Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-06
WASHINGTON.

Information Wanted as to the Responsible
| ity of National Banks-The jeanette In
acknowledgements for Peace
| Between Peru and Chill, etc.
WAsEMGToN, Oct. 5.-New gold certifi-
Gates to the amount of $44.4sO,OOO were
to-day forwarded by the assistant treasur-
er of New York for signature.
The annual report of General Suffer, of
the engineer corps, in charge of the Mis-
of 1855, 264 for this work, and it is esti-
mated $1,383, 600 can be proftably ex-
pended the next fiscal year in continuation
of this improvement.
The report of the committee appointed
to select site for new marine hospital
at Carlo. has been approved by Acting Sec
rotary of the Treasury New.
The acting secretary of the treasury.
! upon request of the comptroller of the cur
rency, submitted the following questions
to the attorney general for his opinion in
reference to the right of National banks to
certify or accept checks beyond the amount
on deposit to the credit of the drawer.
| First-Has national bank legal right
to accept checks drawn upon it unless the
drawer has the amount stated in the check
actually on deposit in the bank?
| Second-If national banks have power to
make such acceptance, would such accept
ance at the time when the money was not
on deposit to the credit of the drawer be a
liability to money borrowers, and as such
be required to be limited to one-tenth of
the paid in capital of the bank as provided
by section $500 United States revised stat
utes?
Third If national bank has power to
accept such checks equal in amount in any
one case to one-tenth of its capital, would
the acceptance of any number of such
checks to the amount exceeding in the ag-
gregate, the amount of. its paid in capital,
be in violation of section 5000 United
States revised statutes?
The directors of the mint to-day pur-
chased 3O5, 900 ounces of fine silver for de-
livery at the Philadelphia and New Or
leans minis.
The board of officers of the engineer
corps are ordered to reasonable at Mil
waukee to further consider plans for the
improvement of the channel of the lower
Fox river.
The Jeanette board of inquiry spent
the entire afternoon session in organizing
| and outlining plans for a thorough and
systematic investigation. The sessions of
the board will be open, and 1t is the pres
| emit intention to examine every witness
who can throw any light on the subject.
As several survivors of the Jeanette ex-
petition are now engaged in the search
for Lieutenant Chips party, the present
| inquiry may be prolonged for several
months to allow of ta%ing their testimony.
The following circular has been for
warded to United States-Indian agents:
S1R: In complianc with instructions
received from the honorable secretary of
the interior, your attention is called to
section of ian act making appropria-
| tions for current and contingent expenses
of the Indian department, and for fulfill
ing treaty stipulations with various Indian
tribes, for the fiscal year 1883, and for
other purposes" approved May 18th, 1882,
| which reads as follows: ''That the secre-
tary of the interior shall cause such In
dams as are now being subsisted in whole
or in part by appropriations not required
in discharge of treaty obligations, to be
notified that he will recommend to congress
| at its next session, a dimunition of such
appropriation, and that in consequence
| thereof their further support will depend
more upon their own exertions." "There-
fore, in compliance with the above, you
will give your Indians the notice required
by this act of congress, and assure them
that, while the government is disposed to
treat them kindly and generously, and to
extend to them every needed assistance to
enable them to make com
| Portable living for themselves
and families, yet they must remember
that there is now no treaty or other obi
CATION on the part of the government to
support them, and that what they are now
receiving is purely gift, and that there
must come time when they will be ex-
pected to labor for their own support the
same as white men do. Say to them that
labor is not degrading, but on the contrary
is enabling, and that if they ever expect to
become rich and powerful as the white
| races, they must learn lessons of industry
and economy.
(Signed), n. PRICE, Commissioner.
Special agent Bell, of the interior de-
partment, and Capt. Hamburg, of the
corps of engineers, detailed to investigate
and report what improvement is needed at
Hot Springs, Arkansas, have recommended
that the creek be walled up and that an
| arched enclosure be constructed over it
through the city. The report has been
adopted by the secretary and $4,000 now
on hand for the improvement will be ex-
pended in beginning the work. The esti-
mate of the entire cost is $4,000.
Senior Elmore, Peruvian minister at
Washington, received this evening cable
| dispatch from Guagaquil, Ecuador, dated
to-day, advising him that Garcia Calderon,
constitutional president of Peru, who,
during the last eleven months has been 8
prisoner in Chill, and DR.. Logan, the
newly arrived United States minister in
Chill, are in Arquipa, Peru, treating for
peace. In commenting tonight upon the
telegram, Minister Elmore said Are
quipa is a. well known city
in the interior Of southern Peru which was
made the seat of the Perueian government
by Vice-president Montero, who has been
acting as president of Peru since the car
rying away of President Calderon on the
9Th of November last. Minister Elmore
said the news did not much surprise him,
because he had been expecting something
of the kind in view of the solid union of
the Peruvians under the provisional gov
eminent of Calderon; of the loyal attitude
of Bolivia, Peru's attorney and of
e l.