The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-05-04
WASHINGTON NOTES.


The Cabinet, at a meeting last week, came
to decision not to allow the records OF the
Executive departments to go out of responsible
hands, and Secretary Bristow, in responding to
a request of the Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of Justice, refused to give the
vouchers showing the expenditures OF the
United States Marshal's Office at New York
The Committee on Territories in the Rouse
of Representatives has decided to report in
favor of an enabling act for the admission OF
New Mexico as State, and also in favor of the
establishment of q territorial government in
the Indian country.
The President, in conversation with gen.
tleman the other day, told the true story OF the
mailman who has recently given such romantic
testimony before the Committee on Expendi-
lures in the interior Department. The Presi-
dent says that he was conscious for many weeks
that he was being Swallowed that he could
never leave the White-house without finding
the maniac turn upon him at some street COR
ner, and glover upon him with his roaming
eyes /; that the espionage became intolerable,
and the President one day stopped the man
and told him that it must cease, or he would
have him arrested. It did not cease, and the
President in his walks carried cane. The
mailman still continued to haunt the White
house grounds and the streets, and was finally
taken to the asylum. He was subsequently
released and sent to Ireland, and it was not
known that he had returned until he appeared
before the committee.
The Treasury department. DESTROYS of utiliz-
ing the peculiar facilities possessed by the
honest distillers for the discovery of frauds
practiced by their Sc crooked " competitors, has
issued circular inviting their assistance and
cooperation in the effort to secure the collec-
ton of the whole tax and the punishment of
the whisky-thieves, and requesting them to
communicate facts or suspicious of crooked
operations in their respective localities. AS
an additional inducement, it is promised that
all such communications shall be treated as
strictly confidential. to be used simply as the
starting point of investigation, and not as evil
dence.
The amount of new National bank notes is-
sued during April was 1924, 215, The amount
of Iegal-tenders retired is 1927, 372 reducing
the outstanding legal-tenders to 1870, 1877 876.
ballet Kilbourne, the recusant witness whom
the House imprisoned for refusing to deliver
his private books and papers to the committee
investigating the real estate pool, was discharged
from the custody of the Seargent-at-Arms
on writ Of habeas corpus by Chief-Justce
Cartier, of the District Supreme Court.
1t seems that only million and half Of sill
yer is now in circulation, only that amount
having been paid out under the Substitution
act. DR.. Linderman, the Director of the Mint,
says there need be no apprehension so far as
silver is concerned. There can be no scarcity
of that. He has already about fourteen mil
lions of silver coins on hand and he can coin at
therate of million and half or two millions
month from this time on without neglecting
the gold coinage.
THE National debt, according to the official
statement, herewith appended, was reduced
80, 49, 181 during the month of April just past:
Six per cent. bonds .....S 984,9 $50
Five per cent. bonds...... 710,O4l, 300