Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1886 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The decrease in the public debt for May was $8,828,506. The interest-bearing debt is now $1,220,650,312. The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst; • ’ INTEREST BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4% per eent * J 250.000.000 Bonds at 4 per cent ' 737.759.i00 Bonds at 3 per cent........ 154/ 59,109 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 204, 00 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent..... 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 04,623,512 Principal $1,2.0,659,312 Interest 11.5H6.832 Total $1.23'.237.14 i DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. ■-===; Principal $7,097,5 5 Interest. 218, ,93 T0ta1....... $.,316,295 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and legal-tender notes. $346,738.486 Certificates of deposit 13,955,000 Gold certificates 80,120, 25 Silver certificates 8,914,1'4 Fl-actional currency... 6,954,017 Principal .. 536,951,727 Principal 11,746.699.544 Interest. 11,805.622 Total . 7. '.. $1,776,595,161 Less cash items available,or reduction of the debt 292,164,274 Less reserve held for redemotion of U. 8. n0te5...... 100,000,000 Total 1312.164.174 Total debt less available cash items $1,474,340,8)2 Netcashinthe Treasury.;.. 73,142,611' Debt less cash iu Treasury June 1. 1886 .............51,398,108,281 Debt less cash in Treasury May I, 1886, ry f.y Hur- 1,407,026.847 Decrease of debt during April 5'.)24.566 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOB REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for sold certificates actually outstanding A $80,120,025 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 89,184,129 V. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 1?,965.000 Cash neld for matured debt and interest unpaid.......... 14,90 *,127 Fractional currency 1 9 >2 Total available for reduction of the debt $392,164,273 RESERVE FUND. ■ Held for redemption of U. 8. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the Fractional silver coin $28.9129277 Minor c0in...... 455.453 Total $29,3.7,739 Certificates held as cash 82,731.686 Netcaahhalance on hand. .. 76,142,611 Total cash in Treasury .as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $490,406,390 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 shai»e of a branch with leaves and flowers, jdl 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 aeut-glass smelling-bottle studded with diamonds. Secretary and Mrs. Endicott, four massive solid silver candlesticks. Mr. E. R. Bacon, of New York, magnificent diamond star set in silver, to be worn as a pendant or attached to the gold hair-pin which accompanies it; Collector Hedden, of New York, a platinum salt dish on solid gold legs, with seed jWartS studding the feet; Surveyor Beattie, of New York, diamond bracelet; ' Congressman Timothy J. Campbell, solid gold horse-radish dish ; Governor Hill, of NcwYork. elaborate jewel case with a French music-box attachment; Mrs. M. B. Braden, a rare-designed silver epergne with cut-glass dish fdr table; John R. McLean, oxidized silver and gold ice-cream freezer; E. H. Butler, 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, arid valued at $900; Mr. Bisseil, large diamond flower, to be worn as a pin or as a pendant. Land Commissioner Sparks’ order suspending (he operations of the preemption and timber-culture laws has been recalled... .About one thousand cards announcing the marriage of the President were sent out from the White House on the 4th just, by mail, by messenger, and otherwise. The cords are exceedingly simple and plain, and engraved in heavy lines on a full sheet of fine note paper, reading as follows: Mr. Grover Cleveland. Miss Frank Folsom. MARRIED, On Wednesday, Juno second, eighteen hundred and eightv-six. Executive Mansion, ■" _ ■ . These announcements were sent to the members of the "Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court. Senators and Representatives in Congress, the Diplomatic Corps, the Lieutenant General of the Army, Admiral of the Navy, and other officials in Washington, and to personal friends of the President and Mrs. Cleveland in Albany and Buffalo. Gov. Swineford, of Alaska, who is urging a territorial form of government for the purchased , region, predicts that there will be a white population of ten thousand before Congress can make the desired change. No one can now buy a foot of land in the district, arid there is no way to obtain wood for the mines except to steal it from the public domain. The House Committee on Territories hesitates to favor the pending bill because of fears about the policy of Indian suffrage.