Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-10-08
ECKELS' REPORT.
The Comptroller of the Currency
Issues a Statement.
mr.. CARLISLE ON SILVER COINAGE.
The Secretary Of the Treasury REPLIES to .
Letter from the Louisville Courier
Journal General Land Once
Report-supreme Court.

WASHINGTON, Oct 5.--comptroller o
the Currency Eckes has issued sta'e-
ment giving the results Of an investi-
CATION made by him Of the amount of
all kinds Of money held by the bank
ing institutions OF the country on July
/ !. The number Of banking houses and
trust companies inquired Of were H.
96e, and II clearing houses, covering
all OF such institutions in every state
and territory and the District Of Column
bia.
The total amount OF cash in the 5,723
institutions reporting was $4lS, ia, S49.
1t is divided at follows: Gold coin.
1874, on ,Oo3; gold certificates, S55, 4sl.-
33S; silver dollars, 81, 254, 6l2; fractional
silver, $500, 073; silver certificates,
$50, 1858, 500; treasury notes (1s9O), Sla,-
1876, OlS; United States notes, $40, AGO.
375; currency certificates, $50, s5s, 900;
national bank notes, s23, 1874. Of
this total cash the 3,45s national banks
reporting held $685., ia 6lO, and the 81
700 s'ate' e'c'' s'h'oo' s''' ihe al"ouns
Of gold coin and gold certificates held
py these ha.,oh"' oa'N' was @'o',, .a,
oof' ana oy 1hese s'ate' e'c'' @,f'oi' 'o'
IN 'nls connection !. may W s.a'ou
Una. the 'o'al n",noer VI na.'oua.
oahSs' viA'' ''oo'' nei' vi "u'y =" .no
Wv ~ VIZ w ,,.s
100 oa1"' y. WY" .la s.,,asa,ns e,st
." S ,"o 'o" anu s''1 s
0' 49,, a ..o -. .horoot
ny ,o'"' GOO" ""a , ID r. ia A.
VI gov ., aau so'' ' sash '"oa.a ~; oa1
l.po, wing '"" -. ~. r..,.na
uiVis'on' - Nd ,oi'ows. no" rug 'an
states, total cash, $3o oov'21s; amount
OF gold and gold certificates, Ill, 403,-
7gs. aastern states total cash. S2l3. l29.-
,eo, .o,n. =, oo,d and cold oart;6.
ooo' "'no"hV " ko'" ~" sO'N
Gates, $Ss,5S0, 1913; soutnern states' 10
tai cash, SEQ, O86, SOL; amount OF gold
a
onn s.ot.s .otol cash s,Oo hsa AJAX.
OF" s'"'os' .o'"i o"'", ~ioo,Do''.-''
amount OF ROld anu goia certihcatee'
S56, 40, AT; Pacific states and terrific
rios Total cash. S9S. 634. 76o: amount of
...,1 - Ia ....;a.ot.s e,o eos aa0
so'" ~" ~. v
IOtal casn, S4ld, lSa,ofS' totai anoun'
OF gold and gold certificates, $lo8, ooS,-
AL.
srcpprApv cARrIsrE m silver
LOUISVILLE. Kv,. Oct 5-In reply to
A letter from the Courier.Journal to
Seer etarv Carlisle asking for informa.
ton concerning the coinage OF silver,
Secretarv Carlisle REPLIES in part as fol.
lows
From January |. 1895, to September 30, 1895,
standard silver dollars have been coined at the
n.s 81 'he on'ou n'"'e ,sos ,s sao ao "oas'
renenl NJ the nurchssinr clause OF the So
called Sherman act standard silver dollars
have been coined In the United states to the
anoun. Oh s~ow,' y, v S sua .mtou y,
mr. history nrIor to ls7s
The coinage Of silver dollars is going on
every day at our minis and during the last
mon1n IL amou,'ea 70 @"" noous .ae
T TSs ss a wb,ch has beon added 10 the
circulation on account OF the coinage since No
vember T. 1903, is about &,7Oo'OO) and the
or gam, III nno 'ne coinage OF las'
A''"'" "'s "'''' '',',''s .,..,,,,,u
o"'n"N" ""rD 'o n WV Wv"
"N'"'No'o.' w" s,,""a N
a, ,''ulo' o"'n' " VIZ so"e 49,. y. 49,, e
naa '''a'e nus "". . ,epo.s " '"0 see
Ie'",y VI Vr ,r 'u'o., , ,1' ne pas'
n'cal year ino 'o'a' -, ,ap oao ' "na
WV ss se", "o'o ' bSso,a.S
" WHICH ',0 -oo 20, "siv laaa sa,oa.;o 1
, vrles anu o'o'o"i 'a ,., 'eleos'V .a,
ihe 'noreaso v" '' ao0 .uo o.'' Tn o
cash receipts were 50, 1906, 1851, an in