Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-08-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Else silver D0IEars-7gOw IRE They to
be S!spCsed Gf:-Thc labor
Agitation.
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. July 81, 1873.

W ASHiNGIoN. ~. -. JuiN 0l. 1910.
The silver dollars. so longcd for an
sought for. are already getting to be al
elephant. There are now ri !ht million
IN the vaults and tie minis are stil
turning them out daily by thous .nds
Secretary sherman has offered to eXchang,
them for grernbacks and twenty respond
ing banks have relieved him of three OF
four hundred thousand of his dollar pieces
bat that is only a drop from the buckettu
lying in tie way. There is serious talk OF
sending geld and silver through tile mail,
as so much others ull is sent in these days
and Mr.. Sherman lately said he believes il
will Don be feasible and safe to send a
$1,000 by mail. Should this come TO pass.
new systems of clerkslips must needs be
arranged: but ii is scarcely probable, since
such a method will fill mail cars to over
flowing with four-pounh packages of gold
and silver. That such Il thing should be
proposed at al, however. augurs well for
long wished for reduction in cXpresSage.
The gold coin is accommodating on the Pa
cilic coast so fast (the Government now
holds S7.030.00o there that a speedy de-
cision relative 10 IFS transportation to the
Last is imperative, and the Post Office De-
par,Mcnt is now completing arrangements
fer the accomplishment Of that end. The
Treasury Department has Il number of iron
boxes. each OF which will hold $50, 900, and
these boxes are to he forwarded to San
Francisco for the transportation of the |
al ,,ns1
panies by the Treasury for the transporta-
ton of Government funds amounts to !
$500, 900 year, AMI should the decision be |
made to use the mails for tie purpose it |
would not be without determined OPPOSE
ton from express companies and also from
the railroads. The railroad companies are
already protesting against carrying specie
as thild-cl:sS matter on the ground that il
imposes upon them add tional risk and re-
sponsiblity.
Washington is plUIning herself with vast
satisfaction. Washington feels highly re-
spectacle. We have had strike. not en-
nctly Il strike. either, but IA riot-a laborer's
row" \ man having contracted to eX-
cavate tor the building of the foundation
Tor the new building for the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing, hired workmen at ,
IS cents and 81 per day. This was object a,
ed to bya throng of indolent persons WHO ,
think they represent the workingmen here. /
but many of whom. in reality, make :
business OF loaiing and would rot work if
hey had ever SO good an opportunity. !,
They posted notices on the ground where
the work was to commence to the effect :,
HAT any one working for less than $l.j0 :
would be stoned or Slot to death, and :,
When a dozen men commenced work Il
'rowd gathered and began stoning them ),
md taking shoyels and picks from their =
lands. TO make a long story short, n
hundred mounted police had to stand !;
tlard all day and protect the men at their h
york. and were actually Obliged to fire a
olley into tie crowd to scatter the commit
lists and use their climbs pretty freely. No "
ne was killed though several were dis r.
hlcd forth time, two policemen included. y,
he city authorities prohibited the holding 81
the usual street-corner meeting by the :.
communists that e'ening, but it convene -
Notwithstanding and the leader. one Isaac "'
ohen, WIS arrested. 4 grand meeting
nj been appointed for last evening at ~
hich Dennis kcarney, the California lead =, &c
of the whole party, was to preside, but -
lat meeting was also forbidden by the n
~ authorities, and this mornings returns AZ.
1t having appeared at this writing. we a.
e unable to say how the matter came out. ,'c
he force at the Treasury is thought to be III
aiming tor the purpose Of being ready to ~
sist any raid that may possibly made -.
.ainst it, though there is no serious ap- :"
ehensiOn of any disturbance further than ''i'
IS occurred. VI
ADAMS