The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-02-18
pEMocnArs N CAUCUS

Immediately alter the adjournment OF
the House q Democratic CAUCUS was held
and the present system OF Government
printing considered. Mr.. Rice offered a
resolution providing that the public print
ing be given out by contract blythe Clerk
Of the House, that officer to give bonds
sufficient to insure,a proper discharge OF
his dHty. A subsequent resolution offered
by Mr.. Willis, Of New York, was adopted.
It sets forth that rs the office OF public
printer wasbeing conducted in ai extrava-
CANT and unsatisfactory manner it should
he abolished and arrangements be made
for giving out the pubic printing by con-
tract on properly guarded conditions; that
a committee be appointed to report on the
subject to an adjourned caucus on Thurs
day next.
EI6HTY.NISTH CALL FOR FIvE.TwENTIRs.
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the eighty-ninth call for redemption OF
tive.twenty bonds OF 1895. Consols Of
1863 amounting to $4,000, 900, principal
and interest to be paid on and alter May
IL next, wheninterest ceases. Following
lisa description tho bonds: -'-'---------
Coupon. bonds dated July l., 1867
|, $50 No. 81, ,00ltto No. 90, 900 Both fnclus-
i've; 500 No. 1901 10 No. 100000 do.
No. 44,00leto No. $4,000 do. Total cou-
pons, Sl0, 100000
Registered bonds redeemnble at pleasure
OF the United 'stStes after. July !, 1872
$50 No. S,l7l to No. 1920 both inclus-
i've; 500 No. 1901 10 No. 2S,500 do; $500
No. 1l,30l to No. ll,450 do; $1,000 No.
IS, ,4Ol to No. A, 200 do; 5000 No. l3,4Ol
to No. II, 1000. do; $4,000 No., q, ,00l TO No.
25, 800 do. Total registered bonds, $40.
100000. aglr, .5g'y
Aggregate, s9O,0Oo,0Co,
Is 4.,. ...,,, PENSION ARREARS.
WASHINGTON, February 49, General
Ewing will tomorrow offer IN the House,
under motion to suspend the rules, a'bill
to,diEcct the Secretary pfthes Treasury to
issue forty million dollars In legal tenders,
aud use the salneito meet the demand on
the Treasury under the arrears OF the Pen
sion Bill. General Ewing thinks 1t is bet.
ter 10 increase tho non.intercSt bearing
debt OF the Government rather than the
interest. bearing debt. eat
The Committee on Appropriations has
prepared a bill to provide for the payment
Of arrears OF pensions, and will offer 1t to-
morrow in the House. 1t apprOpriates
s., 500 900 for the current year ending with
june and $25, ,01Q 0ol for the next fiscal
year. = NJ RN
The Committee on Ways and Means Is
also at work to provide means Of raising
the money, to;meet this a0rdinary ap.
ptoptiati6n. Mr.. Kelly has Submitted
two propositions: first, thatthe Secretary
ofthe Treasury isSne sufficient legal tender
notes TO meet the expenditure; or, second,
thatthe coinage OF the standard silver dol
lar be increased by two millions during
the fiscal year, twenty-five millions dur.
Iing the next fiscal year, and thereafter IL
such an amount rs will he necessary 10
pay the arrears OF pensions. Nj. Kelly Is
Himself urgently intayor o. the latter plan,
as it ill,nOt lncreaee either the bonded
or the non.interest bearing debt OF tic
Government, aud will put this amount oi
silver money into actual circulation,
= TOBACCO TAX REDUCTION MEASURE.
/ The bill revising The taternal Revenue
Laws and reducing the tax on tobacco hal
been made the special order for, totmor
row Id the Senate, and has sufficien
Hstrenrtt 10 keep itself ahead Of the appfo
priationbillS. Fhe eadVocates OF the totac
60 tax reduction claim that .th0y hay,
torty.two votes in the Senate, and thci
claims are doubtless well founded. Neve
hDstheresbeetl q more powerful and ELI
siept lobby in Washington than tha
which has represented the tobacco manu-
4 fsctprers here this winter, qNa willie tho!
have worked with zeal and persistence, the!