The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business April 30, 1904, the debt, less cash in the Treasury, amounted to $918,854,058.
To make the final payments to the Panama Canal Company and the Republic of Panama it is probable that another call on the banks for about $20,000,000 will have to made.
By direction of the Secretary of War, and on behalf of the Government of the Philippine Islands, the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department has invited bids for three million dollars of the temporary certificates of indebtedness of the Government of the Philippine Islands.
Following the exposures of the Postal Department come the astounding details of the methods followed by the ring which secured in the Northwest a million dollars worth of valuable public lands through forgery, bribery, and fraud.
