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Show HAY WARD GUILTY. Assistant Secretary Curtis Makes a Statement Concerning Uncle Sam' Gold. Minneapolis, March 8 "In two hours I will be a free man." Thus said Harry Ilayward today, and in less than three hours a jury of bis peers gave the He to his words and placed its seal upon the word "guilty." With the ; same immovable stolidity writh which he has watched the trial of his case, the prisoner received the verdict of the jury. There was net the shadow of a change in color, not the relaxation of a single muscle; no visible collaps3 or sign of any emo tion ; ever the same cynical and sneering sneer-ing indifference. Anpgginj? to the statutes of the statf-. I!:nneso;a. only one fate can await Harry Hay-ward Hay-ward to be hanged hy the Beck until he is ae?d. Neither toe jury nor the judge could alter the sentence, no matter how strongly inclined they might be toward ; leniency. For murder in the first dcree, the law provides pro-vides onlj one penr.lt; Judge and jury alike are but the ag2nt9 of the state for the execution of that law. At the request of counsel for ihe defense the Dronouncing of the sentence was de ferred until next Mcnday morning, but the verdict ot tbe jury has made the sentence of Harry Hayward as certain as though the judge had already an nounced it. . , . NOT EMBARRASSED. Washington, Marcll 8. -Assistant Secretary Curtis today'made the following fol-lowing statement: i "In view of certain statements in the newspapers that the treasury officials are embarrassed by an alleged failure in gold deliveries under the recent contract, con-tract, and other assertions of a similar nature, calculated to caislead and disturb dis-turb the public mind, I wish to say that the actual withdrawals of gold from the treasury since the first of March, 1895, have been $355,347.00 of which $281,087.00 have been for the redemption redemp-tion of United States treasury notes, and divided among the cities of New York, .Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, St. Louis and Chicago. These are no more thpn the ordinary withdrawals which in the past have usually taken place at this season of the year. Moreover, during the Bame period the treasury hca received considerable con-siderable gold coin m exchange for various kinds of paper carrency. "The apparently failing off in the gold reserve was cauEtd by a misunderstanding misun-derstanding in the gold reserve statement state-ment of the treasury Fiatement, made up from the statement sent from New York, which should D!;t have been included in-cluded in the gold receive until the final certificates of deposit upon which bonds could i.3 issued were delivered., ot the newspapers us J. undrawn, include in-clude the heavy withdrawals of the earlier part of the month before the gold purchase contract was made, and one single large item) not withdrawn for export, concerning which there has been considerable newspaper comment, com-ment, a . "The treasury oncialB who are charged with the responsibility of these transactions hive no anxiety whatever in regara w me meinou whi'.h,is?JbQs.beeR pursued by the. sellers of Ihe gold "cdir under "the recent re-cent contract. They jtre satisfied to contemplate the faei that for five weeks the withdrawals of gold coin have not exceeded thenormal amount, with the exception of tbe instance quoted above, and that no exports of gold would ever have - been made during dur-ing that time. The As, fully 89,. 000,000 in gold has already, been deposited de-posited on the foreign iccount in excess ex-cess of the contract reqn:r,ements. t-In regard to the exceSa of govern ment expenditures y, icceipiH, it is well known the latter aef rapidly increases, in-creases, and that up o this time nothing has been receivdj from the income in-come tax and verv littltfrom the sugar duty, both of which wiJi$ implements of receipts m the future 1 ' 'There is plenty of ooney in the treasury to pay the applications, and the statement in some rticles, that if the treasury had the nhey the passage pass-age of the enormcusabpropriations would lead to immediat disbursement of immense sums of cajy is totally untrue. There is a quitjon of law as to when the appropriate for the payment pay-ment ot sugar bounty ecorae3 available, avail-able, and until that qniipn is settled it will be impossible toufcke any pay ment hereunder. Mojs-'er, the claims for bounty must, be -sjjisted before payment, since paym'etiaustfce made pro rata if the approprtfen h insufficient. insuf-ficient. " J r "The total availatfHash in the treasury today amduLteJ $83,371,495, over and above the oneiJindred millions mil-lions allowed to cover tf ld reserve, which is $89,745J594,ll.Tbe treasury officials have no; anxiefaa to their ability to meet all oblifions in the immediate future wilfase, and aie confident the expected fival of business busi-ness will 8ssure the futj.''" - |