The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-03
RECEIPTS AND EXPENSES.
Detailed Report of the Secretary of
the Treasury for the
Year.
The Largest Receipts from Gus
toms Duty and Pensions the
Heaviest Expense.
Largest Coinage in the HISTORY "a '"o eo"n-
try-Yield of the Mines
for 1889.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3-Ihe report OF the
secretary of the treasury. WINDOW, Tor the
year ending June 50 last shows: Inc total
rooa;,,ta were s4O3. $50 and the expendi-
+rros Soo7. 1876 ,4Se. These are exclusive of
.ha ,os+al service. Among the principal
items are: Receipts from customs, H229.-
1854: internal revenue, $ls2.6oo,1oo;
nrofits on the coinage of bullion, deposits,
ETC.. s1O.o17o4i; sales OF pubic lands,
ecs,s o7o The principal expenditures are:
Civil list s92, G3s, S26 pensions, Slo6,s56,-
AK. military establishments, rivers, har-
hors and arsenals, HOS, 83S; naval estab-
l;sbments. $4,000, 2oG; miscellaneous i'll
cludinp public buildings, lihgt houses and
col,oct;na the revenue, So, 1885 ,696; interest
~, nnb,ic debt. S3G 9,2s4. The estimates
for the present fiscal year are: Revenues,
saO6 600. 900: expenditures, S354.OOO,OOO.
The estimates for the year ending June ~,
1892, are: Revenues, S5.3,oOOOoo' expendi-
lures. 1857 $4,000. A., 5:.z
Of nension agencies into three groups, each
making payments quarterly at different pc
RODS so that the payments snail pc mace
from the treasury each month to avoid
the accommodating of pension tunds. he
recommends the increase OF permanent ap-
preparations for the expense OF collecting
the customs revenues; the payment OF liked
salaries for the collecting OF customs; the
consolidation of customs districts; the
abolishment of oaths to the monthly ac-
counts by customs employees: the repeal OF
the laws recurring bonds to be given by in
dividual importers upon the entry OF mer-
chandise for the warehouse: the revision
and the modification OF the custom laws.
IF Qv
October LIST, 1890, over October lst. 1881.
was $476, OBS, 900, of which $l25,G19,0OO was
in gold coin and $139,2le,OOo in silver dol
lars. $15O625, goo in gold certificates and
8oO7 ,l1S,CO0 in silver certificates.
The secretary then comments on the sill
yer legislation of the last session of con-
eress and the operations of the treasury
Under it, and expresses the belief that the
new law will eventually be generally ap
proved. The coinage during the year was
the largest in the history of the country,
amounting to $50. 254,3 1856. The mines of
the United States yielded during 1889 $685.
100000. in gold and $G4,G46OOO in silver.
the United States on Nov. LIST, last, was
that the report of May 26, 1889, authorizing
the exchange of gold bars for gold
coin at the mints and assay offices.
be abolished on the ground
that 1t has facllltateu Cno
movement of gold from this country, or
that the act bs modified to make it discre-
tionary with the treasury department to
allow q charge equal to the cost of manu-
featuring the bars intended for export.
Legislation is also recommended looking to
the recoinage Of the subsidiary silver coins
in the treasury, much of which is uncurrent.
Referring to the steady falling off in value
of merchandise carried in American vessels
the secretary recommends vigorous and
efficient measures in behalf of the rapidly
Vanishing foreign merchant marine and
renews his recommendations in the report
of last year for legislation to that end.
The secretary recommends the adoption of
the metric system at the custom houses,
beginning Jan. l, 1895. Further legisla-
ton is recommended to prevent the inn
migration to this country of persons
unfit for citizenship, including the
evidence of character before our con-
sular officers abroad. This he considers
necessary because of the increase of
the undesirable character of immigration
arising from the cheap steamer fares. He
says the department has not relaxed its eff
forts to secure the strict enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act. Organized at.
tempts have been made by Chinese labor
ers to force their way into the United States
by the way of Mexico. British Columbia
and Canada. These movements have been
efficiently met and the unlawful immiRra-
ton not only checked, but in most in
stances wholly arrested. He says the poll
ICY of returning the Chinese to their own
country will be continued if sufficient APP
preparation be made. He urges legislation
creating new ports of delivery in Alaska.
he refers briefly to the case of the seal
islands and the successful operation of the
civil Seryica in the 1epp RI mapt