Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-03-27

per cent. ponds should sell at a price i slightly mOru favorable for the Gov i ernment than that which could be realized, for the Es and the 1 5's are | respectively ll2. j3 and IT a3. Com 1 putauon based upon these pTicc- l shows the rgJe Ot interest yield to the investor, # carried Go maturity amount to 3.2g and 32O | per cent per uuuum, spcctivcly; and this shows that, apart from the | desirabieuess Of a sLO.t option Cl re- | deemabliity as possible, ihe four and a half per cents are slightly moIe ad- vautageOus Co the government in point l of annual interest cost. lt is prohJ- L,e that $100, coo, GOO Az per cents could now be sold for 1lIl8 or 1ill5 and accrued interest, at which price the actual cost tO the government would be less than 3l5 per cent. per annum In other words it would he equivalent to placing loan at that rate
 The Republicans ,hreaten tO rrt.I- late on the Democrats, who refuse c.. allow them tn elect officers of tar Senate, by having the Dr'-"~r tEe departments summarIy s... David Davis is saic by lntu.... friends to De in a iecb.er state ni health than for years. He !.
 l0 be uncomfortable on acCCuYt.I B.. peculiar political position, ami -ams friends say he will probably resign. The Vetoed Bill.
 WAsHINGToN, March 22-The R-- publicars apprcheud that the delclr of the last funding bill may be used against the party next tall unless they meanwhile make an effort to cn1c some new measure, and desire Co sef the Election Committee machinery to work tO seat number oi Republicans from ihe Southern districts, and thus secure working majority for the reg ular session of the House of Repre- scntatives. The Democrats, on the other hand, express themselves a- Sat- isticd that the Republicans will fail to obtain the passage of any new funding bill materially different from the one which President Hayes vetoed, and that thcIr opponents will in the end be obliged to accept substantially the same measure or else 20 before the country with practically the sanie re- spOnsibility that the extra session Is tO be cailed-ior the purpose of avoid ing it.. The Democrats declare that what was known as the Carlisle 50 C. ton in the vetoed funding bill mus, be insisted upon, and if necessary made party measure, if few of the Democratic mem ber--eleCt are op- posed Co it, but the 5verwheiming majority of Democrats in both Houses favor it strongly, and with the aid ol the Greenbackcrs and a considerable number of Western Republicans, they would in all probability be able tC compel it's retention or insertion u any funding measure thAt may be brought before either house for con sIdcrut;0n.
 Coniirlnations by tho Senate. WAsuINGTOS. March 21.-The Sen ate confirmed Levi r. Morton Minis ter to France; ;. D. Horton, Secretary of the United States Commissioners Co the Monetary Conference; Reg isteIs oC the Land UfIice-Heury Cousins, Florence, ArIzoua; Henry W. Dwight, Land, Oregon.
 The President nominated R. W. Berry Collector of Internal Revenue Political.
 WASHINGTON. March 22-The Re publicans have not agreed IS Co elect ing MahOue's Virginia ReadJusjer candidate for Scrgeaut-at-Arms Ot the Senate. Some say the election should ! % over until the regular or extra ses- | sion. Anti-Graut Republicans arc ! somewhat disappointed by the stall | wart character ui the nominations m | New York and Illinois.
 Grant i'm Disgust.
 NEW YORK, March 22 General | Grant says he will resign, to-morro" or next day, ue Presidency ot tbe | Worlds Fair, because of being absent | in Mexico ten weeks, and then at Long Branch. The Commissioners, how ever. say the Fair will be carried for ward. They say Grant is disappointed becruse his name did not attract a great number of contributors.
 The Sonora Railroad.
 NEW You-. March 22.-The rail road grant in sonora, sIgned yesterday | bv President Gonzales, is made Co | Samuel Brannar and his associates In | his colony enterprise, and extends 1 from Hidalgo Guy, their location on the Yaqui river, to Guaymas, and tht Tucson branch oi the AtchisOn, To peka and Santa Fe Railroad.
 
 Competition Ended.
 NEW YORK, March 22.-Ihe active competition between the Ieunsyly-. ma and Baltimore and Ohio railroad. ] has ceased.
 Passengers.
 KANSAS CITY, March 22-Fred ! Brown, Butte, Montana, and five pas.
 seugers from New York who refuse t' 1 give their names.
 Another Eastern ENcut sion
 ST. LOUIS. March 23.-A EerubIi
 can Kansas City special says. Al
 excursion to California Is conIem-
 plated by the directors of the Atcnis . on Topeka and santa Fe Railroad Pal
 ace Car Company, which probahl.
 will pass through Kansas City mex
 Thursday Two trains vii. start iron
 Boston for San Francisco and b drawn from here by the same locomo
 lives. making the trip in the time re
 qured for passenger trains, III hour> ! The trans will ba hauled by the sam
 engines the entire distance each hay ing two engineers and two ne
 men who will work six hours at
 shift. The purpose of the trip Is a $ official inspection of the new oSerlan . line. with an ob.ect of taking of Toe. |, motives and cars through from th s Missouri river to san Francisco, 23s di miles, so great a distance never hayln .- vet been accomplished. The ord r nary work of an engine Is 100 to 2e