The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-18
WASHINGTON,

WASHINGTON, Nov. l6.-The subscrip- !
tions to the per cent loan to-day amount |
ed to $1.S75,O00.
Commissioner Raum has revoked the
regulations concerning the gauging and
proving of spirits while at an artifi 3ially
high temperature Also the ruling which
forbids heating of cistern rooms by artif-
cial means.
Secretary Evarts has received from COM
missioner general Mccormick and forwar
ded to Louisiana a draft ior $2,450, the
proceeds of concert given at the Paris
Exposition, Oct. Is, in aid of the yellow
fever sufferers.
Secretary Schurz left this evening for
ST. Louis.
Gov. Fremont, of Arizona, in his report
to the secretary Of the interior, expressed
the opinion that the control of Indians
there should be transferred to the mill
tary.
The treasury department has begun the
purchase of gold bullion at Denver, Col,
purchasing directly from the miners, and
paying them in greenbacks. The depart
mert expects to buy at least $4,000
week for some time, and to extend its pur
chases to all gold of the Black Hills coun-
try. The treasury department will pay
rniuers the full value Of their gold, charg-
ing only the cost of assayiDg and sending it
to Philadelphia to he coined at the trans
portation rate of ffty-eight cents per
thousand, or as third-class mail matter.
The treasury will pay for whatever silver
may be found with gold when the value is
{ over fifty cents in the amount offered for
{ sale.
WASHINGTON, Nov. l6-The president
and cabinet are engaged now almost every
day in lJint conference over the recon-
mendatIons that shall be made to congress
in the various department reports and the
presidents message. The message will
: contain full history of the president s
southern policy, and will discuss in extenso
2 the frauds and intimidatops practiced in
= the south at the recent elections. Its tone
h and the announcement eff the president S
{ opinion and intentions in this regard will
be very gratifying to the radical republi
can element of the country, who will find
him in full sympathy with themselves
+ The message will be otherwise import.
l. ant, as will be the report of secretary
:, Sherman in its treatment of the fnancia
} question, and the methods of bringing
~ about the resumption of specie payments
as provided by law, on the first of Jan
uary next, and the maintenance Of tne
commercial prosperity which both tht
- president and secretary Sherman believe
to have begun. The use of silver moDel
will be discussed at length, an(
Secretary Sherman will suggest 1
- method for maintaining the value of gold
r. silver and the paper currency of the gov
a ernment at par. The president will dea
W at length, too, with the fisheries aware
= which will receive most of the attention o
9 the secretary of state in his annual report
=. The Secretary of War will ask congress t
reimburse the army for supplies furnish
,e ed the yellow fever sufferers, which ag
ID gregate $4,000,
n District Attorney Leonard, who cam
to Washington in the early part of tn
" week to consult with the president ant
of Attorney General with refe erence to tn
ty punishment of the perpetrators of electio
h frauds in Louisiana and the bulld9zers G
,e that state, returned to Louisiana to-da,
n armed with the explicit Instructions. whic
h. were supplemented and emphasized b
Ia frequent conferences with the president
of and he will at once proceed to secure tn
arrest and Indictment so far as lies ia hi
power, of the persons whO committed th
crime of political persecution aud inlid
midation, or who engaged. as is reporte
in New Orleans, and elsewhere In th
state, in other frauds. The district attol
d, ney is instructed to employ sufficient al
q, sistanee to secure evidence and prosecute
It, of the cases. and is to furnish such pre-
ee lection to witness that they shall not b
We excused from giving testimony on accour
a. of fears District Attorney Leonard UT
nQ derstands that both the President and A
y torney General Devens are very much
Is earnest about this matter, and says thi
I'D his instructions could not bs made mol
sel positive and emphatic. The PresideI
ell expects Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, WI
b. has made great professions Of desire