Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-03
LEGISLATION RECOMMENDED TO
RESTRICT IMMIGRATION.
The Doiugs o; the Senate and House
Of the SatisHaI Capital,
Yesterday.
HOW a MURDERER WAS Exc
cvTEo IN INDIA.
The New Bridge to be Erected be.
tween New York and
New Jersey.
telegraph TO the Srws.i
RECEIPTS AND ExPENDIrUREs.
Statements and Recommendation
of secretary Kfns;una

Statements and Recommendation
| of Secretary Window.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-The re
port Of Secretary of the Treasur,
Windom for the year ending Jun,
30th last, shows: Total receipts
$4o3, 0S0, So; expenditures, S297, 1885,
1856. These sums are exclusive o
the postal service.
\ The principal items Of receipt.
were: Customs, sos, sos ,5Si; inter
nal revenue, SIZE, 6U5, 705; profits OIL
coinage of bullion, deposits, etc.
t$i0,2l7, 24i; sales Of public land
I$5, 35s, 2T2.
The principal expenditures: Civi
list, 81, So, S26; pensions, SlO6, $780,.
SIS; military establishments, river
harbor aud a-senals, Sii S., SIS
naval establishments, s., 0J6, 600
miscellaneous, including public
buildings, light house ana collecting
revenue, S43, sos, 600; interest on
public debt, SD, o99, 3si.
Estimates for the present fiscal
year: Revenues, S406, 0o0, 900; ex-
penditures, 1854 ,000, 900. Estimates
for the year ending June 30, 1882:
Revenues, SsT3, 000,0 900; expeDdi-
lures, $751;, So, 900.
| The Secretary recommends the
dividing OF pension agencies into
three groups, each making pay
ments quarterly st different peri
DDS Sd that the payments shall be
made from tie Treasury each
month, to avoid-an accumulation OF
pension funds. He recommends
an increase of the permanent appro-
| priations for expense of collecting
the customs revenue, the payment
Of fixed salaries for collecting Gus
toms, a consolidation of customs
| districts, adjustment of oaihs to
monthly accounts by customs en-
plcyes, repeal Of the laws rtquir-
ing that bonds be given by midi
vidual importers upon entry Of
merchandise for warehouse revision,
and modification Of the customs
laws.
The increase Of money in circula.
ton October LIST, 1880, over October
LIST, 1850, was IS, AZ, oss, 900. OF
which $l25, 619, 900 WAS in gold coin,
SIS, 2iS, 900 in silver dollars, $3.50
SIS, 0JO In gold certificates anu S2U7, :
lis, 600 in silver certificates.
The Secretary then comments on
the silver legislation of the last ses-
sion OF Congress ami the operations
OF the Treasury under ii, ard ex-
presses belief that the new law
will eventually lie generally approx
ed. The coinage during the year
was The largest in the history OF the
country, amounting to S50,25s 1876.
The mines Of the United states
yielded during 1883 So, s91, 900 in
gold and S6i, SD, 600 in silver. Tie
estimated stock of gold and silver
in the United States November let
last, was sls0. 236, 600.
The Secretary recommends a re-
peal Of the act Of May Goth, lSS2,
authorizing an exchange Of gold
bars for gold coin at the minis aud
at the assay Office Of New York on
the ground that it has facilitated a
movement Of gold from this coun-
try, or that the act be inrt'iC i 10
make the exchange dilefeiionary
with the Treasury Department and
allow a charge EQUAL TO the cost of
manufacturing bars when intended
for export. Legislation is also rec
commended looking to the recoinage
OF the subsidiary silver coins in the
Treasury, much Of which Is uncur-
rent.
referring to the steady falling of
In the value Of merchandise carried
in American vessels, the Secretary
recommends vigorous and efficient
measures in behalf of the rapidly
vanishing foreign merchant marine.
be renews his recommendations in
his report Of last year for legislation
to that end.
The Secretary recommends the
adoption Of the metric system at the
Custom Houses, beginning January
l, 1895.
Further legislation is recommend
ed TO prevent the immigration TO this
country Of persons unfit for citizen
ship, requiring evidence of charac-
ter from our consular officers abroad.
This he considers necessary because
OF the increase Of undesirable char
act.rs Of immigration arising from
cheap steamer fares.
He says the Department has not
relaxed its efforts TO secure a strict
enforcement Of the Chinese exclu-
sion act. Organized attempts have
been made by Chinese laborers to
force their way into the United
States by way Of Mexico. British
Columbia and Canada These move
meats have been efficiently met
and the unlawful immigration not
only checked, but in most instances
wholly arrested. He says the policy
Of returning the Chinese TO their
own country will be continued If
appropriation be made
He urges legislation creating new
ports of delivery in Alaska lie re-
fers briefly to the lease Of the Seal
Island and the successful operation
Of civil service in the Department.