Willmar tribune., 1899-12-13
TREASURY STATISTICS
tary GaEe-Receipts and Exc
pendttures for the Year.

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Washington. Dec. THE annual report
IA pages Of closely printed matter, in
Guiding q large number Of statistical tables,
showing receipts and expenditures Of the
government during the year and compar-
isons with previous years. There are also
estimates of the receipts for the next two
years. The total receipts for the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1899, were $610. .9S2, ,0O4. S5
and the expenditures 500, ,093, ,564.02. showing
deficit Of $S9,11 ,559.67. ~.
Of the receipts the largest sum, $273, 49,
161.5l, came from internal revenue, and
the total Of $206. 12S. 4S1.75 was from Gus
toms. There was received from payment
OF Central Pacific railroad indebtedness
$n,!9S,314.14, and from the postal service
$95,021, ,SS417 OF the other sources Of rev.
enue none showed a greater amount Of
receipts than $6,164, ,256.2, which came from
profits on coinage and bullion deposits.
VI the expenditures by far the heaviest
Item was for the maintenance Of the mil
itary establishment. including rivers and
narbors, forts, arsenals, seaeoast defenses
and expenses of the war with Spain, which
amounted to $685. ,254.47. Pensions come
next, with total Of $139,394, ,929.N. The
naval establishment expenses for the year,
including construction of new vessels, ma
cn1nery, armament. equipment. improve
ments at navy yards and expenses of the
war with Spain, were $63,942, ,1o4.25. The
civil establishment of the government, in
Guiding foreign intercourse, public build
lngs, collecting the revenues. District Of
Columbia and miscellaneous expenses, cost
$90,N9,685.S2. The Indian service cost $780,
S96,925.O2, and there was an expenditure Of
SS.2l1 ,570.08 for the postal service in excess
OF the amount received from that source,
making deficit In the postal revenues Of
that amount.
The deficit for the fiscal year shown by
these tables amounts to $89, Iii, ,55967.
Comparative tables showing receipts and
expenditures Of the year ended. June 30,
1899, and June 80, 1898, show an increase in
receipts in 1899 of s11664s.050.6O, and an in
crease in expenditures for the same year
of $161, ,703, ,5s7O5.
+ Estimates based on existing laws Of the
receipts and expenditures for the present
year, ending June 80, 1900, show the prob
able receipts to be s64o, $685. 112.0O, and the
expenditures for the same time s60o,95S.-
112O0, leaving surplus Of $40. .0OO,O0O0O
The secretary strongly urges the estab-
lishment of the gold standard.
On the subject of national banks he urges
several notifications in existing laws, the
first and most important of which is that
$4,000 instead Of $50,0O0, as it now is. He
also suggests such notifications in exist
ing banking laws as will limit the amount
Of liability bank may carry upon given
amount of capital, pointing out that under
existing laws the bank with $4,000 capital
stands legally as free Is does the bank with
a capital of $5,000,000
immigration statistics given show that
there arrived during the fiscal year 1899
at ports of the United States and Canada
S11, us immigrants, exclusive Of about
q, 600 who, says the commissioner general,
came as cabin passengers, and an unknown
number from. Mexico and Canada. The
no. ~ 80 rur
Europe, S,972 from Asia, 81 from Africa,
and 5,343 from all other sources, making g
an increase over the number for the pre-
ceding year Of S2,41G. or nearly 36 per cent.