Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

It is given out that James C. Matthews, whom tho Senate recently rejected as District Recorder of Deeds, will soon be appointed Register of tho Treasury. Gen. Rosecrans, the report says, will be placed at the head of the Geodetic and Coist Survey. The river and harbor bill passed by Congress appropriates $50,000 for surveys and estimates for a waterway from Lake Michigan to Joliet and thence to La Salle, which, with the improvement of tho Illinois River, would permit the passage of large vessels from the laltos to tho Mississippi. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4)6 per cent $ 250,C00,000 Bonds at 4 per cent. 737,789,1)0 Bonds at 3 per cent . 52,654,200 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 184,350 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent.... 14,00j,0D0 Pacific railroad bondß at 0 por cent. 64,023,512 Principal $1,119,251,162 Interest 10,692,581 Total 81,129,943,743 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal $ 6,530,815 Interest. 200,303 Total $ 6,732,210 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes .$ 346,738,341 Certificates of deposit 8,180,000 Gold certificates 99,958,365 Silver certificates 121,130,755 Fractional curroncy (less $8,3/5,931 estimated as lost or destroyed)... 6,950,561 Principal...’.., $ 582,958,021 TOTAL DEBT. Principal $1,708,740,0 U Interest. 10,893,946 Total $1,719,633,977 Lobs cash itoms available for reduction of the debt $269,452,976 Less reserve held for redemption of United States notes 100,000,000 T0ta1....'. 309,452,970 Total debt, loss available cash items $1,350,181,091 Not cash in the Treasury 19,118,975 Debt, less cash in Treasury, March 1, 18)7 $1,331,032,026 Debt, less cash in Treasury, Feb. 1, ISB7 1,332,468,808 Decrease of debt during the montn 8 1,436,782 Decrease of debt since June 30, 1886. 58,104,357 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR BEDUCOF PUBLIC DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actually outstanding 99,958,365 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 121,130,755 United States uotes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding..... 8,180.000 Cash held tor matured debt and interest unpaid 17,424,792 Cash held for bonds called not matured and balance of interest 22,755,549 Fractional currency 3,515 i Total available '... $269,452,976 Reserve fund held for redemption of United States notes, acts Jan 14. 1875, and July 12, 1882 $ 100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt: Fractional silver coin. 20,482,472 Minor coin 113,-42 T0ta1...!.. § 26,595,714 Certificates held as cash 29,972,577 Net cash balance on band 19,148,975 Total cash in the Treasury as shown by Treasurer’s general account $ 445,170.242 The Comptroller issued a call for a statement of the condition of tho national banks at the close .of business on the 4th inst. The Secretary of State is in receipt of a dispatch from Uruguay announcing that cholera has beeu declared epidemic at Montevideo. The President has pardoned N. H.

Camp, for embezzlement; He ling and Le Long, of Arkanaaa, for violating the internal revenue laws; J. W. Allen, violating the postal laws; Joseph H. Evans, convicted of polygamy, and Alfred Brotherton, convicted of conspiracy to cast away a vessel on the high seas.