Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1897 — PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT.

A Decrease of $11,338,125 Noted for the Month of November. The December statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business Nov. 30 the public debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $1,009,220,460, a decrease Since Oct. 30 of $11,338,125. This decrease is accounted for by an increase in the cash due to the deposit of anjinstailmerit of the" proceeds of the sale of the Government’s interest in the Union Pacific. But for the cash in the treasury would have been $771,450 less than last month. The cash in the treasury is classified as follows: Gold, $194,089,260; silver, $507,650,382; paper, $105,756,181; bonds, disbursing officers’ balances, etc., $38,907,251; total, $840,409,076; against which there are demand liabilities amounting to $625,745,516, leaving the net cash balance $220,663,559. The comparative statement of the Government receipts and expenditures shows that the total receipts for the month of November were $43,363,605, of which $18,194,618 was received from the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific Kailroad, making the ordinary receipts for the month $25,168,987. The total expenditures for November were $37,810,838, of which $4,549,368 was cash in the Union Pacific sinking fund turned into the treasury and repaid to the appropriation from which it had been originally drawn for investment. Hence the month’s disbursements include this sum. The ordinary receipts for the month, therefore, were $25,168,957 and the ordinary disbursements $33,261,470, leaving a deficit of $8,092,483. The receipts from customs were $9,830,025, a falling off of about SIOO,OOO r s compared with November, 1890. The receipts from internal revenue were $13,530,049, a gain of about $430,000 for the month.