The National tribune., 1882-09-09
CAPITAL TOPICS,

The Treasury commission on the selection
of sites for the location of the new public build
inss at Detroit, Minneapolis, and Denver, has
submitted report to the Secretary of the
Treasury, which will undoubtedly be approved.
The report recommends the extension of the
present post-office site in Detroit by purchasing
one lot and condemning another; the purchase
Of what is known as the Pilsbury property az
the corner of First avenue, South, and Third
streets, for the Minneapolis building, at the
cost of $4,000, and the purchase of the Tabor
| property at the corner of Sixteenth and Arapa-
hoe streets for the Denver building, at a cost
| of SOS,
! Guiteau's skeleton is now at the National
Army Medical Museum in this city, but will
not be exhibited to the public. The final dis
| position of the bones of the assassin has not
! yet been determined upon, and cannot be until
Judge Hagner decides as to the validity of
Guiteaus will, in which he bequeathed his
body to DR.. Hicks. The experts who were
| engaged in the microscopical examination of
Guiteau's brain have completed their work It
is understood that they already disagree in
| their conclusions respecting his sanity, and
that there will probably be two reports rem
dersd.
On the 1st Of September there was due the
| interest on the 41 per cent. bonds over $3,OOO,-
600; on the 4th of September there was due
pensions payable, about s1OOOO,OOO; on the
18th of September there will be due, called
bonds 20 the amount of $15,000,0OO; on the 1st
of October there will be due interest on per
cent. bonds, over 100000; in October the
call of the continued 6s will be due, about
s., 100000; on the 1st of November there will be
due the interest on the 81 per cents. and PER
cents, about 100000; total, Sal 100000
Acting Secretary French has rendered de-
cision that Chinese merchants residing in the
United States who go to China are required
under the law to obtain a certificate from their
own Government in order to return to this
country, just the same as Chinese merchants
coming here for the first time The question
was raised by an attorney for some Chinese
merchants at San Francisco.
District Commissioner West returned to the
city last Saturday and has resumed his duties.
Referring to the reported disagreetnents be-
tween the members of the Board, he says that
he learned, while irr the Senate, that the pro-
ceedings of Executive sessions" are not for
the public ear He is evidently determined
not to go-Nest.
Mr. Biselow, Sergeant Mason's counsel, in
tends soon to apply for a writ of habeas corpus
in the United States District Court for the
northern district of New York, if his client is
not released upon Judge Advocate General
swaim's opinion recently submitted to the
Secretary of War.
The receipts at the Patent-Office for the
month of August, 1882, were $S7 7,040.15 an in
crease over the receipts for the corresponding
month of 1881 of s17,7OO45. 1t is expected
the receipts for the year will exceed the ex-
penditures by more than one million dollars.
The Washington Monument Society have re-
ceived stone from Kansas for the monument
and have information that q stone viii shortly
be forwarded by the authorities of the Terri
tory of Wyoming.
Commissioner Loring, of the Agricultural
Department, has gone West to fill engagements
to speak at the State fairs at Des Moines, To-
peka, Omaha, and Chicago.
Commissioner Dudley, of the Pension Bureau,
is expected to return next Monday from his trip
to Maine.
Secretary Lincoln will shortly make q trip
to Colorado Springs.