Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-12-12

Total. .e11s s37 3o1 03 sle4 sex, 47s 50
The cost OF collecting the internal revenue
reduced Ssrns this
recommends the passage OF o law to provide
for remuneration to officers for losses incurred
In the suppression OF illicit disti0ation and re-
news the recommendation to amalgamate tho
internal revenue and customs systems. there.
by reducing the number OF officers and the ex-
pense Of collecting the entire revenues. Refer
ence is made to the suggestions OF the Com.
missioner of Internal Revenue In his annual
report. ,-s-a ID. 49, ..,-. - .y.s.I rtT%~.
Almost all of the subordinate service OF this
department is now appointed under the civn
service system OF rules. But also i've impor.
tant branches Of the Treasury Department are
in large measure removed from political in.
fuences, and yet are1not under what is techni.
cally known as the Civil Service System. They
are the costs and Reodet'o survey, life saving
pital service, and the lighthouse serv GA.
Much has been gained IN thus regard In all Of
these branches, particularly the latter, during
ton continues to be conducted in the present
spirit 1t will be of benefit to the countrv.
A PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
During the year work was commenced on
nineteen new buildings, and upon three build.
ings where extensive repairs were specially
appropriated for. OF the new buildings COM
menced, seven were provided for by legislation
OF the session Of the Congress just closed, and,
but for the fact that many Of the sappropria.
tions have only lately become ne, evaliable
under way. . TsaE 34.a5Es &
Work has been SO actively prosecuted and
such satisfactory terms secured, that of the
seventy-five buildings under construction dur
Ing the past year. nineteen have been com.
pieted, with every indication that, before tho
close of the calendar year, this number will be
increased to twenty three. and. under the terms
OF existing contracts, fourteen moro will he
completed before the close OF the current 6scal
year, making in all thlrty-seven bu ldings that
will be completed before June 80, 1882
. The most active competition in bidding has
been secured by q greater publicity given to
the ADVERTISEMENTS and In existing tho co.
operation OF the building exchanges through
lngs now under construction has been adapted
to the limits of the cost placed by Congress-,
and unless some incident now unforeseen,
arises, no request will be made for deficiency
appropriations for the prosecution OF work. 81
ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. E55 5fI
The work turned OFT by the Bureau Of En-
craving and Printing during the last fiscal year
exceeded the production of any previous year
In its history. There were printed and dehv.
cred to the various Offices by which they are
Of 8ss m over the production 81 1887, and ex.
ceedtng the output OF any former year by
4,710 288 sheets. "A comparison of the results
for the three years ending June 30, 1883, with
those for the three preceding fiscal years,
shows an increase in production OF 1888
OF s540, 60a.18. OF the appropriations made for
the support OF the bureau for the last four
years, balances amounting to a27O, $40 "a have
been returned to the Treasury unused:
000 sheets Of silver certii OF the series q
1885, OF this amount III, 308. 900 consisted Of 81
certificates, and &c. OO Of 90 certificates. To
October 81, 1888, there had been delivered to th0
Treasurer OF the United States $50 QUO in ~
cartiAcatea and S0l.0 AO00 in q Hartia catek