Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-15
DE CEs.FEEsES9 EJ. 1885.
They are divided among the different

Previous appropriations be used for 1886, for civil
&C $9,l2, for military, &c. 1899 5l5. BY virtue OF
ornrr acts OF Congress there wilt probably be wanted
during 1885, for the payment of interest and dividends
unclaimed the funded debt and of unfunded debt
sell, yet uupaid, the of $4,000,
To these add such contingent excuses of new appro-
prations by Congress for ordinary purposes,
included in the estimates but which likely to be
deemed proper by that body and the grounds of which
were explained in the last annual report, So 600 600.
The estimates of expenditures 1886, for exraordina-
ry purposes which submitted in oonnexion with the
military and naval services, amount 10 So 1926 S25
Making as Estimated for the service of 1886, all the
new OF every kind specifically called for
To be sly olo,933 and all the expenditures of every
knd ior the service OF the year to be in the ag
grcgate So, 1873 6d0
and unexpended at the ends of the years 1885 and 1886
viii be similar in amount, this would leave available
balance IN the Treasury al the close of the year 1886
on the first of January 1887 estimated at about Si4,
5OOO00 provided the receipts be computed, and Con-
grcss make no larger appropriations for Extraordinary
other purposes at their present session. than those
meratcd IN the estimates submitted From this amount
eier deducng about eight millions pay the outstand
ing appropriations to which the Treasury Will then pro.
badly stand pledged there will be left the close of
1896, nett balance of only from six seven millions
applicable any other use which Congress may now or
then be pleased 10 designate, instead of about
half millions the nett balance estimated be left a-
plicabc at the close Of 1885 In other Words the expen-
dures VIII IN the ensuing year. for only the objects spe
cihed III the estimates. probably exceed the receipts in
that year. about four millions of dollars and to that
extent, reduce the balance hand
explanations IF e estimates far 1885, aciM some
Suggestions on tic probable changes Till 1912.
The basis which the above estimates will now
be exhibited and explained
In the peculiar condition of the country at this time
without debto absorb surplus receipts aud amidst
the great changes, which have recently happened and
will probably continue happen in our whole revenue
and expenditures till after the essential alterations made
by existing shall cease S42 this Department feels
bound TO enter into detail than usual concerning
the grounds of lis estimates, and TO disclose more fully
every material consideration which has led to the re.
suits presented Congress will thus be better enabled 10
Judge OF their accuracy and 10 unnentionaler
ors For convenience IN reference, tabular statement
Is which presents separately for 1888 1884
and le5 so far as the last ascerained the general
Inmates IN one column, the actual appropriations in an
other and the expenditures in n third. To these are
added, IN other columns, the whole revenue with the
exports and imports for each of those years For sni.
lar the Register has been requested to have the
detailed estimates for 1896 prepared with second CO.
unn, showing against each the actual appropriation in
le30. towards like object.
Explanation Of Tie estimates Of receipts from Customs q
In respect to the estimated receipts the Treasury for
1886, far derived from customs they been COM
puted an importation OF foreign merchandise expect
ed to be the average of the last years but
September, 1875.
Under present system of revenue derived usually
In the ratio OF 81 to 81 from CUSTOMS the i'm
ports have very important bearing on our whole re-
cepts The amount OF exports is likewise material as
IN some degree influencing the imports, and in the
present condition OF the country throwing much light on
It's great agricultural prosperity and furnishing with the
others highly useful Indications concerning the xtent
and increase of our foreign commerce.
The imports during ;ie year ending September Both
1855 ascertained and estimated at $i51 0l0 1868
ncIease OF 2i oO9O36. Those during the three past
years have on an average been about SI29 $50 ,67O
The exports during the past year ascertained and
estimated at SIIs 955 1885, of these SIS 53I o26 We're in
domestic, and $20424 2l3, in foreign products Com
pared with The preceding year they exhibit increase
AS evidence that estimates of the whole i'm
porIaons the ensuing year founded correct data
appears from document annexed @ giving their amount
from $780, that they have constantly sometimes LARGE
ly hucuatcd between particular years. though comparing
most terms Of few consecutive years with former ones
Tho hole
during the five years prior 1856 exceeded those OF any
former period OF similar length by nearly fifty millions
except occasion, almost thirty years since when
they approached near, and another about twenty years
since, when they exceeded their amount in con-
sequence the former period of extraordinary share
in the carrying trade and at the latter one of the large
demands TO supply the deprivatons which had been
caused by and to meet the increased calls of hume
rous new commercial enterprises fostered by returning
peace But the very fact of imporations hav-
ing been large, is of the why considera-
bic dminuion in the whole amount in 1896 is anici.
pated Some further will hereafter be specified
in connection it'll other considerations which it is be.
lieved Will tend to produce the same conviction When
proceed TO examine the free duiiabc character
rather than the amount OF imports during only few
years past, with view TO estimate critically the
revenue which will probably be received from them in
o36 and to form some general conectures upon the sub
iect thencciorward 1872 fact deserving care
fl notice, that while the whole of imports has
for some years been increasing, that portion paying du
ties has greatly diminished, and at the time the
portion exported and entitled to drawback has dimi-
nished in a similar ratio.
A statement is suboincd which furnishes important
details this point since the late great changes in the
tariff (B)
The general results from them are that while the i'm
poratons paying dniics have apen off in 1893 about
eleven millions and in 1884 abe 1t millions
more, and the free goods increased in larger pro-
portions, the expectation Of duabe articles has fallen off
in The corresponding years only about SIX AID mil
lions leaving the actual consumption in the u SOtcs Of
such foreign merchandise pays duties little more
than one-nrd OF whole imports and quite twenty
millions less than in 1882. This computation the
consumption made the probable hypothesis that the
stock of such merchandise hand remained about the
at the close Of each year, which, though
rect in single years, account Of and var
yibfa ions ia trade, would in any series of few
years be the truth. The mporiaiions, however,, in
1900 and especially in the last quarter they have been
uuprccedenuy large cxcecdng il is computed in that
consumed may be thought 10 constitute some exception
70 the above rulc and hence coupled with the fact that
the returns still incomplete, aud depend in part
estimates their amount and character have not been in
5dUccd into this comparison But they inserted in
the table, far as ascefainablc and IL considered with
out any unusual limitations deductions, would show
great HucuatOn ia the consumption, both Of all foreign
merchandise md Of that which is not free.
The rate of duty hrs many articles been
tally reduced, rnT lyremOVed, lessen the whole
receipts from customs twenty millions the
last two years and produces most ct tie above differences
in the character Of oar imports With view to enable
Congress form just estimate Of tie probable receipts
any chan9cs occnsnued ny the above causes such adj.
dOoas and diminntious f te past and the future
required by the difference. which often happens between
the amount OF dniies accfung and the amount actually
received 10 any parNcUiar year.
ln instances this difference happens by largc
changes in the amount Of bountics pnid duties
funded or as in 1885, by the substitution of cash da.
/ q 4. r,H 1ta frfu ~ Ion