Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-28

1 the other banks which had not previously re- 1 duced their circulation is $7,211, 500. The amount of national bank notes issued to | banks which deposited legal tender notes dur | ing the pending of the funding bill is $2, | 12O, ,81O and the amount issued to all banks | upon bonds deposited is $4 ,OO5, ,86O. The 1 total amount of national bank circulation now outstanding is $347, ,369, ,551. The total amount of legal tender notes now on deposit by the banks is $38, GIG, 135, leaving the net amount of circulation of the national banks
 now outstanding which is secured by United States bonds $308, ,751, 416
 The appropriation act of June 15, 1880, authorizes the payment of $6 per day to twenty-two clerks of Senate committees dur ing the session of eighty eight days, but pro- vided that they should be paid for 121 days. An act of March-3, 1881, gave them thirty days extra pay. The Senate committees at tho special session were not organized until March IS. A resolution of that date directed the secretary of the Senate to pay these 22 clerks, who went out of office on March 4, $6 per day from the 5th to the 18th of March. The secretary of the Senate referred the matter to First Comptroller Lawrence, of the Treasury, for a decision to whether or not payment could be made under the resolution The First Comptroller has completed 8 de- clslon on the subject in which he holds, first that the act of June 15, 1880, only made an appropriation for clerks during the regular ". hence it did not authorize any payment after March 5; second, the appropriation act of March 5, 1850, only made an appropriation for clerks to committees during the special session third as there were no committees until the 18th of March, and could be no clerks to committees prior to that date the act of March Sd made no appropriation in their favor, and they could not be paid by virtue of it; fourth, the resolution directing payment could not make an appropriation, be- cause 1t is not law. It does not especially refer to the contingent fund, and if it could be held as directing payment out of that fund section 3,6SO of the Revised Statutes would prevent that course, inasmuch as it prohibits extra pay to clerks out of the contingent fund unless the clerks are authorized by resolution, and as these clerks were not thorized by resolution prior to March IS they cannot receive any extra pay prior to that time.
 In the Senate yesterday the scenes of Thursday and Friday were repeated. Mr. Dawes called up his resolution for the cleo tion of Senate officers and objection was i'm mediately made by the Democrats The de- bate ran on until the hour of adjournment, nothing being accomplished.
 Among the nominations sent to the Senate yesterday were those of Horace N Trumbull for collector of customs at Stonington, Conn, and Leonard A. Dickinson to be postmaster at Hartford Conn.
 The Republican Senators held caucus yesterday morning, at which it was deter mined to stand frm'' in the pending con- test for the possession of the Senate officers, and to continue it as long as may be necessa- ry to attain success. It is understood that for the present no attempt will be made to hold night sessions, but the contest will be continued from day to day.