Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-19
WASHINGTON LETTER
SPECIAL coRRE sPoNpENcE. !

CENsUs CLERKS TO Go.-On the
10Th inst. $50 extra clerks who have
been busy for nearly three years COM
piling the eleventh census, will apply
for situations elsewhere. There work
here is completed.
PAYING THE INTEREST. Treasurer
Morgan has just completed mailing
%, 44S checks aggregating St, S2S, III.
in payment of the interest due Jan. !
on registered United States 4 per cent
consols of 1907 and on bonds issued to
Pacific Railway companies.
ANOTHER RUMoR NAILED. rumor
has been current here to the effect
that Chief Justice Fuller contemplates
resigning and that Secretary Carlisle
is 10 succeed him on the Supreme
Bench. Judge Fuller declares that
the story is absurd and Secretary Car
Isle saws he knows nothing about 1t.
DoNJAS THREArENs rO SUE. The
case on Joseph Donjan, the alleged
crank, who wasarrested some time ago
and held for sending threatening
letters through the mail, WAS before
the Grand Jury and Senator Mills,
Mr.. Daniels, private secretary to the
Vice President, and others appeared
as witnesses. The prisoner claims
that the only place to hear his case IS
in the Senate of the United States,
and that he intends to sue the authorl-
ties for $50, 900 damages. His lawyer
SAYS that when the case comes up for
trial the plea OF insanity will be aban-
doned and that he will plead lack of
jurisdiction, and the defence will
summon President Cleveland, Vice
President Stevenson, Secretary La
mont. and Senators Mills, Sherman,
Gordon, Mcpherson, and Gray To
show that not one Of the letters WAS
dated in Washington.
WITNESS FEES APPROPRIATION -Ac-
cording to n communication laid be-
fore the house, there is IL deficiency OF
$500, 600 in sight in the appropriation
for fees of witnesses i'll United States
courts for this fiscal year. The house
has been asked to take immediate ac-
tion ON the estimate, for the reason
that the regular appropriation for the
payment of witness fees Is practically
exhausted.
SENDERs ARE Equally GUILTY. As
sistant Attorney General Thomas, OF
the Post office Department, has ruled
that person sending through the
mails for counterfeit money violates
the "Grecn-GoOds" act and iucurs the
penalty of fine of not more than
$500 and imprisonment for not more
than eighteen months.
STATE BANK TAX. Members of the
House Banking Committees say 1t il
almost certain that the bill repeating
the State bank tax will he fsvorably
reported from the committee at this
meeting. This claim is based on the
belief that one of the opponents Of the
! measure will not attend the commit
! tees meeting In that case the favor
able report will be agreed to by bare
majority.
No MONETARY CONFERENCE. 1t is
stated in official circles here that there
is no probability of the international
monetary conference reconvening in
the spring, as was thought likely some
time ago. At least the suggestion for
it to reconvene will not emanate from
the United States. This information
has been conveyed to the British Gov
ernment by Secretary Gresham.
PREMIUMS WILL BE PAID.-The
House Committee on Naval Affairs
ordered an adverse report on the res
olution introduced i'll the House by
Mr.. Holman of Indiana directing
the Secretary of Navy to suspend,
until further notice WAS received
from Congress, all payments of
premiums for increased speed in naval
vessels, and calling on him for infor-
nation relative to the amount of pre-
miums heretofore paid and the man
ner of determining the amount of
these awards.
TREASURY BALANCES. The net
Treasury balances are: Gold, $73, =
500, 1886; currency, $18, 1874, ,S24. This
shows q gain in the gold balance of
5000, 900. The aggregate net balance
is about $85, 500, 900, rs So, 424, 827 on
account of interest on United State 4
bonds paid on Jan. ! last is to be sub
tracted from the currency as given
above.
The YEARS COINAGE. The total
value of the coinage executed at the
mint during the year 1893 was $780,
934, 749, about $4,000, 900 greater
than 1892. 1t WAS made mp of $50,
997, ,020 in gold, SO, S,S02,7 in silver
and 81, 1874, 932 in minor coin. The
Columbian half dollars coined were
1852, l05 in number, and the Colum-
bian quarter dollars 40, 023 in number.
There were 1870, 1875 fve-cent and
46, 642, 1876 one-cent pieces turned ont
by the mint
DROP IN CUSTOMS RECEIPTS. The
customs receipts at New York for the
first ten days of January have been
SO, ,O27,1 The receipts for the first
ten days of last month amounted to
81, ,S45, 034. The receipts for the first
ten days of January, 1893, were So, =
346,017. There was falling of OF
about per cent in the payments OF
gold, as compared with the same time
: last month.
! HE Is CONSCIENCE STRICKEN. The
= Commissioner of Pensions has received
! n letter from n conscience -stricL an