Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-15
They aye divided among the different
branches of the public service as follows:
viz: new appropriations for civil, foreign

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&c. ,l!!2 for military. &c 1922 :1l3 BY virtue OF
former acts of Congress, there will probably be wanted
during 1856, tor The payment OF interest and dividends
unclaimed the funded debt and Of unfundcd debt it..
cell, yet unpaid, the of $4,000,
10 these add such contingent Of new apprJ-
PTlanns By Congress fer ordinary purposes as not
included IN the estimates, bit which are likely 10 bc
deemed proper by that body aud tho grounds Of which
were explained IN the last annual report $1,000 GOO.
lie estimates OF expenditures in 1885, for csraordna-
~ purposes, which submitted in c0nnexlon with the
military and naval services, amount 10 S3|Gi ,c23
Making. estimated for the Of 1886, all the
new appropriations Of every kind specifically called for.
to be Sl7,5l5 ,93a and all the expenditures Of every
KIND TOR the service OF The year to be in the ag
gregate SG3. l:S} $40
On the supposiiion that the appropriations outstanding
and uncXpcndrd the ends OF the years i:,J and lS;;
will be similar in amount, this would leave an available
balance i'll the Treasury at the close Of the yenr ISIS
the first Of January lc3I, estimated at about $li,-
900, provided The receipts m computed and Con-
gross make no larger appropriations for extraordinary
other purposes, a. their present session. than those
merard in the estimates submitted. From this amount.
cttcr deductlng about eight millions 10 pay HE outsand
ing appropriations 10 which The Treasury will then pro-
badly stand pledged, there will be left at the close 81
lS}6, nett balance Of only fion six 10 millions
applicable to any other :sc, which Congress may now:
then be pleased to Designate instead Of about and
half millions, the nett balance estimated 10 be LETT ap
pIlcabc at the clpsc OF @ In other verbs the gem
dltures will in the ensuing year. for only the objects spc.
Cited i'll the estimates. probably exceed the receipts in
that year, about four millions Of dollars and thus to that
extent, reduce tho balance now hand.
lF.-El ElanA0nS u Hc estimates FIR 1896 lriM some
Suggestions on Mc proLiL!c caangcS Til Ic!2
The basis which the above estimates rest will HOW
be exhibited and explained.
IL the peculiar condition Of the country at this time
whoutan debt absorb urpls receipts and amidst
the great changes. which have recently Happened and
will probably continue To lappcn in our whole
and expenditures. till after the essential alterations made
by existing laws shall -42, this Department feels
the grounds CT lis estimates, and to disclose fully
every material consideration which! has led it to the re-
suits presented Congress will thus be better enabled 10
Judge Of their accuracy and To- c0rrcctany
For convenience in reference. tabular statement
is annexed a. which presents separately for lc 1884,
and c: far the last is asccrtainCd the general cs
Inmates in column. the actual appropriations in
other, and tho expenditures in third. To these
added in other columns, the whole revenue with the
exports and imports for each Of those years For SINH
lar the Register has been requested have the
detailed estimates for la:}6 prepared with second
lumn showing against each the actual appropriation in
lc:sj towards Ike object.
Explanation Of tie estimates If receipts from Customs
In respect the estimated receipts in the Treasury for
ls:} Tar derived from customs they have been
pucd on an importation OF! foreign merchandise, expect
cd TO he The average of the last three years but
much less than lhr importation OF the year ending in
September, l-:"'.
Under our present system OF revenue derived usually
in the ratio of 81 % from customs the amount of I'M
ports have very lnpntant gearing on our WhOir rc-
cripls The amount Of experts is likewise material
in su:ic degree influencing TIE IMPORTS and III the
present condition Of the country throwing mnch ly ht
its gcn, agricultural prosperity. and furnishing with the
others, highly useful Indications concerning the extent
and increase of our foreign commerce.
The imports during the year ending September 30th
1888, asccriancd aud estimated at $o ,U30 35S.
