Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-08-01

THE PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT issued to-day
shows an Increase of debt for the month of
s6,Os6, ,344.12 with the following balances In the
the Treasury:
Gold certificates. SIS, ,240, 10000
Cash in the Treasury 2s2, ,9O5, ,273 O6
ceItlaestes Of deposit outstanding %, $50. 10000
Refunding cert1hcate5. ........... 6,O5s, $4,000
Legal tenders outstanding 346, ,6S1 ,Ol6OO
Fractional currency outstanding. Is, ,S23 %
The increase In the debt is due to the payment
notes held for redemption OF fractional cur
rency under the act of June 2lst, 1919.
MATERIAL FOR THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT,
Col. Casey and Capt. G.. w. Davis yesterday
opened bids for furnishing at the site Of the
Washington Monument, in this city, rough
granite required for that work. The following
were the bidders and the prices per cubic foot
Bodwell Granite Company, Rockland, Me-, AZ
cents, lowest bidders); Granite Company, East
Blue HUI, Me-, IS cents; Joseph d. West, Frank
lin, Me-, 52h cents; Davis Tillson, Rockland,
Me-, 81 S5-10O cents; Gill & Mcmahon, Baltimore,
Md, 53 cents; Diamond Hill Granite Company,
Philadelphia, Pa, 53N cents, and Old Dominion
Granite Company, Chesterfield, Pa, so cents.
The contract for furnishing aud setting in place
wrought and cast iron work required at the
Monument has been awarded to the Phoenix
Iron Company, 41O Walnut street, Philadelphia,
Pa. Their bid, the lowest, was Si6.Os9s7.
IT is STATED In behalf of Leighton Finley. the
young South Carolinian appointed to second
lieutenantcy In the army, charged with being
a nebel,) that he was but eight years old when
the war broke out and "must have been q very
inefficient rebel"
REPREsENTATIvE BuTTERwoR1H TEsr1FIEs IN
HIS OWN BEHALF.-At the session of the Con-
greSS1Onal investigating committee In Cincin-
natl yesterday, Mr.. Butterworth testified as fol-
lows: The Campaign committee did not give me
afyyA1
sources $500; kept no bank account; told my
friends that could not AFFORD to accept nom
nation for Congress; they replied that they
Woud prRsh the ne funds received
sent TO me, not to the committee; received
81 600 from this neighborhood; had determined
to run the campaign myself; never received one
cent from Wash1DgtOn; never heard that s., 900
was sent from Washington; called on Eugene
Hale when he was here expecting to receive
aid, but did not get cent; II he gave money
ceived money from Judge Gorham; could have
spent much more than s., 500 for legitimate cam
pa1gn expenses; was called upon to contribute
had half a bushel OF tickets to festivals and
DallS have no list OF persons employed; never
kept list OF the foremen of shops; did not give
the foreman OF the Chamberlain foundry $780,
agreed to give Eph Holland $3.50 II he would un-
dertake to stop the repeating or stuffiug in the
4th ward; did not meet him again until after
the election, when l paid him three $50 bills;
Eel or myself paid 1t afterwards at the Gibson
House; never heard OF $3.50 being given to HOl-
land or Duffy; never took any steps TO send Hol-
land to prison or to prevent his going there.
POLITICAL NOTES.-The greenbackers of the
5th district OF Iowa have Nominated w. c. Cal
n9ua for Ss e,ors
to vote for school committees. 49,. Ex-senator
Sargent and Congressman Page are speaking In
behalf OF the republican Candidates in Cali
fornia -: The democratic congressional con-
mated d. E. j. Boardman, Of Marshalltown, for
Congress. go. The greenbackers held meet
ing IN Bangor, Maine, yesterday. Congressman
by Alexander Troupe, solon Chase, Noses Hull
and others. -. The democrats OF Wisconsin
have put OF the meeting of their state conven-
ton until the 9Th OF September, as it Is asserted
Sf the an aance with
cratic state central committee meets at Provl-
dence today, to make arrangements for receiv.
Ing the Wallace congressional committee, who
In the Providence custom house. The Commit
tee Will arrive August 10. .... The Ohio repub-
ncan state executive committee have received
challenge from the greenback committee ask
joint debates with either Ex-Governor Charles
Anderson, w. n. Cory or Don Platt The chal-
leDge has been accepted, and meetings will
hereafter be arranged at prominent points.
committee held regular meeting last night
and una nimOusly resolved that in the approach
Ing state campaign they will support for Office
none but undoubted greenbackers. The Fall
mittee appointed to arrange for collections for
the strikers. An incident of the labor party
mass meeting at Wilkesbarre, Pa, Wednesday
night, was M the heu, calling Of Mayor PowderIy
was only prevented from assuming saDguinary
character Dy the vigilance OF the police.