The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
DONE eY THE DEMOCRATS.
The National Treasury Is Held Up by the
Wilson Measure.


The Is months of the operations of
the new tariff law ends simultaneously
with the meeting of congress, which
must determine upon some method to
supply the deficiency which that law
has been creating during that period.
In round numbers, the deficiency in the
Is months of the operation of the law
is S7O,OOO,OOO. In IS of the Is months
there has been a deficit and in the two
months which preceded an apparent
surplus, it was brought about by eX-
tremely light expenditures. and not by
reason of heavy receipts. The average
expenditures of the government are,
and have been for years, S30,000,Oo0 per
month. The heaviest receipts in any
month of the new law were those of
July, when they reached $29,069,697.
There was some hope at that time
among the friends of the new law thai
it might finally arrive at a condition in
which it would meet running eXpendi-
lures. The July receipts turned out
to be heavy, but the hope which they
created was not justified.
The receipts fell in the following
month to S2S,952, 696, and in September
TO So, 549,67S, and in the month just
ended have again been reduced, the
total for this month being $25,9S6,503.
In the Is months which the law has
been in operation the total receipts
have been 1913, 976.64S, while the eX-
penditures have been $444.29O,6 500, leav-
ing a deficiency of SIC, 1904 Thus
the average monthly deficiency has
been over S4,5OO,OOO from the enact
ment of the law up to date. During the
last few months the receipts have been
higher than in the corresponding
months of last year, and there is reason
20 believe that the law will produce
within about S3,OOO,OOO per month of
the actual expenditures, taking one
month with another, thus making it
apparent that the new congress will
have to provide in some way an addi-
tional income of about $35,OOO,OOO
year to meet the running expenses of
the government.
In this connection it is interesting to
compare the workings of the new law
up to the present time with those of the
Mckinley law in a corresponding
period of its history. The Mckinley
law acted normally until after the cleo
ton of the SD congress, which was adj
vertised to destroy it. Naturally the i'm
portations of dutiable articles were
largely suspended as soon as that con-
gress met, and began its operations,
and it was natural, therefore, that the
receipts under the Mckinley law should
fall off enormously as soon as that oc
Cured. There were, therefore, no more
than "a normal months of the opera
lions of the Mckinley law, covering the
period of its enactment until the meet
ing of the SD congress. In those "a
months the receipts under the AlcKin-
ley law amounted to S23,OOO,OOO in eX
cess of the expenditures, besides con-
tributing millions to the sinking fund.
In the Is normal months of the Will
son law it has produced a deficiency of
S70,000,000, contributing nothing to the
sinking fund, while it has been relieved
of the payment of about S20,000,000 by
the arbitrary action of Comptroller
Bowler in Withholding the cugar boun-
ty and of Secretary Carlyle in withhold
ing the rebate on alcohol withdrawn for
manufacturing purposes. Had these
two payments been made as directed by
the very law which has created this de-
ficiency of S7O,OO0,OOO, the deficiency
would have been nearly, if not quite,
100000 in Is months, as compared
with a surplus of $23,OOO,OOO under the
Mckinley law in "a months of its nor
NAL operation.
Senator Palmer is not one of those
who believe that the organization of the
senate is to remain unchanged. He
thinks that the republicans will prob
ably have sufficient strength to organ
ize it to suit themselves, and certainly
that they will be able to obtain any as
sistance that they may need from the
populists, and that, too, without any
troublesome pledges. 81 do not believe
that there is anything in the idea that
the organization is to remain as at pres
ent," he said. 1.-THE republicans have
practically sufficient strength now to
control it of themselves, and do not
think that there will be any opposition
on our side to their taking that respon-
sibility, if they choose. Even if we
should attempt to make any opposi-
ton to it, they would, doubtless, get
what assistance they need from the pop
ulists. They have several votes, and are
human, and it is reasonable opresume
that, if the republican brethren have
any desire to control the organization
of the senate, they will be able to do so
without embarrassing themselves with
any pledges or combinations. Chi
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