New-York tribune., 1879-05-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

WASHINGTON. May 20, 1873.
The subscriptions the four per cent refdng GER
tifcates since Fridays repOrt have amounted TO
50 245, eco. Total TO date, $24,147,15O.
Controller Knox has determined not to make public
the report of Examiner Elmer Washburn in the German
National Bank matter. The probability IS, however,
that the report will the light through the medium OF
Congress sIonal investigation next Winter, IL is not
pub shed before that 1t Is said thatthe report concts
the manager OF the bank OF great many Irregularities
The House Committee on Foreign Affairs hes In
struced Representative Morton, Of NewYork. TO re-
mort TO the House Joint resolution authorizing the az.
poiptment OF commission TO represent the United
States at the International ExpotiOns to be held IN
sydney and Melbourne, Australia in 1879 and 1880,
respectively. The measure Will appropriate $4,000
for the purpose OF e1ecting such representation at
either or both expositons.
The House Committee on Manufactures agreed to-
day to report TO the House for printing and recon
initial bill prepared by Representative Wise, OF Penn
sylvana to provide for the welfare OF the people by
preventing the aduterauon OF articles OF fOod ana
drink. IL imposes fine and tmprsonment upon per.
manufacturing selling or barterng any article OF
Injurious to the health OF persons parakng thereof 1t
authorizes the inspection and analysis OF samples.
The Senate Committee on Commerce authorized their
chairman, General Gordon, has to report back with
unanimous recommendation for passage the bill In
troduced last March by Senator Mcpherson anendatoy
of the existing laws relative to the transportation Of
animals The bill is understood TO be compromise pc
the railroad companies stock shippers ana the
humane societies OF the country, nearly al OF whom
have assened terms aud agreed To conform 10 It's
provisions. The bin prohibits the continuous con-
fnement OF animals while in transit beyond period or
tweniyeigh hours unless they daily gwen proper
food and water the cars, in which event they may be
kept III confinement Sixty hours.
In letter to the Editor Of TheNGh0nGl Ve,r, General
f. T. Spinner says he resigned United States Treas
urer 1873 the then Secretary OF the Treasury
inerfered with the employees Of his Office, and sup
pressed that part OF his annual report in which lie
omlneuded the issue OF a currency convertible into
bond bearing low rate of interest the latter 10 be re-
convertible currency. He says paper currency
based upon specie fails about every twenty years.
suspension of specie payments could not be Drought
about IL the currency inercOnyertibe, as such eur
reucy would all times adjust itself TO the exact bus
ness Of the country.
The rush for refundnR certificates amounts to a
MANIA and the scene at the Treasury Department Is
ptiful each morning when the doors opened. Old
women and young girls black and white, some in the
hablimens Of poycry, and others apparently in COM
Portable circumstances, struggle and fight and cry and
plead for places in the line. Yesterday additional
police force called for 10 preserve order. During
the day they drove out OF the building number Of le
lows practice to secure places IN The line
and sell them when they got near the window The re-
naming certificates will be exhausted by Thursday
They nearly all printed. and the extra force em
pOyed the purpose the Bureau OF Printing ana
Engraving has been discontinued.