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Show DEFICIT IS CLOSE TO SIXTY yiLLUM Treasury Statement for -Year Just Closed Shows Big Loss of Receipts. WASHINGTON, July 1. Tho treasury statement of government receipts and expenditures shows that for the fiscal year Just ended the total receipts are 5509.S05.7C3. and tho expenditures $G59,-" 552,124, leaving the deficit for the year $5a.G5G,3Gl, us ngalnst u surplus one year ago of $SU,915.512. Customs receipts for the year amounted to $285,GS0,G53, or $17,550,000 less than last year. Internal revenue receipts aggregated aggre-gated $2f0,7l !.00S, or $19,559,001) less than last year. The receipts from miscellaneous miscella-neous sources amounted Lo $03,501,102, which is. a gain of nearly $3,000,000. A large part of this sum came from the S refits on sliver coinage. Expenditures urlng tho year amounted lo $1 ii;,G9S,929, as compared with $124,117,119 last year. Tho disbursements on account of the war department wero $110,2SI,SG3, as against $101.G71.SS0 for 1907. The navy also shows an expenditure of $11S.72I,347, as against $97,606,595 for 1907. Pensions aggregated $153,SS7,995, as against $139.-290,909 $139.-290,909 last year, and the public works Item shows an expenditure of nearly $94,000,000, an Increase of about $17,-725;000. $17,-725;000. The receipts for Juno show a reduction reduc-tion In receipts from $62,711,000 one year ago to $53,4S8,C12, while the disbursements disburse-ments have Increased from $4C.SLG,noO to $19,641,369. The excess of receipts over disbursements for Juno was $3,917,243. |