Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The Cabinet session on Tuesday was devote Ito a consideration of the Canadian fisheries question, the action of Congress in regard to the Geneva award, and railroad mattern _ The decrease in the public debt for Kay was #8, 828,566. The interest-bearing debt Is now #1,220,659,312. The following is a re-

capitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at percent $260,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737.75 , 00 Bonds at 3 per cent Lh, Kef unding certificates at 4 per cent. 20 ), OJ . Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific Kailroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal $1,2.0,651,312 Interest 11,58)1,832 • Total ; $1,211.2 7,'41 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $.',097,5.6 Interest. 2 8,.90 Total $ .316,235 DEBT HEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-iender notes. $346,738. 'B6 Certificates of deposit 13, 05,000 Gold certificates bilver certificates £,91»,1.4 Fractional currency G,95-1,0 >7 Principal 636,951,727 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,746,699,544 Interest 1i,805,612 Total $1.776,5.5, 67 Less cash items available .or reuuction of the debt 212,104,274 Less reserve held for redemntion of U. H. notes 100,000,000 Total $3,2.164,-74 Total debt less available cash item 551,474,340,832 Net cash in the Treasury 76,142, 011 Debt less cash in Treasury June 1, 1880 ...51,338,198,231 Debt less cash In Treasury May 1,1886 1,407.026.847 Decrease of debt during April $ , 2 ,5u6 CASU IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for pold certificates actually outstanding $80,120,025 Bilver held for silver certificates actually outstanding £9,181,129 U. b. notes held for certificates of dei>osit actually outstanding 1’."'>5,00(1 Cash field for matured debt and interest unpaid 1 ,£01,127 Fractional currency 1,932 Total available for reduction of the debt $232,161,273 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and Juty 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt— . Fractional silver coin $28,912,277 Minor coin 455,453 Total $29,307,733 Certificates held as cash 82, 3. 656 Net cash balance on band 76,142,011 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. $490,406,300 The House Committee on Pacific roads bas agreed to report favorably the Dorsey bill to authorize the Union Pacific Company to construct branch line 3. The State Department is collecting information as to the moans employed by the foreign agents of the Mormon propagapda. Some startling information bas been received, which will doubtless soon be made public. A report from a United States Consul in Switzerland gives the following information: There are twenty-oight leaders, ten priests, nnd thirty-four teachers of the Monnon Church in Switzerland. Their chief function is that of missionaries. The communicants of the Mormon Church number 010. A great many Mormon converts are shipped through these instrumentalities to the United States. This Mormon propaganda is being prosecuted with much vigor iu the northern parts of Switzerland, and all the converts thus far have been members of the Protestant denominations. There are no Catholics among them. Great attention is being paid by these missionaries to women, and even to young girls. The younger girls are educated, and when grown are sent to the United States. The missionaries seem to be well supplied with money, and have organized many benevolent societies, especially for the relief of women.

A Washington dispatch gives what purports to be a partial list of presents received by President Cleveland and his bride: Secretary and Mrs. Whitney gave a brooch in the shape of a branch with leaves and flowers, all formed in diamonds. Postmaster General and Mrs. Vilas' present was a breastpin in the form of a bow-knot of Etruscan gold, with its edges bordered with diamonds. Secretary Lamar gave a cut-glass smelling-bottle studded with diamonds. Secretary and Mrs. Endicott, four massive solid silver candlesticks. Mr. E. K. Bacon, of New York, magnificent diamond star set in Bilver, to bo worn as a pendant or attached to the gold hair-pin which accompanies ft; Collector Hedden, of New York, a platinum salt dish on solid gold legs, with seed pearls studding the feet; Surveyor Beatti-*, of New York, diamond bracelet; Congressman Timothy J. Campbell, solid gold horse-radish dish ; Governor Hill, of New York, elaborate jewel case with a French music-box attachment; Mrs. M. B. Braden, a rare-designed silver epergne with cut-glass dish for tablo; John R. McLean, oxidized silver and gold ice-cream freezer; E. H. Butlor, of Buffalo, a solid silver soup ladle ; Mr. Edward Cooper, a silver ale pitcher and mugs ; Hubert O. Thompson, jeweled Chinese clock, made in Pekin, and valued at $990; Mr. Bissell, large diamond flower, to he worn as a pin or as a pendant. The House is to have a whack at the Edmunds anti-polygamy bill soon. It is said that Secretary Manning will not resume liis place in the Treasury Department.