The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-17
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS
Many Offers Made to Supply The
Treasury With Gold.
FAISON FOR SOLIClTORSHlP.
A Million Dollars In Gold Withdrawn
Secretary Carlisle Declined The
Tender of sIOO,OUO-Thc Treasury
Reserve ss5,34S.842,G ,GA2-The FOO
Chow Rebellion.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 16.-Secretary
Smith to-day returned to Washington
and resumed his duties in the Interior
Department. after several weeks alb
sence in Georgia. where he made sew
eral speeches In favor OF sound money.
Many offers to supply the treasury
with gold in small quantities. from
$4,000 to 100000. have been received.
ann all the offers considered favorable
to- the Government have been accepted.
Several offers have been declined. One
of these was from II Louisville (Ky)
bank, which desired the gold they Of
fered to be accepted at It's face value.
The other offers where the banks want
ed the treasury To pay the express
charges on the gold and currency both
ways. We're also rejected. All offers OF
gold within the limit of tolerance In
exchange for currency forwarded at
government contract rates have been,
treasury as long as such concessions
are continued.
The treasury is informed that one
million dollars in gold were to-day
withdrawn from the sub-trcasury at
New York for shipment tomorrow.
Secretary Carlisle to-day declined to
accept the tender of $4,000 in gold from
the Associated banks of Springfield. H..
favorable TO the Government. This
particular lot of gold is said to have
been light.
The true treasury gold reserve stood
at the close of business to-day at
s95.34s. .642. the lowest point reached
since the last bond issue raised the
reserve above the $1,000 600 mark.
The State Department is without ad-
vices regarding the alleged latest phase
of the Chinese situation in regard to Il
refusal of the Chinese Government to
execute any of the men convicted of
being participants in the missionary
massacre unless they are assured that
with the execution OF these men all
other demands will cease According
To the latest information of the depart
ment. the ku-Cheng commission was at
work with its labor uncompleted and
the investigation had not been begun.
No dispatches have been received from
Minister DENLY, but they are expected
this week and are awaited with inter
est.
The case OF the South Carolina post
masters charged with conspiracy to de-
fraud the postal revenues has found it's
way to the Supreme Court. Cha r'ies p
Barrett having appealed from the judg-
ment of Judge Simonton, of the United
states District Court. sentencing him
10 the Columbus t0hio) penitentiary. in
accordance with the verdict of the jury
for Il term OF eighteen months. The Of
tense charged against Barrett was that
he consDired with other postmasters to
enable them to add To their compensa-
ton by reporting increased sales OF
stamps. etc, purporttng to have been
cancelled at their respective offices but
which were in fact delivered to Barrett
and disposed of by him.
Secretary Herbert has sent instruc-
tions o Admiral Beardslee regarding
the cholera on the l.. S. S. Remington.
Admiral Beardslee wired Secretary
Herbert asking if he should direct the
commander of the Bennington to cruise
among the islands during the preva-
lence of cholera at Honolulu. The SEQ
retary replied that the better course
would be to order the Bennington to
sea on cruise until the disease was
eradicated.
The chief interest attaching in Wash
ington to the dispatch from Foo Chow
that n rebellion has begun in the pro-
vince of Fo-Chien is as To the fate
which awaits the American and Euro
pean missionaries in that province
should any still remain in the vicinity
of ku Chcng. Reports reached here
through diplomatic and private sources
several weeks ago that the missionarie
Nut recent IluSStCTt III lflC lTtp-
rior of the province had. with their
families. sought refuge at Foo Chow.
which is near the coast. and where the
presence of foreign men of war make
them safe from further violence If
they have remained at Foo-Chow. or
rather at Pagoda Anchorage, which is
foreign settlement only Il few miles
removed. no danger could happen to
them If, however. in their zeal 10 be-
gin again their work OF christianiZing
the natives, they have returned to the
interior of the province. the gravest ap-
prehensions will be felt for their safety
unless they receive the protection of the
European or American forces
1t Ia surmsed that the rebellion is
the work of 'Ncgetarians," who were
responsible for the assaults some weeks
ago upon the foreign missions. Until
that time little, if anything, was known
in this country of this society beyond
the fact that II was a secret organiza-
tion and that it's purposes We're politi-
cal 1t now appears they have adopted
the name Vegetarian in order TO give
their society u religious character. mas
much as the Buddhists do not practice
the eating Of meat. but live wholly
upon Il vegetable diet. and thus make
Vegetarianlsm an article of the Budd-
hist's faith. Chinese diplomats say the
ranks of this sect are recruited chiefly
IRON elements corresponding to the
"Hoodlums" in this country.
Secretary Olney resumed his desk
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