Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — OUR FINANCES. [ARTICLE]

OUR FINANCES.

Public Debt Increased During November —The Reserve. “ Washington, Dec. 3. —The debt statement shows a net increase in the public debt, less ejasb in. the treasury, during -JN-Ovembep o/ $2,046-.502 1 k6, The interest bearing increased, $ 100. The noninterest bearing debt decreased $495,509, and cash in the treasury decreased $2,541,611,36.7 The balance of the several -tdasses of debt at the close of business November 30 were: Interest bearing debt, $747,361,900; debt on which Interest has censed since maturity, $1,676,130.26; debt bearing no interest, $376,845.857.64; total, $1,125,883,997.90. The total cash in the treasury was $810,120,692.12. The gold reserve was $79,332,966. Net cash balance, $98,072.420.(?2. In the month there was a decruuse in gold coin and burs of $13,792,893.60, the total being at, the eJose $129,567,945.32. Of silver there was a decrease of $918,397.07. Of the surplus there was in national bank depositories $14,408,308.53, against $14,256,694.80 at the end of the preceding month. 'lhe monthly treas Orv statement of receipts and expenditures shows receipts for the nibnt.h of November to have been $25,986,503, disbursements, $27/19972845, leaving a deficit for November" of $1,212,780 arid for the five months of this fiscal year, "$15,859,325'r' The increase in the receipts for the last month, ns compared u’iih November, -1894. was $0,573,100 ami ui the last five" months over 1894, $3.755,706.,