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Show LATEST DESPATCHES. . EASTERN. Washington AttvK't'H. Washington, 1. The Treasury Blatement shows: Coin balance, $80,-l'H,o7'J; $80,-l'H,o7'J; currency, !? 1 ,.)i20,'1.3 1 ; reduction reduc-tion of debt for the pat month, $2,- i89,;i';s. Tho Ways and Means Conmiittee examined Asm slant Secretary of the Treasury Sawyer, lo-day, in relation to the banborn contract. The testimony testi-mony was very similar to Secretary Richardson's v; sterday. He signed everything presented il properly ! checked, hut as a subordinate. Ho denied that the defendant had withheld important papers from tho Committee. Commit-tee. He deelii.ed to pivo an op'nion in regard to the propriety of repealing, repeal-ing, amending orYonlinuing the law, 08 tfiat question belonged to CongresH. The Hoiiao committee on public buildings will report Garfield's bill for returning to the treasury all appropriations appropri-ations for public buildings not yet commenced wiLh a substitute providing provid-ing that 1 1 io appropriations shall remain re-main available till the completion of lho work for which they wero made, but authorizing tho Secretary of the Treasury to exercise his discretion as to tho time of commencing and prosecuting pros-ecuting any of such work for the best intcrusts of the public services. In lho district investigation, to-day, numbers of witnesses testified in efiect that tho property holders of Washing, ton wore assessed for more work than had been done. T. T. Fowler, a partner of the National Paving Company, Com-pany, testified that in August 1871, a consolidation of this and ' other . companies was contemplated contemplat-ed in order to secure frefc of completion, certain contracts on Pennsylvania avenue; that during tho negotiation Shepherd, now Governor, Gov-ernor, who was interested in ono of the companies, told tho witness he'd arrange with Hallet Killbournc to represent his (Shepherd') interests in tho consolidition as though ho was unwilling, in view of his expected relations re-lations to the District government, to be known as interested. The Governor testified that he sold all of his interest in the paving companies com-panies when he became a member of the Hoard of Public Works; he didn't remember the conversation w.th Fowler; Fow-ler; never had any interest wifi Kill-bourne Kill-bourne in any contract work with , which Fowler alleged was to be controlled con-trolled by the proposed consolidation, which was finished six months before August, '71. |