The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-04

| decrease or slb,sb2,67t.66, In the ordi- nary expenses of the government, as compared with the fiscal year 1898. There was collected from customs uai, ,sis, s,53o.e2. and from internal reve- nue sit7.les. .44s.7o. The balance of the income for the year. amounting to ssa.si5.6l7.s7. was derived from the sale or lands and other sources. rr | The value Of our total duitable im- ports amounted to s275. s0ss. being sl46.6s7.s2b less than during the pre- eeding year. and the importations free of duty amounted to ss7s.7s5. .53s. being s6a.74s.675 less than during the preced- ing year. The receipts from customs were $7s.536. 4s6.ll less. and from inter- nal revenue sis.sse. .5as.s7 less than in 1893.
 The total tax collected from distilled spirits was ss5. .259. .25o.2 .25: on manufac- tured tobacco s2s.6l7. .s9s.se. and on fer mented liquors. s3i,4l4.7ss04.
 Our exports of merchandise, domestic and foreign. amounted during the year to $ss2. 2.140.572. being an increase over the preceding year of s44.495.37s.
 | The total amount of gold exported during the fiscal year was 76,S9s.06l, as against s10S, ,6S0, ,44i during the fiscal year 1893. The amount imported was $72,4i9.119. as against s21, ,174,3s1 during the previous year.
 | The imports of silver were $13,2S6,- b52, and the exports were $50, ,265
 The total bounty paid upon the pro- duction of the sugar in the United States for the fiscal year was s12,100.- 2os.ss, being an increase of s2,725 ,07S0l over the payments made during the preceding year. The amount of bounty paid from July l, 1894, to August 2S, 1894, the time when further payments ceased by operation of law, was $966,- 1S5.S4 The total expenses incurred in the payment of the bounty upon sugar during the fiscal year was $13O, ,14O.S5. It is estimated that upon the basis of the present revenue laws the receipts of the government during the current fiscal year ending June 30. 1895, will be $424, 427, 74S.44. and its expenditures $444, 427, ,72S.44, resulting in deficit of | $20, ,0OO,0 000
 On the first day of November, 1894, | the total stock of money of all kinds in the treasury was $2,240, 773SSS as against $2,2O4, 4,651 ,00O on the first day of November. 1893. and the money of all kinds in circulation, or not included in the treasury holdings, was $1,672, ,O93,- | 422, or $2427 per capita, upon an esti- mated population of 6S,S87 ,OOO At the same date there was held in the treas ury gold bullion amounting to $44,615,- 177,55, and silver bullion which was | purchased at cost of$127, ,779,98S. The purchase of silver bullion under the | act of July 14 1890, ceased on the first | day of November, 1893 and up to that time there had been purchased during the fiscal year 11,917,6 ,65S.7S fine ounces at cost of sS,715,52132, an average cost | of $0.7313 per fine ounce. The total amount of silver purchased from the time that law took effect until the re- peal of its purchasing clause, on the date last mentioned, was 16S, ,6S2.53 fine ounces, which cost $155, ,931, ,OO2 25, the average price per fine ounce being $0.9244. The total amount of standard silver dollars coined at the hints of the United States since the passage of the act of February 2S, 1878, is $421,- 776,40 of which $37S, ,166, 793 were coined under the provisions of that act $3S,- 531, ,143, under the provisions of the act of July IA, 1890, and $5.07S. 472 under the act providing for the coinage of trade dollar bullion. The total coinage of all metals at our hints during the last fiscal year consisted of 63, 4S5 ,220 pieces, valued at s1O6, ,216, 730.06, of which there were $99,474,9125O in gold coined; $75S in standard silver dollars; $6,024, ,140. 30 in subsidiary silver coin, and $716, ,919.26 in minor coin.
 During the calendar year 1893 the production of precious metals in the United States was estimated at 1739,- S23 fine ounces of gold of the commer- cial and coinage value of $s5, ,955, ,ooo, and sixty million fine ounces of silver of the bullion or market value of s4e,- S0O,000, and of the coinage value of S77,- 576, 900. It is estimated that on the first day of July, 1894, the stock of me- tallic money in the United States, con- sisting of coin and bullion, amounted to H,251 ,640,95S, of which $627, ,923, ,201 was gold and $624.S47.757 was silver
 Fifty national banks were organized during the year ending October 31, 1894, | with capital If $4, ,2S5, ,0O0, and seventy nine with capital of $10,475, 900, went into voluntary liquidation. Twenty one banks with a capital of $2,77o,OO0. l were placed in the hands of receivers. The total number of national banks in existence on the 21st day of October last was 3,756, being forty less than on the 31st day of October, 1885,, The cap- ital stock paid in was $672, ,671 1885, being | $9,67S, 491 less than at the same time in ] the previous year, and the surplus fund 1 and undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid, amounted to s334121,- 0S2.10. which was $16,0S9, 780 less than l on October 31, 1893. The circulation was decreased $1,741,563 The obliga- tions of the banks to each other were increased s117,26S, 334 and the individual deposits were $277, 7,294;4S9 less than at the corresponding date in the previous year, and checks and other cash items were s9O,34S,963 more. The total re- sources of the banks at the date men, tioned amounted to s3,473,922,055 as against B, 10S, ,563, ,234.36 in 1893.
 THE WAR DEPARTMENr.
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