WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.
The Senate passed amendments to the House U. S. Note bill. Among them are: to strike out the words “that the authorization to issue $150,000,00 [sic] is to meet the necessities of the treasury, and to provide a currency receivable for the public dues,” and to insert that the notes shall be receivable in payment of all claims against them, except for payments upon bonds and notes which shall be in coin; and shall also be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the U. S., except interest as aforesaid. The com. Also propose new sections, authorizing the Sec’y to receive from any person or corporation U. S. notes on deposit for not less than thirty days, in sums of not less than $500 with any of the Assistant Treasurer’s or designated depositors authorized by the Secretary to receive, who shall issue [therefore] certificates of deposit bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum and interest to cease at the pleasure of the Secretary, and the aggregate of such deposits shall at no time exceed the sum of $25,000,000.
Tribune’s Dispatch.
The bill of which Senator Wilson gave notice to-day will provide for the establishment of a national foundry on the Hudson river, not far south of West Point, and of a manufactory of iron, suitable for cannon in Pennsylvania, probably at Bloomfield.
Gen. Sigel’s nomination as Major General will be sent into the Senate to-morrow.
WASHINTON, Feb. 11.
Herman Michaels has been efficiently recognized as consul for Saxonia in the state of California.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
The Senate passed amendments to the House U. S. Note bill. Among them are: to strike out the words “that the authorization to issue $150,000,00 [sic] is to meet the necessities of the treasury, and to provide a currency receivable for the public dues,” and to insert that the notes shall be receivable in payment of all claims against them, except for payments upon bonds and notes which shall be in coin; and shall also be lawful money and legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, within the U. S., except interest as aforesaid. The com. Also propose new sections, authorizing the Sec’y to receive from any person or corporation U. S. notes on deposit for not less than thirty days, in sums of not less than $500 with any of the Assistant Treasurer’s or designated depositors authorized by the Secretary to receive, who shall issue [therefore] certificates of deposit bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum and interest to cease at the pleasure of the Secretary, and the aggregate of such deposits shall at no time exceed the sum of $25,000,000.
Tribune’s Dispatch.
The bill of which Senator Wilson gave notice to-day will provide for the establishment of a national foundry on the Hudson river, not far south of West Point, and of a manufactory of iron, suitable for cannon in Pennsylvania, probably at Bloomfield.
Gen. Sigel’s nomination as Major General will be sent into the Senate to-morrow.
WASHINTON, Feb. 11.
Herman Michaels has been efficiently recognized as consul for Saxonia in the state of California.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, February 12, 1862, p. 1
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