They show, coiapa.cI ~th the preceding year, an
increase Of 2l .;r o. Those during the three past
years have average been about Sl2~ 5G,G70.
The exports during the past year ascerlaincd and
estimated 81 800 .2jt of these s. 53l 90 were in
domestic and $s2o42i 2l:i, iii foreign products. Com
pared with the preceding year lhcy rXDlt al increase
of $l4 :GlS2GG.
As some evidence That estimates of the whole I'M
porlaons the ensuing founded correct data il
appears from annexed ) giving their amount
from 1880 that they have constantly and sometimes large
~ huclatc between plrtcuia: years. though comparing
most terms of cw consecutive years with tuTEcr cncs
they have generally increased Jh Tic whole imports
during the five YEARS prior To S3 exceeded those oi any
former period of similar length By nearly fifty millions,
EXCERPT occasion, almost thirty years slEcc when
they approached near, and another, about twenty yeas
Stree when they exceeded their recent amount IN con.
scnence the former period Of extraordinary share
in the carving trade and at the latter OF The large
demands 10 supply the dcprivalions which had been
caused by var and to meet the increased calls OF hume
rors new commercial enter prscs frstced by returning
mace But the very fact OF recent importatons hay
nr been So large, of the causes why considca-
bic dimnulon IN the whole amount III lc}U, Is ant:cl.
mated Some further vii! hereafter be- specified
in connection it'll other considerations, which, II Is be-
cvcd will tend 10 produce the same CONVECTION W hel
700 ,rncecd TO examine tie rec dulable character,
rather than the amount q" our imports during only lew
gears past with view 10 estimate more critically the
revenue which will probably be receive" rom ,hch III
~; and to form solc general COM cctures upon the sub
rc hcncetorward lS32, 1t is Tact, deserving care
u notice. that while the whole amount OF InportS has
for some years been increasing that portion paying du-
ties has greatly diminished, and at the same ule, ne
portion exported anu ciillCu W uIu"o'Ch Has oI WILL
nshcd in a similar ratio.
a statement is suLjoined. which furnishes important
Details on this point since c late grea; changes IN the
tariff (B 80 ,
The general results from them are, that while The i'm
norlntions ia ynr duties have fallen of in lS' about
eleven millions and in l-4 about seventeen millions
more and the free gcods Increased II: even laFsr: pro-
nn,nns the expectation of duabe articles has fallen of
!, c CORRESPONDING years only about SIX and two mi
lions leaving, the actual consumption IN Tic - Slacs OF
such foreign merchandise as pays duties al lille more
,I,n oue.,6ird Of our whole imports, and quite twenty
,nions less than in 1892 This computation as 10 The
consumption is made the probable hypothesis that the
stock of such merchandise hand remained ABOUT the
same at the close Of each year, WHICH, hough ho COT
rect in single years, Oh account Vi ":S '.o '
ous vibrations in trade would IN any series OF It"
vc,rs bc near the truth The mport9tons however, IN
@ and especially in the last quarter as thcy nave ereh
unprecedenty large exceeding II IS co'hP"teu' III '1
alone more than tittyth millions, anu "'oSuy i''
,J may bo tLouuht TO constitute some exception
"a tbc ,b,ve rule: and hence coupled with the acl llt
tho returns are still incomplete and drpeno III part Oh
est mates their amount and character nave not pe" III
roduced into this comparison But they are nseTieo IN
the table, far asccra'nnbs ana IL o .
49,, an, nnusu, limitations Deductions would sho"
Great uctuation in tho consumption both oil all foreign
crchandisc and of that which is not free.
The of duty has o" many a1nccS ues' :, ,Io Sn
us',y r-or, customs over ,wenty.four millions in the
TSssr; s vssr su and produce he
Ia h character of our imports With view to enable
Congress to form just estimate of the p,oI1Gb bic receipts
honTcs occasioned By the above causes, such ad
dons and dmnutons for the past and the future are
.oovrsd BY the difference which often happens between
h amount Of duties accrung and the amount actually