Endebtedness and Finances of Nations. (From Summary prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce and Labor.) NATIONAL DEBTS. COMMERCE WITH THE UNITED Expenditure. Exports from Imports into Interest and Revenue. to 41,979,208 Austria-Hungary.. 1902-3 1,107,464,0.5 3 -4 50,910,903 Austria... 1,038,585.000 3 -4 221,649,000 Belgium. 1902 6,180,602 4 -5 253,661 3,614,000 3,66,000 540,693,936 4 -6 368,763,1:5 3 -6 13,808,565 12.142,334 4 -8 704,621 2,046,000 2,169,000 96,24,771 5 -10 5,590.636 4 -6 3,274,000 30,452,000 27,921,033 Default. + 4,986,069 5,746,628 3-5 500,743,871 3 -44 393,018 9,926,837 28.952,997 6,836,695 74,950,992 847,964 2,333,755 France.. 1902 5,56,708,403 3 3 German States. 1902 2,687,621,000 3 -4 111,121,700 904,287,000 902,990,000 *Except Australasia, Canada, and British India. † 1903. § 1905. 1901. (1905) the debt was $1,250,000,000. ++ Debt very largely increased by the late war. These are the latest estimates: WEALTH OF NATIONS. $110,000,000,000 Italy (Nitti). 20,000,000,000 Switzerland.. $13,000,000,000 6,800,000,000 5,400,000,000 4,500,000,000 2,500,000,000 2,400,000,000 Area of the Great Lakes of the United States Superior. Michigan. Huron. Erie. Ontario. The returns are for the fiscal year 1906, except when otherwise indicated. (a) Fiscal year 1905. (b) Fiscal year 1904. (c) Fiscal year 1903. (d) Fiscal year 1902. (e) Does not include value of mines, as they are not assessed; value estimated at $100,000,000. (r) Including railroads, (s) Floating indebtedness, $113,529. (1) Including value of railroads, $24,351.107 and telegraph lines, $319,615. (u) October 10, 1906. (v) Net debt, September 30, 1905, $3,087,869. (w) This is the contingent debt. The direct debt in addition is $31,569,750. (x) Exclusive of railroad, telephone and telegraph property. Public Debt of the States, Cities, Counties, AND MINOR CIVIL DIVISIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. States...... 1,864,195,826 234,314,190 1,629,881,636 1,137,918,868 1,123,278,647 23.72 18.17 22.40 Minor civil divisions included in the third column above embrace villages, towns, townships, precincts, fire districts, irrigation districts, poor districts, school districts, &c. *Combined funded and floating debt in 1902. SINKING FUND ASSETS OF STATES, 1902. The following States in 1902 maintained sinking funds to the mounts attached: Massachusetts, $18,304, 730; Rhode Island, $444, 452; New York, $2,545,116; New Jersey, $172,550; Pennsylvania, $4, 432,024; Delaware, $7,658; Maryland, $1,974,587; Virginia, $3,176,040; South Carolina, $517.648; Florida, $160, 200: Ohio, $254, 569; Indiana, $61; Michigan, $86,237; Minnesota, $365,966; Missouri, 8520, 204; North Dakota, $1,116; South Dakota, $46,737; Kentucky, $324,548; Arkansas, $65,580; Montana, $111,483, Idaho, $431,306; Colorado, $164,953; New Mexico, $123, 277; Arizona, $1,002; Nevada, $18,494; California, $419,630. Total, 834,670,265, 1411 The United States Revenue Cutter Service. THE United States Revenue Cutter Service is a military arm of the Government attached to and under the direction of the Treasury Department. The Service was organized in 1790 and constituted the original naval force of the country. There being at that time no Navy Department the Service was placed under the Treasury Department, where it has remained ever since. It is charged with the enforcement of the navigation and customs laws of the United States, the assistance of vessels in distress, the protection of the sealing industry in Alaska, the enforcement of the quarantine laws, and numerous other duties appropriate to its class of vessels. Each winter, by direction of the President, a number of the cutters patrol the coast for the special purpose of assisting vessels in distress. The Service co-operates with the Navy when directed by the President and has so co-operated in every war in which the United States has been engaged. The officers of the Service are commissioned by the President and hold rank by law with officers of the Army and Navy as follows: Captains with Majors in the Army