The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-05
FROM WASHINGTON

FROM WASHINGTON.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed Cap
tain Fehrenbatch, Of Cincinnati, Commits
sioner of the National Labor Bureau
THE Comptroller Of the Currency, in his
annual report issued on the 26th, shows
that during the fiscal year ended Novem-
Der 1, 191 National banks were organized,
with a capital of S16,o42, POO; circulating
notes issued $3,866,230. Since the estab-
lishment of the system on February %,
1868, there have been organized 3,261 Ma
tional banks, of which 2,671 are now in ex-
istence.
In his annual report made on the 26th
the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics stated
that during the first four months of the
present fiscal year the exports of merchan-
disc were 1924, ,249; imports, $2OS, s13,-
$50; excess of exports, $25,899,619. For the
year the excess Of exports was $S1, 5S3, $685.
The excess of imports Of gold and silver
for the four months was $3,346,51O.
THE annual report of the General Super
intendent of the Life-Saving Service, made
on the Goth, says the total number of disas-
tiers during the past year was 439; total
value Of property saved, $9,161, 1854; total
value of property lost, 81 ,446,5S6; total
number of persons saved, a, 412; total num-
Der of persons lost, 20; total number of
persons succored at stations, 552; number
Of vessels totally lost, Ga.
THERE were 262 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 28th, against 2S3 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, IS; New
England States, 49, Western, 81; Southern,
90; Pacific States and Territories, %; Cam
ada, %.
In his annual report issued on the 2Sth
ult. Robert t. Lincoln, Secretary of War,
says the total expenditures for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1884, were $40, 332,-
S76.21, the appropriations, $45,570, 551. 53.
The estimates for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1856, are $50,S5O, 5O0.5S, being less
than the estimates for 1885.
TREASURER WYMAN, in his annual re-
port issued on the 2Sth ult., shows that the
net revenue of the Government for the fis-
cal year ended June 20, 1884, was less than
that of 1883 by $49,767.712, having been
$348,5I9,S69, while in 1888 it amounted to
$39S,2S7,5 S1. The net expenditures aggre-
gated 1914 ,126,244, a decrease from the
amount in 1883 of $21 ,2S1 1893. The Treasu-
ry. reserve for the year ended November 1,
1884, decreased $12,752, 255, or from gN6O,-
822 ;545 in 1888 to $14S,070 200 November /,
1884. The amount of standard silver dol
lars coined to September 20, 1884, was
g1S2,3S0,S29.
In his annual report issued on the Goth
nit, the Postmaster General says the ex-
penditures Of his department. for the fiscal
year were SAG, 40, $3.50, and the ordinary rev.
enues were %3,33S,127. The cost of the
service over the revenues for the past year
was $500, 4S4, and for the current year the
department asks for $5,S26,349 from the
Treasury A reduction of the postage on
local letters to one cent is recommended, as
also the establishment of ten cent special
delivery by means of messenger boys.
SECRETARY LINCOLN reports that no SOL
dier has fired a musket at an Indian during
the past year. He also states that constant
handling of the rolls in the Office of the Ad-
Jutant-General has made their recopying
necessary, a task which will require the
services of one hundred clerks for three
years.
In November the United States mints
coined 4,039,700, of which s., 45O,O00 were
standard silver dollars.
THE public-debt statement for November
is as follows; Total debt (including inter-
est) S1,S46, 247,775; cash in Treasury S49S,
34O,7SS; debt, less amount in Treasury,
$1,417, 9S6,9SS. Increase during November,
STAT, 124. Decrease since June 80, 1884, So, :
1929 This is the first increase in the
public debt since July, 1879, and is caused
by decreased receipts and increased dis
bursements ON account of pensions
HUGH McCULLocH, Secretary of the
Treasury, ia his annual report issued on
the LIST, shows that the ordinary receipts
of the Government from all sources for
the fiscal year ended June 80, 1884, were
S34S,5l9,S 6992; ordinary expenditures.
$3.50 ,9l6, 473,S3; leaving a surplus of $751;
Cos, $4,000.
For the week ended November 30, the
issue of silver dollars was 39S, 495, aud for
the corresponding period of last year 49,
4S7.
TIE exchanges at twenty-s leading
clearinghouse in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 29th ult. aggre-
gated 1858, S55,0S4, against $500, 76S,500 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding period of 1883, the clearings
indicated decrease of 1915 per cent.