Show OUR washington LETTER tho outlook for the ot C grama JIB tunit will occupy alv of oar wl irn til ac from oat in eight weeks congress Con gresa will bo here again and until july politics and politicians will rulo tho hour it is idle to speculate now what congress will do at tho coming session one thing anh bo discounted aa that it is that it will be p political session important impending political events in ohio and new york make it to say more and the action of iho democratic majority will be governed largely by the result of alie elections now BO near poth par ties will play for tho presidential stake there arc positions to choose tho plan of attack to arrange speeches to delude alio people to be made etc leaders will move cautiously to feel the public pulse there are adov eral leaders who will gather in the national halls who dream of the presidency and the more they dream of this coveted prize the more timid do they become hence the session will boone bo one of policy as well as politics and with juit enough business in it to occupy the at tendon of the business community during tho special session of the congress enough balb were introduced trod lo 10 keep the body busy till it terminates its official life botone in ten will over bo considered not one in a thousand will ever become laws scores of pension and other private belh will slip through but it is reasonable to predict that no im public measures ivill pass tor the reason that political strategy will giro way to the demands of alie public waal and every effort will bo stake the upon more important bills which will confront the second session of the congress are those of a financial nature and upon them there is liable to be division in both parties the warner silver bill which passed the house and which is now in the finance committee of the senate will prove the most troublesome should gen ewing lose ohio and senator bayard remain antagonistic to the bill he will be able to keep it strangled in his committee room probably one of alie most important subjects which the bouse will be called to pass upon will be report of the committee on rules the recommendations of the committee are known to lop over for fifty of the rules now in force and to make sweeping chances tending to simplify the present system and to enable a new mcm berto comprehend the manner in an body can be controlled and at the same time govern the house with rules which will e business rather than retard it as under again there may be an effort made to readopt the old joint rules of ane house otherwise if no bill providing for the count of he electoral will have decidedly the advantage of the republicans in counting the presidential vote indeed if they saw fit there is nothing to prevent them from counting in a president under the old joint rule no 22 it was provided that the vota ofa state should not be counted to which ei ther bousa objected under the present constitutional provision as it alio vote of any state can be thrown out by the con courrent vote af pf both kiouses IIo uses this gives the democrats ft good deal of leverage inasmuch as they control both branches from indications there wilf lie several investigations during hie special session there may also be av affert made tj again pass a bill restricting chinese pr capital for democratic party to throw ahey will chance of giving alie president a prid opportunity to veto it mr gilfillian of the united states boing asked what ground therbia for complaints shown newspapers as to scarcity of small notes likewise bronze pennies responds by saying there are ho grounds for complaint as against us in this office all the merchant or business men who need more little notes have to jo is to send their drafts to the assistant treasurer at new york pay express charges at alie rate of about fifty cents per 1000 and he will get all the small notes ho wants As to the bronze pennies they seem to have had a where they are devoting all time to the coinage of the silver dollar ju this connection itis well to mention hat avei the country there is an impression in renewing the printing aad issuing of fractional currency in every view it ia preferred to the small coin there are many kinds of business in which remittances by mail for the purchase of articles worth less than a dollar where the rade with would be customers bo had because the latter cannot of course remit in coin not necessary to enumerate the many inconveniences suffered for lack of a fractional currency A bill was in last winter in congress providing or the resumption of fractional currency the measure haj the approval of nearly everybody but failed for reason of bungling management on the part of jbutler and others who were themselves in artor fractional currency the various rooms in tho executive mansion ara being re furnished and brushed up preparatory to the return of president and family from th lour on saturday tha front portico as also tho front walls were thoroughly washed by aid of a stream thrown from fire engine company no it improved its appearance considerably D a t t S |