Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-01-12
= WASHINGTON.
FERNANDO WOODS FUNDING BILL.
Report Of the National Board Of Health
Arrival of the Ute Delegation
Superiority Of Ameri-
can Manufacturers.

Health containing an account OF the
operations of the board for the past year
will probobly be transmitted to Con-
gress tomorrow. The work OF collecting
information and advice from the princi-
pal sanitary organizations and sanitari-
ans OF the United States as to the best
plan for the national public health or
ganization, including the subject OF
quarantine, both maritime and inland,
is reported as having been quite sue
ccssiul. After carefully examining
the data thus collected the
board is of opinion that
the conclusions heretofore published OF
the American public health association
at the meeting of that body at Nash
vile, November 1879, may be taken as
fairly representing the opinions OF the
leading sanitarians and the most I'M
portant sanitary organizations OF this
country. IL has been decided by the
board that for the present complete
quarantine establishments are only
needed at Boston, New York. Pensyl-
vania, near the mouth OF the Chesa-
pcake Bay, Charleston, Savannah, near
brunswick, Ga., or Fernandina, near
Shipp Island, Miss, and at some point
on the Texas coast. The total expense
of establishing quarantine stations at
the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. The one
near Brunswick and the one at Ship
Island, which are considered the most
important, are SO estimated at Sl0O,O0O,
and as each of them are for the prOtec-
ton Of several States, il is considered TO
be eminently proper and desirable that
they should be equipped and maln-
tanned by the United States. 1t is the
opinion of the Board that ii, during the
present winter, at ali points where the
lever has prevailed during the past sum-
mer, care be taken TO obtain thorough
ventilation and exposure 10 the cold OF
all houses and inclosed spaces,
and all bedding, clothing,
&C., and II local sanitation
be vigorously and properly carried out
there will he little danger OF epidemic
yellow lever next year from any causes
now existing in the country. Ii Is be-
lieved that an inspection station for
steamboats, should be established on the
Mississippi river at New Orleans, Nicks-
burg, Just below Memphis, and at
Cairo, at which boats should be ex-
amined by competent inspectors, and
certificates rs To the sanitary condition
of the boat given. The cost OF establish
ing these stations is estimated at S35,-
900. The expenditures OF the Board
from the date OF its Organi-
zation to December 81, 1879, were
Sl54, ,OO2. Estimates for defraylng the
future expenses OF the board were sub
mltted as follows From January to
June 80, 1880, S2Si,330; from July /,
1880, 10 June 80, 1881, 500, ,060. Ii is
also advised that an appropriation OF
about 100000 should be made to hold
in reserve for an emergency Of an oc-
currence Of such an epidemic as that Of
1870, and To he used solely for purposes
OF inland quarantine in case OF such
an outbreak.
Fernando Woods Funding Bill.
WASHINGTON, January 1.-THE fol-
lowing is the full text Of the funding
bill which Representative +. Wood will
introduce in the House tomorrow, and
move to have referred To the Committee
on WAYS and Means:
Be It Enacted By he Scndts and HOUSE Of
Representatives of he JHitd States IN Com
gr,s assembled,
That all the existing provisions of the
law authorizing the reiundIng oi the
National debt shall apply To any bonds
OF the United States bearing n higher
rate Of interest than per cent per an
mum, which may hereafter become re-
deemable, and the Secretary Of the
Treasury is hereby authorized in the
process % relunding the National debt,
Ia exchange directly at par bonds of the
United States bearing interest at 81 per
cent per annum, except "a otherwise
provided for in section . Ot this
act, and redcemable at the pleas
ure of the United States, after fifty years
from the date Of their issue, but in
all other respects like those authorized
by the act OF July II, 1870, entitled, "An
act To authorize the reiundingO Ot the Ma
tional debt, and the acts aInendatory
thereto, for any bonds OF the United
States outstanding and uncalled bearing
a higher rate of interest than four per
centum per annum, andin any such ex-
change interest may be allowed on the
bonds so redeemed for period of not
less than one month nor more than
three months; and whenever any of the
bonds are So redeemed bearing interest
al five orsiN per centum per annum, the
Secretary of the Treasury may allow to
holders, in lieu of the interest provided
for above, the difference between the in.
terest on such ponds from the date of
sl. q Iaf att M 10
and the interest on the three and one
half per centum bonds Tor a like period,
proyided that no authority in this act
shall be construed into authority 10 in
crease the public debt
SIC. =. Authority 10 issue bonds To
the amount necessary Ia carry out the
provisions Of this act is hereby granted,
SDc. 3. The said Secretary is hereby
directed To invest the money in the
treasury from time Ia time Gin excess OF
25 per cent. Of the outstanding legal ten
der notes. in the purchase OF maturing
six and five per cent. bonds from the
lowest bidder, after public advertisement,
at the rate OF not less than sl0,OOO,OOO
i'm each month, until the whole Of said
excess over IS per cent. shall be in
vested. PrOrdod, that said five per cent.
aud six per cent bonds can be bought
AZ q price at which they VOL yield not
less than three and one-quarter per cent
interest Tor their unexpired term; but
no more than sl0,0O0,O0O, par value, OF
said maturing bonds shall he purchased
i'm any ohe month, and ali the bonds so
pun,hased shall cease 10 bear interest
and shall be cancelled.
So. 1. The act approved February ~,
1872. authorizing the issue Of certificates
al deposits, is hereby amended 50 as to
continue and limit the amount ot GER
titicates to be used Ia sSO,OO,0oO To oe
outstanding at any one time, and liking
the rate of interest 10 thereon at q OF i
per cent. per annum for one year, after
which the interest shall cease and said
certificates shall be convertible at the
option of the holders when presented
in sums of SO or multiples thereof into
coupon or registered bonds authorized
by this at, and whenever any OF SAID
certificates shall be converted into
bonds. the same shall he cancelled and
DESTROYED. The Secretary OF the Treasury
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