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Show UNCLE SAW'S EXPENSES. Comparative Statement of Receipts and Expenditures for October. WASHINGTON, Nov. l.-r-Tho monthly comparatlvo statement of tho Government Govern-ment receipts and expenditures for tho month of Octobor. 1901, tho total receipts wero S4S,990,G0S, an Increnso as compared with October. 1903, of $2,027,395. Tho expenditures for last month were 152.913,122, an Increase ns compared with October, 1903, of $1,032,611. 'hc denclt la8t month, therefore, was ?3.9oi6H. ns against a deficit of $4,927,3(5 for the corresponding month last year. Since June PA 1901, the expenditures have exceeded thc- receipts by fcl.SCO.Ltf. For tho corresponding four months in iMi there was a surplus of $CC9,2frS. During thc Inst four months, however, $7.000 000 havo been expended on account of deficiency In the poatat revenues, made necessary principally by tho extension of , the rural free delivery service. |