For interest on the public debt - 71,077,206.79 Total ordinary expenditures - 257,981,439.57 Leaving a surplus revenue of $145,543,810.71, which, with an amount drawn from the cash balance in the Treasury of $20,737,694.84, making $166,281,505.55, was applied to the redemption-- Of bonds for the sinking fund - $60,079,150.00 Of fractional currency for the sinking fund - 58,705.55 Of loan of July and August, 1861 - 62,572,050.00 Of loan of March, 1863 - 4,472,900.00 Of funded loan of 1881 - 37,194,450.00 Of loan of 1858 - 303,000.00 Of loan of February, 1861 - 1,000.00 Of five-twenties of 1862 - 2,100.00 Of five-twenties of 1864 - 7,400.00 Of five-twenties of 1865 - 6,500.00 Of ten-forties of 1864 - 254,550.00 Of consols of 1865 - 86,450.00 Of consols of 1867 - 408,250.00 Of consols of 1868 - 141,400.00 Of Oregon War debt - 675,250.00 Of old demand, compound-interest, and other notes - 18,350.00 - *** State of the Union Address Chester A. Arthur December 4, 1883 To the Congress of the United States: At the threshold of your deliberations I congratulate you upon the favorable aspect of the domestic and foreign affairs of this Government. Our relations with other countries continue to be upon a friendly footing. With the Argentine Republic, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Hayti, Italy, Santo Domingo, and Sweden and Norway no incident has occurred which calls for special comment. The recent opening of new lines of telegraphic communication with Central America and Brazil permitted the interchange of messages of friendship with the Governments of those countries. During the year there have been perfected and proclaimed consular and commercial treaties with Servia and a consular treaty with Roumania, thus extending our intercourse with the Danubian countries, while our Eastern relations have been put upon a wider basis by treaties with Korea and Madagascar. The new boundary-survey treaty with Mexico, a trade-marks convention and a supplementary treaty of extradition with Spain, and conventions extending the duration of the Franco-American Claims Commission have also been proclaimed.