The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-02
ENORMOUS PUBLIC EXPENDITURES
Radical Tricks Exposed.
Old Balances Of ApprOpria-
tioDs Used.
Average Expenditure Yearly
Since the War Over
Si6O.OO0,OOO.
A Deficit of $154, 100000.
FrightfuI Deficiency Bills to
Come.
$3O,0OO,OOO Given TO Manu-
facturerS.
AgriculturaIists to Pay 1t.

facturers.
AgricuIturaIists to Pay 1t.
From the New York Herald
The Treasury Department has let it
leak out a little in advance OF the OH
cial statement that there will be anoth-
er "smaU increase Of the National in
debtedness" this month. We use the Ian
guage of the Washington telegram as
to the "snaH increase" but the cores
pondent says sit may possibly reach tirO
million fire hundred thousand dollars
that is, at the rate of thirty millions a
year. This does not strike us as small
Increase. We should not be surprised,
however, if the sum named were to be
below the figure when the official state
ment is published. l. is said that the
increase is owing principally to the
unusually heary expenditures Of the War
Department in carrying out the Radical
measures of reconstruction. We learn, at
the same time, that the receipts from IN
ternal rerenue are surprisingly small, and
that the cash in the Treasury has been
pretty well reduced.
This is anything but hattering
prospect of our national finances.
How could it be 9TH
erwisei The expenditures of the Gov
ernment continue 90 be enormous. They
are war expenditures in amount, though
the country is at peace, and has been
for more than three years past. The
heaviest is for the War Department In
carving out the reconstruction measures
of Congress. 1t would be better to
saw, however, that this rdSt expense has
been for keeping the South in a diSOrgdn-
lied and disturbed condition, for that IS
,chat this So.calIed reconstruction amounts
TO. Then the enormous appropriations
by Congress for all sorts OF schemes,
bounties, Freedmen's Bureau, and prl-
vate enterprises must soon drain the
Treasury dry when the income is fall
ing off. The stupeudous frauds in the
internal revenue, and the demorallza-
tion of that department through the
dead lock between Commissioner Rol-
Inns and Mr.. McCulloch and the Presi-
dent. threaten to reduce the income
from that source far below the estl-
mates. 4 hundred millions Of tdratton
rere taken off for the benefit Of telo Netc
Enqland and other manufacturers, ochtte the
erpenditures and appropriations remained
on the larqest scale. We see this extra
ordinary anomaly in the condition of
the country, that while the crops are
most abundant and general prosperity
prevails, the debt is being increased ana
the Treasury approaching Bankruptcy
REMARKS.
Mr.. McCulloch made q public state
ment when Congress had under cousid.
Grafton the party electionOering bill OF
the Jacobins, to take off taxes from
manufacturers, as follows:
Should the bill referred to become
law, | think it may be fairly estimated
that the total revenues for the next
fiscal year will fall from hundred to
hundred and twenty millions below the
estimates made in my last annual re-
port. 1t is exceedingly desirable that
taxes should be reduced, and l should
hail with pleasure the proposed reduc-
ton if felt assured that it would be
accomplished with corresponding re-
duction of expenditures. am Jree 10
sag that / am greatly dPPrehenS're mar
such reduction of expenditures 'rltt NOT
be made, and that the rCrenHes Of the
country for the merit fiscal year, i The Gtt
nop before the Senate, or in the hands Of
uour committee, should become lar, WlH
be insufficient to meet the interest on the
public debt and tie current crpenSe Of the
Government
"But this warning" says the report of
Mr.. Delmar, "was Intellectual. The bill
it alluded to was passed on the 3lst OF
March, 1S65; and tho public service, in
stead of being cut down, was Increased
by the creation of new functions and
the appointment of additional officers.
In a word, the amount of service to be
performed, whether actual or nominal,
is more than it was last year, and 1t is
therefore vain to look for any reduction
fer the present"
The consequence, as states the same
report sis, if the treasury endedrors TO
meet its current expenditures this year (to
say nothing of fmdtured claims deferred, or
Of the Post Office deficiency it Will shoe a
deficit ofSl5I ,339, ,202.25 at the end Of the
year, to be obtained from increased tdres or
| lOdHS.'
Mr.. Delmars report of the financial
condition, published yesterday, shows
the expenditures for the last three years,
as follows:
/ For ls6j.6 S5I6 A., l03 62
| For I-Gti.7 7................ 392 Al, ,29l "a
For le6I-s. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS f+'l''oO4 ~
The expenditures for the last fiscal
year were not actual war expenditures,
but were those made in time of pro-
found peace, and in the third year after
the war, and when its great incidental
expenses had ceased. This statement
also shows that our expenditures are
Increasing, having been SD ,469, ,3l2.S5
greater during the last fiscal year than
the year preceding. The greatest mis-
take in former unauthorized statements
was, in omitting from expenditures au-
thorized the sum of Shafts, ,47223 be-
ing unexpended balances of former ap-
propriations.
The expenditures specially authorized
for the current fiscal year will be SiS2,
O59, ,202.23, thus showing an increase of
expenditure in the current fiscal year
ending 30th June, 1869, the fourth year
after the war, of SS7, ,l45 5,595.04, as com
pared with the preceding year Here,
too, we find balances outstanding of old
appropriations, July l, l56s, Sl5O, Az
522.77.
The receipts from all sources are then
given, showing "a DEFICIENCY on the
Both of June next OF Sl54,000, ,000,"
which can only be supplied by new
taxes, or another increase of the public
debt, TO the extent of one hundred and
tfffy four millions Of dollars.
The manner in which actual eXpendi.
lures have been so much above the pur.
posely limited appropriations of Con-
: gress has been, by the use of balances oi
Old appropriations, and by the use Of
Immense sums coming into the Treas.
ury from sales of enormous amounts ol
material of war. The mOdus Operandi i:
thus explained by the Commissioner OF
Statistics:
All that expenditure that occurs after
the close of the year goes on the next
years account, so that though, if a
series of years be taken together, the