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Show DISBCMEJIEXrn. Sam. Paid Oot bT In Treaanrr Department. WAsiiwaTOjr, Bept. 12. General ettleton, Asstatant Secretary of the Treasury, In response to an Inquiry In-quiry by a reporter f-r the Atsoclat-ed Atsoclat-ed I'rw tiil-v, utJe the following follow-ing sta.u u. "The Treasury Department today, Inaldltion to the regular disbursements, disburse-ments, which were unuually heavy, paid out $2,313,034 on account ac-count of bond purchases and advance ad-vance Interests. The 4 per cents purchased today were accepted at $125. This Is the first considerable purchase of 4 per cents fir some time. Tbe price paid Is one cent above thai offered under the circular cir-cular of July 10th. It is thought there may be an lmpren-Ion among the hoIJera or 4 per cent bonds that the government has withdrawn from the market fir 4per cents. This Is not a fact, as the Treasury is ready to take a considerable amount of 4s If they are to be had. 'Inquiry Instituted yesterday by the Secretary of tbe Treasury developed de-veloped the fact that the total balance bal-ance of duties due on all imported merchandise in bond at New York on September 1 was only $17,500.-000. $17,500.-000. Only a moderate portion of these goods will be subject to LNCBEA8EO DUTY under the schedules the nen larill bill. These facta would Keem to Indicate that tbe anxiety based on IhU feature of theaituatlouis without with-out foundation. As to further men-suresof men-suresof relief, In ao far as the extt-iug extt-iug stringency can reasonably ls said to be due to the Inevilablu operations of existiug lans, the government collection aud disbursement disburse-ment of government revenues, the Treasury Department will not hesitate hesi-tate to apply such effective remedies reme-dies as the Uw permits and th situation situ-ation require. The Secretary of tbo Treasury on bis return to Washington Wash-ington from Xew England, will be In New York tomorrow and will adopt such a courw as shall seem to him timely and calculated to meit thedltllcutty asltnow txists. It is stated that one of the minor measures meas-ures of relief fur the market that may be adopted by the Treasury will bo the payment in advance of a year's Intereslou$65,000,U0t) of government gov-ernment bonds known as currency sixes." |
