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Show WM COSTING u. s. BILLIijlOfffllLy Ordinary Expenses AmounS to $665,400,000; Allies' Loans, $325,000,000. I ' ' 1 WASHINGTON. Maroh 1. The money cost of the war to tho I'nitrd States still is runnir.fi' near a billion dollars a month. Despite official forecasts of steadily in-orta in-orta sins' expend it ures from month to mom h, the Koverninenfs outlay in February, Feb-ruary, arioriiinir to a treasury statement limned today, w as slijjhily loss than in either January or Iei-eniher and would hae been approximately the same If the month had been as long as other months. Kxpenditures amounted to Sl.en'J.STS.iloS, of vlit-i two-tim-ds, or ?(.'. 4oii,imiu, was for onllnary war expenses and $;t5.0.0.-imii $;t5.0.0.-imii was In' loans to allied governments. Correspond ln expenditures wre Jl.OM',-uiKinio Jl.OM',-uiKinio in January. $l,U'S.i,tHhi'''0 in le- ' cemher and ?::',0it'i.in0 in November. I The net balanee in the seneral fund was swelled today to $1 .0 T ooO. 0v0. above the btlllon-dollur mark for the first time slnoe the middle of Perember, by the inflow of $JnO00.0n0 from sale of reriifieates of indebtedness in-debtedness of tlie rurrent $:nn00.uin block, which will close next Tuesday. ' More than four-fifths of this ht;Me government gov-ernment work in fund was distributed throughout the country in depositary banks, so that there was no biir iuviinni-iutlon iuviinni-iutlon of Idle dollars in the treasury. Tho total cash assets of t lie government govern-ment todav were M.OL'T.I'lf ,o t. which In. -hided J J, hH .Kbi.Ttttti Kold. $ -1 U 7 3 . ii . sliver, and the balance of the general fund. Fur revenue tho government is st 111 relyinir mainly on borrow iims through the Liberty loans itnd certificates of Indebtedness, In-debtedness, afl tho war tax dollars have not yet bcjrnn to roll in from income and excess profits taxes. .Payments of these are due June In effect, however, about $l,V-'S,0O0.OiMi of these taxes already have been paid through the purchase of certificates, which will be received later In payment of taxes, but receipts from tills source ate listed under the public debt rather than under internal revenue. Actual receipts from internal revenue si n co last July 1 , I lie be j i nnlmr of t he fis al vear, have been about Jf.VJO.oOtUiim, and It is estimated that the to'al receipts re-ceipts up to next July I will bo SLtoo.-O'Hi.ono. SLtoo.-O'Hi.ono. Customs nnd mlscelbuieous revenue reve-nue have swelled the tot nl or.! iiia ry receipts re-ceipts this year to JfTiisjWT.Oini, and receipts re-ceipts fro'n Libert y lea ns. cert i I'i cat es. war savings and other public debt sources have been jH.Ktl.tisS.OHO, tnakln- the government's gov-ernment's total receipt s in eie.lu nionihs J I ii, I,"1'"1. The war savings move ment lias brought in fTtl.ucii.ceu in the t hree mont bs It has been under way. Tot at i Muirsement s In the eiuht monlhs have been SUM! 17,70!I.IHM1. n little lit-tle mere than the receipts, Of this hut-e sum, ?:t.Sl l.'i.'ii.Ono has gone for internal expense, most of which was cauved by the war, Omii in actual pavuieiits to Ihe allies, ?t l.imn.oiHi for purchase el farm lo:i n bond -, a ml most of I lie b;i 1 -ance for reil-'eming temporary certificates certifi-cates of Indebt edit ess Issued In a nt iclpa -(ion of Llbertv loan campaigns. The bulk or the funds new needed foiled foi-led era 1 loa ns to I'm rmers. a bout J I I .ODil, -unit a month, is helmr supplied from the Ireasurv fund of J t ne.iiue.inni net aside for the purpose, rather than Ihronr.h private sa le of fa r m lea n l)oiids. This l.t due, nialnlv. It lx said, to the desire of treasury treas-ury officials to avoid ns much activity ns piceiible In Ihe im'est meiit market before be-fore the third Liberty loan. It Is for the same reason thai sale of non-es-ien-tinl private securities i-i belm; discour-ni:ei. discour-ni:ei. pa it IcularU- dnrhi;; this mouth, tni- i mediately preceding Ihe loa n .i mpa ig u. |