Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-08
WAsHINGTON.


The Finance Committee OF the Senate has
commenced the consideration Of the House
bill TO repeal the Specie-Resumption act.
In the Cabinet, on the 26th the trials at New
Orleans were discussed and very decided opin-
ions were expressed TO the effect that Gov.
Nichols should interfere in favor of Anderson.
The Senate of the Order Of American
Union, the secret anti-sectarian political socie-
ty, was in session at Washington on the 25th
and Goth. Twenty-three States we're repre-
sented Officers of the order reported 1t rapid
ly growing all over the country. The perma-
nent headquarters of the order will hereafter
be at Washington.
The Banking and Currency Committee Of
the House will recommend the insertion In
the bill for the substitution Of Treasury notes
for National Bank notes of the provision that
one-third of any one payment Of customs du-
ties may be paid in Treasury notes, the remain
der to be paid in gold or new silver dollars.
These Treasury notes are also to be made
interchangeable with per cent. bonds at par.
The Treasury Department will begin with
out delay the administration OF the new Silver
law. The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared form of the silver certificate and ap-
proved device for the new dollar.
The internal revenue receipts last month
showed decrease of 81, ,4S5, 227 as compared
with February, 1877.
The President received information several
weeks ago that colored men, citizens of
Florida, had been kidnapped, transported across
the gulf to Cuba, and there sold in slavery.
Representative Leonard, OF Louisiana, has
been sent to Cuba to inquire into the matter.
The public debt decreased in February 3d.,
250,2 Cash in the Treasury on the lst-
currency 80, 799, 1856 special fund for the re-
demption of fractional currency $l00O0,0OO,
special deposit of legal-tenders for the redemp-
tion of certificates of deposit $2S, $50, 900; coin
$13S, ,3lS, ,156-including coin certificates $4S,-
$4,000. Total debt, 81, 19l, 900, 1884. Legal-ten
ders outstanding, S34S, S,6s0,476.
The Secretary of the Treasury will put the
mints at work promptly and industriously.
By the middle Of April 1t is thought the coin
age Of the silver dollar will be at the rate of
81, 10000 per month. The mints are all in
excellent condition.
The Commissioner of the General Land-Of-
fee on the LIST gave ffty-three employees of that
bureau the option Of taking a leave OF absence
without pay or being discharged. A lack of
appropriation to pay the force has made this
course necessary, he says.
A Washington special says there is the very
highest authority for the assertion that no
silver dollars will be used in the payment of
interest on the public debt during the present
Administration.
1t was rumcred at Washington on the Sd
that Judge Leonard's mission was really from
the President to Gov. Nichols, asking the
pardon of Anderson and the stoppage Of the
Returning Board prosecutions.
National Bank circulation outstanding on
the ID, $3.50, ,4S6, ,233.
On the ID Lieut.. Turner testified before the
House Committee on Military Affairs that the
raids upon American soil were made solely by
Indians, and that Mexican citizens were not
engaged in depredations on the border.
The House Committee on the Pacific Rail
road will recommend the passage of the Texas
Pacific Railroad bill.
Congress, it is believed, will not adjourn be
fore August.
There had been presented in the House and
Senate up to the ID 400 bills and over 800
resolutions.
The Senate on the 4th confirmed Bayard
Taylor as Minister to Germany; j. Baker,
Minister to Venezuela; w. c. Goodloe, Min
lister to Belgium.
The exports of merchandise during January
last exceeded the imports by SS3, ,9O7, and
from July 1, 1877, to Feb. 1, 1873, $135, ,6O9 1877
The centennial Of Robert Emmet's birth
was celebrated in all the large cities on the
4th.
The President on the 4th nominated Albert
G. Porter, of Indianapolis, to be First Comp
troller of the Treasury.