Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-14

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: THE secretary of war has informed
the Indian bureau thai orders have been
issued to the commanding officer Of the
division of Missouri to expel all intruders
from the Indian territory
THE number of immigrants arrived
during the year ending June 30, were
500, 1894, being 62,490 less than in the
preceding fiscal year, and 26O5S6 less
than in the year ended June 80, 1882.
SECRETARY CHANDLER has issued a
general order concerning the Arctic re-
lief expedition. He says: ''The Navy
department. extends its cordial and
earnest congratulations to Commander
| Schley. commanding the expedition,
and to the officers and men Of his COM
mand, upon the distinguished success
Of their eff 2rts, and takes this occasion
Of publicly commencing the courage,
zeal and judgment with which they ex-
ecuted their difficult and dangerous
duty"
THE department. Of state received a
dispatch fran Foote, U. S. minister at
Seoul, announcing the arrival at Inch
man, OF the .. S. steamship Trenton.
having on board the returning members
Of the Corean embassy from the U. S.
The embassy was met by large num-
| Der of Corean officials, who went from
| the capital to bid them welcome. I'm
mediately upon his reaching Seoul, Min
| Yong Ike, chief of the embassy. called
upon'Mr. Foote and expressed great graf
| ification at the many kindnesses shown
him by the government and the people
of the Q. s., whereby" as the Corean
observed, ''he had been enabled 10 see
the world"
| THE work which the international rev.
enue system has accomplished since it's
creation in 1862 is wonderful. It has
practically paid the interest on the pub
lie debt, and also made the reductions
in the debt itself. The receipts from
this source since 1862 have been So, 220,-
| 995, 972, being a larger sum than the
| public debt ever was at any time. The
! highest sum ever reached was in 1866,
when the public debt was Sc 773 236. 173.
1t has now been reduced &c 81, 450, OOO,-
900, showing that 81, 1898 000D00 has been
paid. The interest upon the public debt
has been, since the creation of the in
ternal revenue system In 1862, about
! $4,000, 100000 The system has, thus
far, just about paid the public debt III
terest and principal up to The present
time. The receipts in tbs past year
were about $75, 900, GEO in excess Of the
interest upon the public debt. The re-
ceipts were 1921, 100000 or q little over
| So each for each person in the u S,
while the interest charged is now about
$47, c00,0O0 per year, or So cents per cap
tia. The debt itself is q little over $25
per head for each person il the q. S
The internal revenue system, il allowed
to run, would pay all interest charges
upon the debt and e1tingnish the debt
Itself within the next fifteen years, per-
possible to pay the debt under the terms
in which the bonds were issued.
New York has paid mo than any
other state, her total being S54S Alb Al;
Illinois comes next, 1919, 10, col; Ohio
crowds Illinois pretty closely, her total
being $347. 100,09S New York gained
her proud pace at the head of the list
by the amount paid in tie early his
tory of the internal revenue system,
when incomes and nearly every bust
so much as Illinois or Kentucky, and
about the same amount as Ohio. She
paid in the past year $13, 760 394, while
Ohio paid S35 020,264 Kentucky $1S,-
533, 172, and Illinois 500, 500, 4S4. The
largest sum paid in any one year was
in the very year in which the public
debt attained its highest point, 1866:
the sum paid in that year being $310-
906 3S4.17, or considerably more than
double the interest chaf ged. Since the
beginning of the system the receipts
have never fallen below 100000 900
per year, the lowest point attained being
IN 1874 the receipts for that year being
$102 100000, The receipts tor the pres
ent fl cal year which will end with June
80, 1885, will, it is estimated, reach
about $4,000 600,
| THE AMOUNTS BY STATES.
The following table shows the
amounts paid by the various states in
internal revenue since the creation of
the system in 1862:
| Alabama. SIS, 6S3 COS Montana. 81, 1885, 99I
Arizona. $50, $40 Nebraska. TO- 635 81
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