Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-07
TO APPLY A MUZZLE.
Blair Proposes a Set OF Reeds
Gag Rules for the Senate.
Count TOlstoi's Book kruetZer Senate
TO be Excluded from the Mails.
Public Debt Statement.
The Republicans Of the House Election
Committee Unable to Obtain
Quorum to Dust Breckenridge.
Public Debt Statement.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The public
debt statement is sent tonight in tho
new form authorized by Secretary
Window.
Public debt: Interest bearing debt
Bonds at ~ per cent, Sl70 ,o47, $50;
bonds at per cent, 1898, 6iS, 030; re-
funding certificates at per cent. sos,
100
Aggregate of interest bearing debt ex-
elusive of United States bonds issued to
Pacific railroads, 500, 799, $3.50.
Debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, 81 1903, 1876.
Debt bearing no interest: Legal ten
der notes. SS46, 6Sl ,016; old demand
notes, $50 ,032; national bank notes, re-
demption account deposited in treasury
under act of July 10, 1890. S54 .207 1875;
fractional currency, SIS, 375, 1854; esti-
mated as lost or destroyed, Sc ,9l1 $40.
Aggregate of debt bearing no interest,
including national bank fund deposited
1890, S407, $3.50, 533.
Certificates issued on deposits of gold
and silver coin and legal tender notes:
Gold certificates, Sl60, 02l 1863; silver
certificates, 1902 ,19l III; currency GER
tificates, Sll $3.50 900.
Aggregate of certificates Offset by
cash IN the treasury, S474 ,O73, 040.
Aggregate of debt, including certitt-
Gates, July 81, 1890, 81 ,5S4 ,532 ,06S.
Cash in treasury reserved for the fol-
lowing purposes: For redemption of
United States notes, acts of January IA,
1875, and July u. 1882, 500 200 200;
for redemption of gold certificates issued,
Sl6O .O21 1863; for redemption of silver
certificates issued, S302 ,l9l III; for re-
demution of currency certificates issued,
Sill $50 900; for matured debt, accrued
interest aud interest due and unpaid,
Sc, $50. 757.
Total cash reserved for above pur-
poses, $3.50, 1928 1897.
Available for other purposes: Silver
fractional currency and minor coin, not
full legal tender. S22 ,54l ,7l9; net cash
balance, including S54 .207 1915 national
bank fund deposited in the treasury IN
der act of July IA, 1890, Sl04 ,672 400.
Total. sos. 142 ,95S.
The debt, less the cash in the treasury
July 81, 1890, is S876, $3.50. ll3.
Debt, less cash in the treasury June
80. 1890, SS76 ,7s4 $40.
Net decrease during the month, $685.
257.
Note-The following items heretofore
reported under the head of "lnterest
bearing debt' will no longer appear in
the debt statement under that head:
Bonds issued to the Pacific railroad,
S64 ,623 ,5l2; navy pension funds, Sl4,-
600 900; total, S7S, 1928, 5l2, ana for
purposes of comparison they are also
omi tied from the totals reported on
this statement for the month of June,
1890.
Under head of "debt bearing, no in
terest'' there IL included the sum of
S54 ,207 1915, balance of the fund on de-
post with the treasurer of the United
States for redemption of notes of na-
tional banks failed, in liquidation and
reducing circulation, covered into the
treasury under provisions of the act of
congress of July IA, 1890, and the avail
able cash in the treasury July 81, 1880 is
increased by corresponding amount.