Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-04
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Receipts and Expenditures. Pensions,
Tariff and Internal Revenues, &c.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-The annual
report of the Secretary of the Treasury
makes a printed document of 81 pages.
1t opens With the usual financial SUM
mary, of which il can be briefly said
that the total receipts for the fiscal year
ended June Both, 1880, amounted to
S463, 1868 ,0s0.55; total expenditure $685.,
G1S,5S4.52; theestiinated revenues for the
fiscal year 1891 arc S406, 100000; expen-
ditures, 1914 ,0O0,000; leaving an esti-
mated surplus Of S52,000,000; the csti-
mated revenues for the fiscal year 1892
are 1878 ,000000; expenditures, exclusive
of sinking fund, $3.50 ,S52, 300.
The expenditures for pensions during
the last fiscal year were S106936, 1856;
estimated for 1891, $133, 100000; for
1892, $135, 2G3, 0s5. In the decrease in
prospective receipts for 1891, "A loss of
$25, 100000 is attributed to putting sugar
on the free list.
The graycst defect in our present
financial system the secretary says, is
its lack of elasticity. The national
banking system supplied this defect e
some extent by the authority which the
buIlhC iltlNt w lllNli tilGhiAlllpI
in times of stringency and to reduce
when money becomes redundant; but,
by reason of the high price of bonds,
this authority has ceased to be of much
practical value.
Upon the Mckinley tariff and Gus
toms administrative acts, he pleads for
suspension Of judgment and hopes that
in the long run good will come out
nh - all ~ Int
popular agitation of the tariff will scare
off the new industries he expected the
Mckinley bill to bring here, and thinks
that II revenue tariff would kill our
home market.
From changes in the taxation of
tobacco and in the special taxes imposed
on dealers, the Secretary looks for Il re-
duction of S4,34S,3S2 in internal reve-
nue. receipts for 1891.
As TO the bounty on sugar he recon-
mends that the law be so amended as to
require this item to be ascertained and
paid by the department of agriculture.
The Silver bill, he says, has been the
means of providing a health and much
needed addition to the circulating
medium Of the United States. 4
Subsidies for ocean steamship lines
are strongly recommended.
1t is recommended that the adoption
Of the metric system of weights and
measures be made obligatory in trans
actions at orr customs houses after Jan
uary LIST, 1898.
Upon the topic of immigration the
Secretary further legislation toeX-
clude persons unfit for citizenship and
that all immigrants be required to pro-
duce consular certificates of moral,
mental and physical qualifications.
Nothing should be left undone to
make the alien contract labor law etfec-
tive but it should be amended to exempt
clergymen, teachers and scientists.
Since March list, 1889, 200 imported
aliens have been detected and sent back
under this law.
Unlawful Chinese immigration has
been very greatly checked, particularly
by sending Chinese, who have sneaked
in from Canada and Mexico, back to
China instead Of merely across the bor-
der.
The excellent working of the civil
service law leads the Secretary to en-
phasize what was said on the subject in
his last report In his department there
has been entire and uniform compliance
with the law respecting the collection of
money for political purposes from gov
ernment employees. All have been at
perfect liberty to give or refrain, as they
chose