The evening times., 1896-12-02
REVENUE SHORTAGE CROWS
Will Be a Hundred Million When
Mckinley Comes in.
NEED FOR INSTANT RELIEF
senate Must Pass the Dingley Bill
or Cleveland VIII Become POpu-
lar by Comparison With the Onto
SapOleon-Sen Hale Favors
Immediate Action.

A deficit of one hundred million dollars
threatens the Treasury at the end OF the
fiscal year.
This shortage viii have reached nearly
seventy millions when President-elect NC
Kinley is inaugurated-a pleasant Outlook
for the grand marshal OF good uiiies ana
prosperity. All this he must lace unless
the Senatorial wing OF his party can lie
brought to pass revenue measure at
the short session which begins Monday.
So many Of these gentlemen seem imbued
with the idea that the tariff must lie re-
yised ON broader lines that there is
possibility of their trying to do nothing
ut all, hut wait for an extra session. II
that is true, the following prediction made
by Senator who favors Immediate ction
lor revenue, will more than likely come tue:
IF revenue cannot be raised To meet the
expenses of the government Mckinney Will
wish he was III hi before lie mas been
il. thcW White HousesiX months. BY "onipar1-
son Cleveland Will become the most pop
ular man the country has ever known.
Mckinley Will lie unable To hide hii.Relf
from the wrath of the people"
SHORTAGE STILL GROWING.
The November debt statement shows the
increase of the shortage. The net cash
balance on hand yesterday was S223,3oa,-
O9S, loss Of over SS,OOU00o during the
month. The receipts for the month we're
$25.2lO ,696, which is 81 900 below ihosc
those for November, s9o. While there is
less than Il million dollars difference be
tween the receipts of the two months CON-
pared, the expenditures for the month Just
closed show an Increase OF S6,Uuh,u0O
oyri those for the corresponding muiIth af
1895.
the outg 20 for last month was S39 ,@6o. 20,
or considerably over one million dollars
IlR of li..S - ..l-. g,,.1-
tions OF expenditures shows an Increase.
For the five months Just ended the total
receipts were $131 $50, ,iS9. against Sl4l,-
.IS. I1G fur the correspondents. months II
1895.
Tne expenditures for the five months Of
the current fiscal year reached S!1l .597,
335, an increase Of Sli, III \ .S92 over the
same period last year. The five months
contained 153 days, including Sundays.
The patmcnts OF the Treasury for the
entire period averaged 81 ,l2l $40 per day,
while the receipts averaged only $780,
i6C per day, an average deficiency Jf
S261 l6 for the entire period, which IS
equal Ia a deficiency of 81 ,S2I SIP per
pc: week.
No argument in favor OF speedy action
AT the approaching session Of congress for
the passage Of a measure furnishing add
tional revenue to the Treasury can add
force Il the figures given above.
1t only requires a little figuring to
show the 81 ortage OH the first OF March.
With al Extra session, II ould be months
before a tariff measure could bc com
ple;ed. and there is a strong Coubt whether
1t could then be passed. If il were passed,
IL would be several n onths before the rev.
enucs would increase, because every i'm
porter IN the country would stock up dur
Ing the preparation OF the revision
SENATOR HALE's VIEWS.
Senator Hale of Maine, who is In the
city, sees the danger He thinks the Sen
ate should take up the Dingley bill at
urcc and Eopes that the measure will
pass. He says in This connection: I'VE
ought to have IL, for the Treasury reports
show the great need OF more revenue
While I would not attempt TO speak for
all of them, / am satisfied that some OF
the silver Republicans will give their as
sistance to the passage of the bill, and 1
cannot belivc that the democrats would
put any unusual obstruct ons in the way OF
the success of the measure. Furthermore,
! am quite persuaded that Mr. Cleveland
would NOT veto the bill if it should be
PRESENTED to HIM"
Senator Cannon, Of Utah. is one of the
silver Republican Senators. He joined
with the Democrats last session to defeat
the bin. lie bolted the st. Louis convan-
tion. bat the result Of the election has not
changed his views. He says he will vote
against the measure this winter The rra
SONS for which he opposed the bill last
session have been aCcentuatcd, and he is
against it., even as a revenue raiser. The
chief reason for opposition last winter
was that the passage of the Dinglcy bill
would kill silver a political issue. Are
the silver men going to force the mon1y
question again?
The impression is growing that a strong
effort will be made To pass the Dingley bill.
If IL cannot he passed the silver men Will
be put on recordand the blame placed where
IL belongs.