Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-01
THE YEARS SURPLUS
Estimated Will Be Over
S40,000,oo0.
HEAVY EXPENDITURES
CONSIDERABLE INCREASE OVER
LAST FISCAL YEAR.
Government Receipts Larger Than
Ever Before, Due to Growth of
Customs Revenues.
HEAVY EXPENDITURES

The comparative statement of the recelptS
and expenditures of the Treasury Depart
ment for the month of April show that the
total receipts for that month were $4o,32o'-
100 and the expenditures 81, 763.S .S14, sur
plus of only 81, 1,562,2S6. The receipts from
the various sources for the month were as
follows: Customs, so, ,4SS, 129; internal reye-
nue. $1S,064, 500; miscellaneous. $2,T34lo.
The figures show that the expenditures OF
the government are now almost Keeping
pace with the receipts, notwithstanding
that the receipts are making a better show
ing than ever before in the history of the
government. For the last few months the
expenditures and receipts have been run
ming pretty close together. In the first six
or seven months of the present fiscal year
the surplus for some of the months was
considerable.
Figures for the Fiscal Year.
The total receipts for the present fiscal
year have been s466, ,419, ,501, and the ex-
pendtures $3.50 1893, $50, a surplus for the
ten months of $50, 6I6. What will be the
result during the last two months of the
year cannot be determined although 1t is
thought to be probable that the receipts
will exceed the expenditures to a consider
able amount This is due to the fact that
money, which. in many instances, closes up
appropriations for the year.
The surplus for the fiscal year ought to be
from $40, coo, 900 to $45,0O0,00O. The receipts
from the different sources for the ten
months of the fiscal year have been as fol-
lows: Customs, S241 123, 1856; internal reVe-
nue., $3.50, ,276,5 $40; miscellaneous, $34, ,595.
For the same ten months of the last fScal
wear the total receipts were $464,21S 269
and the expenditures s39s, ,624 ,999, a surplus
of more than S66,000,00O. Congress saw
that the surplus was growing too large and
abolished all the taxes existing that were
imposed during the Spanish war, estfmat-
ing that this would decrease the revenues
during the fiscal year $1oOOo'OOO.
Falling Off in Internal Revenue.
The receipts from internal revenue for
the ten months of the present fiscal year,
amounting to $19o,276,54O, show that there
has been a decrease this fiscal year over
the same period of the last fiscal year in
this item of s34 ,s46,612, the receipts for the
ten months of the last fiscal year having
been $225, ,122, ,152. The outlook is that the
war revenue repeal will cut the internal
revenue figures for this fiscal year about
$42, 900, 600 There has been a natural
growth in the receipts of internal revenue
that has assisted in wiping out the big re-
duction considered by Congress.
1t is from customs that there has been a
large increase in this fiscal year For the
ten months OF the last HScal years the tOtal
income from customs was $225, 122, ,152,
showing that in the ten months of this
fiscal year, compared with the same period
of last year. there has been an increase Of
$16.6 .214
Cannon's Estimates Exceeded.
The expenditures have probably exceeded
the calculations of Uncle Joe Cannon
and others by a considerable amount For
the ten months of the fiscal year that end
ed June 80. 1902. the total expenditures
were s39S. ,999. and for the ten months of
this fiscal year $40 933 ,S55, an increase of
about $32O0O.OO0. This increase is shown
in every department of the government ex-
cept in interest on the national debt.
The civil and miscellaneous branches of
the government have spent $685. ,221 ,S23 SO
far this fiscal year, against s96, 459 175 for
the same period Of the last fiscal year; the
War Department expenditures are $1O2, ,269 :
49, against s35 .S53 $40; navy, s57 ,193, ,329,
against $5G,54S. .SS4: Indians. slO954 6S6
against $S,414,355: pensions. $116O5S 254,
against $114S34, 773; interest $26 3o2 COS
against $26 514 461