Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-02
TELEGRAPHICT
DOMESTIC NEWS
The Monthly Debt Statement
BOutWell'S Bill Of Estimates
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Coming Changes of officials
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IOutWell'S Bill OF Estimates
WASHINGTON,
aloutweII,s Bonds.

HiOutwefPs Bonds.
WAsHISGroN, Dec. 1.-The following
is a recapitulation of the debt statement;
Debt bearing interest in coin 81, 943, 1872
100: interest $40, 654, 451; debt bearing
interest in lawful money $59, 72S, 600; in
terest 1864, 1854; debt on which interest
has ceased since maturity So, 34l, 067; in
terest 4SS, sos; debt bearing no interest
$411, S51, 1857; total amount outstanding
81, AIS, 679, 944; total interest $41, 49,
31S; total debt principal and interest to
date, including interest due and unpaid,
$2,z6o, 130, 1853; amount in Treasury $685.
S2l,S6S; debt less amount in Treasury
s2,54l, 764, S55; decrease of debt during
the past month $7,475, $50; decrease of
debt since March l, 1870, 300, Ol9, 9S2.
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
Company, interest payable in lawful
money-Amount outstanding, $64, 6lS,-
$50; interest accrued and not yet paid,
81, 6l5, 60l.80; interest paid by the United
States, $S,Sl5, 945; interest repaid by
the transportation of mails, $2,417,-
493; balance of interest paid by the Uni
ted States, Sc, 397, 81.
Tie custom receipts from the 10th TO
follows: At New York, 81, 037, 119; BOs-
ton, $945, 90l; Philadelphia, $4S, 423;
San Francisco, $l1S,5S4.
BOutweII's Brokerage.
The statement prepared by the Ur'
States Treasury for private inforr 4teo
shows that the Government h. -Aauon,
the bonded debt from March = ,F Psle o. Of
Nov. II, 1870, in princip ~, iooS, 10
premium $lS2, 942, 1877, - inIe1e eao ana ana
per day. The total eyual 70 300, ooy
has been col ar t'reHium paid in 1870
nss S &c. ga ga 90 and interest So
GTnitod S+ate- purchased Sl59, $50, 75O.
No. 10" sbonds since the 18th of
of ~ IT 30, on which day the Secretary
Co. - treasury made his first purchase
- 90 sinking fund.
BOuIyyeII's Budget
Total estimates for the yesr ending June
so, 1871, s29S516, 1872; amount appro-
priated for the year, $277, sos, 53Z,
Total OF estimates for the year ending
June 80, 1870, as prepared by Secretary
Boutwell, to be submitted to Congress are
$3.50, 90, $50. THESE estimates are exclu-
6lVe OF all dnexpended balances which
amounted ON the 30th of June last to
$50, coo, BOO, and which are rendered
Unavailable by the Sth section of the act
OF July IL, 1870. Had these balances
Scmained available the present estimates
. would probably have been between 40
and $50, 900, 900 below the present figures
The Treasury Department now prints
four thousand copies of the public debt
statement in German and two thousand
in English. Prominent bankers and brok-
.ers at home and abroad are regularly sup
piled with copies of the debt statement.
The statement has heretofore been tele-
graphed TO Europe, but the present inter-
ruption of Atlantic cables temporarily
interfered with the arrangement
Subsidized Railroads.
The question whether the Treasury
Department can reserve for interest due
from railroads TO which subsidies of
land have been granted the entire amount
payable for mails and transportation has
been submitted by the Secretary of the
Treasury to the Attorney General. Pend
ing the discussion of the question the
payment to railroads for such service will
be delayed at the treasury.
The PuAIIc Arms.
A genera order from the War Depart
ment says Afty dollars viii hereafter be
charged against every enlisted man who
shall lose or dispose of musket Of the
ShaIee or Remington pattern.
The Tax or whisky.
a bill TO put up the whisky tax to a
dollar gallon, and to abolish the income
tax, will be introduced in the House next
week, but it is possibly a movement for
speculative purposes. The Iecommenda
tion of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue that no change be made in the
TAX on whisky probably originated in the
fact that an effort, well organized, will
DE made at the coming session to have
the tax increased. A number of Western
whisky merchants, who have been buy.
ing up all the whisky they could find, in
tend coming here this winter to urge an
increase in the tax with view of making
money fer themselves. The Commits
'sioner, backed by the Secretary of the
Treasury and the President, will oppose
any legislation of this sort, and the Com
missioner is prepared to show, as indica-
ted in his report that more money is col
lected with the tax at the present rate
than ever WIS realized before. The
whisky men, however, propose to or
game large lobby and seem confident
of success
Govern nlent OFFices-A New Deal TO
be Had.
SerIasor Williams, of Oregon, had q
pro ,racted interview with the President a
t'yw days ago. 1t is stated that Senator
Williams will be appointed Attorney
General in place of Mr.. Alderman, and
that arrangements have been made by
which Alderman, who, as well as Will
liams, is a strong supporter of the Admin
istration, will be elected TO the United
States Senate from Georgia. The recent
visit of Senator Cameron and other promi-
neut Pennsylvania politicians to Georgia,
was partly to pave the way for Akerman's
election. The influence of these Penn
sylvsnis Republicans being exerted for
Alderman in the interest of the Admins
tration, it is expected that the President
will select Pennsylvania for Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue or Commits
sioner OK Patents. The report is not
likely to be published entire, but certain
portions, embOdying a simpler and uni
form system Of business suitable for the
department at large, or for any other pub
lie office, have been grouped into a set Of
Instructions, cOpiOusly illustrated by dia-
grams, and published and distributed in
neat pamphlet form TO the officials and
clerks of the Military Bureau at Wash
ingtOn and 10 the staff officers
of the army serving a, the var
ious department headquarters. Those
who have attempted to do business with
the several government departments are
painfully alive to the delays, difficulties
and annoyances that they sometimes en-
counter from the time they first appear,
in person or by letter, in the precincts of
red tape to the time of their departure.
The new system adopted by Secretary
Belknap cuts off yards of red tape in the
future interior workings of the War De
paItmeDt, peIceptible only TO the outside
public, perhaps, in the increased celebrity
and ease with which the public business
will be dispatched, though army officers
away from Washington will benefit mate
rally by its requirements. The unpub-
lished part of the report contains several
suggestions, among them one for relaxing
the ipfiexible attachment to what is called
'',ne regular channel Of correspondence, "
and another for relieving the Over-crowded
Offices and economizing room and rent by
disposing of immense quantities Of records
which the Board consider useless,
and which have accumulated year
after year in an increasing ratio,
while no provision has been made
for their disposition. The Board recon-
mends an overhsuling, yearly, of all the
files of papers over twenty years stand