The herald., 1895-07-01
T|ONAL BALANCE SHEET
ment for the Fiscal Year
Ending June 80
DEFICIT IS s43,25O,OOO
Service Deficit Is Heavier Than
for Many Years
serve Well Up to the Limit, but July
penditures VIII Be heavy-0en.
eral Statistics
ed Press Special Wire

ed Press Special wire,
HINGTON. June 30.--The treasury
Tor the fiscal year just closed will
d by tomorrow's debt statement
approximately $43, $50, 900. This
@ last years deficit of nearly $70,-
makes the excess of expenditures
ceipts since June 80, 1893. about
1000. The total receipts of the
ment this fiscal year, exclusive of
revenues, amount to nearly
1000, and the expenditures $685.
of which pensions took $l41, 391,-
asst year the aggregate receipts,
ge of postal revenues, were $751;
and the expenditures 1867. 525, 279.
ceipts this year, therefore, were
900 larger than last, and the ex-
Tres about $11, 275. 900 less. The
service deficit is about $1l, 900, 600,
is considerably in excess of that of
,ent year. The internal revenue
nent OF the government has con-
d this year to the receipts nearly
1000, as against a little more than
1000 last year. The customs this
akea better showing than last by
$21, 10000 Last years receipts
this source amounted to nearly
1000. and this year they approxi-
$l53, 900, 900. OF this amount
contributed $17, $50. 900. To-
VS. debt statement will show ar
lie cash balance of about $l95. 000,-
which about $l07. 500. 600 is gold re-
This reserve will include payment
for the last bond issue, but the
ent will show q counter debt charge
S31, 157, 700 in bonds, or one-balf
whole amount issued. In explana-
this seeming error, it is said that
NAL transfer of the London half Of
hds has not yet been made.
expenditures fol- July will be ex-
tally heavy, as pension and inter-
ne are expected to. amount to $2O,-
ng the fiscal year the number of
al banks in existence has decreas-
h 3775 to 1922.
E-one national banks have been or
3 during the year; sixty have gone
Dluntary liquidation and thirty six
cen placed in the hands of receiv-
national bank circulation has in
/ $4,337, 79l, from $2O7, 1853, pa on
1894, to $2ll sol, OBS on July l,
From July l. 1894. to May Z, 1895,
aIest dates to the year obtainable.
ms anu discounts of national banks
Increased from 81, 1888. 5S9 352 to ST.
.445, or about $43, 900, 900. During the
lime individual deposits have in
1 from S1,677, sol, 200 to 81, $50, 96l,-
about $31, 900. 900. The lawful, mon
rived by banks show a heavy in
from $344. los, 757 to $43s, 931, $40. or
$75. QUO. 900. Interpretations of some
important bureaus of the treasury
ment during the last year are brief
ined as follows:
e were employed under the light.
board in the construction and
enance of aids to navigation 80 steam
s, six steam launches and two sail
nders. In supplying lighthouses
lssels and caring for buoys these
steamed 205. $50 miles. There are
,rsons employed in the lighthouse
/, as keepers, etc. The total value
lighthouse establishments is about
0,0O0. Ten new fog signal sta
md AZ new lights were esta blished |
the year. The lower Cedar Point
station was destroyed and the
s Point light was carried away by |
). During the year perfect telepho-
nnection between Scotland light |
nd the shore has been established. |
one of the greatest achievements |
electrical research and seems to |
strate that telephone communica.
it'll simple appliances can be had |
he shore by vessel many miles i
At sea without any direct metal con-
n nearer than several hundred feet |
he vessel.
year has been of unusual interest
nportance to the United States reve-
litter service, which has performed |
| services of a conspicuous nature. |
g these ars noted the search for the
oe. supposed to have foundered
29th of September last, off Cape
ry, on the Pacific. in which three
vessels, viz: Grant, Rush and Cor
oined. In its winter cruising op-
rs during the unusually severe
or of the last season, it rendered
es to distressed shipping of more
ordinary value and Importance.
Dallas alone assisted during the
! OF February twenty vessels i'm
l by ice, and curing the months of
while the Crawford rendered a
rvice to fifteen vessels. The Nor
d Nc Lane have been vigilant along
asst of Florida in REFRESHING snug
and preventing violation Of our neu-
obligations by sympathizers Of the
revolutions. Six vessels have been
I'd and fully equipped and dispatch
the Bering sea to protect the seal
and the government interests in
l and the seal islands.
new steamer Window. in course of
uction at the beginning OF the year,
en- so far advanced as to be prac.
completed. Two steam Launches
ing built for duty on Puget Sound
)ne for the lower Savannah river.
icts have been awarded for the con-
ION OF new steamers OF upwards o!
MS each, which. when completed
} the fines: vessels in the service.
legislation has been secured for the
ment of the service. One new yes
l. he first class, to cost 5000. 900. and
arbor boat for $50, 900, have been
rized for duty on the Pacific coast.
has been secured placing on 'per:
rvice who are permanently inca
W. iicii bbC dulitS VI tHclT OHCts |
rying into effect the provisions of
v. it is CLAIM ed the service has been
lily benefited by the removal from
tive list of a large number Of officers
through no fault of theirs, are no
capable Of performing duty ana
ting younger men to the vacancies
treated. Measures have also been
tied and are in course OF execution
g to new appointments to fill the
sment OF officers on the active list.
reports for preparations for life
service show that during the last
ae total number of disasters to, yes.
sea and on the great lakes was
$50. OF these 37S were on the Allan
d Gull coasts. 170 on the great
and IL on the Pacific. The yallie of
ty involved is given approximatel
80. 0O0. The property loss is esti-
at WI, 254,0O0. Of the 46lS persons