The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-01
Interesting Facts Concerning Rcve-
nue. Cutter Service and Work of
Life-saving Crews.
IMMIGRANTS ONLY 255,a27
DECREASE FROM LAST YEARS AR
RIVALS OF OVER 10000.
Consul Doty to be ScoIdcd for Taking
a Tahiti Woman as His Wife-
Other Washington News.

WASHINGTON, June 30.-The treasury
deficit for the fiscal year just closed will
be found by to-morrow's debt statement
to be approximately $4S, 900. This added
to last years deficit of nearly s7o,0o0,00o
makes the excess OF expenditures over re-
ceipts since June so, 1898, about sils 25o. 600.
The total receipts OF the government this
fiscal year, exclusive of postal revenues,
amount to nearly $4,000, ,000 and the ex-
penditures $556. 10000 OF which sum pen
sions took Sl41, ,39f, ,623. Last year the ag-
gregate receipts, less postal revenues, were
s297,7 2,0ls and expenditures 1857 So, ,27e. The
receipts this year therefore were <l5.27S.o00
greater than last and the expenditures
about su,275.000 less. The postal service
deficit is about sl1,oo0.00O; which is con-
siderably In excess of any recent year.
The internal revenue department of gov
ernment has contributed lhis year TO the
receipts nearly 1880 900. against little
more than $l47, 600 last year. The cus-
toms receipts this year make a better
showing than last by about S2l, ,300,0oO Last
year the receipts from this source amounted
to nearly 1882, 100000 and tais year they
approximate $l5S, ,OO0, 900. OF this amount
sugar contributed about si7 $50 100. the i'm
ports for the nine-and-a-half months during
which the 40 per cent. ad valorem duty has
been collected amounting 10 about 43,cc50, 600
pounds, of which about ~. .300 900 pounds was
cane sugar, and the remainder beet.
To-morrows debt statement will show
an available cash balance Of about $685.
100000. of which about s1o7.50o9OO is gold
reserve. This reserve will :nclrle payment
in full for the last boni Issue, but the
statement will show counter debt charge
af 4 M Il ls hale <~f
the whole amount ISSUED. IN explanation
OF this seeming error it is said that the
formal transfer of the London half OF the
bonds has not yet been made The ex-
penditures for July will be exceptionally
heavy, pensions and interest alone are ex-
pected to amount to $z3.00O.0o0
NATIONAL BANKS DECREASE.
During the fiscal year the number of
national banks in existence has decreased
| from 3,775 to 1922. Forty-one national
banks have been organized during the year;
sixty have gone into voluntary 'iquida-
| ton, and thirty-six have been placed III the
| hands of receivers. The national bank cir
culation has increased si,33779l froni $207,-
353,244 on July L. 1854 to Sell,69lsg5 Jelly l.,
1885, From Jtily'A1S, &1ss4, to May ~. 1884,
the nearest dates to the year obtainable,
the loans and discounts of rational banks
| ~
604 4a5. or about s4S. .0eoV0). During tn. same
| time individual deposits nave increased
from sl.677 ol2oe to si,Seo,9Si,2so or about
! $4,000 600. The lawful money reserve held
! by banks shows neavy increase from S564,-
105,757 to $4SS. S.9Sl,y70. or nearly SO CO. Geo.
The operations of some of the more i'm
portant bureaus Of ire Treasury Depart
| ment during the last 1scal year are Liiefiy
| outlined as follows:
| board in the construction and maintenance
! of aids 10 navigation thirty-two steam
| tenders, six steam launches and two sailing
! tenders. In supplying lighthouses ana yes
| sells and caring for buoys these tenders
steamed 205.5S0 miles. There are 3.422 per-
| sons employed in the lighthouse service as
keepers. etc. The total value of the light
house establishment is about SlOO,0O0,oO0
| Ten new fog signal stations and forty-seven
| new lights were established during the
| year The lower Cedar Point light station
| was destroyed by fire and the Smith s
| Point light was carried away by ice Dur
| ing the year perfect telephone connection
| between Scotland Lightship and the shore
| has been established. This is one of the
| greatest achievements in electrical research,
and seems to demonstrate that telephone
communication with simple appliances can
| be had with the shore by vessel many
miles at sea without any direct metal con- con-
| nection nearer than several hundred feet
The year has been one of unusual interest
enue cutter service. 1t has performed spe-
| cial services of conspicuous nature.
Among these are noted the search ror the me
| the 18th cf September last off Cape Flat
terry on the Pacific. in which three OF the
| Joined. In it's winter cruising operations,
during the unusually severe weather OF the
last season, it rendered services to DIS
value and Importance. The Dallas. alone
| assisted during the month OF FEBRUARY
twenty vessels imperiied by ice, ana during
| the month of March twenty-three more
| The Crawford rendered a like service to
fifteen during the former month The
Morrill, and McLane az ,naS naxe Geen % 1enrsssie sams
| smuggling and preventing violation OF our
neutrality obligations by sympathizers OF
the Cuban revolt. Six vessels have been
| manned and fully equipped and dispatched
| to the Bering sea to protect the seal nerds
and the governments interests in Alaska
"T The T new steamer Window, under course
of construction at the beginning of the year,
has been so far advanced as 10 ne prac- ses
are being built for duty on Puget sound
and one for the lower Savannah river Con-
| ton of two new steamers of upwards of
nine hundred tons each. which. wnen COM
pleted, will be the finest vessels IN line ane
secured for the betterment OF the service.
| One new vessel of the first class TO cost
10000, and one narpor peat, ior 2ycS 2oo,uv,
mas been authorized, for duty on the Pacific
coast crpxrcr
law has been secured, placing on per
| rnanent waiting orders all ofncers or the
service who are permanently incapacitated
to perform efficiently the duties Of their
| offices.' In carrying into effect the pro-
vision of this law, it is claimed that the
| service has been greatly benefited by the
removal from the active list of a large
i number of officers who, through no fault
of theirs, are no longer capable OF perform
ing duty and promoting younger men to
the vacancies thus created. Measures have
| also been instituted and are in course oi
| execution looking TO new appointment tf
again fil1 the complement OF officers on the
active list -
The reports Of the operations Of the lift
saving service show that during the las
year the total number OF disasters to vessels
] at sea and on the great lakes was about
55e OF these 376 were on the Atlantic and
gulf coast. 40 on the great lakes and ]:
on the Pacific coast. The value Of the prop
erty involved Is given approximately az 81
6a5 COO The property loss Is estimated a
Sl.f5i.oo0 OF the 4,618 persons On board YES
sells in distress only twenty-five were lost
as against ssxtv-eight last year. The value
year nearly one1half. The total number o.
vessels lost was nfty-nye. as against nine
4 The records OF the immigration bureau
i show the number OF Immigrants who ar
rived during the year to be approximatcl,
255, ,327. decrease for the year Of q. .301. o