1881 United States Senate special elections in New York March 4. On May 16, 1881, both U.S. Senators from New York resigned in protest against the distribution of federal patronage in New York by President James A. Garfield, a Half-Breed, without being consulted. The confrontation between the Stalwart and the Half-Breed (in the press now usually referred to as the "Administration men") factions of the Republican Party arose when the leader of the New Yorker Half-Breeds, President pro tempore of the State Senate William H. Robertson, was appointed Collector of the Port of New York, the highest paying federal office in New York. Conkling preferred that Collector Edwin Merritt
SS Waxholm (1881) sold for scrap, and was scrapped in Hamburg, Germany. After the 1881-built "Waxholm" had been scrapped, the Waxholmsbolaget reused her name on a 1909-built steamer that had previously been named "Express II" and, before that, "Brevik". SS Waxholm (1881) The Waxholm was a steam ship that was built in 1881, at Stockholm in Sweden, for the Waxholmsbolaget. She operated on services throughout the Stockholm archipelago for that company until 1956, when she was scrapped. The "Waxholm" was built in 1881 by , on Sodermalm in Stockholm, for the Waxholms Ångfartygs AB, better known as the Waxholmsbolaget. Her design would set