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Show Washington Items. Washington, 20. The secretary of the treasury, to day, issued a call for $3,000,000 5-20 bonds on which interest in-terest ceases on tlie 20th of July, as treasurers throughout the country are ordered to begin the payment of May interest to-morrow without rebate. There is a report that the Presideut has requested secretary of the interior, in-terior, Delano, to resign, but Assistant Secre'ary Cowan and other officers of the interior department discredit it considering it very improbable, as the president and secretary are now traveling trav-eling in company for pleasure. Many persona, however, believe the report is true. Tlie president and several of his party who have been to Massachusetts Massachus-etts returned to-day. The postmaster general, who was with them, and Secretary Delano, when the report that the secretary had been asked to resign reached 'them, declares from what he then heard, the report is untrue. |