The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-01
DcAeit in she Treasury this Fiscal
Wear Of One hundred and Finy-four
Millions Of Dollars, Resulting from
Radical Expenditures

Inc NduORdt IHtetttyenc6F puDllSnes
the official statement of ALEXANDER
DELMAR, Director of the Bureau Of sta.
tistics of the Treasury Department t,
with the following Introductory:
Various statements Of Federal re-
ceipts and expenditures have hereto.
fore been published, purporting to ceme
from individuals or persons in office,
but having no legal charge of the books
and accounts of the Treasury Depart
ment, and no legal or official authority
tn give any certificate as to such books
or accounts. Of course, all such state
ments are mere speculative theories, or
conjectural estimates, aud are Gow
shown to be erroneous to the extent of
hundreds of millioss of dollars. We
now publish the official statement of
ALEXANDER DELMAR, Director of the
Bureau of Statistics Of the Treasnru
Department, the only officer authorlz-
ed by law to collect and publish such
statistics. This statement, then, is ex-
.actly accurate, being taken from the
books of the Treasury, and certified by
the only officer charged by law with
this duty. 1t will be perceived from
this authentic statement, now publish
ed by us, that the expenditures of the
Government for the last three fiscal
years were as follows
For 1866 ............ .....-.--.SoI6,tIl,lU ,lU3 o.
For lcbO'I -......--'-- o'-,tff,@Si of
These 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
tho war, and when its great incidental
expenses had ceased. This statement
also shows that our expenditures are
increasing, having been SD 9,3l2.oo
greater during the last fiscal year than
the year preceding. The greatest mis-
take in former unauthorized statements
was, in emitting from expenditures au-
thorized the sum of SHAFTS, ,472 %, be,
ing uuexpended 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
ex xpenditure in the current fiscal year
ending Both June, 1869, the fourth yeaI
after the war, of S37 las, ,595.O4, as com,
pared with the year preceding. Here
too, we find balances outstanding of old
appropriations, July l, 1868, $50, Az
522.77.
The receipts from all sources art
then given, showing "a DEFICIENCY or
the 3Oth of June next of Sl54 ,OO0, 900,
which can only be supplied by new
taxes, or another increase of the public
debt, to the extent of one hundred dnd
ffty.tow millions Of dollars. In his let
ter of March last to the Finance Com
mittee, the Secretary of the Treasury
apprized Congress of the approaching
disaster, but his warning was unheeded
by Congress. 1t is clear, then, that We
stand on the brink of precipice, an6
at the bottom of the dark abyss will b'
found, under the Radical policy, tinan
cial bankruptcy and national disgrace
Indeed nothing can save US from i'm
pending ruin but an immediate change
of rulers and policy. Elect one more
Radical Congress, sustained by Radi
cal Executive, and national repudiatior
is inevitable. The people can change
the position by change of policy, a:
indicated by the elections this fall
After that il uiU be too late. Great
praise is due to Mr.. DELMAR for the
prompt aud able reply which he ha'
made to the call made upon him fol
these statistics.
We have before us an article from the
highest and most impartial source, the
last aumber of the National Qadrterl!
Reriew, showing the great value of Mr.
DrIMAR's statistical tables, which arti
Gle, we hope, will be perused by tn
people.