Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-01
A GAIN IN RECEIPTS.
Interesting Figures Cleaned From the
Public Debt Statement.
Decrease In the Number of
National Banks.
Outline Of Operations OF Some OF the More
important Bureaus.

WAsHlNGTON. July 1.-The treasury de-
ncit for the fiscal year just closed Is found
by today's debt statement TO be approx.
mately Si3,250,000 This added 20 last
years deficit of nearly 100000 900 makes
the excess OF expenditures over receipts OF
tho government this fiscal year. exclusive
of postal revenues amount to nearly S3i3,.
100000, and tho expenditures $3.50, 25O, 600,
OF which pensions took Slai 1891 1898 Last
year the aggregated receipts, exclusive OF
postal revenues. were S297, IL, ,0i9, and tho
expenditures $367, ,525, ,279
The receipts this year. therefore were
el527S,0O0 greater than last, and the OK
penditures about Sil ,275OOO less. Tho
postal service deficit, Is about 81 600, 900,
which Isl considerably In excess of that OF
any recent year.
The internal revenue department OF the
government has contributed this year to
the receipts nearly $143, 900, 900, rs against
. little more than $l47, 7,0O00 900 last year
The customs this year makes better
showing than last by about S2l 900, 600
Last year tho receipts from this source
amounted to nearly $i32, ,OOO, 900, and this
year they approximate $l53, 100000.
Today's debt statement shows an avail.
able cash balance OF about $l95, 900, ,0OO OF
which about $l07 100000 Is gold reserve.
This reserve includes payment In full for
the last bond issue. but the statement
shows counterdebt charge Of only $751;
157, 700 in bonds, or one-half Of the whole
amount issued.
In explanation Of this seeming error, il
is said that the formal transfer OF the
London half of tho bonds has not yet been
made.
The expenditures for July will be ex-
ceptionably heavy. Pensions and interest
alone are expected to
Amount to $50, ,OOO,OO
During the fiscal year the number of ma
tional banks In existence has decreased
from 3775 to 8722. Forty.qne national
banks have been organized during the
year, 10 have gone into voluntary liquida-
tion and 81 have been placed in tho hands
OF receivers. The national bank circula-
tion has increased e4,337, ,79l, from $2O7,-
s53,244 on July 1. 1894, to $2l1 ,691, ,O35 July
i, 1895 From July Is, 1894, to May z,
1895, the nearest dates to the year obtaina-
bic, the loans and discounts Of national
banks have increased from 81, ,933, 5S9, ,352 to
1875, ,604, ,445, or about $43, ,0OO, 900. During
the same time individual deposits have in
creased from 81 ,677, ,SOl 200 to 81 800 861 800,
reserve held by banks shows q heavy in
crease from 1884. loS. 7o7 to t43S. .9Sl $40, or
nearly $75, 900, 900.
The operations Of some Of tho moro i'm
portant bureaus Of the treasury depart
ment during the last fiscal year arc briefly
outlined as follows
There were employed under the light
house board In the construction and main
tenance Of aids to navigation, 80 steam
tenders, 6 steam launches and sailing
tenders. In supplying lighthouses and
vessels and caring for buoys those tenders
steamed 205, $50 miles. There arc 3422 per-
sons employed In the lighthouse establish
ment, at cost Of about $l00, 100000. Ten
new fog signal stations and AZ new lights
were established during the year.
Work OF the Revenue Service.
The year has been one of unusual interest
and Importance to the United States rev.
enue cutter service. Ii has performed
special services Of a conspicuous nature.
Among these are noted the search for the
Ivanhoe, supposed to have foundered on
Sept. 2S last off Cape Flattery, on the
Pacific, in which three of the vessels, viz,
Grant, Rush and Corwin, joined. In its
winter cruising operations during the un-
1t rendered services to distressed shipping
of moro than ordinary value and import
ance. The Dallas alone assisted during
the month of February 20 vessels I'M
perillcd by ice, and during the month of
March 23 Six vessels have been manned
and fully equipped and dispatched to the
Behring sea to protect the seal herds and
the government interest In Alaska and the
seal islands.
The reports Of the operations Of the life
saving service show that during tho last
year the total number of disasters to ves-
sells at sea and on the great lakes was
about $50, Of these 478 were on the Allan
tic and gulf coast, ITO on the great lakes
and 12 on the Pacific coast. The valuo of the
property involved Is given approximately
at T,845, 900. The property lost Is es-
timated at 81, ,264, 900. OF the 46lS persons
on board vessels In distress only 25 were
lost, as against SO last year. The value of
tho property lost decreased during tho
year nearly one-half. The total number
of vessels lost was 55, as against 81 last
year
The records Of tho immigration bureau
show the number Of immigrants who ar
rived In this country during tho year to be
approximately 900. 1877. decrease for the
year Of 30.34. OF the whole number Of ar
rivals about 25O0 were dcbarred from land
Ing and deported to tho port whence they
came.
The total number Of government build
ngs now under construction by the super
vising architect Of the treasury Is "A, con-
templating total expenditure under OK
listing limit OF cost OF els,7OO.0l3. The
number legislatod for but not commenced
is 32, involving IN expenditure OF si3,3Sl,-
1s2. The total number of completed build
ings now under tho control Of tho treasury
department is298.
During the last l2 months the officers of
the secret service have made moro arrests
OF countcrfeiters than during any other
I'm tho history Of the service.
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