieutenant Berry with
list of the naval officers volunteered for serv.
ice, and he will be guided by any preferces he
may entertain in making up the detail Of officers
| who will serve under him.
THE crowd of ofiee-seekers is perceptibly
| diminishing in Washington. The pressure
upon the President for the three weeks that il
| has lasted mas been greater than at any open
| ing of any Republican administration since the
| first. The President shows the effect Of thii
very plainly, and though he is resting nov ani
recuperating rapidly, his appearance is yer.
much that of o man recovering from real at
| tack Of sickness.
THERE is considerable interest felt in Wash
| ington in the notifications of the tariff il
| France upon agricultural products. TIT
changes are all in the direction Of heavy In
crease Of duties, and are such as can not fail t.
have serious effect upon our shipments O
provisions and breadstuffs. 1t is believed tina
1 the administration VIII before long tAke step
toward negotiating new commercial treat.
| with France.
| THE difference between the position Of tn
| Readjusters and their opponents in Virginia ol
the debt question, which is made so prominen
| now by the contest in the Senate, is about o
follows: McCollough's, or the Debt Payers
bill fixed, with the consent Of the creditors, tn
debt of $32, ,Q0O, 900, made the coupons receiy
| able for taxes and other dues to the State, an
the bonds non-taIable. It fixed the rate OF IN
terest at an average of per cent. The Rid
dleberger Bill, which the Readjusters stand by
fixed the debt at less than $40, 600, 600, mad
the coupons not receivable for taxes, made tn
bonds taxable, and the rate of interest pc
cent. It was proposed to make this bill la'
without the consent Of the States creditors, o
the ground that it was just to both creditor
and the State. The Readjuster Bill exclude
from the State debt the interest accumulate
during the war and the reconstruction period
The Mccullough bill includes this.