The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-12-09

omy and justice to the government, and
Ihope they may be adopted by appropriate
legislation. The ordinary receipts of the
government for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1886, we're $S36, ,72706. OF this
amount $780,, ,905, ,02S.41, was received from
customs, and $116,S05, 5,936.4S from inter
nal revenue. The total receipts as here
stated were $l3,749,020.SS, greater than
for the previous year, but the increase
from customs was $1l,434,Sc4.10, and
from internal revenue $4,407,2lO,93; max
ing gain in these items for last year of
$15,S41 ,295.04, a falling off in the other
revenues, reducing total increase TO the
smaller amount mentioned. The expenses
at different custom houses of collecting
this increased customs revenue was less
than the expense attending the collection
of such revenues for the preceding year OF
$490,60S, and the increased receipts of in
ternal revenue we're collected at a cost to
the internal revenue bureau of $155, ,944.99
less than the expense of such collection
for the previous year. The total ordinary
expenses OF the government for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1856, were $242, 2,4S3,-
1850, being less by $1,77s,S ,S79.7S ON such
expenditures than for the year preceding,
and leaving surplus in the treasury at the
close of the last fi4cal year. $493, 1856, 1886,
as against 500, ,436, ,77l.27 at the close of the
previous year, being an increase in such
surplus of $30,492,sl729.
GOVERNMENT EXPENSES.
The expenditures are compared with
those of the preceding fiscal year and
classified as follows: For civil expenses,
year ending June 80, 1886, $21.955, ,60404;
year ending June 30, 1885, $33, ,S26, ,942.11;
for Indians, $6099,1 ,15S.17- $6,552, ,492.6S;
for pensions, $63, 3,404S S64.03 500, 1922 ,267.-
40; ror the military, including river and
harbor improvements, and arsenals, $34,-
1924, ,152.74-$ $42, $40, ,b7S.47; for the navy,
including vessels, machinery, and i'm
provements of navy yards, $13,907, 1914
-$16,021, ,079.69; for interest on pub
lie debt, $50,5S0, 1887 - SOL 1886, ,2b647;
for the District of Columbia, $2,892,-
32l.S9 $3,449, ,650.9b; miscellaneous ex
penditures, including public buildings,
light houses, and collecting the revenue,
$40 1886, ,6S3.04- $54, ,72S,056.21. For the
current year to the end of June 30, 1887,
the ascerthined receipts up to October l,
1886, with such receipts estimated for tho
remainder of the year, amount
to $356,000,O00; the expendi-
lures ascertained and estimated
for the same period are $266,000,000,
indicating an anticipated surplus at the
close of the year, of $90O00,000. The to-
tai value of the exports from the Unitad
States to foreign countries, during the fis
cal year, is stated and compared with the
preceding year as follows:
June 30, June 30,
1886. 1885.
Domestic merchandise s6e5 5eoi, ,seo s7ee ees9 90
Foreign merchandise, lNSdh5n lh,M6,b
siver".........,.,....,..oa eo,5iLa9 sS,753'dss
LEADING EXPORTS.
The value OF some of our leading ex-
ports during the last fiscal year are com
pared with the value Of the same for the
year Immediately preceding IS here given,
and furnishes information both interesting
For yeAr end For year end
Ing Jnne3l ingJune3O,
| 1886, 1859.
Cotton cotton mia s2l0,oi5 b16.ao s2ls, ,Da O09 GA
Tobacco and lie mfrs al2oi,0os00 2ifvz,90s.0
I3readstufs .,.... lgbS1G,btaO0 lbO370,B ,B2i 0C
Provisions. i. gO,62bl2l600 iO7 a3g, ,dbG %
The exports during the last fiscal year
as compared with the previous year are
as follows
Amounts In 1880 Amounts In 1885.
Merchandise :. $685. 436, 1900 S597 $50 900
Gold .....,.,....S s0,745, ,340OD so, ,6g1 $4,000
Silver. .a,...a aSl7,s50,36s.0S siBbiO,o27 0s
roo MUoH REVENUE.
In my last annual message to the con.
gress, attention was directed to tho fact
that the revenue OF the
government exceeded its actual
needs and IL was suggested
that Legislative action should be taken to
relieve the people from the unnecessary
burden OF taxation thus made apparent
In view OF the pressing Importance Of the
subject, deem it my duty to again invite
consideration TO the increase OF the gov
nment, which by it's increased yalue, anc
Il through the economies in ite collision II
now more than ever in excess OF the pub
lie necessities, The application Of ths
surplus to the payment Of such portion oi
the public debt as is now at our option
subject to extinguishment, If continued a.
the rate which has lately pre-
vailed would retire that clasl
of the Indebtedness within less than on'
year from this date. Thus continuation
of our present revenue system would soeI
result in the receipt Of ain annual income
much greater than necessary 10 NEE
government expenses with no in
debtedness upon which IL couls
be applied. We should then bl
of money--the circulating medium OF th'
fcosTruurn ON aroonD pAorI