Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-22

ST. PAUL, TU
ury in his annual report to the 44th Con
gress, in December, 1876, showed that up to
July 18th, 1876, the literal compliance with
the provisions of said laws from the time
they went into effect, required the application
of $433, 848,215 to the purposes provided for
in said acts, and that 1892, 226 had been
SO applied, being an excess of $225,144,O1O
over the amount required by law to be so
applied up to that date; and
WHEREAS, The present Secretary of the
Treasury in his report to this Congress in
December last, after repeating the state
ments of his predecessor upon that subject,
says that on the same basis the amount of
the sinking fund would have reached $475,-
318,888 on the first of July, 1877, on which
date the reduction of the debt, including ac-
crued interest, less cash in the treasury since
its highest points in 1865, amounted to
1896, 273,34s, or 222,954,459 in excess of
the amount required by lew to be provided
for that fund; therefore belt
Resolged by the Senate, the House of
necessary and inexpedient either to maintain
of providing for the $37,196,045 asked for
by the secretary of the treasury in his esti-
mate for the purpose of providing further
for the sinking fund, and the secretary of
the treasury is hereby directed not to pur-
chase any bonds for the reduction of the
principal of the national debt till further
ordered by Congress, and that the COM
mittees having charge of the subject be and
they are hereby instructed not to provide
for pa yment, during the next fiscal year for
any part of said sum in the adjustment of
taxation required for the maintenance and
support of this grant.
Standard SiIve7. Dollar.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The following is
the financial bill which was introduced by
request in the Senate to-day by Senator
Cameron of Pennsylvania:
A bill authorizing the coinage of the stan
dard silver dollar, and providing that gold
and silver jointly, and not otherwise, shall be
full legal tender.
Be 1t enacted, &C., That there shall be
coined from time to time, at the minis of the
United States, standard silver dollars as pro-
vided for in the act of January II, 1887, and
any owner of silver bullion may deposit the
same at any United States mint, or at the
United States assay Office in the city of New
York, and receive in return thereof the full
commercial value of said bullion in standard
silver dollars; and from and after the passage
of this act said silver dollars and gold coinage
shall jointly be full legal tender, each to
the extent of so per cent, and no more, for
all debts, public and private, except as other
wise provided by law or express contract.
Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsist
ant herewith are hereby repealed.
Venezuelan Claims.
WASHINGTON, Jan. Ex-senator Eaton to-
day introduced bill relative to the Vene-
zuelan mixed commission. It directs the
Secretary of State to abstain from distrib-
uting any of the sums now in his custody,
or which may be hereafter accrued, on &C
count of awards of the commissioners or ar
biters, OF under the convention of 1866, and
recommends a proposal to Venezuela of a
new commission for re-hearing of the
claims which were laid before or passed upon
by said commissioners and arbiters, and also
for an examination of such other interna-
tional claims as may be presented. The bill
also provides for an immediate repeal of the
act OF Feb. rs, 1873, which provided for The
enforcement of the stipulations of said con
vention.
Miscellaneous.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Supreme Court de
cision, No. 159, United States vs.. the Nationa
Bank of Boston; al appeal from the Cour
of Claims.
This is case of defalcation by sub-Treas
urer Hartwell in Boston, in which government
certificates of the United States were taken an,
disposed of to Mellen, Ward & Co., with tn
knowledge of the firm and replaced witt
those of the appellants obtained by fraud
The court remarked that it ought not to re
quire argument or authority to support tn
proposition that where money or property Q
of the nation by means of fraud to which ii
agent was party, such money or propert
cannot be held by the United States agains
the claim of the wronged or injured part,
Affirmed. Justice Swayne delivered til
opinion.
| ANOTHER SUBSIDY SCHEME,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The bill intro
| duced in the House to-day by Gen. Banks
to facilitate commerce with Mexico passe
for subsidy of $4,000 per mile for th
proposed 600 miles extension Of the Calves
from San Antonio to Ell Paso, there to COZ
meet with proposed extension of til
Southern Pacific Railroad of Californi,
of the Texas extension within two years, 1O
more within four years, and the whole With
six years. In case, however, one of th
foi1o 70 ~ %ho
of six years. the other is to have the right
build EDWARDS to the point of junction wit
the same privileges granted the incomplete
portion. The subsidy of $4,000 per mi
is to be paid in cash upon the complete
and equipment of each section of 100 mile
The bill also provides that the governmel
shall make no payments for transportatio
of its troops or property over the propose
railway extension until the amounts thu
earned by the railroad shall equal the tot
amount of the subsidy advanced.
oKLAHAMA TERRITORY.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Col. Adair, del
gate of the Cherokee nation, was before IL
House committee on territories to-day, ar
spoke for more than an hour in oppositio
to the bill establish the territorial govern
ment of Oklahama in the Indian Territor
He argued that the proposition was in Il
interest Of land spectators and in Violate
Of treaties and the decision of the supren
court, and read from the writings of Pres
dents Washington, Madison, johnson al
jackson, and of Calhoun, in support of Il
treaty rights of the Indians.
A Couple of Incent.iary Fires
ST.. Louis, Jan. 21.-An incendiary fire
Carrollton, ILL.,, Saturday, destroyed five bu'
$4,000 in Franklin, Philadelphia; 81, 900