Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

Recapitulation of the Condition of tho United States Treasury. Washington dispatch: The public debt statement shows the net increase of the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during the month of September, to have been $834,793. The inter-est-bearing debt increased $l5O. The debt on which interest has ceased sSnce maturity decreased $60,770, and the debt bearing no interest increased $487,136. There was a reduction of $4,408,277 in the cash balance of the treasury. Tho interest-bearing debt is $585,037,740, the debt on which imprest has ceased since maturity, $1,934,770, and the debt bearing no interest, $374,364,264, a total debt of $961,386,776. The certificates and treasury' notes, offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, amount to $570,225,363, an increase during the month of $4,610,482. The gold reserve stands at $93,582,172, and the net cash balance at $13,293,461, the total cash balance in the treasury, Sept. 30, being $106,875,633, against $107,283,910 the 31st of August. The comparative statement of receipts and expenditures of the United States shows the total receipts for September, 1893, to have been $24,582,756 and the expenditures $25,478,010. Since July 1 the receipts have been $79,379,417 and the expenditures $98,459,127. The total increase in the circulation of national bank notes since Sept. 30, 1892, has been $35,911,251, and tho increase during the month of September 89,710,291. The total outstanding on Sept. 30 was $208,592,172. The amount of silver offered for sale to the Treasury Department aggregated 420,000 ounces at from 744 to 75 cents per ounce. AH the offers were declined and 74i cents per ounce tendered. The Standard Oil Company’s refinery at Louisville, Ky., burned, with a loss of $40,900.