The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-09
3. E4ABER

as exemption but partially covered
our transportation, such relief would
be illnsory, To relinquish revenue
so essential. seemed highly impudemt
at u time when new and large drains
Dpon tho treasury were contemplated;
moreover embarrassing questions
would have arisen under the
favored nation" clauses of our
treaties with other nations.
The ordinary receipts from allources
for the iical year, which ended June
&c. 1885. were 1885,, e90,G06 50; of this
sum 1881 Al 939.34 WAS received from
customs, and Sll, 249,759.54 from ir-
: ternal revenue The total receipts ~
( given above are 24,S29l64.5f less
( than those for the year ending June
80, 1884. This diminution embraces
u falling of of Sl3,5g5, 550.i2 in the re-
/ celpts from customs and SO ,6S7, 246.g7
in receipts from internal revenue.
The total receipts for the current fs-
cal year ending June 80, 1886, ascer-
tanned to October l, 1885, and estima-
tel for the remainder of the year, are
3l5,OO0,OO0. The expenditures ascer-
tanned aud estimated for the same
time are S245,000,000. leaving a sur
plus at the close of the veal, estimated
at 75,000,000. The value of exports
from the United states to foreign
exports during the last fiscal year,
are as follows:
Telegraphic reports are received
daily from 100 stations; reports are
also received from 75 Canadian sta
tions, from $40 volunteer observers,
81 army surgeons at military posts,
and S33 foreign stations. The ex-
pense of the service during the fiscal
year, alter deducting receipts from
military telegraph lines, was $797.-
592 81. In view of the fact, referred
! to by the secretary of war, that the
: work of the service ordinarily is of a
scientific nature, and the further fact
that IL is assuming larger proportions
and consequently becoming more and
more unsettled, | am inclined TO
4, agree with him in the opinion that
: IL should be separately established.
/ AS further objection, il is evident
that tariff regulation by treaty, dimin-
! ishes that independent control over
its own revenues which is essential
Q for the safety and welfare OF any gov.
: eminent. The emergency calling fol
: an increase of taxation may at any
r time arise and no engagement with 1
foreign power should exist to hamper
5 the action of the government. Il,
c the fourteenth section of the shippin.
act approved June 26, 1884, certain
o reductions and contingent exemp
tions from tonnage dues were mad
u AS to vessels entering ports of tn
n United States from any foreign port
in North and Central Americi
N Troops were also sent to Roc
Is Springs, in Wyoming territory, afts
the massacre of Chieeee there, to pr,
al vent furthe: disturbance; and ate
OF wards in Seattle, in Washington te
le ritory, to avert threatened attac
lie upon Chinese laborers aud other dc
n, nestle violence there. In both cas-,
to the mere presence of the troops hi
IS the desired effect. II appears tn
ed the number of desertions have I
ms minishod, but that during the Ia
or fiscal year the number reached 90.
ct and Que instance is given, by q
re- acknowledgement of six desertio
of by the same recruit. am eonyinc
ng that this number of dosertio
lty can be much diminished
on better dicipline and trcatmel
tx. but the punishment sho,
cal be increased Tor repeated oiiens