Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19
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70 THE WORCEsTER DAILY SPY
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From Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., june is

WASHINGTON, d. c., June Is.
FINANCIAL,
The following statement was issued yesterday :
Receipts of fractional currency. ,....... S626,500
Shipments: Notes. MINIMUM. 762,5Oe
Fractional currency. ...... $4,000
The treasury holds as security tor cir -.
c9latng h9tes 94S4V0
National bank notes in circulation -. 3l6923,094
Internal revenue receipts to-day.......,. 457,670
Grand total for the fiscal year. ....... 139,447ll7
The loan subscriptions to-day were... 100000
The balances in the treasury of the United
States at the close of business to-day were:
Coin. $50 ,945,OOO
currency o,l5U,OOO
Certlhcates' lO,zOlVt9
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL.
No instructions have yet been received from
the treasury department relative to the colec-
ton of the tax due by the New York Central
railroad. The matter is delayed a few days in
order to receive the decision of the company &C
knowledging the debt in accordance with the
decision of the law officers of the government.
III case no acknowledgment is made the col
lector will be instructed to proceed with the col
lection Of the tax by distraint and other legal
measures.
KUKLUX INVESTIGATION.
The process of obtaining witnesses before the
kukluX committee is found to be much less diff
ficult than was apprehended. The matter of
subp9naing witnesses from the most remote re-
gions of the country requires only few hours,
and as a consequence the committee is obtain
ing a vast mass of important and pertinent tes-
timony, which will be ready for submission to
congress Immediately upon its assembling.
There has not yet been single instance where
witnesses have been telegraphed for, that fa-
vorable response has not been received the same
day. The general disposition on the part of
southern men is to give the committee all the
information they possess. In this respect it is
generally remarked that some new influence is
at work in the southern states.
PROGRESS OF THE CENSUS REPORT.
The work on the census report is progressing
rapidly. Three volumes are being set up at the
same time, so as TO have them appear as near
simultaneously as possible.
NEW PENSION REGULATIONS.
The pension office has in type new and re-
Vised set Of regulations, prescribing the manner
of making collections of army and navy PEN
sions. This pamphlet covers all the laws down
to the close of the last session of congress.
DIPLOMATIC.
Reliable information has been received that
the French government has appointed Jules
Ferry minister TO Washington, in place of Wis.,
count Freihard. Minister Washbum has re-
ceived leave of absence, and will soon 60 to
Carlsbad for the benefit of his health, impaired
by the arduous duties at Paris.
PASSPORTS.
The state department issues an average OF
sixty passports daily, many of them to French
men and Germans returned to their native
countries.
PENSIONS.
Over twenty-six thousand surviving soldiers
and sailors of the war Of 1912 have applied for
pensions under the act of the last congress, and
the applications continue at an average of 176
per day. The disbursements TO this class OF
pensioners during the current fiscal year will
probably amount TO S3,21S ,546, the available
appropriation being S4,740,000.
PERSONAL.
Secretary and Mrs. Fish will leave Washing.
| ton the last of this month for several weeks alb
sence in New York. Governor Lindsay, of Ala.
hama, left for New York on Wednes day night
| where he will try to make some arrangement to
| relieve the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
| from the existing financial troubles, and save
the road from being thrown into bankruptcy.
SAD END.
| William Peterson, owner and occupant of tn
house in which President Lincoln died, wa.
found last night in the Smithsonian institute
| grounds, insensible, and with vial LABELED
"laudanum" lying near him. When reused h,
| said he always took narcotics when ending
| spree He was removed to the station house
where he died during the night.