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Show WASHINGTON. Washington, 23. As the congressional congres-sional eesaiou approaches, indications accumulate that a desperate eflort will be made to practically fue all fiat money men with the cheap silver dollar men and inflationists in behalf of legislation adverse to gold resumption. resump-tion. Tueir opponent, therefore, Bhould be active in consolidating all the elements of influence in support of the verdict of the late election. A petition is ciicula'ing in Central America rrqueatiug the recall of American Miniater Williamson, who is Baid to have become very uopnpu lar there. Chairman Atkins, of tho huute committee on appropriTioa, eays ne does not think there will be any neces eity for an extra Besaioo of congress. A suit has been brought by the attorneys of Colonel William B. Moore, late supervising special ngent of the treasury, to recover damages to the amount of $50,000 from General H. V. Boyuton. Colonel Moore was removed from hia oflico about a year I ago, upon the presentation to President Presi-dent Hayes, as alleged, of certain letters written by Colonel Moore to President Graut relative to Secretary Bristow. New York, 23 The Tribune's , Washington BayB Sherman has caused to be prepared, for his forthcoming report, a very full statement of the , workings of the reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich islands. When the treaty was discussed in executive session in the senate be madoa speech against ita ratification on the ground that the Uuited Statrs could not afford the loss which the proposed reciprocity would caute. He now finda, upon investigating tho subject, that he was right in predicting predict-ing that, in a pecuniary sense, tho United States would lose heavily by tlie trnaiv TIip BPf rptarv han cnllpntRfl all the details of our commerce with . the Sandwich islands, and will present them in full. Iu summing up, he finds for the first year under the treaty, that the duties remitted by the United States were, in rouud numbers, $165,000, gt eater than the invoice price of all free goods from the United States to Sandwich islands. The total amouut. remitted by the United States on staple article? alone waB $125,000, while tho tojal vulue of goods exported to tho Sandwich islands from the United States is only $960,000 for the year ending January let, 1878. Toe United Slates remitted re-mitted duties to tbo amount ot $S30,-000, $S30,-000, while the total value of allgoodB expurted from the United States to the Sandwich islands during the same time was only 815,000, greater than for the year beloro the treaty was ratified. In other words, the duties remitted by the United States for the time indicated amounted to $15,000 more than the total invoice va ue of increased importationB by the Sandwich Sand-wich islands from the United States. |