Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1897-03-02
WASHINGTON.
Public Debt Statement for the
Month of February.
Increase in the Debt, Less Cash in
the Treasury, Of $4,592,137.
Total Cash In the Treasury, SS04,33S,-
166.98-The Ohio Delegations in Con-
Krsss banquet Senator Sherman
News From the Capital.

| WASHINGTON, March 1.-The debt
statement issued Monday shows a net
increase in the public debt, less cash
in the treasury, during February, of
S4, 592, 1877. TO- The interest bearing
debt increased $500; the non interest
bearing debt increased S2,O66,77 and
cash in the treasury decreased
So, 525, 1876. 10. The balances of the sew
eral classes of debt February % were:
Interest bearing debt, $s47, 364,95O;
debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, 81, 35s, 210 20; debt bearing no
interest, 1916, ia, 54914. Total, 81
225, 437, 700. 40
The certificates and treasury notes,
offset by an equal amount of cash in
the treasury, outstanding at the end
of the month were 5000, 977, $40, an in
crease of 81, 002,0 900.
The total cash in the treasury was
| 1864, 33s, 100. 9S; the gold reserve $780,
| 900, 900; net cash balances S112, S37, 1885,
| 60. In the month there was an in
crease in gold coin and bars of
| SO, S3s, 9O4 so, the total at the
close being s1s6, 2O6, O2s.43. OF silver
there was an increase of 81, 922, 917S4.
| OF the surplus there was in national
bank repositories SIG 456, GAO. 65, against
| $40, 573, 100. IA at the end of the previ-
| Gus month.
WASHINGTON, March 2.--Secretary
Sherman was the guest of honor at a
banquet given by the Ohio congress
sional delegation at the Cochran Mon
| day night. Mark Hanna was present.
| After cigars were served, Senator Sher-
| man was introduced. He responded
| in speech in which he said the COM
| ing administration would stand for
sound money and the preservation of
the national honor. The honor Of the
| country, he declared, should never be
| lowered. 1t should stand as beacon
light for the enlightenment of the
world. He ventured the prediction
that then Europe would fol-
| low the lead of France and
that there were those present
Monday night who would see all but
republican governments blotted off the
map of Europe. Gov. Bushnell said in
these days cabinet making was an or
binary avocation, but IL was not every
| one who could make senator. It had
been his privilege to do so and he was
proud of his work in the person of
Mark Hanna.
The new senator bowed his compli-
ments and took his seat.
| Remarks were also made by Mr..
Murat Halstead, Gen. Grosvenor and
others.
WAsHINGToN. March 2.-The ten
days limit within which the president
must take action on the immigration
| bill or else allow it to become law
through inaction. expires Tuesday
| night
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The presi-
| dent has approved an act to amend the
| postal laws providing limited indem-
nifty for loss of registered mail matter;
act granting n pension to Mrs. Mary
| Gould Carr, widow OF the late Brig.
and Brew, Maj. Gen. Joseph b. Carr,
| United States volunteers.
WASHINGTON, March Lyman j.
Gage of Chicago, the new secretary of
the treasury, accompanied by Mrs.
Gage, arrived in Washington Monday
morning from Hot Springs, Va, where
he has been enjoying a little recrea.
| ton. They were driven to the resi-
dence of Mr.. Thomas B. Bryan, whose
guests they will be until a permanent
residence is chosen.
| WASHINGTON, March 2.-The supreme
court of the United States Monday, in
| the case of the Cuban filibustering
steamer Three Friends, reversed the
| judgment of the court for the South
ern district of Florida, and directed
| the court to resume control of the yes
| sci, which was released on bond and
| stipulation. The opinion was an
nounced by Chief Justice Fuller and it
sustained the contention of the govern
ment as set up by Attorney General
| Harmon to the fullest extent.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The rail,
roads are pouring inaugural visitors
into town, and, with bunting far
ing from innumerable windows.
the city is fairly alive to the
fact that inauguration day is at
hand. Tuesday morning the new
president and vice president reached
the city, and special trains will pour.
soldiers, clubs and private citizens into
town every hour of the day or night
until noon of March 4.
Should the estimates of the several
railways running into Washington
hold good, there will be a crowd of
225, 900 strangers in the city for the 4th.
of March.
THE POPE.