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Show NATIOXALJINAM'I-S. Secretary Windom'i Stateraont Regarding the Country's Income and How It is Expended. T1TE MONEY IN CIRCULATION. A Very Miterial Increase Noted Comment Com-ment on the New Silver Law-Some Law-Some Recommendations. Washington, Dec. 2. The'report of Secretary of tho Treasury Windoni for the year ending June 30th last shows total receipts of $W.',0),!I82; expenditures. expendi-tures. $2!I7,73II, IHli. These sums are. exclusive ex-clusive of the postal service. Tho principal prin-cipal items of tho receipts are: Customs, $2-,".U'i(i,r)Hl; internal revenue, rev-enue, H2,0Ot.7O.'i; profits on coinage, bullion deposits, etc.. $10,217,244; sales . of public lands, $ii,!l."H,272. The principal expenditures were: Civil list, '.l2,l'i-iS,H23; pensions, IOli,-IKIO.OOO; IOli,-IKIO.OOO; military establishment, river, harbor and arsenals. 1 1..VC2.H3H; naval establishments, !2,00li.20(i; miscellaneous, miscel-laneous, including public buildings, lighthouses and collecting revenue, H3,r.d3,ll!Mi; interest on public debt, :jr.,0',iO,2Hi. ICstimates for the present fiscal year: P.eeiiucs, $11)11,0(10,1)0(1; expenditures, to.Yl.OOIl.OOO. Estimates fir tho year ending June 30, IHH2: Revenues, f373,-OOU.OOO: f373,-OOU.OOO: expenditures, J3.ri7.8"i2,OUO. The secretary recommends dividing the pension agencies into three groups, each making payments quarterly at different dif-ferent periods, so that the payments shall be made from tho treasury each mouth, to avoid the accumulation of pension funds, lie recommends the increase of the permanent appropriations appropria-tions for the expense of collecting the customs revenue; the payment of fixed salaries for collecting customs; the consolidation con-solidation of the customs districts; thn abolishment of the oaths to monthly j accounts by customs employes; the re peal of the laws requiring that bonds ho given by individual importers upon the entry of merchandise for ware-louse ware-louse revision and the modification of the customs laws. The increase of money in circulation On October 1st, JWM) over October 1st, 1880 was $I7(!,03!),()00, of which $12,"i,-BlO.OOOis $12,"i,-BlO.OOOis gold coin, $3!),218,O0O silver dollars; tl50,62.r,000 gold certificates, 207, 000 silver certificates, j The secretary then comments on the f, silver legislation of tho last session of congress and the operations of the treasury department under it ami ex-f ex-f presses the belief that tho new law will f eventually bo generally approved. The :t coinage during the year was the largest n Iu the history of the country, amount ing to $00,254,431!. Tho mines of the u United States yielded during 1880 32,- B03.000 in gold and $(M.0l6,t0:Jn silver (and it is estimated that the stock of gold and silver in the. United States on November 1st, last was $180,230,000 y The secretary recommends the repeal ' of the act of May 20th, 1882, authoriz ing the exchange of gold bars for gold coin at tho mints and at the assay ollice in New York, on the ground that it has facilitated the movement of gold from this country, or that the act be modified so as to make the exchange discretionary discretion-ary with tho treasury department and allow a charge equal to the cost of manufacturing man-ufacturing bars when intended for export. ex-port. Legislation is also recommended looking to the re-eoiuage of subsidiary silver coins, much of which is uncur-tcnt. uncur-tcnt. Referring to tho steady falling off in the value of merchandise carried iu American vessels, the secretary recommends recom-mends vigorous and efficient measures in behalf of the rapidly vanishing foreign for-eign merchant marine. He renews' the recommendations in his report of last year for legislation to that end. The secretary recommends the adoption adop-tion of the metric system at tho custom houses beginning January 1, IM". Further legislation is recommended to prevent immigration to this country of persons unlit for citizenship, including evidence of character before our consular consu-lar ollicers abio id. This lie considers necessary because of the increase of an undesirable chaiaier of im-ruigration, im-ruigration, arising from tho cheap steamer fares. 1 le says the department has not relaxed its eff orts to secure a strict enforcement of the Chinese exclusion ex-clusion act. Organized attempts have been made by Chinese laborers to force their way inlo tho United States by the way of Mexico. British Columbia and Canada. These movements have been elii'.iieully met, and unlawful immigration immigra-tion has iiot only been cheeked, but in many instances has been wholly arrested lie says the policy of returning tho Chinese to their own country will be continued, if sufficient appropriation is mado. lie urges legislation creating new ports of delivery in Alaska. Ho refers briefly to the lease of the seal islands and the successful operation of the civil service in his department. |