Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-10
WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
4 Florida CO'Orid Man Given a Position
in the Census OfiGs.
REDUCING THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The Report that Chinese from Cuba
are Being Landed in New
York Discrediteu.
lsPEcIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrooRD-UsIoS.l
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
1t is Being Reduced at the Rate of ST
OOn nnn Pnr Mnnth

1t is Being Reduced at the Rate of SIo,-
100000 Per Month.
WASHINGTON, September 9th-Referripg
| to certain newspaper statements that dur
| ing the months of July and August of this
year the public debt had been increased
| over 100000. while during the same
months in 1888 the debt had been de-
creased over Sll,000,0 ,0CO Secretary Window
| said: These statements convey an entirely
| erroneous impression. The fact is, as
shown by the books of the Treasury, that
on the 3O,h of June 1859, the total amount
OF the public debt including bonds of all
| kinds, was SS96, 3SS 9ST, and on the 3lst dav
OF August it was only $S75, AS. SO7. showing
reduction of $50 9l0lSO during those two
months. The reduction during the same
months of last year was only about one
| third of that amount.
The erroneous newspaper conclusion
above referred to arose doubtless from the
! peculiar form of the monthly statement of
the public debt issued by this Department.
Nipsic and Charleston.
| WASHINGTON, September 9th.-Chief En-
gineer Melville has received another letter
| from San Francisco relative to the recent
| trial of the Charleston. Il contains moth
| ing new, but is simply recapitulation of
| previous advices. The general impression
throughout the Navy Department is that
| the tenor of the previous reports that the
| horsepower shown was {, 700 will not be
changed.
Engineer Melville has also received a
letter from Chief Engineer Kirstedt, in
| closing photographs of the United States
| steamer Nipsic on the dock at Honolulu,
showing the damage received al Samoa.
The Presidential Party.
| WASHINGTON, September 9th.-Mrs. Har-
\ nc i 10, IL. 1. - 1 -.
| noon under the escort of the Postmaster
| General. Secretary Window returned from
| Baltimore this afternoon in time to sign
| the days mail. The President and the re-
mainder of the party returned night at
| o'clock On a special train. Tomorrow
| the President. Mrs. Harrison and Private
| Secretary Halford will return to Deer Park.
Presidential Appointments.
WASHINGTON, September 9.h.-The Pres
ident tonight made the following appoint
ments: George w. Lyon, of New York
| City, to be Surveyor of Customs for the
| Port of New York; Theodore B Willis, of
| Brooklyn, to be Naval Officer of Customs
| in the District of New York Ernest Ma
than, to be Collector of Internal Revenue
for the First District of New York.
The Story Not Believed.
! WASHINGTON, September 9th.-Treasury
| officials state that they have no informa-
| tion sustaining the statement in New
| York paper that the Chinese are being ad-
! mitted into this country from Cuba, they
claiming to be citizens thereof The state
ment is not believed.
Colored Man Appointed.
| WASHINGTON. September 9th.-J. Willis
Menard, of Florida, who was the first col
ored Republican member of Congress ever
elected (he was then living in Louisiana),
has been appointed to clerkship in the
Census Office.