Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-04-21
REVISION Of REVENUE
Which Will Save the
Country Millions.
POLITICAL LOG-R0llING.
No Expenditures Except For Strictly
Legitimate Purposes.

WASHINGTON. Apri! 81 AS soon as the
machinery OF the department is in COM
plete running order aud tho opportunities
of Office seekers disrosed of, Secretary
Carlisle intends to begin to arrange the
material for the administration plan Of
tarifi reform which II 10 proposed TO sub
NIT To the committee en- ways and means.
In this he will be aided by several gentle
men who are experienced authorities on
economic questions, among them David A.
Wells OF Connecticut and Edward Atkin-
son Of Boston.
The most important work now being
performed is TO ascertain the minimum
amount Of revenue required to run the
government on an economical basis. These
gentlemen believe that the legitimate ex.
penses of the administrative branches,
including the executive, legislative and
judicial departments, can be carried on
For saoo. 900. 900 Annually.
This estimate omits the pension list, In
terest on the public debt and all unneces.
sary or extraordinary expenditures, such
as for rivers and harbors and public build
ings
1t can be announced authoritativelylthat
IL is the purpose Of President Cleveland
to begin his policy of retrenchment by
cutting of all expenditures for rivers and
harbors and public buildings, as hitherto
wastefully provided for by congress, and
will restrict all expenditures of this char
acter hereafter to the necessities Of the
government indisputably established. He
thinks that It least three-fourths of The
amount appropriated for these items is
carried through by political loGrolling
and is wholly unjustiAable. By these re-
ductions and others which he contem-
plates he calculates on a yearly saving Of
$50 900 600 to $40, 100000.
The department es Inmates the revenue
for the present year from customs as s2l0,-
100000 II Is estimated also that from
whisky. malt and vinous liquors and to-
bacco and other internal sources OF
revenue, there will be realized about Sl9J-
100000
The Legitimate Expenditures
of the government are less than $500, ,000,-
GOO, which can almost be covered by inter
nal revenue receipts alone The pensions
and interest on the debt will about reach
another $500, 100000 IL Is promised by
Messrs. Wells and Atkinson to adopt their
scheme Of customs reform to a reduction
of about $50 900, 000 This would leave
$780, 900 instead of the estimated figure
for this year.
For all deficiencies In the amount re-
quired to meet the pensions and interest
on the public debt, which they hold is not
a fixed charge, they propose that treasury
notes, bearing y per cent. interest, re-
deemable at the pleasure OF the govern
ment, shall be issued
To Meet This Deficiency.
This has been one OF the difficulties
which has confronted not only the presi-
dent but the secretary, as 70 how to realize
the additional amount to meet these ex-
pensss, II the sources Of revenue are cut
down by the proposed tariff revision. The
issue of treasury notes bearing interest to
meet the excess of expenditures under
these two items, Is we'll received by the
president. They regard this as the siul-
plest method by which the COVER nment
can meet a fuctuating defciepcy under
the proposed revision of the tariff.