The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-02
BY TELEG R AP b.
ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT,
By the Western Union Line, ONCE North
west corner of Main and l2th streets.
w ASHIN
WAsHINaroS. June l.

The public debt statement shows q
reduction OF - ,456,S3S.
The total reduction OF the debt to
June 80, 1874. is $29, ,550,275.
A meeting OF the Cabinet was held
to. day. The President intends to leave
Washington this evening for New
York. Previous to the session Gen.
Rristow had an interview with the
President.
Public Debt Statement.
Six per cent bonds, 81 l,2l3 967,90
i've per cent bonds. 5l0,279 900 total
coin bonds 81, ,724 246 900.
Lawful money debt, sl4.67S,000
matured debt, 81, 32l 200.
Legal tender notes, $685., 076, TT ;
certificates OF deposit, S56, ,050,0 irac>
tioual currency, SAC .53S, ,649; coin Ger
tifcates. 33,l79 500; total without in
terest s5l7,S44,927.
Total debt, S2,2l6,09l OPT; total in
terest, s33 .354.O95.
Cash in the Treasury-Coin, SSl, =
95S 979; cash in Treasury, currency,
sll ITS, ,703; special deposits held for
the redemption OF certificates OF depos-
it, az provided by law, $50, 050,000; to-
ral in Treasury $l49 .lS6 6S2.
Debt less cash in Treasury, 81 l45,-
26S, ,43S; decrease during the month,
81, ,456.S3S.
Bonds issued to the Pacific railroad
companies. interest payable in lawful
money. principal outstanding, s64 ,623.-
5l2: interest accrued and not yet paid,
sl1 $751; ,5S7; interest paid by the United
States, $22 3S6,69l; interest repaid by
the transportation OF mails, &c, S..
G95, ,450; balance OF interest paid by the
United States, $lI ,29l ,24l.
The Senate referred the nominations
OF Bristow and Richardson, to the Fi-
nance and Judiciary Committees res
pectively.
The Note Printing investigation.
The Committee on Banking and Cur-
rency to-day resumed the consideration
of the note printing question. The
counsel for the New York bank hote
printing companies did not charge
fraud against the government printing
bureau, but said that the work had been
done at extravsgant rates. The cost OF
printing for the year 1873 was stated in
the answer OF Mr.. McCartee al 81 $685.
900, while the books of the treasurer
showed $3,4S0,000, besides not being
specifically accounted for by vouchers
as to whom the money had been paid.
Assistant Secretary Sawyer said
the treasury department had
furnished the account which
the counsel on the other side had pro-
nounced untrue, but the account was
true, and representing the entire amount
expended by the bureau. 1t would
take months 10 copy all the vouchers
and papers desired, but q sut-com
mi,tee could be appointed, and
by personal examination satisfy
the committee OF the facts
40 stated 10 the report. The repre-
sentatives of the bureau explained that
the $3iS 900 alluded to by the counsel
for the Bank Note Printing Companies
should be deducted from instead OF
added to the 81 1865 600 to give the &C
tual sum for printing notes and other
securities, the $340, 1000 being appropri-
ated and expended for internal revenue
STAN ps, irrespective OF other work. Dur
ing examination, it was shown by the
Printing bureau, in explanation OF the
apparent Inconsistency in the size oil
the paper used for printing fifty cent
fractIonsl currency, and that the sze'
OF the paper was regulated by the slze
of the plate which controls the price
OF printing, aud this rule governed all
amounts paid for executive work.
Resigned.
Mr.. Baufeld, Solicitor Of the Treas
ury, has resigned. No one has yet been
indicated as his successor.
The nomination OF General Bristow
to be Secretary Of the Treasury, is ia
vorably received by both parties in
Congress, and it is thought there will
be no opposition whatever to his con-
firmation.