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

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The subscrip-
tons 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 artif 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 Tor s., 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
meEt expects to buy at least $4,000 a
week for some time, and to extend its pur-
chases to all gold of the Black Hills coun-
try. The treasury department will pay
miuers the full value of their gold, charg
ing only the cost of assayiDg and sending it
to Philadelphia to he coined at the trans
I 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
D and cabinet are engaged now almost every
I day In Joint 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
southern policy, and will discuss in extensc
E the frauds and intimidatiops practiced il
= the south at the recent elections. Its tone
h and the announcement eff the president
# opinion and intentions in this regard vii
be very gratifying to the radical republi
can element OF the country, who will find
him in full sympathy with themselves
II The message will be otherwise import
Is ant, as will be the report of secretary
:, Sherman in its treatment of the fnancia
y question, and the methods of bringing
y about the resumption of specie payments
as provided by law, on the first of Jan
uary next, and the maintenance Of tnt
commercial prosperity which both tht
- president and secretary Sherman believ'
to have begun. The use of silver none.
will be discussed at length, ant
Secretary Sherman will suggest
p method for maintaining the value of gold
r silver and the paper currency of the gov
a ernment at par. The president will dea
" at length, too, with the fisheries awaT'
which will receive most OF the attention 0
q the secretary of state 10 his annual report
q. The Secretary of War will ask congress t
reimburse the army for supplies furnish
,e ed the yellow fever sufferers. which az
ID gregate $4,000,
a District Attorney Leonard. who cam
to Washington in the early part of tn
" week to consult with the president an
of Attorney General with reference to tn
tv punishment of the perpetrators of electio
h frauds in Louisiana and the bulld9Zers c
Re that state, returned to Louisiana to-da
n armed with the explicit instructions. whic
h. were supplemented aud emphasized b
70 frequent conferences with the president
of and he will at once proceed to secure tn
arrest and indictment, so lar as lies 10 hi
power, ut the persons mho committed th
crime of political persecution aud intid
midatiou. or who engaged. as is reporte
in New Orleans, and elsewhere 10 th
state, in other frauds. The district alto
d, ney is instructed to employ sufficient al
q, sistanee to secure evidence and prosecute
#, of the cases. and is to furnish such prt
ee lection to witness that they shall not b
We excused from giving testimony on accour
a. of fear. District Attorney Leonard III
nQ derstauds that both the President and A
~ torney General Devens are very much
Is earnest about this matter, and says TIL
I'D bis instructions could not BE- made no
sci positive and emphatic. The Presidei
ell expects Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, vi
ID has made great professions Of a desire