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Show WASHINGTON, i Ifaabington, 19. Ti;c navy depart-! meut has taken an appeal to tho Supreme court lrocu tlie tieciaion of the court of claims in tuvor of Cjmo dore G. T.mple, tbat naval cfllcers are entitled to 8 centa per ; mile for expense while travelir; out- sitio the United States on public duty, instead of only the actual expenses, as department holds. 1 I The President has nominated , W. J. Gilbraith of Iowa, associate justice of the supreme court I of Montana; Joan F. Morgan of ; Illinois, chief justice of theeupreme! i court of Idaho; Norman Buck oil ! Idaho, associate justice of tho same: court. i A communication waa received in the senate to-day lrom the secretary of the treasury in response to tho recO' lution of the 10th inst-. by which he was directed to report what amount of United Stated legal tender uoUi have been redeemed iu coin hIucs ttie first day of January last and also what amount of coin he couaiders himself authorized to retain in the treasury for the purpose nf maintaining the recumption of Bpecie payments under the provisions cf the act cf January 24th '75. Secretary Sherman writea: There has been redeemed in coin, since January lat, '79 ot legal tender notes tho amount of $'1,133,513. As to the amount of coin authorized to be retained in the treasury for the purpose of maintaining a re-bumptiou re-bumptiou of specie payments, I have to Btate that under the provisions of the resumption act, authorizing the secretary, in order to prepare and provide for the redemption of United States notes, to use any Burplua revenue in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and to issue certain bouda of tho Uuited States. The coin reserve of the treasury has been increased to $38,000,000, that being about 40 per ceut. of the notes outstanding out-standing to be redeemed, and believer) to be the smallest reserve upon which resumption could bo prudoutly com menced aud successfully maintained. As fully set forth in ray last annual report this reserve arose from the aale of $95,000,000 bouds and from surplus revenues, aa authorized by law, aud it must, under the existing law, be maintained unimpaired fur the purpose for which it waa created. Chicago, 19. Journal's Washington: Washing-ton: Barnum, chairman of the national democratic committee, who naa ueen in couiorenco wuu iuo issuing issu-ing democratn for three days, bus oponly charged the democrats in congress con-gress with aorioualy injuring tho democratic prospects for victory in 1880. Other members of the committee, com-mittee, however, disagree with his estimate as to the result of the extra seiaion. Journal's Washington: Senator Blaine was greeted with a very large audience to-day. He took the floor at 11 o'clock, and before speaking on the legislative appropriation bill proper he noticed briefly the attempt of senator Eaton to show that Daniel Webster, in the cloaing hours of his life, changed his views regarding national government, and apoko of the United States as a confederation of elates and not aa a federal union. Mr. Blaine showed from Mr. Webster's Web-ster's published Fpeecues that be had been grossly maligned, and that he ever changed h a views regarding the conetruction of the national government. gov-ernment. Before Mr. Blaine look the floor, the senate agreed to close the debate on the legislative appropriation appropria-tion bill to-morrow at 4 o'clock. |