The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1876-08-24
GROSS TOTAL EXCLUSIVE {
POST-nEEICE


June 30 80 4,G67 ,457, ,921. % 6,5g9 O22 81 1.41
Julyl Is to
| June 80 1881 2,S91 SIG, ,25910 1,SS964l.lT AS
July1 80 t0l
June 80 '73l 2,60i ,15S, 90 1,046, ,202.4s .4O
July1 10
June 80 rs 1,4O6, 1896, ,s1s 81 s7O,sss. 81 .aG
Total. $18, ,986 87O.O72O O5 sa2, ,s66, 1923 %
On the same day, Mr. Morrill,, of Yer
mont, laid before the Senate the following
letters from the Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury and from the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue:
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON,
March %, 1S76-DEAR SIR; Referring to
your verbal request made on Saturday last,
| to be furnished with a statement showing
the defalcations of custom officers, have
the honor to inform you that the total
amount of collections of revenue from Gus
toms from April /, 1861, to June 80. 1875,
amounted to SO, 1876, ,395, ,642 AZ. Total de-
falcations from March 4, 1861 to June 80,
1875, 1856, ,43427. The defalcation is 1-60
| of per cent of the amount collected, OF
81 go on every $4,000.
| Ipromised to send these figures to you on
Saturday last, but foundit it impossible un-
til the present moment to get them ready
Very truly, CHARLES +. CONANT,
| United States senator.
To the Hon. JUSTIN S. MORRILL,, Washing,
ton DC.
| TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF In
TERNAL REVENUE, WASHINGTON, ID. c.,
March 18, 1S76.-SIR: In compliance with
your request, have the honor to submit
herewith the following statement taken
from the books and records of this office
The total of internal revenue tax return,
edIby the variousCollectors of Internal Rev
during the period from Sept. l, 1862, to
Feb. %, 1865, being frOm the OrganiZa,
ton of the internal system to the close of
the month preceding the end of Mr.. Lin,
coins Administration, is 1894, III ,151 the
ascertained "cash deficiencies" of Collect
ors appointed during that period are $414,
50S.10, or about 1900 of 1per cent. of the
amount collected. In the period from
April 1, 1865, to Feb. %, 1869, being the
period in even months covered by Mr..
Johnson's Administration, the collections
were SS17, ,06S, ,305 ascertained cash defic.
iencies of Collectors appointed in that
period, 81, ,626, ,302 SO or about 2-10 of one
per cent. of the amount collected. In the
period from March /, 1869, to Feb. %, 1876
being the beginning of the present admin
istration to the close of the last month, the
collections are 1854, ,S08, 237 ascertained
|
in this period, $592, 751 SO, or about 60 1000
of per cent. of the amount collected.
AS the balances for the last period men
toned are of comparatively recent occur.
renee and are now in process of collection,
it is believed that large proportion of it
will ultimately be recovered, so that the
actual ultimate loss will be very much less
than herein shown.
Respectfully,
D. d. PRATT, Commissioner
The Hon. j. s. MORRILL,,
United States Senate.
These letters and figures overturn noun,
tains of falsehood which ought to bury
our calumniators beneath them. The
truth is, that although defalcations and
malfeasances sometimes occur, and always
will, there is more official integrity, the
revenues are more faithfully collected, and
the public services better performed thar
at any former period.
GOVERNMENT NOT BANKRUPT.
During the last fiscal year, ending thu
3Oth of June, 1876, the surplus revenue
was $29,249,00O, which was applied tt
the reduction of the national debt Ir
the last ten years we have paid off $579,
423,2s4 of the national debt. On the
30th of June, 1866, the debt was, $780,
348,000 now it is, IN round numbers
$2,O60,925,OO0. In 1865 the revenue
derived from the internal revenue taxes
was $3O9,226,913. In 1875 it was SIG,
100000, reduction of nearly two-thirds
or nearly $2OO,OOO,OOO per annum. Thi
does not look like nation bankruptcy anc
paralysis.
STRIKING CONTRAST.
Contrast this with the last imbecile, SLOW
enly, and venal administration Of James
Buchanan. During his four years, in
time of profound peace, the revenue:
fell short of the ordinary expenditures
$75,217,119, which sum was made III
by loans and added to the burden with
which the Republican party received thu
Government in 1861. To enable tn
Government to live from day to day dur
ing the last of these four years the pc
cent. bonds of the United States wer,
hawked about the markets of the world
and disposed of with difficulty at dis
count of II per cent. 1t was during tn,
Administration, which was relieved from
the charge of idiocy only by being con
victed of treason, that Hendricks wa
Commissioner of Public Lands, Floyd ant
Thompson were in the Cabinet, the trus
funds were stolen in broad daylight, anC
the national arms publicly conveyed to tn
South, where they were seized by traitor
without opposition. 1t is marvel of hu
man audacity for any one connected will
the Administration of James Buchanan
to ask the confidence of the American
people.
EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT.
Mr.. Conant, the Assistant Secretary o.
the Treasury, has carefully prepared from
the books of the department, tables show
ing the net expenses of the Government
excluding war expenses and those grow
ing out of the Rebellion, for every tel
years, beginning in 1900, and including
the fiscal year ending the sOth of june
1875.
4 hCCOIuiHB W Ills ldulc Jlc JOtdl cADSu
ditures for the fiscal year 1875, wer
| $274,623, ,392.84. The total expenditure
for the year 1860 were $63, ,7889S
After deducting from the expenditure
for the year 1875 all those growing out o.
the war and the rebellion, the net result
for that year were $s4,772, ,762.49 in cur
rency But the expenditures for 1866
were iu gold, and Mr. Conant had deduct
ed l2k per cent. as the premium on golC
for the year 1875, leaving a net expendi
ture in gold for that year of $74,O2s,
688. .O9.
! The Secretary shows that the expenses
per capita, in the following table of dol
lars and thousandths, were, in
i 1900. O0........... Sc O3
lolV. ......... ............, LII
| 1871. .........s.. ..s.............,. LOU
lo0U. ............. .................. LIZ
1910. .................... AZ.
1850. ..................... 1.76l
1860. ...... 90
1871. l.7o
i In 1875, estimating the population a
100000 which was the estimate o
the Treasury Department, the expense
tper capita were $l.746. -
But estimating the population Ia 1871