The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-04
THE FEDERAL EXPENDITURES.

large portion of its available space to the publica
ton of the official statement, prepared under the
direction of the Clerk of the House of Representa-
tiyes, in compliance with law of Congress, for the
purpose of showing the appropriations made in the
general acts passed during the last session. with the
amount of each appropriation separately stated
This statement, it will be SEEM concludes with the
following recapitulation of the Federal appropria
tions:
Legislative, executive, judicial, civil, and
miscellaneous $12 796 646 A
Diplomatic and consular 912 1901 C
| Indian Department, revolutionary, invalid,
and other pensions ........ 34O7, 1856 So
Army Notifications, military academy, and
military roads. rs 1853 go 4e
Naval service ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 145OS 1854 %
Post Office Department INSTRUMENTATION. 1901 456 90
Ocean steam mail service. 400 100
Collection of the Observation-Disclosures. 5000 900 90
Treaty with the King of Denmark. 40S 731 "A
ss1 1914 SOS 40
| This amount is exclusive we need hardly say, of
| the permanent appropriations allowed by existing
laws, also of those marked indefinite in the official
| statement. These latter cannot now be estimated
| with any certainty, as their determination depends
| on data not yet ascertained We have seen them
set down at the probable amount of $1,000, O00.-
Among the permanent appropriations is to be placed
| the accruing interest public debt, for the
| annual payment of which provision is made in the
bills authorizing the loans. If, however, these
items tend somewhat to swell the aggregate of the
appropriations made for the current fiscal year. it
is but just to say that considerable sum included
in the above recapitulation more properly belongs
to the expenses of the last fiscal year.
Under this head are embraced the appropriations
made for deficiencies, which, allowed for the sew
eral departments of the public service amount to
the sum total of more than ten millions of dollars,
as will be seen from the following items:
Deficiencies for printing, &c............ S341 1S9 SIS
General deficiency bill 1904 209 SO
deficiency for armories 100000 90
lnulan treaties, &C. 339, 595 90
Total deficiencies. SO, 744, 1894 AZ
In the aggregate, moreover, of SIS, 047 ,456 as
signed to the service of the Post Office Department
included all the expenses of our postal SYSTEM
which will in part be betrayed by the receipts of
the Department., Congress having allowed only
So, 100000 to supply the contingent deficit of re
ceipts over expenditures during the current fiscal
year.
But while taking these statements into the ac-
count it is not to be forgotten that the unexpended
balances of the last fiscal years appropriations are
also placed at the command of the Secretary of the
Treasury. These balances, according to the annual
report OF that officer amount to $3.50, 5SS, and
may therefore be added to the aggregate appropri-
ations granted by Congress for the current year.
1t would hardly be just, however, to count them,
with the other appropriations among the actual
expenditures of the Government for this year, as it
may turn out that an equal sum will be carried
over from the books of the current to those of the
next ensuing fiscal year.
The total Federal revenues to be dsbursed during
the present year, for which appropriations
have been made by Congress, may therefore be
stated as follows:
Specific appropriations NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SSl 1914 S25
Permanent appropriations for interest pub
lie debt, &c.. $500 900
Indefinite appropriations for claims, pensions,
allowances, &c. estimated ............... 5000 900
sss,s24, S25
Add balance of previously existing appropria-
tons applicable to current year.......... 165S65SS
Total for fiscal year. ............... S104 oil 413
But of these disbursements portion as already
explained, should be charged to the last fiscal year;
another considerable amount, estimated at Sl4 035-
520 (being expenses of the Post Office, J will not
be drawn directly from the Federal Treasury; while
allowance should also be made for the uneXpended
balances of appropriations whatever they NAV be
remaining at the close of the current fiscal year.
II Mr.. Secretary Cobb shall succeed in carving to
the account of the next fiscal year sum equal to
that with which he entered upon this and If he
shall hereafter come before Congress with no bills
for the supply of deficiencies in the outstanding
appropriations the moneys actually drawn from
the Treasury during the current year, for the SER
rlee Of the same, will not perhaps greatly exceed
sxty-fve or seventy millions, in which we include
the conlectural amount of six or seven millions
under the head of ''permanent' and '.indefinite''
appropriations.
The practice of earring unexpended balances from
one 1lscal year to another, combined with that of
voting deficiency bills for the Joint service of the
year within which these balances accrue and of that
to which they are carried makes it difficult to est
mate In advance the actual expenditures for any
current fiscal year. 1t is easier to ascertain with
some accuracy the expenditures of the year which
on the 30th of June last for which the
aggregate appropriations S72, 1l2 29s. If to
these we add the appropriations made for deficiencies
and then deduct the unerpended balances of ont |
standing appropriations, shall have the sum to-
tai OF the Federal expenditures for the last fiscal
year, being $66,270,654, in which are included the
gross revenues of the Post Office Department for
that PERIOD but which is exclusive of the ssperma |
nent' flndetlnlte''