Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-04
KANSAS PACIFIC.
Fears Felt That the Government May
Lose by the Sale of the Road.
A BIG ACCOUNTING OFFICE.
What the sixth Auditors Department Has
=. to Do-October Circulation of Bank
Notes.-The New COngressiOn-
al Library Opened.

w AsHINeToN, Nov. 2. -Attorn ey Gen
eral McKenna and ex-Gov Hoadly,
counsel for the government in the
Union Pacific railroad cases, held an
extended conference yesterday. They
mapped out the plan to be followed by
the government at the sale of the Kan
sas Pacific road December /. 1t was
decided that the government shall
qualify as a bidder at the auction at
least five days before the date of the
sale, thus to be prepared for the pos
sible contingency of no bid from the
reorganization committee. Now that
the deal between the government and
the reorganization committee for tho
main line of the Union Pacific has
been carried through, Attorney Gem
eral McKenna has become solicitous as
to the fate of the Kansas Pacific and the
government liens of s19, 900, 900 on the
bond-aided portion of that line. Judge
McKenna admitted last night that the
government will lose probably 81, 0OO,-
900 on the Kansas Pacific,
n dig ACCOuhbiHE OHoos
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The sixth
auditor in his annual report says that
his office is regarded as the largest &C.
counting Office in the world. Its en-
ployes," he says, NEARLY 500 in num-
Der, are engaged in the important
work of adjusting the accounts of the
entire postal service, with its SIG, 446,-
75O.59 of receipts and expenditures. A
separate ledger account is kept with
each of the 10000 post offices in the
country. 1t audits the pay Of each of
the postmasters, railway mail clerks,
postal clerks, letter carriers, mail con-
tractors and department employees,
constituting the 100000 persons of the
pay rolls of the postal system. 1t re-
ceives checks, asserts and files each of
the 26,OOO,OOO money orders issued an
nually in the United States, aggregat-
ing in amount 1894, 113, O1O.93."
October Circulation of Bank Notes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Tbe monthly
statement of the comptroller of the
currency shows the circulation Of
udblOndl Dhnh nObOb vi OCbODGL W w
have been as follows: Total circulation
of national bank notes, $3.50, 047, 635; de-
crease for the month, S146, PCS; decrease
for the year. $780, O22; circulation
based on United States bonds, $685.
926, $50; decrease for the month, 81, 1885,
$40; decrease for the year, Sl2, $50, O64;
circulation secured by lawful money,
S26, 12O,0S5; increase for the month,
5000, 975; increase for the year, 81, 1885,
O42; United States registered bonds on
deposit to secure circulation notes,
1927, 742, 500; to secure public deposits,
S17, O75, 800.
The New Congressional Library Opened.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-The new con-
gressional library, which has been in
course of construction for the past six
years, was opened to the public yester-
day. There were no ceremonies of any
kind. All the departments, with the
exception of those devoted to the fine
arts and music, are ready for the use
of the public, and the work on the two
named is being pushed as rapidly as
possible. Everything is on a complete
scale and the automatic arrangements
for the delivery and return of books
worked satisfactorily.