Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-06-02
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, June /.

WASHINGTON, June 1.
DEBT STATEMENT.
Debt bearing coin interest 1884, 12s, $50
Accrued interest, 39,992, 617
Debt bearing currency interest, 40, 123, 200
| Interest. $50, 772
Matured debt, 1898, 0O2
Interest, 3O7, 1928
Bearing no interest, .l3,Sl6,9G5
Unclaimed interest, 1912
Total debt, S2,359. O67.7l7
Interest, $3s, 672, 43O
Com In treasury, 89,744,375
Currency in treasury, S,S6l58s
Debt less cash in treasury, 2,299, 1874, 1874
Decrease dnring May, 4,439,35S
Decrease since March lst 1871, 2l574.662
Decrease since March LIST, 1869, 226, 329, O75
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad
Co., principal outstanding, 64,6I8, 1872
Interest accrued and not yet paid, lO,753,9IO
Interest repaid by transportation
of mails, 2,s76,727
The following is a recapituation of the
statement of bonds purchased by the treas
ury department which have been cancelled
and destroyed:
Principal, S2OG, SOC. $50
Paid in currency, 81, APO, 2O4
currency value OF interest ac-
crued on bonds bought fiat, 3OS4, 1872
Net cost in currency, 1872, 395 800
Net cost estimated in gold, 92,l59, 092
Average premium on total pur-
chase TO date in currency, l29, 100
Average cost in gold of total pur.
chase to date 1892 100
The debt has been reduced by the amount
of three bonds which ceased to ear interest
and have been cancelled and destroyed.
There have also been paid and cancelled
other bonds to the amount of 500 660. 900,
which matured Jan. LIST, 1871.
Attorney General Akerman decides that all
fishing vessels destroyed during the war by
rebel cruisers will be considered in the same
light as like vessels lost in ordinary sense of
that word, as applying to ships foundered or
wrecked at sea, and therefore provided for in
bounty by Congress.
The Court of Claims adjourned to-day till
Nov. 2Gth, having decided 10 cases during
the past term,
The subcommittee of the Congressional
Ku-Klux Committee, will tomorrow begin
the examination of witnesses, Judge James
l.. Orr of South Carolina, being among those
summoned. 1t is their intention to obtain
only general view of the condition of the
South, particularly since the passage of the
hu-hluA law " uldke u report lO tHt
full committee to meet here Sept. Both, when
they will determine whether the sub-commt-
tee shall be sent to particular localities to
take testimony.
Secretary Boutwell, has received no such
information of bequest OF 81 900, 600 to
the United States, by rich Engishman, as
reported.
A crowd OF several hundred colored men
who had lately been refused employment on
the Columbia Street Railway, at the rate of
81 90 fo- eight hours work, to-day drew off
the white laborers, working at Sl.50 and
81 90 per day, creating considerable disturb
ance, which the police suppressed. The
contractors can find plenty Of good white
men at $50 per day, and will not have col
ored men at any price.
Testimony in the Bowen divorce case
closed to-day, large amount of evidence
being offered to prove the alleged divorce of
Bowen from Frances Hicks in New York in
1915, fraudulent. Judge Orlin said he thought
the record of divorce could be attacked both
on the ground of fraud and of jurisdiction.