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Show 1 Uncle Sam Short J 1 $22,000,000 J WASHINGTON. Dec. JL the Treasury Treas-ury department has issued . a review of Treasury operations for the calendar year 1304. The Treasury' receipts for the calendar year 1904 were 1540,000.000, and the expenditures (Including the - - Panama payment), 1562.000,000 a deficit for the year of J22.000.000. As compared with" the previous calendar cal-endar year, the receipts show a falling off of 18.000,000 and the expenditures an Increase of 150,000,000. The decrease in custom receipts was 19,000,000. Civil and miscellaneous expenditures ex-penditures increased $16,000,000; War department, de-partment, $9,000,000; Navy department, 123.000.000; pensions, $2,000,000, and interest, inter-est, $1,000,000. The increase in Interest Is due to the fact that a portion of the Interest of 1903 was anticipated In 1902. The figures do not include the postal receipts and expenditures, except that the postal deficit def-icit Is Included in the civil and miscellaneous miscel-laneous expenditures. Import free of duty for the same period pe-riod increased $42,000,000, while dutiable imports decreased $20,000,000. In 1903, 43H per. cent of the imports were free of duty, while In 1904 47 per cent were free of duty. . Virtually the entire Increase In free imports was in three articles coffee, India rubber and raw silk. Although dutiable import decreased $20,000,000, raw sugar and wool show Increases aggregating ag-gregating 124.000,000. All other dutiable imports decreased nearly $50,000,000.. Ot this decrease, $20,000,000 was in iron and steel. Other noteworthy features of the Treasury transaction in 1904 wers the payment out of accumulated surpluses of $50,000,000 for the right of way of the Panama canal; the redemption of the outstanding 6 per cent bonds, due February. L 1904, and the various calls on the national bank depositaries for the return of a portion of their public deposits. The redemption of 6's during the calendar year was approximately $4,000,000. Public funds on deposit with the bank were reduced from $188,000,000, January 1.. 1904. to $113,000,000 at the close of the year. -The calls on ths banks to mature early in 1905 will further fur-ther reduce these deposits and replenish the cash In the general fund of the Treasury to the extent of $23,000,000. . The cash In ths Treasury, exclusive of the gold reserve and gold and silver coin, held against outstanding certificate, certifi-cate, was $320,000,000. on January L 1904. At the close of the year it was $240,000,000, a decrease of $80,000,000 for ths year. f |