New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-02-22

Total .Eseudos s2.s25. 80


Most Of the items of this bill will explain them
selves about as well rs one can explain them. The
large surpusago there put down entered, according
TO law, into the home budget Around all the other
expenses and receipts are rich and fruitful margins
over which the well pastured official finds reason
TO grieye. 1t is profoundly curious that the
budget Of Cuba is about oReird that Of Spain, or,
TO state the case exactly the last budget OF the
monarchy was three times that of Cuba. plus sum
less than ten millions. Cubas war-costs were over
fourteen millions, whereas those of Spain did not
much exceed twenty millions. Cuba paid for the
navy S. 75s 2GO Spain. about S45OO0O The treasury
expense Of Cuba is in proportion to budget OF much
larger size than the heavy zone she owns. The
budget of Mexico, hardly more at this moment
than il was in 1919 under the Government OF Spain.
is about s9l 100000 yet Cuba. which Is not supposed
TO have even one-fourth of Mexicos population and
is far her inferior in extent Of territory exceeds tho
Republic in expenditure by sl00Os000 Cuba, with
less than 1900 900 people is spending proporionately
more than the United States with its more than 10000
600 of population and billions of debt On the basis OF
an actual census of 100000, Cuba's cost per head
weighs at the rate of something more than So but IN
100000 OF population in the United States the In
dividual burden is not more than 50, rs
imposed by the budget Furthermore, Cuba
has 10 debt, strictly speaking The whole subject OF
her taxation and revenue may be summed up with
great force and weight in tho proposition that II
Cuba with her 10000 people yields moro than
e2 100000 escudos then should Spain with her
100000 inhabitants give about 665COoOOo OF escu
dos; that is to say, $50, 10000.
The reduction of tho budget is now for once
seriously contemplated by the Island Government
But il is not nor was it any time within easy mem
ory. officially proposed to do great deal for that
object. The suggestion OF economy jast made by the
Government comprehends in its total about f4OOOoo
all that the Spanish rulers Of Cuba are willing TO
save ont of q dozen great and well-margnod par
tculrs-out of SURPRISES which are SURPRISES very
meb in the sense that robbery is taxation. This
snm NAV be taken as the measure OF all the frac-
tonal supposed TO have been made TO the
island Int only when the reduction OF the budget is
indeed made TO that amount There ~ now denclt
in the island finances of s9O,OOoOOO, owlng primer
pally 70 the remttances made to SPAN the Span'rus
say also to the war in ST. Domingo ana IL ~ 's lact
which will most seriously interfere with the amend
ment of the budget. Spain, as we nave known ner
from time hack was never without preteXt to
make her nroyinces bleed; she has always had bad
proyime for whose castigation some good one must
nav Cnba has VIGOROUSLY been TINS we'll
paving province and has paid us ronhuy
az il the punishment were hers' grave
question in equity here arises H. according
10 the Cuban standard Of revenue SPAN ought to
raise from Spain G65,WO'OOo Oh escudos' where no"
OHIO roiaoa nt third of that amount, why does she
49,. - ,,aoltb on her ST. Domingos right out of
hsr IVY nocketi She might do this, it seems with
ont .taai;ng the toys of her tropic child like the
ovrsy mother that she is. project now before
rnn ., roduced budget is rather conservative in
in ths General manner of its amendments
hnt n,ooes the total nearly s0,5OOOCO lower
,,'a, n'at If the royal estimates II retains
~ go ,oo :, lotteries, or about enough IN
,,ia S,s',,o item perhaps, TO support the island
sAna ,aas,I, nuon the average principles Of lib
oo.'o,' :o,,noon sense at work in the United
cry anu rs;. imnroyed budget would sum up as low
and os iob as sai OO0OO0l Psnnsylyania has twice