Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement for November. INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4)4 per cent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent 737,742,850 Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190,500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 221,750 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 0 per cent. 64,023,512 Principal $1,260,778,612 Interest 11.853,088 Total $1,272,631,700 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal.... $3,569,105 Interest 217,035 Total $3,786,141 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Old demand and -legal-tender notes. $346,738,806 Certificates of deposit 17,555,000 Gold certificates 105,554,092 Bilvor certificates 92,702,642 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 0,959,574 Principal 509,510,114 Total debt— Principal $1,833,857,832 Interest 12,070,124 Total $1,845,927,956 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 231,452,594 Less reserve held for redemption, of U. S. notes 100,000,000 Total $331,452,594 Total debt less available cash item 551,514,475,361 Net cash in tbe Treasury 61.930.595 Debt less oash in Treasury Dec. 1. 1«85 '.... .$1,452,544,766 Debt loss cash in Treasury Nov. 1, 1881 1,447,657,568 Increase of debt during the m0nth.54,037,198 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Child held for gold certificates actually outstanding $105,554,092 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding 92,702,642 U. 8. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding....... 17,555,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid 15,639,229

Fractional currency 1,639 Total available for reduction of the debt $231,152,534 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,009 Unavailable for reduction of tho debt: — Fractional silver coin 427,920,399 Minor ooin 010,171 Total $28,530,-180 Certificates lield as cash 06,737.4*2 Net cash balance on hand 01,990,335 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.'. $483,657,102 The Cullom Interstate Commerce Committee bat* prepared a bill for the appo.niment of five Commissioners repres?nthg both political parties. The Supervising Architect of the Treasury, in his annual report, save there are now in course of construction eighty buildings, calling for a total expenditure of $8,511,400. The expenditures for the year on this account aggregated nearly $2,500,000. .