Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-05-17
WASHINGTON.


ported from the Senate Appropriation Com
mittee appropriates S33,996,773. The reve-
nues of the department are expected to pro-
vide all of this but S4,962,274. The total ap-
preparation is $109,770 less than the amount
appropriated for the current fiscal year.
The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered
legal proceedings instituted against the own
ers of the steamer Metropolis.
Secretary Sherman on the 7th sent to the
House a draft of bill to prevent frauds on
the customs.
On the 7th Manuel de Zamacona presented
his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico to the
President.
The Judiciary Committee of the House has
agreed to report Buffers bill to repeal the
Tenure-of- Office act.
The House Banking and Currency Commit
tee on tSc 9th authorized its Chairman to re-
port bill directing the Secretary of the
Treasury to reissue in denominations of one
and two dollars L. S. notes, to the sum OF
$40, 900, 900, held in reserve in the Treasury
for the redemption of fractional currency not
vet redeemed, and requiring that the same
shall be paid out on demand for the current
expenses of the Government. The bill also
provides that fractional currency notes not
DESTROYED shall be redeemed from coin or
notes in the Treasury, and sums accruing
from this reissue and not needed to meet ap-
preparations shall be employed in paying and
canceling bonds subject to call and bearing
the highest rate of interest.
The President has nominated George A.
Sheridan, of Louisiana, to be Recorder OF
Deeds in the District of Columbia.
There are thousands of negroes in Washing
ton out of employment, but the agent OF
Collins & Co. has great difficulty in getting
$50 to go to Brazil to work on the railroad
there.
Bret Harte is TO be given the Commercial
Agency at Credfeldt, Washington telegram
says. He was a candidate for the Chinese
mission.
Members of the House Committee on Judi
ciary have expressed themselves in opposition
to reporting a resolution for investigation
of the alleged Florida Presidential election
frauds, as desired by those who have initiated
proceedings 10 that end.
| The Joint Democratic Caucus Committed
| have decided that the House Judiciary Com
mittee shall present the resolution for an in
vestigation of the alleged Florida Presidential
frauds.
New counterfeit 800 notes on the Second
National Bank of Wilkesbarre, Pa, and thu
National Revere Bank of Boston were re
ported on the 10TH
The Committee on Expenditures in thu
Navy Department submitted on the lOtl
majority and minority reports to the House
The former says the department has mad
open purchases of materials vastly in exces
of its means, disregarding both the letter an
spirit of the law. The report recommend
the adoption of a resolution instructing Sec
retary Thompson to cancel contracts for tn
completion of the iron-clads Monadnock, Tel
ror, Puritan, and Amphridite and for the cor
struction of boilers, together amounting
the sum of $4,000, ,263 The minority repol
says the testimony is uniform that the Go'
ernment gets better articles at cheaper rat(
by open purchases than by advertising.
Legal tenders-including fractional curreI
cy-outstanding on the 18th, 1868, ass, ,99
National Bank circulation outstanding-cu
rency notes, $922, ,036, ,766, gold notes, s., ,425
Y 100.
, The Postmaster-General states that fro
! 1860 to the present time the revenues OF II
department have increased at a ratio OF 2
4, per cent, while the expenditures have i
I creased at a ratio of 125 per cent. The exec
of expenditures over revenues has decrease
= from IA TO 81 per cent. The service is'no
/ growing at rate never before known, esp
n cially in the South and West, owing to emigr
, tion.
!, Prof. Joseph Henry, of the Smithsonian /
a stitute, died on the 18th.
/ The House Committee on Elections h
+ ordered majority and minority reports in I
South Carolina contested-election case
2 Richardson Dem.) against Ranney (Rep)
r the former favoring new election and Il
# minority declaring that Ranney is entitled
J. | the seat