Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-21

"u "%-".. S23 l99, l4s GA
By deducting this aggregate of 500, 49, las a.
from the aggregate estimated expenditures for the year end
ing 30th june 1882 of S4s I'D ls, there will remain,
the estimated ordinary expenditures the sum Of S24 $685.,
s44 81.
Thus will be that Of the aggregate expenditures,
actual and estimated for the years ending the 3Oh
June, 1852, amounting 1894, .95, the OF
$3s, 330ls, exclusive of Sl3 544 0G interest
the debt is required to sustain the faith Of the Govern
ment pledged implied arising in consequence Of its acts
during period subsequent to the seth june l6 and
10 LIST July, 1919.
Some of the objects Of these estimated expenditures by
Of the extended of territory, have been made
either permanent charges upon the Treasury, will
nue for long series Of years. and be stated follows
Excess of expenditures Of War Department; Navy De-
partment Pensions Interest War Debt Territorial
Governments Survey of Boundary Line Survey of Coast
Of California Indians.
Further experience will undoubtedly result in compelling
still greater expenditures in the ulfment Of treaty spua
ons and in controlling and subdnng the Indians and other
awess bands with which newly Territories
infested, and before there will be that permanent emigration
to and settlement therein of that class Of citizens
cessay to full development Of the and defence of
that country.
These charges upon the Treasury found in expen
ditures in former tmea arising from our greatly expanded
territorial limits will doubtless for the present. press heavily
but we may confidently expect ample compensation for
these additional burdens in the immense mineral wealth OF
our new acquisitions and the rich which COM
mandng position the Pacific opens the enterprise
of our countrymen. .E,t
Frauds sspon the Revenue.
In obedience the act Of 10th May 1900 whereby it is
made the duty Of the Secretary Of the Treasury "to digest
prepare, and lay before Congress- the Of
every session, report the subject of finance containing
estimates of the public public expenditures
plans for improving increasing the from time
Time, feel my duty, in view Of necessarily increased
expenditures and maturing liabilities, to submit 10 the wis
dom of Congress such suggestions the present state of
country and the revenues seem to demand.
he fact in Innate fin ure
revenue that the last three four have been exception
al that indebted for large part
to the famine the revolutions and the broken markets
OF Europe The with which the low duties under the
act OF 1916 may be reduced still lower by successful frauds
and differentiation, combined with the Just stated
nave induced large excess Of Importation But the
s OF Europe are recovering their tone the effects of the
mhe are passing away, country is filed it is believed
to excess with foreign goods and would be contrary all
reasonable expectation to look for continuance of these large
importations.
insufficient for the prevention Of frauds and
The extent to which they have been carried and the degree
IN which they have been rendered systematic and complete
have been highly detrimental to the The Depart
ment has long given the subject Of these frauds its most
est attention. and exhausted all its authority for their
ton and detection but they still Of such magnitude and
demorazng in their effects, to demand the immediate
nterposition Of Congress.
special communication this subject made TO the
Senate the 26h September last in resolution
Of that body and ha embraced much that would other
wise be incorporated in this report copy thereof annexed
hereto, marked -.
That Frauds by of undervauaons, have
been and continue to be systematically perpetraed, and that
they confined neither to class Of articles Market
port of the United States this Department has
formulation of the most undenisble evidence.
This proof consisting Of great variety Of details. will with
great pleasure be submitted to Congress- any of its
mittees that may DO charged with the subject
Through the vigilance Of the appraisers vast numbers Of
advances upon invoices have been made Al Boston and
New York the number advanced from Japusy, s49 TO
October st 1850, amounted to than 5000 liable To
ranging from per cent upwards Of 400 per cent.
Staemen. is an importation Of fruit, and cited