Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-27
1ha ninsles Law Fully INDICATED.

prove the sound Judgment and wise
craftsmanship of the late Ne'So'
Dingley, it is furnished in a document
lust issued by the treasury Depart
ment. 1t is complete Justification OF
the provisions of the Dingley Dih' ana
shows that the 1898 receipts. not IN
clndinp the war revenue, were suffi-
cient for the ordinary expenses OF the
government as revealed by the figures
of the past five years.
The statistics are compiled on the
customs receipts Of the government
since the beginning of the fiscal year
1899, which thus includes the opera
lions of three great revenue laws.
These figures show that the total re-
CENTS from customs during the five
fiscal years 1893, 1894. 1895. 1896 and 1897
were ss23, .O44. or an average OF
s451. A56 per day during that period.
Three of the years in question were
under the Wilson tariff act of August
q, 1894. and two years under the Nc
Kinley act of October ]. 1880. The
fiscal year 1893 is not included in these
estimates. since its customs receipts
were below the normal because Of the
small importations Immediately fol-
lowing the enactment of the Dingiey
tariff law of July "a. 1897, while its ex-
penditures. by reason Of the war. were
very large. The total expenditures of
the five years, 1s93-97. were $1.S25. 1872
1879. making the average annual expen-
diture during that time $685.. 030.4 2S. or
an average of $1,000 900 per day for all
of the general expenditures OF the gov
eminent
The statement of the bureau Of sta
tistics further shows that the receipts
of the calendar year 1898 from the GUS
toms act of July "a, 1897. coupled with
the internal revenue and miscellaneous
have more than equalled the ordinary
daily expenditures prior to the begin
ming of the extraordinary expenditures
due to the war. The total receipts
from customs in the year 1898 We're
$1S2, s79.361. The total receipts from
internal revenue during the year were
1927, 49,, $40. of which s55,2S6.S31 was
from war revenue taxes. The total
miscellaneous receipts of the year were
$50, S29,5S0, of which sl4,S4l .401 was
from the sales of Pacific Railroad in
terests. making the total extraordinary
receipts of the year So. 2OS.0l9, which.
deducted from the grand total receipts
of the year, $442,63l, PSI, would leave
1870, 1929 as the ordinary receipts, or,
in round figures, $500, S04 in excess of
the average annual expenditures dur
ing the five years 1S93-91.
8 The following tables show: LIST. The
total receipts from customs. internal
revenue and miscellaneous during the
calendar year $685. I'd. The extraor-
binary receipts of the year in each Of
these divisions. Sd. The net ordinary
receipts of the year. The only in
crease made to the customs receipts by
the war revenue act were by way of
the duty on tea.
Total Receipts, Calendar Year 1898.
Customs $1S2,S79,S6i
Internal revenue, 222 9222,3i0
36,S29,5S0
Total, $li2, 63I, 251
Total Extraordinary Receipts from War
Revenue and Miscellaneous. Calendar
Year 1898.
Customs Ctea duty) $2079 1857
Internal revenue (war revenue
acO IS, 22SG, S21
Pacific Railroad, 1854, 4N
Total, So, ,Oi9
Ordinary Receipts (Omitting War Reve-
nue. and Pacific RailroaO). Calendar
Year 1885,
Total receipts of year, $ii2,G 31, o5l
War revenue and Pacific Rail-
road, 72,20S.0l9
Total ordinary, 1870. ~. 30
Ordinary Receipts of 1898, Compared with
Ordinary Expenditures Of lS93-97.
Average daily Ordinary re-
ceipts, calendar year 1888. $l.0l4, $50
Average daily expenditures.
1S93-97. 1,000,OSS