The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-25

be created by Judge Parker's accusation
that the Government was suppressin9
information concerning estimates and re-
cepts and expenditures, that Assistant
Secretary H. A. Taylor, who is acting as
Secretary Of the Treasury in Secretary
Shaws absence, made statement to-day
with the approval Of President Roosevelt,
showing Judge Parker to have made
most serious departure from the lacts'
He said:
The attention OF the department has ,
been called to the statement twice madeo
by Judge Parker that there have Deen
Administration orders forbidding the pup
LEGATION Of information concerning Govern
Mr.. Parker seems to have unfortunately
acquired from Enthusiastically sources con-
siderable transformation, especially about
the management and condition OF tne
Treasury Department, and also ABOUT oraeIs
issued to govern departmental action gen.
orally. ..,
mated expenses was that no subordinate
should make any estimates public until
the heads Of the departments had gone
over them with the President and they
had been approved. Before MIR. Parker
had ma de his second statement in reference
to an order to withhold information, the
Post Office, Interior and Agriculture de,
partments in the District of Columbia had
made and published their estimates. The
estimates from the other departments
will be given out in the ordinary course OF
business as soon as they are approved, Just
as they have been in previous years. The
| practice of the departments in this respect
| has not been in any manner departed from
| this year.
| an er1o- on another point. He seems
to think that the current monthly expense
| accounts nave some relation to these esti-
mates These estimates have no relation
| whatever to or esent expenses. They simply
represent the sums that Congress viii be
asked to appropria to meet the expenses
of the va ious departm Tor the fseal year
| beginning July l. 1905. and ending June
aMr. Parker says further that for the first
two months of the pr esent fiscal year the
expenses exceeded the receipts by $24'ooo,-
How much more we have run behind
since | am not able to state, because the
public has been denied all information
pending the campaign
This is very remarkable statement,
| and Judge Parker must have made It on
the spur Of the moment, without reflection.
| He surely knows that the Treasury issues
and publishes a bulletin each day. and
another bulletin each month. giving the
and that these bulletins are regularly
published in all the leading papers o. the
country For instance, the bulletin OF
Oct. 20, the day before the Judge made the
speech referred to, showed the dehclt up
to that day, from July !, to be $50, 1886 642,
a decrease Of about 81, 600 o % during Septem.
Der and up to Oct. 20. Should this rate OF
increase Of receipts over expenses CON
tinue, as Is quite certain, the deficit OF July
and August, so alarming to the Judge,
would be wiped out during the year. The
student Of Government finance under
stands perfectly that expenses are heaviest
at the beginning Of the fiscal years, and
that a deficit Tor the first months is to be
expected. and is no evidence that 1t Will
continue through the months to follow.