Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-21
NO31
THE DEPARTMENTS
Reports Of the Treasury and Navy
Departments.
Synopsis OF the Treasury Report-Esti-
mated Receipts and Expenditures For
the Ensuing Year-Report of tho
Secretary of the Navy.
The Treasury.

secretary Oh the Navy.
The Treasury.
WASHINGTON, Dec. S-The annual re-
port of the secretary of the treasury
shows that the government revenues
from all sources during the past fiscal
year were $425, ,s6s, 259 and the total ex-
penditures $4l5, 953, SOC, leaving a SUR
plus of $9,014, 453. With the cash bal
ance, the national bank redemption
fund and few small items added, this
surplus was $40, $50, ass which was ap-
piled to the redemption of bonds and
the national bank notes. AS compared
with the fiscal year 1891, the receipts in
1892 have fallen off S32, ,675.9 .972. The
principal losses were customs receipts
S42, 069,24 and profits on coinage S5,-
6S1, 479, but there was gain of IS, 1884,
S23 in internal revenue receipts and of
"a, 99S, 800 in sales of District of Column
bia bonds In the ordinary expenditures,
there was a decrease of $40, $40, ,354,
which is accounted for by diminished
payments for discount taxes, refund of
excessive customs, drawbacks, census,
quartermasters supplies and interest
on the public debt, the decrease in the
last item alone being SI4, 169, ,019.
During the present fiscal year the rev.
enues are estimated as follows: From
customs, sos, 0Oo, 900; from internal rev.
enues, $165, 900, 600; from miscellaneous
sources. $50, 900, 600; from postal service,
$50, 1886, $50. A; total, $463, 1886, $50 A. The
expenditures for the same period are
estimated as follows: For the civil es.
tablishment, s1Os, 600, 600; for the mill
tary establishment, $40, 600, 600; for the
naval establishment, $31, ZOO, 600; for the
Indian service, $4,000, 600; for pensions,
$15S, 600, 600; for interest On the public
debt. s26, 900; for postal service,
$50, ,9S6, $50. A; total, s461, 1885, $50. a.
This will leave an estimated sur
plus for the year of $4,000, ,OO0
The available cash balance in the
treasury at the end of the present fiscal
year is stated at s120, ,992, 377. The rev.
enues for the fiscal year 1894 are esti-
mated at s49O, 121, 1856 and the appropria-
tions required 1857, ,261, 1855, exclusive of
the sinking fund or an estimated sur
plus of sS2, $50, 030, which with the cash
balance and gold reserve will make the
available balance $53, s52 407, and de-
Quoting accrued or accruing obligations
(mal contracts and redemptions) would
leave the balance SAT, $50, 4O7.
Our Navy.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Secretary Ira
cy, in his annual report, sets forth the
fact that when the present administra-
ton came in, March, 1889, besides old
and obsolete wooden ships only three
modern war vessels were in commission
During the administration nineteen
new vessels, with an aggregate tonnage
of 50, S32 tons, mounting two 12-inch,
six 10-inch, sixteen S-inch and eighty
two 6-inch guns, have been added, all
of which, with the exception of five of
the earliest, have been manufactured
in this country.
Three new steel tugs have also been
constructed and put in service. There
is in process of construction eighteen
vessels, certain to be completed, should
armor be completed within the next
year, of aggregate tonnage of $500
tons and mounting altogether twelve
13-inch, six 12-inch, sixteen 10-inch,
thirty S-inch, thirty.two 6-inch, thirty
eight 5-inch and thirty-four 4-inch
guns, all of which have been or are to
be manufactured in this country.
Development the past four years has
not been confined to ships alone. At
the beginning of this administration,
says the secretary, the naval establish
ment was entirely destitute of certain
elements of efficiency, each one of
which was indispensable to its practical
employment as fighting force, and
u l. -
been possessed of a hundred ships,
would still have left it in condition
of paralysis These were armor, tor
pedoes, heavy rapid firing guns, armor-
piercing shell, smokeless powder and
high explosives
The secretary details at length the
noteworthy progress in the production
of these things, and says the progress
noted, by which the United States has
emerged from its condition of helpless
ness at sea, and by the employment Of
its own resources has distanced its most
experienced competitors, marks an
epoch in the naval development, not
only of this country, but of the world.
Delay in delivery of armor has caused
| final completion of armored vessels un-
der construction to be somewhat later
than at first contemplated The only
compensation for this delay is the
superior quality of armor that has been
recently developed. In connection with
the development of nickel steel for
armor, the department has undertaken
series of experiments in the applica-
| tion of this material to other purposes
of construction which promise no less
| important results than those already
obtained.