The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-06-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

| WASHINGTON, June IS, 1900 Treas
ury receipts Of the United States for
May amounted to $45, 1876, O53. % of which
| customs contributed S17,3966. 573. IS
The receipts for the current fiscal wear
amounted to $517, $50, 1854, against
s469, 0S9, S29.99 in the preceding wear.
The expenditures for May were $40. 351-
523.36, and for the current fiscal wear
s45+, 21S, 1887, as against 1913, 100. 972. 81
for the corresponding period of the pre-
cedlng year. There has been falling
off i'll the item. War Expenditures 3
OF nearly 100000, 600 since July l, 1899.
as compared with the amount spent for
the same purpose in the same period of
1898. A year ago the deficit for eleven
months was $104, 100000. This year the
surplus So, 33334 ,617 for eleven months.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of bust
ness, May 81, 1900, the debt, less cash i'm
the Treasury, amounted to S1,122, COS,
Sl1, decrease for the month of s., 1913,
pa, which is accounted for by the re-
demption of bonds.
The amount of bonds so far exchanged
at the Treasury for the new>2 per cent.
bond OF 1890 is 1896, 1866, $50, of which
s64, $50, 400 were received from individ-
uals and institutions other than national
banks. The amount of old per cent
bonds so far redeemed at the Treasury
is $5l0,5OO Total cash, 81, 1O4, 261, S26.
The monthly statement of the Comp
troller of the Currency shows that at the
! close of business May 81, 1900, the total
circulation Of national bank notes was
>5o1, ass, $50, an increase for the year OF
SOS, 424 3'a'5, and an increase for the
month OF S1o.2l0,5 63. The circulation
based on United States bonds was S2S:3,
0>9, III, an increase for the year of S56,-
1S3. l63, and an increase for the month
of ST., 02l ,9o5.
The circulation secured by lawful
money amounted to S357,399. 772, an in
crease for the year of 81 ,641 ,172, and
decrease for the month of 81, S11 800.
The amount of United States registered
bonds on deposit to secure circulating
notes was S276, 500 800 and to secure
public deposits, 1913, s53, $50.
The War department reports that the
total receipts of the Porto Rican treas
urer for the month of April. 1900, were
| Sl03, S69, Is. The receipts We're divided
as follows: Customs, so. 219.92: postal.
S6,2S7.02; internal revenue. S27, SIS. 81 :
from miscellaneous sources. S1.713.40.
The total value of merchandise. gold
and silver imported into Havana during
the three months ending March 81 1900,
shows an increase of s:'.915 PSI over the
| same period of 1899. The total value of
merchandise imported into Havana dur
| ing the month of March, 1900, was 81
:,,:,:3, 226. The total value of merchan-
fdise imported from the Cnited States
during March. 1900, was nearly as much
as the total imported from all other
countries combined
| 1t is to be expected. of course. that
| Democratic congressman and politi-
clans should be loud i'll their denuncia-
! ton of Hon. II. Clay Evans, President
Mckinley's Commissioner of Pensions,
whom they assert is Unfrendly to the
old soldier. and the soldiers widow. for
| the reason that they are DESTROYS of
securing the veterans vote 1t may
however, be of interest to these self
constituted champions of the old soldier
rs well as to the veterans themselves
to know that during the first three years
of Commissioner Evans administration
of the Pension Bureau. he allowed
nearly five thousand more widows
claims than were allowed during the
| corresponding three years of his Demo
cratic predecessor. During the fiscal
years 1894, 1895 and 1896 widows allow
ances were -, 95S against 57,S4S during
1897. 1898 and 1899 This, too. in spite
of the fact that the decrease through
death of widows of soldiers of the
Civil War is rapidly increasing from
year to year.