Monthly Financial Statement

Washington City, May 2. - The reduction in the public debt during April amounted to $9,235,300, and since June 30, or for the ten months of the current fiscal year, 897,795,881. The net cash in the treasury is S 110. 244, 969, or $5,671,039 more than on April 1. The gold :und balance in the treasury has decreased about $5,500,000 during the past month, and amounts to $213,289,994, while the süver fund alance, exclusive of $6,613,000 trade dollar bullion, is $45,053,881, or about $1,250,000 more than on April 1, a month ago. National jank depositories at present hold L61,921,294 of governmentrnoney, or about Y750,000 more ;han a month ago. Government receipts during April aggregated $20,851,789, about $850,000 lèss than in April last year, while expenditures were $24,860,Wü, or $4,500,000 less than in April, 1887.