Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21
Washington News.

31st of October, 1877. Tho amounts
are given as follows:
Gold coin in treasury, sub-treasuries
ana MINIS. -.......... $1O1, 4eG, 964
| Gold bars in treasury, sub-treasuries,
and mints. 1919. 1855, G92
Gold bullion (estimated) in mints 3. roo. GOO
silver bullion. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5. 99S. 1897
Silver coin in treasury, sub-treasur-
| les, and minis. $1,000 ......... 2,479, 1871
Total coin and bullion $117, PSI, 1870
There are also in hand, counted as
coin, the following:
Fractional currency. redeemed in sill
For..... S4G. 62J
| Coin certificate in treasury Offices H. 436. 42O
Coin Interest coupons and checks :. 37O 6l6
Notes of national gold banks reduc-
ing circulation. ETC.. ... s. 423
Silver coin, et'., IN transit 449, 233
Grand total ...................Sl 35 5s5, 577
DEFICIENCIES IN THE SALARIES OF POST
MASTERS.
The house committee on apprOpria-
tons to-day, after considering a com
munication from the postmaster gene
raj relative to existing Deficiencies in
the payment of salaries of postmasters
during the fiscal years ending June 80,
1876 and 1877, amounting to 1851 ,681,
agreed to report a bill providing for
the payment of this amount out of
balances covered into the treasury dur
ing the years in which the Deficiencies
occurred.
WAR CLAIM.
The house committee on education
and labor met this morning, and IN
structed their chairman to prepare a
bill reimbursing the college of Mary
and William, Of Virginia, for losses in
CURED during the war;
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
The house committee on foreign at
fairs has agreed to recommend the
passage of bill providing for American
representation at the Paris Exposition
one clause providing for a display OF
the various methods of cooking corn
The bill now agreed upon proposes a
total appropriation Of about $15O,00O
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
Mr. Joyce, Of Vermont, has intro
duced bill providing for the appoint
ment of commission Of five mem
bers, whose duty it shall be to investi-
gate the liquor traffic in its economic
criminal, moral, and scientific aspects
IN connection with pauperism, crime
social vice, the public health, and gen
eral welfare of the people; and also tc
inquire and take testimony as to the
practical results of license and restric-
tive legislation for the prevention of in
temperance in the several states.
WOOL ON THE SKIN.
The treasury department has de-
cided that wool on the skin imported
from the Sandwich Islands is to be
charged the same duty as other woods
A CHANGE Is TO BE MADE
in the internal revenue collectorship
for the third (Augusta) district OF
Georgia. Col. E. C. Wade is to be ap-
pointed in place of the present collec-
tor, Tannin
FIGHTING THE SILVER BILL.
kilograms from Washington of No
vember 18th, state that a delegation
of New York and Philadelphia bankers,
brokers and merchants opposed to the
house silver bill, now pending in the
senate. had an interview this morning
with the president. There were also
present Secretaries Sherman, Evarts
and Shurz. Messrs. Babcock, Ellis,
Stewart and Law, Of New York, several
ly addressed the president, their re-
marks being to the effect that there
would be depreciation of the public
credit. if silver were made legal tender
and the national debt authorized to be
paid in it, and further that the passage
of the bill would be injurious to all
kinds Of industry the views Of the
speakers being similar to those presented
last night, by committee delegation
and asked the president to exercise his
power to protect the integrity of the
country as to it's credit before the
world The President said that
while, as they knew, there would
be manifest improperly in now express
ing his views upon this subject, he
would do what they had requested him
to do, namely, give to it due, full and
candid consideration, whenever the
question should be presented to him in
an official form for his determination
THE ARMY BILL BEFORE THE SENATE COM
The army bill was reported to the
senate to-day from the committee on
appropriations as amended by the en-
tire omission Of the clause inserted
by the house which provided that four
cavalry regiments shonld be recruited
to the full force of 1900 men each and
kept in service on the Texas frontier
but that the total number of men or
the army rolls should be limited tc
10000 The senate committee recon-
mend the insertion in the place of the
mandatory provision concerning the use
oftroops lnTexas, of the following clause
the cavalry regiments may be recruited
to 100 men in each company and kept
as near as practicable to that number
and sufficient force of cavalry shall
be employed in defense of the Mexican
and Indian frontier of Texas. The COM
mittee do not recommend any increase
in the amount voted by the house but
on the contrary propose reductions OF
$4,000 in the item for the conversion
of smooth bores to rifed cannon; $780,
900 in the amount for hospitals; $500 in
appropriations for the office of the com
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