Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-17
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BOW the Repnbiichn Party Has
Squnudered the Nations Wealth
The Situation Rather Startling
TINS ~ n Condition Not "A Theory.
WASHINGTON, June l6.-Henator Alb
son, in explaining the status Of the sew
eral general appropriation bills, stated
to-day in the Senate that the aggregate
OF the appropriations, aa embodied in
the bills already passed and those Still
pending, wou,d aggregate $3.50, OOO,oUO
the current ii ;cal year. This il larger
aggregate than was appropriated for the
ordinary expenses of tho government for
any year since 1866, the year following
the close OF the war, end for which year
the ordinary expenditures of the govern
ment were nearly 1896, 900, 600. For
the year 1868 the ordinary e1pendi-
lures were $3.50, 100000 and for no
year since havo these expenditures
been over $20S, 600, 900 down to 1887,
when they reached 1921, 900, 900. In
1888 and 1883 the expenditures were
| $2l5, 900, 900 and $2il, 0e0 900 respect
iyoly. The aggregate of $3.50 900, 600
for the current year reported by Mr.
Allison does not inolude interest on the
public debt and other expenditures pro-
Ntudu lOI ny law EAoNh hn
appropriations, and which amount TO
about 800, 100000 annually. Neither
do MIR. Allison's figures include the sum
involved in the Dependent Pension act,
passed by the present Congress, and
which is variously estimated at from
sac, 0O0, 900 to $70,000,000. Last year
there WAS no appropriation for rivers and
harbors, but the appropriations for the
| do IN uv,n xfaEtAirnVp
OF about 800 200, 900 on this account.
The Secretary of the Treasury esti-
mated the expenditures for the current
year at $292, 900, 900, SO thgt tbs sg4rs-
gate of the appropriations maie and to
be made exceed tt.s SEQ etDtv's eAEInsle
by about aG7 1OJ 600, TIE estimated
revenues foc the yeat are s3e5, 900, WlO.
1t will tina be aoen that tine sppropriE-
tiops asn within SIC, 100000 OF the an
tieipatsd EeveDuss for tie year, eSciuR;va
OF interest on the public lehta, ,SoyisioD
for tho siuking fHnd, the collection ot
customs and nther other provihed
for IN the pernienent appropriations.
Soma time ago attention was called to
Sue fact, in thess dispatches, that de-
felt was threatened for the current year
by the pro5igsi appropriations that were
being inad1 by Congress. The figure!
furnished bv Ir. Allison to-day remove
oil doubt on this subject and make il
certain thae the expenditures will largely
exceed the receipts this year. Leaving
out OF consideration entirely the miliioni
that will bs required for the Dependent
FUnsiun act and the reduction that VII
follow tho passage of the pending Tariff
bill, B,r. Ailison's figures, taken in coz
neotion WITH this estimates of tie Beore
tary OF tho Treasury, show difference
OF 1874 600, 900 batween the anticipated
receipts and the expenditures. Tbs pas
sage OF the Tariff bill will reduce the re
ceipts at least $5u, 200, 900, and if to thi
be added 500, 900, 900 for the Dependent
Pension act We have q deficiency for tn
year of $144 900, 600. These are startling
figures and cannot fail to excite tn
greatest surprise in the public mind, auC
perhaps call forth popular protes
ia nuch form and volume rs viii
be hooded by those who will COZ
stitute the Fifty-second Congress
Mr.. Allison's hgures of expenditures ma
be cut down thirty millions by the failur
! in Congress OF the River and Harbor bill
4 or by its veto should ii be passed; but, o
D the other hand, we have the subsidy bill
, and tho Federal election Dill Wnlcn,
enacted, will swallow ut least one half {
the sum propoaed for rivers and harborl
That the full force of the situation ma
be better understood, the figures are o.
ranged in columns:
Expenditures. Si59, 600 OF
Dependent pensions. ,........ 2O,OOO,0l
/. Total .............l....... s1t9i UuU ~.
Receipts. ..................... .$35o,u VU,u'
a Deficit. S144, OOO, 0I
t The reduction in revenue which, it
l estimated, will follow the passage of IL
Z, Tariff bill is taken from the receipts est
) mated by the Secretary of The Treasur.
4 Even if tine Tariff bill could be abai
3 doned and the estimate of the secretai
Z DO realized the end of the current fsct
, year may be expected to show deficit {
3 1874, 100000.