The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-22
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HOW THE DINGLEY LAW WORKS
Has Done All That Was Expected
and Then some

Washington, D. c., Nov. 21.-The recent
discussion as to the revenue producing
qualities of the present tariff law lends
especial interest to a serie Of table just
issued by the treasury bureau of statistics.
howing the receipts from various sources
! by months during a long term of years.
An examination of these figures shows
| that the customs receipts of the treasury
| department now amount to one-half of the
! ordinary expenditures of the government,
which is about the usual proportion allot-
ted to that branch of the revenue-produc-
ing service. The ordinary expenditures OF
the government, aside from those of the
postoffice department, which is practic-
ally self-sustaining. are usually calculated
at about $1,000, 600 per day, and averaged
during the years 1894 to 1897 $3.50, 500 900 per
annum, and at about the same rate in
1898, emitting the Pacific railroad and ex-
traordinary war expenditures The gen.
eral plans Of those charged with the duty
OF providing the revenues for the govern
ment have contemplated the production of
one half of the necessary expenditures
from customs and the remaining half from
internal revenue and miscellaneous
sources, or in other words, a half million
dollars day from customs and half
million dollars a day from internal revenue
and miscellaneous.
1t is interesting, therefore. to examine
the detailed figures of the receipts of the
government during the time in which the
present custom law has operated under
normal conditions and to determine wheth-
er it Is supplying its assigned proportions,
one-half of the normal expenditures. The
daily statement of receipts and expendi-
lures issued by the treasury department
shows that on November II, the 10th day
Of the present fiscal year. the customs re-
ceipts had during these 140 days amounted
to s13.340, 429 OF this sum a little over
s1,O0O,e00 was from the duty placed upon
tea by the war revenue act, so that fully
s72.0O0,000 of the s7S, 429 received in these
140 days are the legitimate normal reve-
nues from the rates levied by the customs
law enacted in July 1897, or little more
than the promised rate of a half million
dollars a day from customs under that
act.
The receipts from customs during the
past ten years have averaged SIS 1872 OOO0
per month. This ten years term includes
he operations of four tariff laws, and Il
- therefore interesting 10 compare the
operations of the new law at its various
stages with this general average during a.
ten years term. which includes the opera
tons of four tariff acts.
As it was not expected that the new law
would, in its first few months, operate
normally in its production of customs
revenue, owing to the excessive importa-
tens Just prior 10 its enactment. it is not
improper 10 show. first, the average re-
ceipts during the first four months of its
operation included in the calendar year
1897. and also to consider separately the
last four months of its operations dating
from the beginning Of the present fiscal
year.
Receipts of customs (month.y averaye):
Ten years. 1SS9-9S s15.I99.0oO; August 20
December. 1897. g. 227 900: January l to No
vember l. 1S9S, SIS O7l. go; July l to Novem-
Der l. 1S9S. 81. 1888 90.
Note-The receipts from tea from July
I 10 November 1 1895. were Ss5S. les. leaving
the monthly average during that time pro-
duced by the customs act of 1897. k15 sac O1O