Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-03

For the year lS61:
Report for 1866 states net rev.
enue collected for lS65..... 1888, IA COS 05
Report for 1870 states net rev.
enue collected for 1861. 323, 092 7S5 90
Showing a decrease OFFS 1862, $40 IS
In this latter table bhe treasurer, register
and secretary all agree, and state in 1865
that the net revenue of the government was
in round numbers 1888 0OO, 900. But in 1870,
five years afterwards, it was decreased to
S323,OOO. 900. And this $40 OOO, 900 difference
has never been accounted for.
DIR. GuilfOrd. who has been fifteen years
i'm the Registers office and who has charge
of making up the debt statements in the
Registers office,
Testified az Follows:
OIL see in a column headed Amounts
to he added TO receipts" marked ID"
~, Ol9, 1910; and another one marked SC"
81, coo 600 90; and then one marked ID"
70, 274, 05l 60, making total OF So 293, S2779,
which you say is ito be added to receipts"
What is meant by that?
A.-That is in accordance with the Secre-
tsry's report of 1871. Those amounts do
not appear upon our books. They are added
in accordance with the Secretary's order in
order to harmonic the two, as is shown i'll
the report of 1871.
I'll understand ludJ lueSe luTee lleluS,
an Ounting TO between six and seven million
dollars do not appear upon your books?
A.-They do not
4 Q.-But are added here by order of the
SScretary?
A-SO | understand.
This shows that DR.. Guilford, who had
charge of a set of books from which the
public debt statements are made, in order
TO harmonic the statements, forced bal
ance by adding sums amounting to 81, 293,-
927.79 Major Power,
Another Official,
on page so. says:
O. Look at the report of 1871, at page 90,
and state W nat the total receipts OF the Gov
eminent up to June 80, 1871 were.
A. The total receipts received into the
Treasury on account of loans were 81 ,O9l,-
81 ,04l.3S.
o. The net expenditures?
A. S4S57 49,, 5I05l, leaving a balance OF
Il, 237, LOG, 5O0.S7.
o. State what the difference is between
that and the actual amount Of the public
debt a that time.
A. The actual public debt was s., 253, 2l1,-
Ss2 80.
o, What is the difference between the
sctusl debt and what il would appear to be
on the basis Of receipts and expenditures?
A. Sll6 tO4, 43l.45.
This testimony shows that if you take
the receipts and expenditures from the be-
ginning of the Government to 1870, and
fSSate the debt, it will be short SIG, l0i,-
sSl As, which was added in the new debt
statement.
On pages 2l2 and 213 Mr.. Saville, then
chief clerk of the Treasury Department,
saws the system of bookkeeping was
changed in 1870, and the changes, when
COMPARED with the amounts previously re-
ported by the Register, increased the debt
statement in
1862 (ahOut SlOiVvuVoO
1868 (abOut) ZOOOU,UO
1854 (about 'o,VVVVVV
X There has been no attempt to explain
these increases in the public debt, amount
ing 10 Sl05. 0OO, 900, except that Mr.. Saville
said that I'm order TO keep the public debt
correctly by receipts and expenditures 1t Is
necessary to
Make Entries Not Warranted by Law
/ also submit q statement showing that
in nine of the great ledgers in the Treasury
Department, there were found 2,527 altera'
tions, changes and ensures, involving from
a few dollars to twenty millions or more: