Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The national expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30 were $310,000,000; receipts, $321,000,000, or $7,500,000 less than the estimates. During the year 146 national banks were organized, and the charters of 731 national banks wore extended twenty years. The decrease of the public debt for the month of June was about $9,000,000. Comparatively no changes were made at the beginning of the fiscal year in the State, War, and Navy Departments, and the clerks who feared that they might possibly receive a dreaded yellow envelope July 1 became reassured as the day passed without being notified to quit. The coinage at the various mints during June was $4,986,801, of which $2,376,150 was in stan lard dollars. One hundred and fifty applications have been filed at the Treasury for the position of Bank Examiner throughout the country. A belief prevails among the diplomatic representatives of the South American Governments to Washington that Ecuador and Chili have entered into an alliance, offensive and defensive, and that the latter Government will promptly interfere in case the United States attacks. Ecuador for the purpose of enforcing its demand that Santos, the American imprisoned by Ecuador, be released. The Secretary of the Interior announces that the established cattle trails through the Cherokee strip, Ind. Ter., will be maintained free to all drovers by all the power of the Government.