The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-10-05
OVER FIVE BILLIONS
Dollars Deposited In the Banks Of
United States.
WHICH BRYAN PROPOSES TO PAY
In DEPRECATED COIN.

What the Popocratic Attack on Thrift
| Means = Statement of Comptroller
| Eckles Compiled From Answers to
Inquiries Recently Made by Him.
Washington October A-Comptroller
of the Currency Eokels has issued a
| Statements of the investigation made. by
him OF the amount of money held by the
banks OF the country. The number of
banking houses and trust companies in
quired of was 10. 962, and " clearing hous-
es. covering all in the country. Replies
were received from 5723 banks and trust
companies and 66 clearing houses. The
information Is of such character as to
enable fairly correct result from all to
be approximated.
CT the 5723 reports received, 1858 were
OF national banks 1894, state banks; 457.
savings banks; $50 private hanks; "a loan
and trust companies.
In the New England states S29 reported
and 397 did not report.
The total cash in the 5723 institutions
reporting is S413. 1874, $40, divided as fol :
lows, gold coin. s13. O79, 0Os; gold oertifl
Gates $55, 1881. 338; silver dollars. $8, 254,
612; fractional silver. $7.399. o73; silver
certificates sS9,663 596; treasury notes,
1880, $13, 1876, OILS; United States notes,
S110, 469. S15 currency certificates. $50, sbS,
600; national bank notes, $23, ,795. 1884.
OF this total cash the 545S national
banks reporting held 1885. ia, 616, and
tbs 1866 state etc.. $77, $50, 288. The gold
coin and gold certificates held by these
national banks is $155, 078, 604 by the state
ETC., $34, 464, 737. In this connection it
may be stated that the total number OF
national banks, viz: 3689, held July ID,
the date Of the last official oall. $685., ,65S,
4S5 cash of which amount there was in
gold coin and gold certificates, $161, 1853,
800. Held by reporting banks in New
En- gland states: Cash, $35, $50. aa7S gold
| and gold certificates $15, 403. 1853.
Returns from 66 Of the n clearing house
| associations of the country show July
| !. total olearings 1927, 955, 464. The bal
anoe Of these total clearings settled in
cash or cash exchanges was $19, 152, 1884,
| or little more than s per cent OF the
whole
| The balances were settled as follows:
Gold, 81, a35, OILS; gold clearing house GER
| titicates. $265, 900 silver and silvsr oertifi-
| Gates, S175, $50; United States notes,
| %, 4o2, 1ol; currency, $l,UlI, lUl ;Currency
certificates, IS, 1856, 600; national bank
notes S3l, ,746; exchanges. So, 0sS, 299; man
ager's certificates, So, 9O4, 904; collection s
by creditors from debtor bank, $85, $50,
not stated, $22, 1885, total. 1852. SO4.
The total number Of depositors in the
national banks reporting July !, were
50, 315, 1888; individual deposits aggre-
eating, 81, $50, 0s7, 1913. July IA the total in
dividual deposits of all the national
bar ks was 81. 66s. Alb. sos; estimated num-
ber of depositors, 2,4S5.625. Tho total
number of depositors in reporting banks
other than national banks were 3,614.
6S0; deposits aggregatin9. $1.66S, 352, 673
In 1894 tho investigation showed the
number of bank depositors to be about
| 9. 000, 900. A conservative estimate in
view Of the fact that the mum ber of de-
positors in national banks shows an
increase of about $500, 900 and would
make the total number now at between
TO- 600. 900 and II, 600. 600 with total de-
posits ngregating over s5, 900, ooO, 600.