The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-07
WASHINGTON NOTES.

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Washington has agreed on a bill which will
make al annual reduction of SOS, 000, 900 in the
internal revenue. 1t proposes the abolition Of
the stamp lax on bank checks, matches, per-
lumery, etc, of the taxes on banking capital
and deposits. and makes material reductions in
the burdens Of liquor and tobacco dealers.
President Arthur held his first public
reception at the Executive Mansion last week.
He was assisted by Gen. U. S. and Mrs. Grant,
the ladies of Cabinet officers and others. There
was an enormous crowd of all sorts and condi-
tions of citizens in Washington.
Richard Il. Merrick, the well-known
Democratic lawyer of Washington, has been
appointed by Attorney General Brewster as
special assistant attorney to assist in the prose-
sution of the star-route thieves.
Jacob w. Kerr, formerly paying teller
of the Bank of the Republic, at Washington
shot himself through the heart, having lost
money of others in stock speculations.
The bill of exceptions in the Guiteau
case will fill two quarto volumes of 1000 pages
each, and will be presented to the court Apri
"a, TIC HInI VI TIC ueAt ecIn VI SIlu-
nal Court Of the District of Colum bia.
Minister Hurlbut writes to the Peru
Wan Investigating Committee that Alexander
Cochet was always French subject, and that
any rights he possessed descended to his sisters
in France, as there is no evidence of the legiti-
matizing of his bastard son through whom tho
Peruvian Company claims title. The claim was
decided adversely, in 1861, by a mixed commits
SION of French and Peruvian citizens appointed
under treaty.
Guiteau has sold to circus manager
the suit OF clothes which he wore when he shot
Garfield, and sculptor is making a bust OF
the assassin.
Secretary Frelinghuysen has received
a dispatch from Minister Lowell announcing
that. in Difference to the request of President
Arthur respite of fortnight has been grant
ed in the case Of DIR. Lamson.
Guiteau is said to be growing stout,
and, it is asserted, has gained twenty pounds
since the trial, and weighs heavier now than he
ever weighed. He still receives visitors at the
JAIL and is said to be very afrable when his
callers treat him respectfully.
Following is statement of the public
debt at the close of business March 81:
Extended 6s........ 1oe, 90, 900
-Four and one-hslf per cent. bonds ... 25o.OOO.OOo
-Four per cents. 1888, 805, $50
Refunding certificates. ................ 542.35O
Navy pension fund. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. 1900, 00e
1 Total in sa,. debt
Matured deDt. 12,665,655
Legal tenders. ........... 346,740,S51
Certificates OF deposit -. 11,140,UO0
Gold and silver certih-
Gates ................. 73.522,2g0
Fractional currency. 7,064,69S
Total without interest. l3s, 46s o3S
Total debt. 81 965, 1886, 1854
Total interest. .......... 49,. ..... 1861 s29
Cash in treasury. 253,92l, 161
Debt less cash in treasury. ISL ,726, 266 422
Decrease during March. .............. 16.4629 GAG
Decrease since June 80, 1881. ...... 114,3s23 sy
Current liabilities
Interest due and unpaid. ............. 1.3I3 299
Debt on which interest has ceased. .... 12,6556l5
interest tnereon.. Observation-Disclosures. 6l2275
Gold and silver certificates ......... 1882, 900
UntedrStates notes held for redemption
Of certificates of deposit ........... u140OOo
Cash balance available April i, 155, 06S. 2S1
Total. 263, 291, 76l
Available assets
Cash in treasury. 253, 1921, 76l
Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan-
les, interest PAYABLE in lawful money,
principal outstanding. ............S 64623bI2
Interest accrued and not yet paid $500. 969 352
Interest paid by United States ..... 53405,977
Interest repaid by companies
Bv TRANSPORTATION service. 1900. h,ss7,47s
BY cash payments of per cent, OF net
earnings. .........:............... 1913
Balance Of interest paid by the United
States. s7,ses, 1901