The Portland daily press., 1869-04-02
WASHINGTON.
NOMINATIONS.

GOAANA4AOHcs
WAsHINGToN, April 1.-The following NOM
ination was sent in to the Senate to-day
John Allison, of Pennsylvania, Register of the
Treasury, and 3 number of Postmasters, prin-
cipally for the Southern and Western States.
THE PUBLIC DEBY
The public debt statement, just issued, differs
from that of last month in containing full de-
tails of consolidated items heretofore shown.
The decrease has been about $2,50 900, which
would have been greater had the statement
been postponed until the 9th or 9Th inst. SO az
to include all the receipts of t Q last month
some of which have not yet been returned to
the Department. The present statement shows
an aggregate of debt bearing coin interest OF
50, 107, SIG $50; debt bearing interest in lawful
money, $6S, 605, 600; aggregate Of matured debt
not presented for payment, $6,OO3, ,4O3; debt
bearing no interest, $414, ,413,485; total debt,
principal outstanding So, 500, ,898, ,538 and inter-
est accrued $39, 1903 916; amount of coin in the
Treasury, $82,530 1856; coin represented by gold
certificates, 81 ,672 800; currency in the Treas
ury, $6,8O2 ,628; debt less cash, So 525 1876 461.
Total amount of bonds issued to the Pacific
Railroad, $56, 852, 800. The amount of interest
which has accrued prior to Jan. 1st aud 10th,
1869, is So, 300, 900, and of this amount the Gov
ernment has received from transportation, ETC.,
$1S17, 1852. leaving balance due the United
States Of $2 s28,760
RECOGNITION OF CUBA.
LuO hOuSC GONOi&n RtiattOnS OOulmltbG6
agreed this morning to report the following
joint resolution in relation to the recognition
of Cuba, agreeably to the report of Gen. Banks
"That the people of the United States hereby
declare their sympathy with the people of the
island of Cuba in their patriotic efforts to Sc
cure their independence and to establish Re-
publican form of Government, guaranteeing
personal liberty and equal political rights of all
people, and Congress will give its constitution
al support to the President of the United
k~AA i Il.
recognize the Independence and sovereignty Of
such Republican Government"
This is substantially the same resolution as
that of Henry Clay in 1921, by which the
South American Republics were recognized.
There is no doubt of the adoption of the reso-
luton BY both Houses, and the friends of Cuba
state that it will exercise an important infiu-
ence upon the war by securing the revolution
lists moral as well as physical support 1t is
expected that the spanish Minister will pre-
sent remonstrance to the State department
against the recognition of Cuba, and that he
will leave the country in case of the adoption
OF Banks resolution.
VARIOUS ITEMS.
John w. Douglass, the new Deputy Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, assumed the
duties of his Office to-day.
Inc warrants issued by the Treasury during
March Tor the support of the Government
amounted to $40, $4,000.
delegations from Texas and Georgia called
on the PRESIDENT to-day 1t having been an
nounced that President Grant was averse to
reporSs pelng made of such conversations, no
members EN- OF the press were present.
ane G c1ntested election case from the Sd dis
trlct 0l pennsylvania was to-day submitted to
the Committee on Elections, on printed argu-
ments. e~
coNFIRMATIoNs.
The Senate to-day confirmed John Allison
as Register Of the Treasury, Franklin j. Roi-
liVGl Mt .ol n
Maine district. The remainder of the avoc,,S ~
tive session was occupied in the discussion Of
the nomination of Gen. Longstreet Tor Sur
veyor at New Orleans.