Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-07-02

the public treasury-they should nave
narrowed the boundary Of the public ex-
penditure. Hape they done TINS ! -.
If the reader has carefully attended to
the several numbers of Neckar, anu ex-
amined the official reports Of the treasu'
nv and other departments, therein given
Ito those, he is already prepared to an
swer this question. -
In No. I, which was published in tho
Washingtonian, Of July so, 1910, was
presented to the public report OF mr..
Gallatin, containing ga statement exhl'
biting the gross annual amount OF expend-
;ture in relation to the Military and Ma
val establishments, from the 18th OF March
1889, to the end of the year 1sos."
By this report it appears that the militia.
~ establishment cost from the Ath Of
March, 1889, to tho stst Of Decem-
Der, 1897, . iO,12S,aVo %
From the tst of January,
1898, tothe, sfst Dec.
1901, s,46S,71S %
From the 1st of January,
1902, to tho s1st Dee.
1909, ls,sAs,ss7 II
Total expense of the Mi
litary Establishment. 8 so,9s1,67o 0S
The expenditures of the year 1899 and
1900, the two greatest under Mr.. Adams,
amounted to four millions nine hundred
AMI twenty-three thousand and seventy
nine dollars sixteen cents >
S 4,923,O79 is
The expenditures of the years 1S0sandi
1909, amounted to dolls. 6,sf6,6O6 OF.
Being 1,ses,s27 al MORE than the two
most expensive years of Mr.. Adams.
1t appears also that the Naval Estah-
lishment commenced in the year 179t,
and cost to the 3ist Of December, 1897,
s 1,129,Ss6 %
From the list Of Janua- = F.
~, 1898 to the Stst OfDe. +
cember. 1901, s,7s9,5e %
At this period, the ma :,
val force of the United
States consisted of about
forty vessels of war of diff -
ferent force, thirteen or
fourteen Of which were
frigates, all new and in
good repair.
From the 1st Of Janu-
ary, 1902 to the :stst Of
December, 1909, eight
years, f2,7t7'ozs IS
Totale1pensc ofthe naval =,
establishment, S s3,ea5,97s 90
On the 1st of December, 1909, we had
five frigates and nine smaller vessels in
service. During the. two, first admins
trations, in eight years, commencing with
the establishment, and ending on the $ist
of December, 1904, were expended
5 t0,92s,956 Sc
The last eight years, therefore, cost
the United States 1880 81 MORE mo-
ney thus TO REDUCE TEE NAVY
of the United States, than IT, DID TO
ESTABLISH IT and that, precisely
in the same time
No. 3, published in the Washingtonian
of September 10, 1910, contained q re-
port from the postmaster general, exhi-
biting ayiew Of the post office depart
ment from the commencement OF the year
1889 to the 1st Of October 1909. From
this it appears that the amount ofpostase
has regularly increased from the time OF
the establishment Of the department to
the list of October, 1909. Iappears ALSO
that after defrayins the expenses ofthe es.
Establishment, the nett revenue, to the year
1900, lras been constantly increasing, and
in that year amounted to $50 81. And
notwithstanding the increase of postage,
there has been constant decrease OF the
nett revenue from the year 1900 to the Isl
of October, 1909. In the year 1905 the
whole amount of postage was insufficient
to pay the expenses Of the department,
and in order to make up the deficiencies
Of that year 6, a61 81, were taken from the
funds of previous years. In the first three