The San Francisco call., 1898-12-07
CAGES
 ANNUAL REPORT The Treasury Accounts
 Show a Deficit. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES COST OF GOVERNMENT IN THE
 WAR YEAR.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Benefits of the New Tariff Just Be- coming Manifest-Workings of the Chinese Exclu-
 sion Act.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Gage shows that the revenues of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30 were $494, ,333, ,953 75 and the ex- penditures $532, 1881, POI 35, leaving a de- felt of s3S, ,047, ,247 50. As compared with the fiscal year 1897, the receipts for 1898 increased $63, ,946, 7S5 S6, but there was an increase of ST, ,5s4, 423 23 in the ordi- nary expenditures.
 The revenues of the Government for the current fiscal year are thus esti- mated at s577 ,874, ,647 S7, and the expend- itures for the same period are esti- mated at $6S9, STA, ,647 37, or deficit of SIP, 100000
 Regarding the working of the tariff, the report says:
 Domestic industrial enterprises are un- questionably benefited by the tariff act home industries as to increase the rev. enues of the Government. By reason or the fact that importers, anticipating Ine passage of the act referred to- proVlded themselves with large stocks of merchan- disc of every description, the tariff of 1887 cannot be regarded as fairly tested by the receipts immediately following its pass age. AS an illustration of the correctness
  the first four months of the fiscal year 1899 the receipts from customs Exclusive of the duty on tea provided by the war revenue law) amounted to $62, .0So, which is $4 633, ,026 in excess of the receipts for similar period in any year since lS92
 AS to immigration, the report says:
 The report of the Commissioner General of Immigration shows that 229, ,299 immi- grants arrived during the year, de- crease, compared with the preceding fiscal year, of 1858. The number of those de- barred and refused landing was 3229. as compared with 1880 for the preceding year, and was composed of AT alien contract laborers, 2261 paupers, 2oS diseased per sons, idiot, F insane, conVicts, 79 as sisted immigrants and l99 who were re- turned within one year after their arrival, having become public charges. More par ticular attention has recently been given to the cases of immigrants suspected of being affected with disease. During the fiscal year ended June 30 1897, only one immigrant was 4ebarred as being afflicted with "loathsome or dangerous contag- ious disease" while during the last year 25S were denied admission on that account. facts regarding Chinese exclusion. as follows:
 The total number of Chinese persons ad- mitted to the United States in the last fiscal year was 7195. Of this number 5213 were of the exempt class, principally mer- chants, students, etc.; 425 were So-called artists, actors, artisans and laborers, ad- mitted for the Mississippi and In- ternational Exposition at Omaha, and 1497 were returning registered laborers. There were also S65 who passed through the United States under bond in transit to other countries. Two hundred and eighty Chinese were refused admission.
 It is believed that many Chinese labor CTS have gained unlawful admission by representing themselves to have been born in the United States. In such cases they present themselves to the customs officers at the frontier and seek arrest On being taken before the United States Commissioner for deportation proceedings they are frequently discharged on their own testimony and that of their alleged fathers. In many cases such testimony is believed to have been untrue. and in a number of instances the applicants or the alleged fathers, or both have been suc- cessfully prosecuted for perjury.