Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-27
WASHINGTON.
The Official Record of tho Be-
turn Of General Garfeld's
Back Pay.
The National Board of Health
Preparing to Battle With
Plaques of Summer.
Very Dangerous Counterfeit
500 Bills, Superior to the
Genuine, in Circulation.
Another Important Decision
by the Attorney General,
Affecting the Pacific
Railroads.

Garheld's Back Pay.
Special dispatch to The Bee.
WASHINGTON, June q, l q. NJ
The following letter explains itself:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, =
WASHINGTON, June %.
To Il. D. Duse,, ESQ, Des Moines, la:
SIR-In reply TO your letter of the
18th Just received. asking to be in
formed on what date Hon. Jas. A.
Garfield paid into the treasury his
back-psy and how the treasury books
show this transaction, I have to in
form you, it appears from records of
of this Office, that the sum of S4548 was
deposited to thecredit of the treasurer
of the United States in the name of
Jas. A. Garfield, onsccount of rervac-
ton increase of salary Ct the 22nd Of
April, 1873, and that this amount "a
covered into the the treasury by q
miscellaneous covering warrant num-
Der 704, second quarter, 1873, and
connot be Withdrawn except by act of
congress.
Very respectfully, yours
j. K. UPToN,
Assistant Secretary,
QUARANTINE STATIONS.
The frat comptroller of the treasury
has decided that the national board Of
health can use the u~ne1pended bal
ance Of the $100, 900 which was left
over from the appropriation of last
year. The board will spend this
amount in the erection of quarantine
stations and buildings.
A VERY DANGEROUS COUNTERPART
Of national bank notes is in circula-
ton. By means of skeleton plates
the notes of any national bank can
be c~ounterieited. The counterfeit
detected, a 800 bill, is in several re-
spects much better than the genuine,
tho work on which is not as we'll regu-
lst,d. These counterfeits have al
re dy appeared on the National Reve-
re bank Of Boston, Pittsburg Ma.
tional bank, Mechanics National
bank of New Bedford, Mass, Pitts
field National bank and National Ex-
change bank of Baltimore. The
comptroller of the currency will not,
as has been stated, withdraw all the
national bank notes of the deromin-
alton of 500 from circulation. He,
however, gives notice that no person
should receive any notes of this de-
nomination on any of the banks named
above. This will result in the with.
drawal from circulation of all 500
notes or these banks. To call in all
800 national bank notes would inter-
fere very materially with the business
of the country.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
The treasury department publishes
the opinion of Attorney General
Devens in reply to the inquiries of the
quartermaster general in relation to
all compensation due for transporta-
ton eervices rendered for the quarter
termaster's department over the Union
and Central Pacific railroads and those
roads owned, leased and operated by
the Union and Central Pacific roads,
in which the attorney general advises
that all compensation due to the
Northern and Central and Southern
Pacific railroads be withheld. He also
advises the retention of all compensa-
ton for services upon the leased roads
| go that the question can be judicially
decided. He refers to section $500 of
the revised statutes still IN force,
which declares that the secretary of
the treasury is directed to withhold
all payments to any railroad company
and its assigns, on account of freights
or transportation owe their roads Of
any kind to the amount of the pay
ments made by the United States for
interest uptn bonds the United States
issued TO any such company, and
| which shall not have been reimbursed,
together with the FIVE per csntum of
the net earnings due and unapplied as
provided by law.
HOUSING UP REPUBLICANS.
Special Dispatch to TIE LEE.
WASHINGTON, June 28-1a m.-
Senator Matt. Carpenter In converse
ton yesterday on the subject of the
| nominations made at Cincinnati,
stated among other things that he
thought the ticket was very strong
and immensely popular throughout the
north as well as in the south.