The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-31
UNCLE SAM A HIGH ROLLER.
M BLOWS IN HIS MONEY AT THE
RATE OF sI,OOO.OOO 4 DAY.

Eatf of the Expenditures Charged Up
Rurned Up During the Next Fiscal
Year Not known Yet, as the ESti-
mates Have Not Been Given 10 the
PubIie-RumOrs That the RePub-
Ifcan Congress viii Insist on Rad
zeal Tariff Legislation.
washington. Oct 3O-At the white
house il is said that the President will
not begin active work upon his forthcom-
Ind. message to congress until after the
el4ctions of next Tuesday are over
7flch Of the data upon which he relies
f,r the review of the routine work of
The various branches of the public ser
vice is now going through the process
Of ,ondesation. so that is may be pre-
ssursd to him in the most convenient
form.
There is a feeling of uneasiness in ad-
rinistration circles over the report that
the republicans in congress propose to
take their cue from the recent state
meuts of Senator's Sherman and Quay,
and insist upon some radical tariff leg
islation Failing to accomplish that re-
suit, the republicans threaten to try the
starvation process upon the present ad-
ministration in dealing with the annual
appropriation for the next fiscal year
The result of next Tuesdays elections
will have material bearing upon the
recommendations that viii be submitted
to congress. All of the cabinet officers
have withheld from the extracts of the
reports from the various chiefs of bu-
reau given out for publication, the esti-
mates for the next year, sot hat it is
drfncult TO calculate with any degree
OF certainty how much money will be
needed to administer the government
next year. The accounting officers of
the treasury insist that under the eX-
listing law it is impossible TO get along
with less than Sl.000,0OO per day, for the
actual expenditures of the government
nave aggregated that amount daily since
1891. The records of the treasury show
that the total expenditures for the past
i've years were as follows:
1871 1865, 173, 9O5
toSS w. 55O
1852 563, ,y94
1874 so, 029,2l9
100 50b, lS0, 25S
Thus will be seen that in spite of the
most rigid economy that has been prac-
tced during the last half of the Har-
present administration, the actual ex-
penditureS have averaged $1,O00, 600 per
DAY. The accounting officers of the treas
ury do not credit the rumOr that the
republicans in the House will attempt to
force a further agitation of the tariff
question, and failing in that, reduce the
appropriations beyond the actual needs
Of the government. 1t is asserted that
such course would be resented by the
people at the polls in 1895;
probably be at the head of the leading
committees are experienced in the finan-
cal affairs of the government, and they
would not seek to obtain temporary po-
litical advantage by such impractical
methods. In consideration of this subject
a prominent official of the treasury re-
marked that there was but little hope for
a reduction in the expenditures Of the
government until some radical relief can
be obtained from the heavy drain upon the
treasury for the payment of pensions
Commissioner Lochren in his report just
issued states that he will need at least
Sal, 100000 for the next fiscal year. Way
back in the seventies, when the late Pres
dent Garfield was chairman of the House
committee on appropriations, in summing
up the work of the session he apologized
10 the country for an appropriation of
$50, 100000 for pensions and stated that
he did not look for any further increase
In the appropriations for pensions. Now
One-half of the expenditures are for pen
sions owing to new legislation.