Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-31

ing-currency notes. ........ ....... 321, ,OOS so
-Gold notes.. Observation-Disclosures. l. 452 $50
Internal revenue receipts to-day. 363 III
Custom receipts ................ AS. $50
Receipts of national bank notes for
week ending to-day. compared with
corresponding week last year-IS7G. 3, 962 900
0loio. .....:...... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2,C37 900
hecelpts to-day. .........-... .-..... AL, 0O0
THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
A proposition having been made by
parties in South Carolina, charged with
violation of laws III regard to the exer-
else of the elective franchise, the fol-
lowing dispatch was to-day sent to
Charleston by Atty Gen. Devens:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 26, 1873.
TO L; Q. Northrop, IS. 4HorneH Charleston
L want no tratficking or guarantees, but judicial
investigation of the outrages alleged to have been
committed upon unoffendIng people in the exer-
else OF their rights citizens of the United
States.
(Signed) CHAS. DEVENS.
Attornel General.
BIDS FOR BULLION.
Bids for the contract to supply 4OO.-
600 ounces of silver bullion to the gov
ernment, Ill lots Of not less than 10000,
were opened Oct. Goth, and are now in
the hands OF the commission appointed
by the secretary of the treasury to award
the contract. 1t is stated at the treasury,
however, that the bids were very favor
able to the government; there were less
than % received, about half dozen
being from New York firms and the bal
ance from San Francisco. The govern
ment succeeded in securing enough to
meet its present demands, although the
whole 100000 ounces advertised for
were not pul chased. The bids which
were accepted ranged from I to II per
ounce below London quotations of to-
day OF 49& d. per ounce. A clause in
the invitation of the secretary for bids
requires the sellers to complete their
deliveries within ten days, the object of
this being to keep out foreign bidders
who cannot deliver silver within that
time. Ali bids at and above the London
rate were rejected. Those below it
only being accepted.
THE BALANCE.
The coin balance in the treasury at
the close of business Oct %, 1928, i65,-
600; currency balance, $12,377, 900, in
Guiding $10,0 100000 of fractional curren-
cy fund.
IOL1GAA1 IN IHE COURIS.
A Washington telegram of Oct. 25th
says: The supreme court, according
to the ereasslgnment of its calendar, will,
next month, hear arguments involving
the constitutlOnality of all laws hereto
fore made bearing on the question of
pOlygamy in Utah. The decision will
involve the legality of all laws, national,
state or territorial, to crush out the Nor
mon mode of life.
LAST YEARS IMMIGRATION.
Says a Washington dispatch of Oct.
25th: Last year 138, ,469 immigrants ar
rived in the United States. Germany
sent the most, 29,313; Canada came
next with 1929; England sent Is, ,4O5;
Ireland, 1882; China, 1892; Sweden,
$3.50: Norway, 4,759; Hungary, 4, 4,504;
France, 4,159; Italy, 4,131; Scotland,
1902; far-off Iceland sent 1O8 OF the
total 1,510 were professional men and
women. OF these 81 were actors; 80
were artists; II were authors; 319 were
clergymen; l3 were editors; one gave
his business as that of an inventor;
| one said he was a statesman" 26
were lawyers; 81 were doctors; 396
were musicians. There were 1852
skilled mechanics, 26, 500 Iaborers; A.
824 were farmers; 80 auctioneers; "A
bankers; % bar-keepers; 26 said they
were capitalists" and had no business;
one said he was gentleman" 20
were chimney sweeps; one was a mag
ician, and there were 10 sisters of
charity.
THE POST OFFICE EXPENSES.
A special of Oct 25th says: The off
cial estimates required for the postal
service for the next fiscal year aggre-
gate $50, ,551 800. The estimated postal
revenues will fall short supplying this
sum by S5,907 ,S76. The amount ap-
propriated for the current fiscal year
is $50, ,256, ,373, ofwhich s., ,222, ,274 comes
from the general treasury. 1t is esti-
mated, therefore, that 81 ,685, ,631 more
than this years appropriation from the
treasury will be required for the next
fiscal year.
\ REMARKABLE DECISION.
Says a Washington telegram of the
9th inst. that Attorney General Devens
has overruled a former opinion from the
department Of justice to the effect that
national banks, in making up capital
subject to duty, may be permitted to
deduct United State bonds at their face
value, and now decides that they may
deduct the amount invested in such
bonds not only their face value but
premium added. 1t is said by some of
the treasury officials that these decisions
may reopen some fifty thousand assess
ments made by the treasury since the
passage of the national bank act, and
considerable money will be required to
refund erroneous duties collected from
banks under the previous rulings.
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