The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-06-08
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Remarkable figures occur in our CORES
pondence from Havana. By that very rare docu-
ment, Queen Isabella farewell budget for Cuba
of the year ending with June, we have an
understanding of the various extravagances
with which Spain has expended her oppreS-
sions ON the island Its income was esti-
mated at nearly twenty-five million dollars;
its expenditures at thirty-one millions. Its
war costs, under a peaceful regime reached
the enormous sum of nearly twenty millions.
The main expenses of administration were
above four millions. The Church received
not far from million of dollars. The Cap
tain-General was paid fifty thousand dollars
a year, exclusive of palatial expenses. These
were the charges of peace footing The war
has been carried on at double the rate OF the
budget, to say the least. The Government
stands debtor to its bank at Havana for not
less, we presume, than twenty, perhaps thirty
| millions
These figures sort we'll with those which
reach us from Spain. Minister Figuerola re-
| ports his budget at about $157, 800 900 on the
| side of expenses. The estimates of income
are about $110, 900, 600, some say $95, 900, 000.
Ways and means must be devised to harvest
this income, and supply deficit amounting
| to the very large sum of forty-seven millions.
! The aggregate items of war and marine cost
| Spain about thirty-five millions of dollars,
counting none of the Cuban expenditure. The
| island pays for war more than half as much
/ as Spain, and even supports a navy at
half her expense. The interest upon the
debt of the country is forty-fve millions, in
creased by the bequest of debt left by Isa-
bella, and amounting to something short of
one hundred and twenty-five millions When
the late Government went out of business
the general debt was over one billion, and at
the end of November it reached to one billion
and a half. The Government of Prim and
Serrano squandered at the rate of nearly one
hundred and thirty-fVe millions month.
What has brought upon Spain her debt and
her crisis it is not difficult to reckon. She
has wasted money equally upon her ideas and
her want of them. Millions she has sunk
uselessly in her harbors and rivers, and in the
pockets of contractors and courhers millions
have gone to prevent what her statesmen call
material progress, but which in reality has
proved material loss; millions have been
stolen by various bandith in the name OF
liberty; many millions have been wasted in
subyentions for Improbable railroads. But
the resources at command of Spain are still
large enough to interest tinancier of genius.
She has six hundred converts, four thousand
unattended chapels, various episcopal palaces,
one hundred and twenty seminaries, forty
thousand places where mass is said, including
twenty-six thousand regular churches. The
} woods and forests Of the crown are worth
thirty-tiye million dollars; the Church
lands, one hundred and fifty millions
: the mines, thirty-fve millions. Her
sundry properties, amount in all to five hun
, dred millions of dollars, part of which gua-
! rantees the debt. We know not the exact