Arizona republican., 1899-02-28
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS
Great increase Under inc
 DingIey Law.
Of Those From Tea TheY are Now Amounting to an Aver age of S56O.OOO Der Dsy-norc Than Meet Ordinary Expenses.

ment exclusive of those from tea are now running at the rate of $560,O00 per day, or considerably more than one half the average daily expenditures curing the five years prior to the be- ginning of the extraordinary expendi- lures due to the war with Spain.
 The bureau of statistics of the treas ury department has just compiled some figures on the customs receipts of the government since the beginning of the fiscal year 1898, thus including the operations of three tariff laws. These l figures show that the total receipts from customs during the fiscal years | 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897, were | $823, ,90S,0 044, or an average of $451 ,456 1 per diem during that five years period, l three of the years in question having 1 been under the tariff act of August 27, 1894, and two years under the act of | October 1, 1S9C. The fiscal year 1898 is not included in these estimates, since it's customs receipts were far be- low the normal because of the small 1 importations immediately following the enactment of the tariff law of July "A, 1897, while it's expenditures, by reason of the war, were far above the normal.
 The total expenditures of the five years, 1S93-97, were s1, ,825, ,152, ,139, mak- ing the average annual expenditures during that time $365. .O3O, ,42S, O. an av- craze of s1,CCO,O00 per day for all of the general expenditures Of the gov. elnment. This, of course, includes none of the expenditures of the post office department, except the annual deficit, the custom of the treasury de partment in considering it's expendi- lures being to omit from it's calcula- tions the total receipts and expendi- lures of the postCffice department, which is practically self sustaining, and. to include o-.ly the deficit of each year in the treasury expenditures.
 The statement of the bureau of sta tistics further shows that the receipts of the calendar year 1898 from the customs act of July 24, 1897. coupled with the internal revenue and miscel- Ianeous receipts under the then exist ing laws, have more than equalled the ordinary daily expenditures priCr to the beginning of extraordinary eX- penditures due to the war. The total receipts from customs in the year 1898 was $1S2, ,879, ,361, of which g., ,O79,787 was from tea. The total re- ceipts from internal revenue during the year were $222, ,922, ,310, of which $55,- 2S6 S31 was from war revenue taxes. The total miscellaneous receipts of the year were $3G ,S29 ,5S0 of which $14,- S41 ,401 was from sales of Pacific rail- road, making the total extraordinary receipts of the year $72, POS, ,019, which, if deducted from the grand total re- ceipts of the year, $442,631 ,251, would leave $370, ,232 as the ordinary re- ceipts, exclusive of war revenues and receipts from Pacific railroad, or in round figures, $5, 1892 S04 in excess Of the average annual expenditures dur ing the five years, 1S93-97 prior to the beginning of the war expenditures.
 The following tables show: First, the total receipts from customs, in ternal revenue and miscellaneous dur ing the calendar year 1898; second, the extraordinary receipts of the year in each of these divisions, and third, the net ordinary receipts after deducting the extraordinary receipts of the year from the war revenue act and from Pacific railroad sales. The only in crease made to, the customs receipts by the war revenue act were by way of the duty on tea, which produced during the year $2,079,787. The internal reve- nue receipts of the year from the war revenue ac: were $55, ,2S6,S21; those from Pacific railroad, $14,S41, ,4O1.
 Total receipts, calendar year, 1898: Customs " .. .$182, ,879 ,36T Internal revenue ..-.. 222,922,3lO Miscellaneous ..... ....... 36,829, ,5O0 l
 Total ... .... SAP, ,631 .251
 Total extraordinary receipts from war revenue and miscellaneous, calen- dar year, 1893:
 Customs (tea duty) ).........$ 2,O79,787 Internal revenue (war rev
 enue act) -.:-.... '..'... oo'zo6'o3I Pacific railroad ............ 14,S41, ,4O1
 Total ..... ...... ....... SIP, POS, ,O1a
 Ordinary receipts (omitting war rev enue and Pacific railroad), calendar year 1898:
 Fetal receipts of year. SAP, ,631, ,251 War revenue and Pacific
 railroad =. .. ...... 72,2O8O19
 
 Total ordinary " w $37O, ,423, ,232
 Ordinary receipts of 1898. compared with ordinary expenditures of 1893-97: Average daily topdinary) re-
 ceipts, calendar year 1898. .$1 ,014, ,S60 Average daily expenditures,
 1893-97... .. .. .$1 900 OS3
 AN ARKANSAS COAL STRIKE.