Show DOING V ELL Uncle Sams Balance Sheet Male a FirstRate i Slwing I I COUNTY IS PROSPERING Receipts Now are Largely Exceeding Expenditures DEBT IS I BEING REDUCED During the Month of December There was a Reduction in the Obligations of the Government of 85791824 The Receipts for tho Six Months Ending December 31st Leave a Surplus for the Half Year of S21 026934 as Against a Deficit for tho Corresponding Period Last Year of 883719422 During December De-cember the Receipts Show an Astonishing As-tonishing Increase as Compared with the Receipts During December Decem-ber 189S In Every Way Returns Show Wonderful Prosperity Washington Jan 2The comparative compara-tive statement of the Government receipts re-ceipts and expenses shows that for the month of December 1S9D the receipts were 540759101 as against 11404703 fe December 1S9S The expenses during dur-ing last month wore 39145559 as compared with 11861807 fqr December Decem-ber 1S9S which leaves n surplus for last month of 7613515 og against a deficit of 160011 for December 1S9S ECr O SOURCS Thc receipts from all sources during the last six months amount to 281793 I 491 J with expenditures amounting to 203766630 which leaves a surplus for the half year of 21026954 a against a deficit for the corresponding period of last year of 83719422 Following are the receipts from the several sources of revenue during tho last month together with the Increases as compared with December 1S9S Customs Cus-toms 19120881 Increase 1S5GGCO Internal In-ternal revenue 25075571 Increase I 2451250 The receipts from miscellaneous miscel-laneous sources show an Increase of 513195DISBURSEMENTS DISBURSEMENTS The disbursements charged to the War department during the last month amount to 11009 110 as against 18184 676 for the corresponding month in 1S9S Navy department IUSIYI as compared com-pared with 1373729 for December last year Of the 140S6SS paid put on account ac-count of Interest during the month about 4000000 was anticipated January Janu-ary interest PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT Washington Jan 2The monthly statement of the public debt Issued today to-day shows that at the close of business Dpcember 30 1S99 the debt less cash In the treasury amounted to 1134300 007 a decrease for the month of S 5791 821 This decrease is large accounted for by the purchase of bonds during the month The debt Is recapitulated aH follows Interestbearing debt 102C772320 Debt on which Interest has qcascd Hlnqe maturity l20SrXX Debt bearing no Interest 3SO014WO otal 51117805 ICO This amount however docs not Include In-clude 050979403 In certificates and treasury notes outstanding which are offset by an equal amount of cash on hand The cash In the treasury Is classified as follows Gold S 208032027 Silver 497C00735 Paper GloSSjfJTO Deposits In national bank depositories de-positories disbursing officers and balances etc SS11G23 Total 1018005011 Against which there are demand liabilities lia-bilities outstanding amounting to 764 4106SS which leaves a net cash balance bal-ance on hand of 283595458 |