Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-12-08
srOm the Capital.

SECRETARY FoLGER will recommend tn,
rapic reduction of the bonded debt by US
ing he treasury reserve above 40 per GEM
in the purchase of continue and pei
cents.
MALONE held quiet conference with
lumber of Virginia democrats at Wash
ington, and insisted on theiI aiding t.
make Riddleberger serSeant- alarms of tn,
senate.
BROOKS, chief of the secret service of The
treasury. is to be decapitated, aud Chic
Clerk Powers has been removed. The
statement that Tom Murphy was to re
ceived an appointment is now denied.
THE mother of Mrs. Christiancv testi-
fed that the senator and his sons were
drunk during the entire time nf her visit
10 Lansing, and that fighting between
them was daily occurrence.
SPEAKER RANDALL states that a 8 per
cent. reminding bill will soon be Introduce
in the house, its chef feature being a pro-
vision to release $l00,000,000 of the re-
sumption fund In tn e treasury.
In regard TO internal revenue taxes,
Commissioner Raum recommends that
they be chiefly confined to distilled spirits,
malt liquors, and tobacco and it's products,
in case the government sees fit to allow any
reduction.
) REPORTS from Philadelphia confirm the
impression that B. III. Brewster is the
coming encouragement. The selection
places President Arthur Enthusiastically in
favor Of prosecuting the starr ring
sters.
IT is said that the president contemplatee
sending his message to congress in manu-
script form, in order to prevent all posi-
bility of its being stolen by unscrupulous
newspaper correspondents and published
in advance of its delivery.
GUITEAU was allowed to monopolze the
national entertainment at Washington by
characteristic comments on the One ida
community, details of mis- adventures in
jail, and recital OF his attempt to secure
control of Chicago daily by promising to
make his hacker governor of Illinois.
The directo Of the mint reports the
gold coinage of the year at 1888, S54
Since the RECOMMENDATION Of silver the
coinage of standard pieces has been 800
672, 705. of which amount $32, 026 327 are
IN circulation.
A. X. Jingle, supervising special agent
of the treasury department, reports that
there are twenty-five ports of entry at
which not dollar of duties has been col
ieoted for year past, and in thirty-tw o
districts the receipts have not oqualed the
expenses.
ABOUT seventy members of conqress
have arrived in Washington. Mr.. Kaa-
sons canvass for the speaker-ship has been
placed in charge of x,Representative
Sapp, of Iowa. The only candidates for
the clerkChip of the houee are Mcpherson
and Rainey Colonel Hooker, OF Vermont,
is the leading aspirant for sergeant-at-
arms.
In the Guiteau trial the day was de-
voted to rigid cross-examination of the
prisoner by Judge Porter. Both sides are
nearly ready 20 call in the medical ex-
perts on the question of insanity. The
assassin again invites his friends to send
him money for his defense.
SECRETARY HUNT, in his annual report,
calls the attention of cor gress to the neg
lected condition of the navy, and says I'M
less some action be had in its behalf, it
must coon dwindle to insignifcance. He
devotes considerable space to the consider
alton of reports of bures officers, and
generally endorses the recommendations
submitted. Secretary Hunt estimates that
800, 013,7l6 will be needed to defray the
expenses of the department for the fiscal
year ending June 50. 1883.
GUIrEAU ran the criminal court at Wash
ington very much to suit himself, the only
exception being that Judge Cox was he
role enough 10 prevent him from again
slandering his divorced wive. A dense
crowd of spectators was matter of course.
The assassin stated that on the Wednesday
following Conkling's resignation it struck
him that if Garfield were out of the way
Ill would go well; in fortnight it had
become fixed resolve, and he had never
since doubted that he was inspired to the
act