Show 1 I Thc IiClonal debt continues to be I whittled doWn urtd could have been materially reduced this year If the bill to aJlow other basis than U S bonds for the currency Issue of National banks had been passed But as It is I the outstanding intcre3tbcarlng debt amounts now to but 5915771140 and therojs a cash balance on hand oC 373 820187 besides 5150389771 in National I Bank depositories A healthy treasury that and the whole showing Is a remarkable re-markable contrast with the showing of the British treasury which reports depletion t de-pletion anti the need of a now loan that does not piomlee Well In tho low price of consols |