Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-02
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., May 1.
DEBT STATEMENT.
flowing statement was issued to-day:

The following statement was issued to-day:
Debt bearing coin interest 81 1902 1850
Interest OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 4S632,0 64
Bearing currency interest. ......,.... 6iO28,O0O
interest Observation-Disclosures. 2S6,l66
Matured debt. Observation-Disclosures. 3096,012
interest," Observation-Disclosures. 6Jy,U9O
Debt bearing no interest. .......... 41I,151,29S
Unclaimed interest. ....,..,......... $500
Total debt-Principal ............. 1873 sos, $50
interest ...,........... 49,435,622
Coin in treasury ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l06,463,919
currency ''',..,................. lzIs6,o6O
Debt less cash in treasury, ........ sqSOs,67854s
Decrease during April. MINIMUM. s8,l24,O6S
Decrease since March l, ISL. .....,.. 17,1S5,308
Decrease since March !, 1869 ...... 22l, 9,716
The following are the totals of bonds issued
to the Pacific railroad company:
Principal outstanding. .............. $64, 1872
Interest accrued but not yet paid. 376
Interest paid by the United States. 10,7539l0
mails. ....:.....,,............. 2,sS1, 1856
States. ~ w 7s227ss51
TREASURY DISBURSEMENTS
During April. Observation-Disclosures. s12,446,s5S
As follows:
Civil and miscellaneous ..,.......... e,1Ss,Oss
Army. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3,063 1856
Navy 800. .....,.:................. 1,4I5,93S
Department of the interior. .......... l,230693
Receipts to-day. Observation-Disclosures. s1Os8,OOO
SUBSCRIPTIONS
To the new loan. .. .................. s618,OOO
THE MONTHLY INTEREST
On the public debt is now 50 459, 959-s1, O72,5O8
less than March l. 1862
IN THE SUPREME COURT.
Large numbers of the bar were present at the
supreme court chamber to-day, including Solicit
tor General Bristow and Senators TrumbulI and
Cole, as it was known that the court would an
nounce the many opinions prepared during the
weeks recess. All the judges were on the bench,
excepting Justice Nelson, who is absent
from the city. The chief justice retired about
two O'Clock. None of the opinions were an.
nounced by him. Justice Clifford read a brief
paper in the legal tender cases of Knox VS.. Lee,
and Parker VS.. Davis, as follows:
In these two cases, two questions were heretofore
directed to be argued, namely;
First, is the act of congress, known as the legal
tender act, constitutional as to contracts made be-
fore its passage?
Second, is itvalid as applicable to transactions
since Its passage"
These questions have been considered by the
court, and both decided in the affirmative
The decree of the supreme court of Massachu-
sets in the case of Parker vs. Davis is affirmed,
and the Judgment of the circuit court of the
United States OF the western district of Texas is
also affirmed The chief justice, with Assoc.
ate Justices Nelson, Clifford and Field dissent
from the majority of the court upon both propo-
sltlons, and the result, holding that the act of
congress, SO far as applicable to contracts made
before the passage, is repugnant to the consti-
tuition and void, and also that it is repugnant to
the constitution and void so far as applicable to
contracts made since its passage. The opinion
OF the court and the reasons for the dissent will
be read before the close of the adjourned term.
In Dunning VS.. Sears and others, two cases
from the supreme court of Michigan, contracts
were for the delivery of a specified weight of
gold, solvable as coined money. The court be-
low held that they were discharged by the pay
ment of treasury notes, equivalent in market
value to the value of coined money of the stip-
ulated weight in pure gold. The court reserves
that Judgment, holding that it should have been
entered for coined dollars and parts of dollars.
MAGNIFICENT CARPET,
Manufactured at the imperial factory of Turkey,
as special gift from the sultan to the govern
ment of the United States, was placed on the
floor of the east room Of the White house this
afternoon. The carpet occupied year in max
ing, is woven in one piece, weighs fifteen hun
dred pounds, and is worth $4,000