The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-07-23


1883 tie S~ias being In Comnaads Of he Whole.
Mr.. HUNTER said x lHa
Mr.. raEsiDxxr II this bill should pass, shall have
ied during the session. s35 600 900 to the public debt
81 the country, and 1t to that IL u.s. perhaps
pStyu that should give the why ask for this
hn and how Il il that expect hereafter to get along
With the existing sources Of public revenue.
Al the commencement Of this session. the Secretary Of
the Treasury, in his annual report estimated that our
pcnues for the present would be between seye-
tytour and seventy yfve million dollars. At the
time he estimated that the receipts from customs would
amount to and he asked for $40 000, ,OO0
y be borrowed Treasury notes. in order to meet the
AAciency Since that time there has been supplied by
HE deficiency bill amount Of SIT 900 000 making the
appropriations for the entire service of the present year
than eighty four million dollars. We thus find
hat the ability of the treasury to meet the probable de-
ands upon it will be twenty million dollars less
than supposed by the Secretary Of the Treasury when
he presented his annual report lie asks for loan
of 000 in order to meet the demands to be made
upon the treasury, and it Is thought that, with such
loan he will be able to carry the government until
Congress meets again. and then II there be revival OF
trade, he will present such may be necessary
in order to provide for the fiscal necessities of the
try. II there should be revival in trade, and customs
should come in to large amount it may be unnecessary
to present any further demand.
But he bases his estimate upon the fact that the differ
on departments have reported to him upon call that
they will want, until the commencement of next
sion, thrty-seven million dollars in order to meet
the demands upon them. The expenditures for that
time will not exceed $37 900, ,000 To meet those $37
000 900 he estimates that he will have $25 900 600 in
the two first quar- arters$5, 900 900 from public lands
and $40 900 900 from customs during those two quar-
ters If to that add the $I5 600 900 of proposed
loan shall have $40 900 900 of means with which TO
meet this probable demand of $37, 900, 900.
1t to me- however, that in presenting this prop
osition ought to look little further and what
will be the probable demands of the treasury and the
of ppy not only for the present fiscal year. but
for the next !; that may Judge how far rely
the existing order to
them 1t is my intention to do this very briefly. For
that purpose have thrown into tabular form the proba
BILE receipts and expenditures for the present and next
fiscal year. H. H.aat 1s5I ta3rs
The estimate made of expenditures by the Secretary Of
the Treasury when he sent in his annual report,
$H, 000 Since then have passed the deficiency
bill, amounting, in round numbers, to SIC, 000, ,000
making the estimated expenditure for the present year
$S4 963000 To meet that expenditure he had at the
commencement of the present fiscal year, balance
hand of l7,7l0, Ia The customs estimated at
$40,0O0,O ,O00 is probable they may exceed this lit
tie but, for safety the amount is put at $40 900 000
The lands are now estimated at 81 900, 000.S Then,
from miscellaneous sources have ST. 046, GAL. Add
to that $40 900 in treasury notes and have for
the entire of the present fiscal year $85 1855
Deduct from that ssl O0o the appropriations for the
service Of this fiscal year. and have balance for the
next fiscal year hand Of $793,697 Here il may sug
gest itself to that this is not money enough
hand to allow the Secretary to work tho machinery of
the Treasury Department That would be true If tho
entire appropriations would be expended in the present
fiscal year but there will be considerable amount of
them that will not be used until the next year Howev
er, throw the appropriations of the present fiscal year
and the receipts of the present fiscal year together for
the convenience of calculation in order to estimate what
will be the entire demand and entire supply In the way of
for the present and next fiscal year together
For the next fiscal year. the Secretary has estimated
the expenses at $74 064 1856 That was his estimate in
the annual report Since then he has sent In estimates
for custom houses and public buildings to the amount of
81 T0f O00 These together make an aggregate of 975
764 755 the urObable fTO
it will be proper to add the which Congress usually
allows by appropriations originating here upon cst
mates but TO satisfy claims and for various other mat
tiers. This amount cannot be estimated with any
rucy but 1t may be assumed to be something like mil
lion of dollars We think, though, that far more than
million of dollars will probably be taken from the es
Inmates of 100000 by the two houses, who in view
of the present state of tho treasury reducing the
appropriations below the estimates This at least has
been done in the House of Representatives and these
reductions, suppose, will generally be sustained here.
will also say that in this estimate of expenditure we
throw out nearly five million dollars for volunteers for
suppose, if the from Utah be true, and
rely upon it, that appropriation will not BIO neces-
say take then the probable expenditures of the next
year. reckoning them according to the estimates like
ly to amount to 1874 1866 To meet that we shall
have balance hand Of s703 697 The estimates for
customs are $52 900 0O0 from lands $40 900 900 from
miscellaneous sources ST. 900, making in all s63
793 GOT Add to that $4,000 900 by way Of loan if
this bill should pass, and the entire for the next
fiscal year will be S7S, 793, 697 W y, that estimate leav-
ing surplus of something like thss million dollars
but If it should turn out that the which we have
had in regard to the Utah difficulties which have un-
doubtedy swelled the general estimates independently
of the deficiency b be true, there may be reiuc
ton here. Indeed. think there ought to be-
Besides all this, If 10 pass bill which intro
duccd here upon leave and referred to the Post Office
Committee, designed to make that sclfsustaning de-
paitment by adding a small to the postages we
should relieve the general expenditures of 900 of
deficiency which is the sum now settled by the Post
Office Department upon the general treasury of the
try But putting that out of the question: 1t to
that there ought to be ground to hope that If tho
Utah trouble should be settled shall reduce the
expenditures below the S75 600 which estimated
know that the expenditure for the next fiscal year,
account of the Utah difficulties matter how they ter
inmate now must be greater than they otherwise would
have been. STILL If we are to have peace and no dis |
turbanoe there think the public expenditures ought
not go to the which is here estimated. think
80, because find that the entire expenditure for the
fiscal year ending June 30 1882 exclusive of the public
debt, $64 S7S 900 find that the entire expendi-
for the last fiscal year of General Ferccs admins
tntion, exclusive of the public debt, SEQ liz 000
find that in the last annual report Of Mr. Guthrie
Secretary of the Treasury he stated that the average of
expenditure exclusive OF public debt, for the five pre-
cedng years. had been about forty eight million dollars
think that with all this before us, have right to
hope that il these disturbances shall be queted, shall
only have reduction upon the estimate Of $5,
600 900 for the next fiscal year. but that we have good
grounds for expecting much larger reduction for the
years that are to succeed.
But, Mr. President it may be that the estimate which
have made in regard to the probable of the
for the next fiscal year may be questioned Let
First in regard TO the lands 1t is known that