The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-31
JAe1ailgAsrald
DA LII AS, TEXAS.
THURSDAY MORNING :;;!; DEC. 30.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
A Cavalry Force TO be Employed In
Collecting The Revenue In
Mississippi.
Randall's Resolution Relating 10 the
Whisky Ring 10 be Pressed.
And a Correspondence Rich With I'm,
pOrtant Revelations Promised.

WASHINGTON, December 30.-The
Secretary OF the treasury has given di'
recti0n for the retirement OF $Gil, 55C
legal tender notes, on account OF Ma,
tional Bank circulation, issued during
December. This will leave outstand.
ing legal tenders, until further reduc.
ton, S37, lS2,772.
The amount of National Bank notes
issued since November is 81 ,76l go,
and total since the passage of the act
OF June IA, 1874, is 81, 1885, with the
amount Of legal tender notes deposited
by National Banks for the purpose OF
retiring circulation since November |,
1887, 206.
Pittsburg aud Philadelphia have al
ready sent word through the proper
channels that they intend to make APP.
plication to the Republican Executive
Committee, which meets here In two
weeks, to have the National Republi'
can Presidential Convention held in
their respective cities.
The work of consolidating the Inter
nal Revenue Collection Districts
throughout the country has been CON-
pleted, and the number reduced from
20a to 1853. The annual saving to the
Government by the consolidation will
be about S25O,00O, nearly $4,000 Of
which is salaries alone, and the re-
mainder for the office rent fund, sta
tionery, etc. The force of clerks has
been extensively reduced, although
fully as many Deputy Collectors will
be required AS when the whole mum.
Der of districts were in existence.
In the pension appropriation bill,
which the House Committee hope Ia
report next week, an effort will be
made to effect "a large saving by abol-
ishing the pension agencies, and pro-
viding for the payment of pensions
through the postmasters of the coun'
try. II pensioners are paid at post
office, the postmaster, especially In
the country, can have almost personal
knowledge of the pensioner, or can
easily ascertain whether he or she is
entitled to pension.
The resolution pending in the House
as offered by Mr.. Randall, calling on
the Secretary of the Treasury for the
correspondence and documents rela
ting to the Whisky Ring, will bt
pressed to q vote when the House re.
asse mbles, and it is believed will bt
passed. The objection which has beel
made that to furnish these documents
would en- barrass the Government in
its pending prosecutions and inquiries
is offset by the fact that the secretary
will not be required to submit any o
that nature. The correspondence
which the Department, it is said, il
not ayerse TO submitting, is rich with
| important revelations.
The Collector of Internal Revenue
Shoughnessy, ut Jackson, Mississippi
telegraphs the Commissioner that his
deputy, w. b. Redmond. had beer
driven from his Office and home and
from county to county, in his division
while discharging his official duty, by
armed bodies who publicly defy the au
thortty of the United States, anC
threaten to resist. The Collector wants
commissioned officer and twenty-five
soldiers stationed at Liberty, Amit'
county, and instructed to support hin
for thirty days, or until the offending
parties are arrested. The papers in thu
case were submitted to President Gran
who directed the military officer COM
handing the Department Of the South
to furnish sufficient force OF cavalry
to enable the proper officers to collec
the revenue.