and Lieutenant-Commanders in the Navy; First Lieutenants with Captains in the Army and Lieutenants in the Navy; Second Lieutenants with First Lieutenants in the Army and Lieutenants (Junior Grade) in the Navy; Third Lieutenants with Second Lieutenants in the Army and Ensigns in the Navy. There are now in the Service 218 commissioned officers and cadets on the active list, and 1,250 petty officers and enlisted men. The officers are: 37 Captains, 37 First Lieutenants, 37 Second Lieutenants, 10 Third Lieutenants, 26 Cadets of the line, 34 Chief Engineers, 17 First Assistant Engineers, 15 Second Assistant Engineers, 2 Cadet Engineers, 2 Constructors, and 1 Surgeon. Commissioned officers of the line are appointed from Cadet graduates of the School of Instruction at South Baltimore,.Md. The Cadet course covers three years and embraces professional and academic subjects. Cadets are appointed after competitive examinations, conducted by boards of commissioned officers of the Revenue Cutter Service. Candidates must be not less than eighteen nor more than twenty-four years of age. Appointments to the Engineer Corps are made after competitive examination, and successful candidates are appointed Cadet Engineers for a period of six months prior to being commissioned second Assistant Engineers in the Service. Candidates for the Engineer Corps must be not less than twentyone nor more than twenty-six years of age. The commandant of the Service is detailed from among the Captains by the Secretary of the Treasury. The present chief of the Service is Captain Worth G. Ross. NAME. LIST OF VESSELS OF THE REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE. Headquarters. Displace- Guns. :::::::::: :::::: THE Ocean and lake coasts of the United States are picketed with the stations of the Life-Saving Service attached to the United States Treasury Department. Sumner I. Kimball is general superin tendent, with headquarters at Washington, and there is a corps of inspectors, superintendents, station keepers, and crews, extending over the entire coast line, together with a Board on Life-Saving Appliances, composed of experts selected from the Revenue Marine Service, the Army, the Life-Sav ing Service, and civilians. At the close of the last fiscal year the life-saving establishment embraced 278 stations, 200 being on the Atlantic Coast, 60 on the lakes, 17 on the Pacific Coast, and 1 at the falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. In the following table are the statistics of the service: In addition to the foregoing there were 491 casualties to smaller craft, such as sailboats, rowboats, etc., on which there were 1,221 persons, of whom 1,211 were saved and 10 lost. The cost of the maintenance of the service during the year was $1,832,465.93. Monetary Statistics. (Compiled from the Report of the Director of the Mint.) MONETARY SYSTEMS AND APPROXIMATE STOCKS OF MONEY IN THE AGGREGATE AND PER CAPITA IN THE PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD JAN. 1, 1904. Total.. 1,298,500,000 $5,987,100,000 $2,123,300,000 $1,007,100,000 $3,130,400,000 $3,392,500,000 $4.61 $2.41 $2.61 $9.63 NOTE.-The value of the monetary stock of silver-standard countries has been changed to conform to the decline in silver values. The monetary stock of Mexico and other countries where the Mexican dollar circulates is given in Mexican dollars at bullion value. WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR, 1904. COUNTRIES. United States... Gold. Oz., fine. Silver. Value. Oz., fine. Com. Val. 3,892,480 $80,464,700 57,682,800 $33,456,000 609,781 12,605,300 60,808,978 35,269,200 793,350 16,400,000 3,718,668 COUNTRIES. Gold. Silver. Africa. 4,156,084 85,913,900 486,408 282,100 Brazil Venezuela 100,300 British Guiana.. Austria-Hungary 102,423 2,117,300 Germany.. 3,130 64,700 5,799,133 3,363,500 Peru... 64,300 1,329,200 3,008,705 1,745,100 Italy 2,128 44,000 1,120,700 655,357 380,100 Spain.. Greece.. 895.172 519,200 China 217,688 4,500,000 Turkey France. 609,638 353,600 India 556,097 11,495,500 101,200 38,400 6,083,333 3,528,300 |