Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-04-04
CONGRESS.
SENATE.
MONDAY, FEE. 81.

Mr.. SANFORD, from the committee on
finance, made detailed unfavorabe re-
port On the petitions of sundry merchants
OF Savannah, who pray remission of
duties which have accrued on goods de-
stroyed by the late fire in that city. The
report was read, and ordered to be print
ed.
Mr.. BurriH, according to notice, ask :
ed and obtained leave, and introduced a
bill further to extend the judicial sys-
tenn OF the United States;" and bill
"more efectually to provide for the
punishment of certain crimes against the
United States, and for other purposes"
The same bills that passed the Senate,
at the last session, and were hot finally
acted on in the other House.
Mr.. Leake, from the committee to
whom had been referred the bill respect
ing Indian Trade, reported the same
| without amendment.
THURSDAY, FEB. "a.
The following letter was received from
the secretary of the treasury:
Treasury Department, Esd Feb. 1920.
SIR--In obedience to resolution of
the senate, of the 18th of February, 1919,
directing that the secretary of the trea-
sury lay before the senate, as early in the
neyt session as practicable, an abstract of
all bonds for duties, Oh merchandise i'm
ported into the United States, which
shall have become payable and remain
unpaid on the goth day Of September
next, exhibiting in such abstract the date
of each bond and the time when it be-
came payable, its amount, names of the
obligors, Distinguishing principals from
sureties, and the district of the customs
in which taken, together with such inior-
NATION as will show how much or what
parts OF such bonds are irrecoverable
and lost to the United States" have
the honor to submit statements A, B, c.,
and d, and letter from the register Of
the treasury presenting the general re-
suit of statements A and D. From the
latter statement, it appears that the
amount of revenue which has accrued
from the customs, from the commence
ment of the present government to the
end of the year 1919, is estimated at
l,329,799 IS. From statement A,
it appears that the amount of revenue
lost, by the insolvency of persons who
became bound for the payment of duties,
is estimated at S. ,Os7,355 GA, and that
which is doubtful, at the sum of
554o,969 20. These sums together, are
not quite equal to A5-loo of one per cent.
upon the aggregate revenue which has
accrued since the organization of the
present government. Statement B shews
the amount which is estimated to have
been lost to the government by the mis-
conduct of the officers employed in the
collection Of the revenue arising from
| imports and tonnage. Statement G ex-
hibits the amount ofloss from the collec-
tors of the internal revenue and direct
tax, and receivers of public moneys
These sums. form an aggregate amount
nearly equal to that which is exa.bted
in statement a. Documents from to
II, inclusive, contain abstracts Of the
bonds put in suit in the several collec-
ton districts in the United States.
1t was intended to have presented a
statement of the sums which are esti-
mated to have been lost by the misap-
| plication of the public money by the Off
GERS Of the government employed in dis
bursting it; but'it is ascertained that the
statement cannot be prepared during the
present session Of congress. There can,
however, be no doubt that the losses