The examiner., 1882-03-11
FROM WASHINGTON.

REPRESENTATIVE PAysoN, from the committee OH coinage, has reported a bill relative to the coinage of gold and silver coins and to provide for the issue of paper certificates for silver bullion. The prime pal changes in existing coinage laws proposed by the bill are: First, the one dollar and three dollar coins are stricken from the list of gold coins and the trade dollar from the list of silver coins second, the standard silver dollar coined as now provided by law is made the unit of value; third the subsidiary silver coins made of full standard value, and all the gold and silver coins authorized by law are made a legal ten der for all sums at their nominal value The bill also proposes an extension of the plan of issuing silver certificates based on deposits of silver bullion. ..... ...-
 THE last national debt statement shows the decrease of the public debt during February to have been $s, 7s3, 511.6s; cash in the treas ury, s252, ,617, ,64s.17. 9t =s 9-
 THE following table shows the government receipts for February, compared with the same month of last year:
 Customs. .$15, ,345, ,9s1 $19, 160, ,498 Internal revenue, 9,342, ,67O 9,136, 206 Miscellaneous. ..... 3,4a6,609 2,996, ,862
 Total ..... $2s, ,175. .21o ss1, ,2os, ,56e
 The ordinary expenditures of the govern ment during February, which do not include interest on the debt, were $18 00C, 1000, of which amount about 5000, 900 was on account of pensions. ...r:..sg .,.s ... TIE President nominated Cornelius A. Logan to bs United States minister to Chili. ... MR. CoNKL1Na's nomination to the supreme court bench was confirmed in executive session of the Senate, twelve Senators, including four Republicans, voting against it. The following Republicans arc known to have voted in the negative: Messrs Dawes, Hoar, Hawley and Merrill. The eight Democrats who voted in l the negative are believed to be Messrs. Bayard, | Gall, Coke, Hampton, Johnston, Jonas, Pugh and Vance. The Senate also confirmed MT Sargent's nomination to be United States min ! ister to Germany.
 Mn soov1LLE has filed his bill Of exceptions upon which he will appeal for new trial for I Guiteau. After the appeal he will retire from l the case and other lawyers will be employed to ! argue the case before the court in banc-that | is the five Washington judges sitting together. THE following telegram of congratulation ! on her escape was sent to Qneen Victoria by ! Secretary of State Frelinghuysen through Uni ! LSO SGdtcS N41AAsbOA A@oNSA' Aho AASoAeSAAs and people of the United States congratu- | late her majesty on having been providen- ! tially protected from the assassin. Remem- bering the sympathy of her majesty and the British people in our recent national bereave- ment the feeling of indignation and thankful
 ness for the queens safety is deep and uni ! versal."
 ! THE Senate committee on commerce agreed
 to report favorab'y Captain Eads' interoceanit ship raj way bill.
 THE Washington grand jury presented in
 dictments for conspiracy, in connection witt
 the star route mail service, against Thomas J
 Brady, ex-Senator Dorsey and ten others.
 THE President received from ex-Senato, ! Jonkling a letter declining the associate
 usticeship of the United States supreme court
 to which position he was recently nominated ' And confirmed.
 HEREAFTER United States notes, silver certif
 cates and fractional notes equaling or exceed
 ing three-fifths of their original proportions art
 redeemable at th.ir full face value. Fragments ' of United States notes silver certificates anC \ fractional notes each constituting clearly one half, but less than three-ifths, are redeemablt at one-half the full face value. Fragments O. \ less than hali are redeemable only when ac- | companied by affidavit stating that tho missing portion has been totally destroyed.