Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-11-07
OUR CASH BOX.

Monthly Fiscal Statement From the Treas.
ury Department-The Reduction Of tho
Debt for October %, 1Oz,81S--Receipts
and Expenditures for tho Month-Ths
Circulation Of Silver Dollars, Etc.
WASHINGTON Nov, 2.-The public-debt
statement issued from the Treasury De-
partment yesterday shows reduction
in the debt amounting to 50, 104, s5S
during the month of October. The total
debt less cash in the Treasury is 81, &c.,
950,677, and of this amount $3.50, 6S5, 172
is bonded Indebtedness. The net cash
or surplus in the Treasury is S45, 1856, 762,
or 81, 00O, 600 less than q month ago.
National bank repositories hold SAT, $685..
479 of Government funds, or 100000
less than on October 1. The gold-fund
balance during the past month has de-
creased 81, SOC, 900, and amounts to $751;
572, 1856. The silver-fund balance, exclu-
sive of 1000, 600 trade-dollars bullion, has
decreased about $500, 1000, and now
amounts to $11, 1854, 210. The Treasury
now holds 2S3, $780, 31 standard silver
dollars, 81, 1884, 1888 silver bullion, and
50, 32S, 1878 silver certificates, against
which there is outstanding S277, 319, SA
silver certificates.
The silver fund balance reached the
lowest point on October II, when, after
deducting silver certificates in circula-
ton, balance of but IS, 116, S51 standard
silver dollars, and only 1851 1857 in sill
yer certificates remained in the Treas
ury, cash. Since that date there have
been slight accommodations, almost from
day to day, until the balance now stands
only half million less than on October
1. The circulation of standard silver
dollars has increased about two millions
and half during the past month, and
now amounts to $50, SSS, 40.
Government receipts during October
aggregated $32, 492, COZ, or about half
million more than in October, 1888.
Customs receipts were $1S,S15,04n, or
nearly million more than in October,
1855; internal revenue receipts were
81, 1925, 400, or 100000 more than in
October, 1883, and receipts from mis-
cellaneous sources amounted to 50, 052,-
097, or $500, 900 less than in October. 1888.
Government receipts for the first four
months of the current fiscal year reaGh in
the aggregate $132, 029, 004, or barely one
hundred thousand dollars more than for
the corresponding period of last rear.
Customs receipts for the past four
months aggregate in round numbers,
SIT, 100000, and internal revenue re-
ceipts $40, 500, 600, and, compared with
four months of the past fiscal year, the
former shows a falling off of fully So
100000 and the latter an increase Of
about So, 5000 900.
Government expenditures during the
last four months of the current kscal
year aggregate 1924, 1896, $50, or atcut
s14, 600, 600 more than for the correspond
ing four months of the preceding fscsA
year. The principal increase over Last
year is in pensions, that charge for tho
past four months amounting to $40, 1884,
OBI, or $11,0OO,OOO more than for July.
August, September and October, 1885
During the past month the Govern.
ment has paid out $2,291, 537 in premi-
u1ns on bonds purchased, against S4,-
SIS, 457 in October q year ago, and for
the past four months has expended S.
600, 925 in premiums on bonds purchased,
against 81, LOSS, 1898 during the corre-
spondinging months last year.