Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

Dispatchls from Washington state that "Kecfetaiy Manning enntinues’ to improver. Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland have almost entirely recovered. The following is a recapitulation of the debt staiement issued on the Ist inst: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds atiij percent......... $250,000,099 -Bondsat 4 per cent. Bonds at 3 per cent. -A-l. -14, (92.100 Refunding certificates at 4 ;»er cent. 215.050 Navy pension fund at 8 i*er cent 14.000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64;623j5fijFrinc i |>al $1,210.01. u(2Lnterest I’,nva323 Total.. 51.2 >2.5(3. :s5 DEBT OK WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCB MATCjHTT. : T ‘ . Principal IsSiaJW 1ntere5t................ 201 ?*(5 Total $5,571,9X1 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. • Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738.6 (1 Certificates of deposit... T .92,000 Gold certificates.... (0,1?', 121 Silver certificates........... 10,775643 Fractional currency (less $8.375, 934, estimated as lost or destroyed). Principal 5;6..>>;,717 Total debt— Principal .sl, 9‘.567.014 Interest.. 12.036,41“ Total «l.ti 4,(X3,4<3 Less cash items available .or reouer tion of the debt 216.231.128 Less reserve held tor redemntiou of U.S. n0te51,......^.-.'. A--- 100,000,000 ——Total.., Total debt less available cash Net cash in the Treasury 7 . B:.u<» Debt less cash in Treasure April I. Debt leas cash m Treasure Mandi LMBS, .T. 1,432. ' Decreaaeof debt during March..... $14,t87X<4 CASH IN THE TKEASTBY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE DEBT) Gold held for pold certificates actually outstanding ~•..".7; $90,775 641 Silver heldfar silver certificates act- ’ ’ ually 0ut5tanding...90,122,421 U. & notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding . D,925 000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid, 17,404.284 Fractional currency.... 2,780 reduction - ItllWX $210,230,128 - BESEBVB FUXD. « • Held far redemption of U. S. natM, acta Jam 14, 1875, and July 12, Unavailable for reduction of the debt— ” . Fractional silver coin. ~^.-4.-..-^... $28,822,637 M inor coin 515,343 Total $29,337,90_ Certificates held as ca5h......' 048,’XH Net cash balance on hand. 76,380,199 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer’s general account.. $495,997,711 SENATOR Harris, of Tennessee, appeared before the Pan-Electric investigation eoramittee at Washington on the 31st

ulL'. and gave testimony as to the organization of th<‘ Pan-Electric Company, which agreed with the stat.-incnta already made by other witneiwi'. When utdred if there was evyr any suggestion that the company should jVrortt by the official position of any of J the stockholders, he replied emphatically'but alowly: “I.answer no. And I answer further that if it had been intimated to me that mv official action as a Senator was to Be invoked, directly or indirectly. it would have ended forever all negotiations." The witness went- into the Whole subject at length, but there were no paints brought out not covered in previous testimony.r p— ~ A GENERAL, order has been issued by the War Department announcing the following assignments: Major General J. M. Schofield to the Division of the Atlantic; Major General A. IL Terry to the Division of the Missouri; Major Geuural Howard to the Division of the Pacific. Brigadier Genend Crook whs relieved from the commandos the Impertinent of Arizona and as signed to the Department of the Platte, formerly commanded by Gen. Howard. Brigadier General N. A. Miles, now in command of the Department of the Missouri, has been assigned to the Department of Arizona. The Departments of Dakota and Missouri wili be divided between the new Brigadier Generals, Roger and Potter. The House has jxwtponed 'consideration of the measure providing that the Chinese .involved shall be indemnified for the outrages jMinietrated at Rock Springs, Wyo. This is done because the California members of Congress insist*on contemporaneous consideration of their bills for restricting immigration. 7, The Secretary of War lias received a dispatch from Gen. Crook confirming the reports of the surrender and subsequent escape of Geronimo and part of his baud. . Fire damaged th.- Mail building at Toronto. Ont,, to the extent of $50,(100.