The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-31
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
!nroads on the Treasury Balance
Amount to $34,ooo,ooo.
The First Half of the Fiscal Year 1898 %
Long to be Remembered in Secretary
Carlisle's Departmental Aggressive
Document Is the Report of the Minor
itv tho Hawaiian AnaIr-Other
Washington News.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3O.-The first half
Of the fiscal year 1s93-94, will long be
memorable in Treasury finances, as
showing an inroad ON Treasury cash
amounting to about S34, 900, 900. The
of1cial figure OF receipts and expendi-
lures and the official debt statement,
because Of the holidays, will not be
issued until next Tuesday, January 2.
Practically, official figures, however,
which may vary few thousand dollars,
one way or the other, when the state
ments are issued, will show that for six
months, ending December 81, the re-
ceipts OF the United States from all
sources we're Sl55, 1000, 600, as compared
with 1914, 100000 for the corresponding
period of 1892.
for the first half OF the current fiscal
year were SlS9, 100000 as compared with
$3.50, 100000 for the corresponding
period of 1892. The receipts for Decem.
Der. this year, were less by $1,000, 900
than the receipts for December 1892.
The expenditures, however, for the
present month were SO. 500. 600 less than
for last December. The greatest fall
ing of in Government receipts has
been in customs Que, the receipts from
the source this month being only
SO, 100000, as compared with Sic, OOO, 900
for Decem Der 1892.
The debt statement will show the net
balance in the Treasury on January / to
have been $50, 900 as against Sl22,-
500, coo on July 4, the beginning of the
fiscal year, and Sl29. 900, 600 on the first
OF January, 1892. The present balance
consists of SSl, AIS. 900 in gold and ST.
7s6, 900 in currency. On last January
Of the balance of Sl29, OOO, 900, Sl2l, OOO.-
600 was in gold and $4,000, 900 in cur
rency.
Stevens viii Testify.
Senator Frye, member of the sub.
committee of the com mittee on foreign
relations, investigating the Hawaiian
matters, has received a letter from OK.
Minister Stevens, stating that he would
come to Washington and appear before
the sub committee. Stevens would pre-
fer, owing to the condition of his health,
that his deposition should be taken at
Augusta, Me, but this is practically
impossible. Since the death of his
daughter, which occurred by drowning
in Hawaii at the time of the revolution
of last January, Stevens has boen in
poor health and his advanced age, "a
years, precludes hope CT substantial
Improvement.
Minority Report on Hawaii
There wil be field day in tho
House OF Representatives on Hawaiian
matters on Friday next in all proba-
bility. 1t is the present understanding
that tho majority and minority resolu-
tions of the com mittee on foreign affairs
on the Hawaiian situation will be taken
up on that day for discussion and action.
There will be no report from the ma.
Jority of the cor mittee. The substi-
tute for the Hit and Boutello
resolution was agreed to by the
foreign affairs committee on the last
day, but one Of the session before the
holiday recess. The chairman, Repre-
sentative McCreary, of kentucky, had
no time to prepare report other than
mere formal announcement OF the
committees action and its recommenda-
tion that tho substitute be passed.
McCreary added an appendix contain
ing portion of tho correspondence
upon the Hawaiian question, in .
GLIDING those documents which were
the course of debate. The other
matter which, would naturally have
been included in the committee
report ,McCreary will use in speech
on the subject. The report of the
minority is an aggressive document
prepared by Bellamy Storer, of Ohio, at
the request of Hit. 1t is also signed by
Hit, Harmer, Blair, Draper, and Van
Voorhees, constituting tho entire Re-
publican monority Of the committee on
foreign affairs.
Tho White House Reception.
Mrs. Cleveland has had responses
from all the ladies invited to assist her
at the official reception on New Years
day. Mrs. Stevenson and the ladies Of
the Cabinet, with the President and
Mrs. Cleveland, will compose the re-
ceiving line. Behind the lines will be
the wives OF Chief Justice Fuller,
Speaker Crisp, Major General Schofeld,
Senators German, Gray, Frye, Brice,
G,rdon, Henderson and Sherman.
Mrs. GEN. TON THUMB Will. WEAR
$4,000 WORTH OF DIAMONDS AT THE
ACADEMY OF MISIC NEWT MoNDAy