Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Secretary Chandler will name the new 4,300-ton steel cruiser the Chicago. The statement of the United States Treasurer shows gold, silver and United States notes in the treasury as follows: Gold coin and bullion, $179,052,563; silver dollars and bullion, $105,053,758; fractional silver coin, $27,688,628; United States notes, $45,987,755; total, $357,682,691 Certificates outstanding: Gold, $40,822,180; silver, $68,517,300; currency, $10,665,0001 It is stated from Washington that the new Tax and Tariff law underwent some remarkable transformations from the time it was passed in the Senate until it reached the President for signature, the responsibility • for which does not appear in the records. In several instances the intention of the framers of the bill has been defeated by the 'transposition of a conjunction or a punctuation mark, and the probability is the Treasury Department, instead of being relieved in the matter of construction of the law, ■will have little time for any other business than explaining the purport of the act of 1883. A Judge Lilley, an aged Washington lawyer, called upon Stephen W. Dorsey, at ?the latter’s residence in Washington, a few •night® ago, and in the course of a conversation about the star-route trial Lilley made some remark that greatly enraged Dorsey who struck his guest from the chair in which he was sitting, and then jumped upon ■and kicked him, inflicting serious injuries The Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision affirming the validity of the Chicago city ordinances, which provide tor the closing of bridges over tbs OMpago river qerWn hours

of the morning and evening and for what is known as the ten-minute limitation. In the star-route trial, the other day, Thomas J. Brady, ex-Assistant Postmaster General, was placed on the witness stand and testified in his own behalf. He denied that he was a conspirator, and affirmed that James, MacVeagh, Walsh and Berdell were perjurers. He had virtually become acquainted with Dorsey since this prosecution was inaugurated, never plotted with him, save touching certain political affairs, and conducted his department in the postoffice for the welfare of the country and the good of the mail service. A statement has been prepared by the Treasury Department showing the total amount of money expended by the general Government in all the States for public buildings from the foundation of the Government up to the present time. The net expenditures amount to $83,404,221. New York received $14,314,656; Massachusetts, •7,670,023; Pennsylvania, $7,482,469; Illinois, $7,463,936; Missouri, $6,134, €6B; Ohio, $5,796,968; Louisiana, $4,972,368; South Carolina, $3,386,884; California. $2,155,622; Maine. $2,080,137; Maryland, $1,864,692; Tennessee, $1,129,044; Connecticut, $1,074,92k The other States got sums varying from $50,000 to SBOO,OOO. _______