New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-22
Cost of the FEDERAL Governments.

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Pos, once Terms IA eta week payable 70 We Carrier
Cost Of the Federal Government.
II isa current impression that the Annual TX
peoditares Of the Federal Government are about
Thirty Millions per ann1m, but such is aot the fact
The Appropriations from the Treasury for the cur
rent fiscal year do indeed amount TO go, 9,0n,
beside several claims which were ordered 70 be
eqai.ably adjusted and paid, while no amour; 10
he paid was specified, and which at rough guess
may amount TO 100000 more, making the entire
disbursements Of the ear lf all the Appropriations
should be exhausted.) about Thirty-fye Millions
aad Three Quarters, beside which bill was
rushed through At the heel Of the Session, making |
provisions for compromising the owners Of Horses
los, or injured in the Military Service the United
States-under which act any amount oil money |
may, by legal ingenuity and liberal swearing, |
be distracted from the Treasory-ssy Million at
leastbut not all, and probably not quarter OF IT,
will be obtained this year. Then another act was
passed, very properly requiring that all the moneys
received at the Custom House shall hereafter be
be paid into the Treasury and the oompensa
ton Of the Revenue Officers discussed there
from, whereas hitherto the expense Of COL
lecting the Revenue has been first deducted
and paid by the Collectors and only the bal
suce paid into the Treasury and accounted rs the
Annual Receipts Of the Government This BILL
which really reduces the Annual Exp soditures
considerably, will nomnslly increase them and
we shall very likely have this item Figuring
N an exhibit to show the Increase OF Expenditure
o1der tho New Administration. 50 the Post Once
Revenues are now regarded as pad into the Urea
sury and disborsed therefrom, though In point OF
fact they are simply payments by individuals 70
common carrier for services rendered, and are dis
borsed from the Post Offices TO the Mail-csrriers'
Clerks, &c, without ever seeing the inside Of a
Sub-Trsasury These are not properly part OF
the Aona, Expenditures and were never account
ed such until within a few years past
Ia like manner there was appropriated from
the Treasury at the last Session a. 900 to pay
two ias.allneDts with in,erest) Of the sum due
Mexico under Mr.. Folks Treaty of Peace and
Acquisition, falling due respectively May SOth |
last, and May 3Oth, 1850. Only one of these at
any rate belongs to the current fiscal year and |
neither Of them is properly part OF the Annual
Expenditures. They are appropriated TO extn
galsh Public Debt. created in isas
The actual Annual Expenditures Of the current
wear are very nearly as follows:
sslsnes Of Civil and Diplomsuc biII, inelud-
log LishlH ooss., Hospitals, and $4,000 80. .. |
psseieneies Of last years Bill including
s7s.coo in the Contingent Expenses Of Con ,,.,o.
ror''se.on: and repsif s1Ooo 90
sna 81 1900 for building Dry Docks.., ssosss2 81
Army including 5000 5000 70 spies In Mexico
.rtGc "A Inv "a
s.".s. RsiSipgs se ENTHUSIASTICALLY. s.ses7s5 &
Military Academy at WestPoint ......... l7l,294 81
Penso Rev unonary Navy Invalid &c. $1,000 %
Lighthouses. Light Boats, Buoys, 6e...... 1920 90 |
fndians-Ann1ues, Lands, Agents kc.... l,vVvyoo %
Minnesota Territory. IN al................. nvU w
Csmssl that specify the amount......... 1924 II
CalIns-to he settled equitably-amount not
CoIIeetou of The Customs Revenue-ssy 80. 100000 90
Interest on Public Debt-ssy 100000 %
Total Actual Cost OF the Government for
the hscal year is4s. t22ioelo vi
The last item, it will be seen, is part OF the |
burden laid upon the country by the late War
with Mexico. bat for which there would now be |
no debt. An item OF 100000 in the Civil and |
Diplomatic Bill for redeeming Bounty Scrip issued
TO discharged soldiers is also part of tho cost OF
that War which, while it thus increases the Ex-
penditure weighs heavily upon the Income by alb
sorbing in Land Scrip the annual purchases OF
Pablo Lands, when would OtneTWlse pflnS NJ
least g. 100000 more into the Treasury this year
We are to pay of 81, 800 900 OF the Indemnity to
Mexico each year as already stated. which reduces
our Public Debt by that amount. We have estma-
ted the Interest on our Public Debt of all kinds for
this year at o. 600, 900, which is rather over the
mark but 1t is odd that no appropriation for this
item appears ia the Official list of Appropriations
for last Session, nor can we recoect that any WIS
passed. Leaving out the payment TO Moxico aud
the cost Of the Mail Service (exoept Mail Steam
ersl a. also the Interest on the Pablo Debt, and
adding in the cost of collecting the Customs as
above. and the actual expense of carrying on the
Federal Government for the year 10 just about
Twenty-Five Millions Of Dollars, of which about
Two Millions are devoted TO works Of future and
lasting utility.
Tnis is not a perfect statement, but It shows
some material facts which have not been present
ed in any recent Treasury Report We trust here
after to have Reports from that Department show
tug lust what IL costs to carry on the Government
from year to year, how much is paid for dead
horse and how much is expended on works which
positively aud permanently benefit the country
This last class of appropriations, we trust, s des
tined to bs more extensive and important than il
has lately been.
~ Gen. TAYLOR received 2s,ls2 votes in Yer