The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-14

each post, the last consideration haS Deen
too often lost sight OF in the allowances
made heretofore. The compensation which
may suffice for the decent maintenance OF
a worthy and capable officer in position
OF honor and representative trust at a post
readily accessible, an where the necessa-
ries of life are abundant and cheap, may
prove an inadequate pittance
IN DISTANT LANDS,
where the better part of a years pay is
consumed in reaching the post of duty,
and where the comforts of ordinary
civilized existence can only be obtained
with difficulty anu at exhorbitant cost.
trust that in considering the submitted
schedules no mistaken theory of economy
will perpetuate sS stem which in the past
has virtually closed to deserving talent
many Offices where capacity and attain
nents of high order are indispensable,
and in not few instances has brought dis
credit on our national character anu en-
tailed embarrassment end even suffering on
tcose deputed to uphold our dignity and
interests abroad. In connection with this
subject, | earnestly reiterste the practical
necessity of supplying some mode of
trustworthy inspection and report
the manner in which the consulates are
conducted. In the absence of such reliable
Information, efficiency C IN scarcely be re-
warded on its opposite corrected increasing
competition in trade has directed atten-
ton 10 the value OF the consular reports,
printed by the department of STATE, and the
efforts of the government to the extent of
the practical usefulness of these reports
have created wider demand for them at
home and a record of changes occurring in
trade and of the progress of
the arts and inventions in foreign
countries. They are much sought for
by all interested in the subject which they
em.Iace. The report of the secretary of
treasury exhibits in detail the condition of
the public finance and of the several
branches of the government relating to his
department. | especially direct the atten-
tion of the congress TO the
RECOMMENDATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS
and the last preceding report of the secre-
tary touching the simplifcation and
the amendment of she laws relative TO the
collection of our revenues and in the inter-
est of economy and Justice to the government
hope they may be adopted by appropriate
legislation. The ordinary receipts of the
government for the fiscal year. ended June
80, 1886, were 1896, 439, 727.06. OF this
amount $780,, 905, 1854 was received from
customs and $ll6, sos, 936.4S from internal
revenue. The total receipts, as here stated,
were Sl3, 749, 020.6S greater than for the
previous year, but the increase
from customs was 81 ,434, 0S4.lO
and from internal revenue, 81, 407 ,210 "a,
making gain in these items for the last
year of $15,S4l ,295.04, falling off in
other resources, reducing the increase to
the smaller amount, mentioned. The ex-
pense at the different custom houses OF
collecting this kincreased customs reve-
nue. was less than the expense attending
the collection of Sucn revenue fer the pre-
ceding year by S490,60S, and the increased
receipts of internal revenue were collected at
q cost to the internal revenue bureau of
$155, 944, SO less than the expense of the net
collection for the previous year. The
total ordinary expenses of the government
for the fiscal year ended June so, 1886
we're $242, 4S3, 1850 being less by ST.
7S8,797 than such expenditures for the
year preceding and leaving surplus in
the treasury at the close Of the
last fiscal year of S93, 800, 1856 |
as against So, 436,771.27 at the close of
the previous year, being an increase in |
such surplus of $50, 49,, Sl7.29. The ex-
pendituies are compared with these of pre-
cedlng fiscal years, and classified as follows: |
For civil expenses, year ending June 80,
1886, So. $50, 604.04. Year ending June |
tercourse, S133, 232, O8S-S543, 960,9ll; for |
pensions, S6,340, 4S6, 403 - $3.50. 226, 749;
for the military, including river and har-
Dor Improvements and arSenals, $3, 432,-
4l5, 274-$4, 267 ,057 ,S47; for the navy, in
Guiding vessels, machinery, and improve
ments of navy yards, 81 $50, 7SS, 774-Sl,-
Coz, l07 1863; for interest on public debt,
$50, $50, 145 1851 1856, 25417; for the Dis
trict of Columbia, 1882, 32l SIS, 49,
65095; miscellaneous expenditures, includ-
ing public building, light house and col
lection of the revenue, Si7, 9S6, 6SS.04-
S54, IA, O56.2l. For the current year to
end june 80, 1887, the ascertained receipts
up to October i, 1886, with such receipts
for the remainder of the year,
amount to $3.50, 100000. The expen-
litures ascertained and estimated for
he same period are S266, 900 900,
an anticipated surplus al the
lose of the year o: $90000,0OO. The total
value OF the exports from the United States
70 foreign countries during the fiscal year
IS stated and compared with the preceding
year as follows:
FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 80, 1885.
Domestic exchange 726, 6S2, GAG
Foreign merchandise. 1906, 809
Io,d...... .-........................ S,477,892
Silver. ............................- 33753,633
FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1886.
Domestic merchandise ...... sos, So. 529
Foreign merchandise ............ 1854, OSO, 100
iold ............................. 42O52,19l
Silver ....... 295lI.2I9i
The value of some of our leading exports
Turing the last fiscal year as compared with
he value of the same for the year imme.
lately preceding is here given, and fur
fishes information both interesting and
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 3, 1886.