The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1895-07-20

Democratic M.snnnngcmcnt sapptng the
National Resources.
For several years the actual expenses
of carrying on the government, exciu-
sive of post Office receipts, have aver
aged over S3i. 000. 900 per month. They
should have been little smaller dur
ing the year just ended on some ac-
counts. but little larger because In
terest amounting 20 s5,oo0,000 yearly
was added prior 20 December, and
about s2,5sc,0 600 yearly after February
I. But IN order 20 make fictitious
showing Of Improvement at the end OF
the fiscal year. the treasury has re-
fused TO pay part of its actual obliga-
tions under appropriation laws enact
ed, although these laws were SO far
below the real expenses OF the govern
ment that some branches OF the public
service have been seriously crippled.
The Indignation OF United States
judges because they have been Obliged
10 close their courts and discharge wit
nesses and delay justice on account of
deficient appropriations will not be
forgotten. Ii is disgraceful that there
should be added 10 unjustifiable delays
of this kind other acts of virtual repu-
diation which have no excuse, because
the money for payment has been law
fully appropriated, and is now lying
idle In the treasury.
The available cash balance, includ-
ing the gold reserve. Is officially re-
ported as Si9s, $50. 5o2, and the govern
ment would have been in no respect
worse off IL that balance had been Sl0.-
100000 lower, while its creditors would
have been more honestly treated. Tho
official report makes the expenditures
for the year $3.50, 100, 459, against $685.
s25, ESQ the year before, and $3.50, 477.-
057 In the fiscal year lS92-93, the wrong
being that in June the treasury paid
less than 500, 100000. when it actually
ought TO have paid nearly $4,000. 600
more. The fact that one has TO look
back four or five years 10 find In any
month payments as small ms those
made in the month just closed Is suf-
ficient to disclose both the nature and
the motive of the performance.
Some DISAGREEMENT ON the part OF
officials whose elaborate calculations
are so largely responsible for the ex-
isting revenue law is not unnatural,
but II does not afford the faintest ex-
scuse for injustice toward public credit
ors. Ii will be remembered that
Secretary Carlisle himself called at
tention TO the obvious fact that the in
come tax would not become available
to any great extent until after the
fiscal year had ended but he cstim-
ated In his official report of last De-
cember n revenue from customs OF
Si60,O00,0O0. which was nearly Ss,000,-
600 more than the actual receipts. He
also calculated upon Si05, 600, 900 from
internal revenue. which was nearly
100000 more than the actual re-
cepits, and comparison with his letter
10 Senator Harris last August shows
that his official estimates included
practically nothing for the tax on in
revenue, as has recently been ex-
planned, is in large measure due TO
the act for the enrichment and dclec-
tation Of the whisky trust. which the
secretary himself is understood To
have strongly favored. The customs
receipts fall short of expectations be-
cause, although imports are large, tho
ad valorem duties opened the way to
heavy evasion by fraudulent invoices.
President Cleveland came into office
In March, 1893, with cash balance In
the treasury OF SI24, l2s, 0ss, and the
Understanding debt was $4,000 0oo
BY borrowing Sll7, 100000 by the two
issues cf per cent. bonds and &c.,
100000 on per cents, the government
has ra Used It's Understanding debt To
about STAT, 000,0 900. and, by refusing to
pay debts overdue, has raised its
cash balance.to S103, s26, SOC. But all
these operations do not serve TO hide
the fact that the change in the reve-
nue. system, to which the party In pow
er sacrifices everything else, has left
the government without revenue
enough 70 meet its necessary expenses
II is so often said that the republican
administration left the government in
difficulty, Notwithstanding the cash
balance on hand, as above stated, that
IL may be well TO recur TO the fact that
the actual revenue fell only 5000, 900
below the expenditures for the eight
months of the fiscal year preceding the
Inauguration of President Cleveland
Under the old laws there had been for
years no difficulty, and would have
been none had those laws remained In
force without the threat of a change of
policy.-N ". Tribune.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
f5y-Tho dcmocratic marty a. sadly In