Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-13
WASHINGTON.

TotA without Interest. 1919, 9ol
Total debt ....................... s2Oes, $50, ooe
Total interest. .......... 2l,596,979
Cash In treasury. 222,299,7 59
Debt less cash in treasury s99, ISL, 7s5
Decrease during Decen Der. .......,.. b699 40
Decrease since June 80, 1880. ......... A299O,S5g
Current liabilities
Interest due and unpaid. 22o8,s S3
Debt on which interest has ceased. 49,. u,Ssi,395
Interest thereon. .................. 656,S85
God and silver certif rates. .......... 5224l,OlO
United States notes he'd for redemption
Of certificates OF deposit. 7.0O5,0O
Cash balance available Jan. l, 1Ss1.... lis,SO3,6l5
Total. ;:..........................$ 1899, 7so
Available assets
Cash in treasury. 222, 7s9
Bonds issued TO Pacific railway compan-
les, interest payable In lawful money,
principal outstanding ..............& 64.623.3l
Interest accrued and not yet paid. .... I,93ST O5
Interest paid by United States Il, $50 e6l
Interest repaid by companies
interest repaid Dy transportation OF
= mails 49,. ..:.................. l4,OS2,447
earnings. ..,....................... 655, 1913
Balance of interest paid by the United
otates.-..-........... .............. 81, 2,2l4
Nh. BENTLEY, Commissioner of the
Pensions Bureau, appeals for some improve
ment IN the manner of taking testimony upon
claims OF which there were $4,000 pending
on June 30. The first payments in cases which
viii probably be allowed Will aggregate, he
thinks, $500, 100000 to $3.50, 000, 900 Presi-
dent Hayes has appointed Nathan GoH
Jr., Of West Virginia, Secretary of the
Navy. He was Bligadier General in the
ULlJn army at the close of the war
ami for the past twelve years has been
United States District Attorney of West Vir-
gina. IL is understood that his appointment
is approved by Gen. Garfield. An effort will
be made this session to get the Mormon bill
which denies the right of suffrage to persons
who practice polygamy reported to the House
but 1t VIII be lett Tor the next Congress to pass
upon it,. The House Postal Committee has
under consideration bill to reduce the rate
of postage on second-class matter to cents a
pound.
SECRETARY EvARTs says thepe is no
way to reopen the Halifax arbitration unless
Great Britain takes the first step. The man
ayers of the Garfield Inauguration now pro
pose to have in attendance 300 men from each
county IN Ohio, ranged under banners.
POLITICAL.
THE Garfield Morey Chinese letter
comes to the light once more in the confession,
ON the part of the paper that published
it to the world, that 1t is forgery The ed
ilors of Truth have addressed letter to Gen.
Garfield, in which they say "After q
searching investigation, in which we have
spared neither time, energy, nor expense,
we have traced the Alorey letter to its origin.
and ascertained that it is forgery. This ac-
acknowledgement is due from the journal in which
that letter first appeared 1t is made volunta-
flly, aud as an act of simple justice for, while
We believed, as We did until a few weeks past
that you were the author of that letter, no ribe
could tempt nor threat intimidate us into maxi
ing contrary statement. But, having ascer-
tanned our error now, it is a qualification to us
TO give the same prominence to this acknowl-
edgment that We gave to the forged letterits
and thereby make all the amends in our power
for the wrong of which Truth was the uncon-
scous instrument"
SECRETARY EvARTs Is reported to have
said that Senator Blaine will be Secretary of
State in Gen. Gardeld's Cabinet. The other
members, according to the same authority, are:
| Secretary of the Treasury, James +. Wilson, of
Iowa; Secretary of the Interior, d. o. Mills,
OF California; Secretary of War. Senator Don
Cameron; Secretary of the NAVY, q Southern
Republican; Attorney General, New York
Republican; Postmaster General. an Indiana
Repubh an.
The Republican members OF the Cali
fornia Legislature held a caucus, on the 5th
inst, and selected Gen. John F. Miller for the
United States Senatorship, Newton Booth re-
CO wing nVe EOte3. In organizing the Penn
sylSana Senate, f. g. Coxe Democrat, from
Luzcrne county, confessed his inability to take
the iron-clad oath, as he had used money III
securing his election
The lower house of the Tennessee
Legislature has chosen Mrs. Molle Grizzard
Engrossiug ERIK. She is relative of Dayy
Crockett, and her husband was Unionist who
Hn1 fA etn II In
soldiers for an escaping Confederate The
Republican members Of the Michigan Legisla-
ture held caucus on the 9th inst, and on the
seventh ballot elected Congressman Concer
Their candidate for Senator for the long term
and Senator Baldwin for the short term
Frank W. Palmer has been reappointed Post
master at Chicago.
THERE Is some talk of giving Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, place in the next Cabi-
net. Most OF the Mississippi delegation favor
the plan Senator Lamar says he would rather
see Senator Bruce in the Cabinet than anv
white Republican in Mississippi.
In California, Gen. John F. Miller
haa been chosen to succeed Newton Booth in
the United States Senate; in Maine, Eugene
Hale will succeed Senator Hanlin , in Nevada.
James Il. Far viii step into Senator Sharon !
Shoes and in Missouri, Senator Cockrell will bt,
his own successor.
Gov. MURRAY, of Utah, hrs issued a
certificate OF election to Allen q. Campbell as
delegate to Congress- on the ground that Geo.
Q. Cannon, who received the majority of votes
Is not citizen of the United States and living
in polygamy in violation of the law Of 1861
The Mormons are indignant, and Cannon will
contest the case.
FOREIGN.
1T is stated that 1000 guns are each
week surreptitiously sent to Ireland from Biz
mingham, and that within three weeks {. 600
Enfield rifles have also been forwarded
South African advices indicate that the Beers
msintaln the advantage they have gained
President Board, Of the Orange Free State. saws
he i unable 10 prevent the Dutch colonists
joining the Iransvaal insurrectionists ana no
may soon be compelled to resign. The
London Times says that before Februa-
exceed the number of the Beers
The antl-Jewish agitation in Germany appears
TO be gaining strength, and hard blows ara TAX
ing the place of hard words On New Years
day the students in Berlin amused themselves
by assaulting Jews in the streets and smashing
the windows OF coffee houses frequcnted by
them. The report of proposed demonstra-
ton IN the United States to protest against tins
persecutlon has caused some indignation. Ger
many does not wish any foreign power TO med
die with her affairs.
HE Greek Premier has informed the
foreign Ministers at Athens that his Govern
ment would cling to the decisions of the Berlin
Cor; erence. The pressure for var is intense
and $1,000 reserves will soon be called ont
The Emperor Of Germany has received
report Of the ontrages committed by the anti
Jewish egitators on New Years ., nd hrs az
press,d desire that etrinear.. ,res he
adopted to prevent their revolution.
Dr. Schiiemsnn has presented to The Fmneror
O Germany, to be placed IN the museum II
Berlin, his collection of Trojan antiou,ties
Seven hundred and fifty thousand paasants
are starving in the Russian province Of Sa-a9
ton, and more than 1.000.olf1 sra
IA want IN Samraia Good faal;ns,
has been restored between Egypt and Abvse,
sinia, aud the highways have beenreopeuaj
Cen Moriones, one of TIE ablest officers in The
civil wars Of Spain. hss closed his career VAC
baron Simon Won 0ppenheiIn. of the IonSo,,
nanking tirm Of Oppenheim 4 sons. is dead
Or. Frederick J. jobson, tbe eminent Metbnd;.t
divine Of London Is dead. t'44's
~ AZ encounter between tho r.Hee