People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1895 — NATION’S DEBT IS LARGER. [ARTICLE]

NATION’S DEBT IS LARGER.

Carlisle s Report for March Shows an Increase of 818,317,105. Washington, April 2. —The monthly treasury statement of the public debt shows that on March 30, 1895, the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $908,730,046, an increase for the month of $18,317,105. The amount of new 4 per cent bonds issued during the month was $28,507,900. Following is a recapitulation of the debt: Interest-bearing debt, $713,851,960; increase during the month, $28,808,100; debt on which interest has ceased since maturity, $1,770,250, decrease during the month, $9,050; debt bearing no interest, $381,787,366, decrease during the month, $762,270; total debt, $1,664,591,710, ’of which $567,944,442 is certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury. The treasury cash is ciassiTed as follows: Cold, $139,486,496: silver, $510,259,879; paper, $131,227,017; general amount, disbursing officers' balances, etc., $16,224,166; total, $797,237,599, against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $609,320,325, leaving a cash balance of $187,917,261, of which $90,643,307 is gold reserve.