The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-07
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Excess of Expenditures Over Re
ceipts has Been $25, 100000
the Past Year

The secretary of the treasury reports
that during the fiscal year ended June
3d. 1896. the receipts Of the government
from an sources amounted to s409-
4f9.418. u.s. During the same period its
expenditures We're S434 SIS 654 AS the
excess of expenditures over receipts
thus amounting 10 S25. 2O3, 235. 20. The
ordinary expenditures during the year
were S4,Ol5, o52.2l less than during the
preceding fiscal year. OF the receipts
mentioned there was derived from the
customs the sum of $160 021 751. 81 and
from internal revenue $146 $50. 515 66.
Inc receipts from customs show an in
crease OF 81 S63, l34 y over those from
the same source Cor the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1895. and the receipts
from internal revenue an increase OF
So. 5S4 .5s7-g1
The value of imported dutiable mer-
chandise during the last fiscal year
was 1859. 1871 40 and the value of free
goods imported S409. 967, 40 being an in
crease Of S6,523,675 in the value Of du-
table goods and $9l, 23l. 034 i'm the value
Of free goods over the preceding year.
our exports of merchandise. foreign
and domestic, amounted in value to
SSS2. SOS. 93S being and increase over the
preceding year Of Sl5,06SlI5- The av-
erage ad valorem duty paid on dutiable
goods Imported during the year was
"a per cent and on free and dutiable
goods taken together 20 SO per cent.
The cost Of collecting our internal
revenue was 2.7S per cent as against
PSI per cent for the fiscal year ending
June 30. 1898. The total production of
distilled spirits, exclusive OF fruit bran
dies. was S5.5S8 703 taxable gallons. be-
ing an increase of 6.639. 1OS gallons over
the preceding year. There was also
an increase of ], 443 SO gallons of spirits
produced from fruit as compared with
the preceding year The number of
barrels of Der produced was 35. $50 $50
as against 33. $50 784 produced in the
preceding fiscal year, an increase Of p
AMOUNT OF GOLD EXPORTS.
The total amount of gold exported
during the fiscal year was S112. 409 947
and of silver $50. 541 SO being an in
crease of S45, 941, 466 of gold and 1926
3S4 of silver over the expectations of
the preceding fiscal year. The imports
Of gold were 1913 525,065 and Of silver
S2s. 7771S6. being 81, S59. 695 less Of gold
and IS $50 .O07 more of silver than dur
ing the preceding year
The total stock of metallic money in
the United States at the close of the
last fiscal year. ending June 30. 1896,
was 81. 22S. 326. OBS. of which $685.. 597, 964
was of gold and s62s. 726.01 in silver.
On the LIST day of November. 1895.
the total stock Of money Of all kinds
in the country was s. Z85, 40, $50 and the
amount fin circulation, not including
that in the treasury holdings, was ST..
627, 055 641, being so. SO per capita upon
an estimated population of II, 902 COO
The production of the precious metals
in the United States during the calen-
dar year 1895 is estimated to have been
. 254 $50 fine ounces of gold of the value
of SIS. $40 600. and 55. 727. 600 fine ounces
of silver Of the commercial value of
S34. AS 900 and the coinage value of $72,-
051
The estimated production of these
metals throughout the world during
the same period was 9.6SS 821 fine
ounces of gold. amounting to 5000 .2s5.-
zoo in value. and 169 1S9,249 fine ounces
of silver. of the commercial value of
sl10. 654 600 and of the coinage value of