Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1883 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Utah commission, in its second annual report, argues that the influence of polygamists is destroyed by the law disfranchising them. Ten suits have been instituted by Mormons against the members of the commission for being deprived of the right to register and vote. The receipts and expenditures of the Government for the past few months indicate a reduction of the surplus revenue by only $34,000,0000 per annum, despite the reductions made by the last Congress; but the income is lessened at the rate of $60,000,000 per year, about equally divided between customs and internal revenue. The War Department has issued a special order appointing a court of inquiry to investigate the cause of the failure of the Greely relief expedition. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst.: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 4,970,006 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.620,700 Three per cents 305,529.000 Refunding certificates 332.850 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total interest-bearing debt $1,312,446,050 Matured debt 4,348,745 Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 847,739,816 Certificates of deposit 12,620,000 Gold and silver certificates 182,908,081 Fractional currency 6,990,303 Total without interest $549,258,200 Total debt (principal) $1,866,052,995 Total interest 9,801,243 Total cash in treasury. 364,*347*501 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,511,506 737 Decrease during October 10 304 798 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1881 39^584 i 470 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaid $ 2,698,375 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 4,348*745 Interest thereon ’288*857 Gold and silver certificates 182,908 031 U. 8. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 12,620,000 Cash balance available Nov. 1 161 ,4*4,443 . £otal $864,347,501 Available assets— Cash m treasury 864,347,501 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States — Principal outstanding , $ 64JP3 jij Interest accrued, not yet paid. 1 202*470 Interest paid by United States 69*.222^093 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation service. $ 17,056.755 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 666,198 Balance of interest paid by United States 41.510,138 Secretary Folger went home to vote. No bond call will be made for some time to come. Comptroller Knox has refused to authorize a national bank in Indian Territory, on the ground that the applicants were non-residents of the country. The following is the condition of the United States treasury. f Gold coin and bullion $210,630,064 Silver dollars and bullion 121112,61 1 Fractional silver coin.. 26,764,f65 United States notes 61,855, 051 Total .$410,262,281 Certificates outstanding: Gold. •.....< ......!. $52,491,476 Silver 86,740,129 Currency 13,055,000