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Show MILLIONS RECEIVED; VAST SUMS PAID OUT i r- Uncle Sam's Receipts and Disbursements Dis-bursements Indicate Profitable Profit-able Business. WASHINGTON, June 30.-So -far-as working' purposes aro concerned the fiscal fis-cal year of the year of Ihe government closed yesterday with a surplus of substantially sub-stantially $87,000,000, one of tho largest net balances ever shown. In tho fiscal year 1902 thorn was a surplus of $91,-2S7.275, $91,-2S7.275, but that was the largest since JS90. While the official figures for the fiscal year will not bo announced until Monday, Mon-day, the figures available today aro approximately ap-proximately accurate. They show that in tho year just closed the income from various sources of revenue was $665,-306,134 $665,-306,134 nnd expenditures .?i)7.S,37(i,709, as compared with receipts of .59-l fjo4.-121 fjo4.-121 for the last fiscal year, and expenditures ex-penditures of $5C8,7S'1.70I), the surplus in that year being $25,669,322. There has been a tremendous increase in receipts in" the year just closing, while tho expenditures have been only $10,000,000 in excess of last year. Tho largest increase in receipts har been from customs, although internal revenue has shown a big gain. The receipts this fiscal year in customs were $333.-230,126 $333.-230,126 and in internal revenue .$270.-309,38S. .$270.-309,38S. The receipts last year held the record up to that time, and this year's income from that sonrco is about $33,000,000 iu excess of last year. Internal revenue receipts likewise beat, all records, except during tlie j Spanish war, when special taxes were being collected. |