The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-02-14

QUAhIEhLf TREASURY STAfEMENI.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Treasury state
ment, showing the receipts and expenditures
by warrants, for the quarter ending Dec. 31st,
1869, was issued to-day. The following exhibit
is made:
RECEIPTS.
Receipts from revenues. ST., 1888 668 81
Receipts from Miscellaneous sources. IL ,020 531 &C
Loans and treasury notes. ........ Z;'Sao's30 ~
hepayments' iSof,ooU.9o
Total SIG, S74 29l ST
Balance in Treasury September 1869 S12O,6l4S57.s6
Total ........................ $3.50 1888, 1928
EXPENDITURES.
Civil and miscellaneous. ST, 445, 90s.50
War, Navy, Interior, Indians and Pen
Interest on public debt. ........... 254s5, 3tos4
Purchase of United States bonds 1927 ,ol5.:s
Redemption OF the public debit. 5,4i2,71
Total. .s1O7 1926, 1907
Balance in Treasury Dec 81, 1862 1928 ,237 .16
The above is a correct statement OF the re-
celpts and expenditures by warrant Tor the
quarter ending December 81, 1862 as appears
by the books and accounts of the Department.
The balance in the Treasury September 30,
1869. by this statement was 81 651, 1874 81 in ex-
cess of the balance published in the Depart
ment statement of October 1, 1869, and the
balance in the Treasury DEPARTING ut December
l, 1869, by this statement was So, SO 798. IS in
excess of the balance as published in the debt
statement January l, 1870. These differences
lures are all known and included in the month
ly debt statement, while the receipts being
taken from the returns in the Office at the close
of business on the last day of each month do
not include the entire receipts for the quarter.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN
SHIPPING INTERESTS.
The Select Committee on American Naviga-
ton Interests have agreed to report bill al
lowing drawbacks on shipping materials, not
fn mo- ton on, dian lines Is
$40 per ton on composite sailing vessels with
IRON frames and wooden planking, $40 per ton
on wooden steamers, $40 per ton on composite
steamers, $l2 per ton on iron sailing vessels
aud $15 per ton on iron steamers. When the
materials used are of home production equiva-
lent amounts are to be allowed. The second
section allows ship stores AMI coal to be shipped
aud consumed free OF duty. The third seticon
allows an annual subsidy to American vessels
engaged in the carrying trade for over six
mouths in the year between American and
foreign ports as fOllows:-Wlth the British
American Provinces, $3.50 per ton for sailing
vessels or steamer; with European ports, 81
per ton for steamers; with all other foreign
ports, $3 per ton for steamers. The com mittee
will also report a bill substituting for all tom
mage duties 30 cents per ton, and abolshing all
harbOr dues, pilOtage tees, or other taxes inn
posed by State or municipal laws.
NEW INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY EXHIBITION.
The correspondence between Minis ter Thorn
ton and Secretary Fish, relative to the first of
a proposed series of annual international exhi-
billions of specimens of industry and fine arts
is published. The first exhibition will open in
permanent building at South Kensington in
England on Monday, May l, 1871, and close
Sept. 3Oth, Earl Derby being President of the
Commissioners. These exhibitions will differ
materially from those which have preceded
them, as there viii. be comparatively limited
extent. The objects will be selected by COM
Dptant iudoeS before thew are admitted On1v
a few classes of industrial objects will be adj
mtted each year. The arrangements will be
in classes, without reference to nationalties as
heretofor. The exhibitors will be relieved of
all charges for arranging and taking care of
their objects during the exhibition. Foreign
countries will not have placed in their abso-
Lutte disposal space in block. but divisions of
space in each class, while in addition to such
allotments the foreign exhibitors will have the
privilege of submitting in London their pro-
auctions for admission under the same rules as
British subjects. Under these altered circum-
stances, which, it is hoped, will make these
exhibitions far less OnerOus and costly than
heretofore to foreigners, the commissioners
hope that each foreign country will appoint a
commissioner, whose functions would be to
divide the space available among those whom
they consider eligible to exhibit, and to give a
certificate which will enable Her Majesty 3
commissioners to receive the objects and ar
LANCE them i RE The fP9 p5R gl....,.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13-The American Sea-
mems Friend Society of New York and the
New York Seamens Association have petit
toned Congress in aid of the proposed ship
ping commission originating with the San
Francisco Seamen's Friend Society. The COM
mission is to be appointed by the United States
judges, and the proposed act is substantially a
transcript of the merchants shipping act of
Great Britain, which has long worked success
fully.