Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-01-16
to the 1st of
Jan. 1917, 4,585,352 81
Nayaldepartment, 2,420,594 Sc

of that year, the following additions must
be made, viz.
LIST. Civil, diplomatic, and miscela-
neous, the sum of 500 900 dollars;
being an amount of appropriations
of the present and preceding years,
unexpended, and which may be eX-
pended during the year 1921; and
the sum of S5,477,770 76, payable
on account OF the interest and re-
endorsement of the principal of the
public debt during that year.
ID. The unexpended balances of ap-
preparations for the War d part
ment, under the different heads al
ready enumerated, and which have
been deducted from the estimates,
or not included in them, Gas in the
case oi revolutionary pensions. be-
cause the balance Of that appropri-
alton IS estimated to be equal to the
expenditure on that object during
the ensuing year, amounting to-
gether e. s.. SOY .267 IS.
Iheannuaia appropriation Of 100000,
Tor arming the militia, ahd the In
'ioii d iiOt GNU a. vi Nv liiC
estimates, amounting to 8 50 SIS.
Sd. The annual appo alIation of
1000 900 dollars for t00 gradual m
crease Of the Navy, wh,ch vii. cx-
pire in the year 1928, and an unex-
pended balance on the SEINE &C.
count, WHICH may be expended in
1921, of l,75O,0OO dollars.
According to the foregoing data, the
expenditure of the year 1921, and which
IS chargeabe upon The Treasury during
rat year, may be estimated as follows,
viz.
Civil, diplomatic, and miscel-
aneons, S. DO $50 %
Public debt, 5,t77,777 70
Military department, inclUd-
inc for ticaions ordnance, In
dian department, military and
revolutionary pensions, arrears
lror TO the Isl of January, lGl7,
aud arning he militia and H.
jian snnuties, 7,445,1o5 o.
Navy department, including
he sum OF Sl,0U0000, for the
gradual increase Of the navy, sly. 594 SO
Making an aggregate charge
pon the Treasury, FOR tic year
1921, Of 21,363.4l7 80
TO which add the balance
against the Treasury on the lst
day of January. 1891. 2.63S,169 "
Making 249y1.566 II
Leaving balance of S7,451,586 IT,
beyond the estimated means ior which
provision is to be made.
IT, da+arr,iCa batbar n RI, r. ia,.,,.
this or any other amount will occur in
succeeding years, is extremely e.ifii, ult.
Tie Ga a furnished By the fiscal opera
lions oil the government SINCE tae peace
must lie principally relied upen, IN
making the calculations necessary 10 ar
rive at any general result upon tie sub
iect.
1t has been asceriainea that the nett
revenue which has accrued from T.. ports
nd tonnage, from the year 1850 1919,
nc lusise. has amounted T. 5 Poo O52
as. i'tbis be diviIeo by he auafaer IF
years in which it accrued, The result VIII
be an annuai average revenue Of S24,-
O52,ooo. Bu' the revenue when ac-
crued IL 1915 grs atty exceeded, not on
iy that ol any year previous 10 the war,
but tina. CT any year since that epoch
1t is also admitted, that the quantity Of
produce ON hand at TIC close o. the war,
especially Of Gotten an tobacco, con-
sidcrablv exceeded the amount Of the
crop oil those articles made dui ing the
preceding year. The ability OF the COM
munity, therefore, to purchase All in
creased amount ui foreign articles in the
year 1915, exceeded, in c0rrespo nding
degree, that of subsequent years. l. has
also been ascertained that the ia1pOrta-
ton Of foreign articles during the pre-
sent year has been considerably less than
in any year since the peace. To form
an estimate Of the average annual reve-
nue., which may accrue from imports and
tonnage during the next four years, that
viii approximate towards accuracy, it
will be necessary to embrace III the cal
culation the revenue which accrued
from the year 1914 10 1919 inclusive,
amounting to Sl24,5l0,4l4 o5, and that
which shall have accrued in the year
1920, estimated at S l4,0O0,0Oo, mai; ing
the aggregate sum oil Sl3s,5la Ala O5,
which gives the sum OF Sl9,767, 2O2,
as the annual average revenue for those
seven years.
Other views derived from the fiscal
operations of The government viii be
found TO accord with this result The
average product Of the duties upon im-
ports and tonnage, which accrued from
the year sol to 1907 inclusive, may be
stated a, S 500 ,ooo and that which
accrued from the former period 10 1918