The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-12-31
UNCLE SANS FINANCES
ATREAsURY Statement THATHiLL
BE LONG MEMORABLE.
Ex-MinIster stevens to Testify In kegsreto
tho Hawaiian Question--Mrs. Cless-
iand's New Years RecspS'on.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. Dec. So-.Tne
first half Vt the fiscal year iSS-$
will long be memorable in treasury
finances, as showing an inroad ON the
Treasury cash amounting 10 about $iiVo,-
W0. The official figures on receipts and
expenditures, and the official debt state
ment. because OF the holidays. will not
be issued until next Tuesday January "a.
Practically. the figures. however. which
may vary few thousand dollars one way
or the other when the statement Is Issued.
may show that for the six mouths ending
December SlHt, the receipts OF the United
States from all sources were SlSo.eR'~'.
as compared with sl9IeoO.0oO for the cor
responding period OF lSy2 The expen-
ditures OF the Government for the hrss
half OF the current fiscal year were ylSs.-
600 900. as compared with Si90.00oOO9 for the
corresponding period OF 1872. The rcceipts
for December, this year. were less by
100000 than the receipts tor the year
1892. The expenditures however FOR The
present months were three cnd "A half
millions less than that year. The greatest
falling on in Government receipts has
been In the custom dues. the receipts from
that source this month being only SyoOV,vVs
as compared With SleVoe,ooo Tor December,
1892.
The Dsbt Statement.
The debt statement VIII show the rot
balance In the Treasury on January lat
10 have been SSy y26l,V0. as agaIIst {izz.5oO.-
900 on July lst the beginning OF the insect
year. and l29.OO0.O0 on the lst Of January,
1872 The present balance cclsists Or
z n ri RIt N md < \ fun N
On lust January. OF the balance OF
S3s,tO00J1, Sl2l. 10000 was I'm gold, ana
100000 in currency.
Senator Frye memlsr OF tho subcom-
niittee Of the Committee on Foreign RciA-
tions investigating the hawaiisn matter.
has received a letter from sx-Alinister
stevens. stating that he would come to
Washington and appear before the sub
committee. Stevens would prefer, owing
20 the condition OF his health. that his de-
position should be takel at Augusta,
Maine, but this is practically impossible.
Since the death OF his daughter, which
occurred by drowning In Hawaii at the
time OF the revolution last ,Januaf,t.
Mr.. Stevens has been IN poor health, ana
his advanced age seyenty-four years. pre-
cludes hope Of substantial Improvement,
Mr. Cieyeiand's Reseption.
Mrs. Cleveland has responses from all
the ladies' invited to assist her at the
official reception on New Year s. Day.
Mrs. Stevenson and the ladies' OF the
Cabinet, with the President and Mrs.
Cleveland, VIII compose the receiving
line. Behind the line will be the wives
OF chief-Justice Fuller, Speaker Crisf,
Majcr-General Schoheld. OF Senators Cor
man, Gray, Frye, Brice. Gordon. MandtP-
son. and sherman: OF Representatives
Wilson, Sayers. Burrows. and Outhwaites
Of Acknowledgement Rugles. OF Commo-
dores Ramsay, Highborn, and Chad
wick; OK notwithstanding IcAdoo
and Curtis, and the Misses Hamlln, sis
ters OF Assistant Secretary Hamlin; the
wives OF Colonel Haywood, commanding
Of the marine corps; OF Private Secre-
tary Thurber Miss Whitney the Iisses
Stevenson, Miss Brice. Miss Murphy,
Miss Thomas, Miss NJ. Thomas, Mrs. A.
A. Wilson, Mrs. Sunderland. the wife Of
the Presidents pastor, Miss Rigss, Miss
Tuckerman. Miss Mary Sanders, Miss
Letter Mrs. W. X. Carlisle Miss Barry,
Miss Henderson, the Misses scott MISS
Bertha Crisp, and Miss Sheffield.