Show A OF UNCLE SAM GETS INTO DEBT DURING LAST YEAR government receipts fall off while expenditures are increased large ly through panama deal the treasury department has issued a review of treasury operations tor the calendar year 1904 the treasury receipts tor the calendar year 1901 were and the expends tures including the panama pay ment a deficit tor the year of 22 compare with the previous cal andar year the receipts show a falling off of and the expends tures an increase of 50 the decrease in customs receipts was 9 civil and laneous expenditures increased 15 war department 9 navy department 23 pen alons and interest 1000 the increase in interest la due to the tact that a portion of the inter est of 1903 was anticipated in 1902 the figures do not include the pos tal receipts and expenditures except that the postal deficit Is included in the civil and miscellaneous expends tures imports for the first eleven months of 1904 ere an increase over the corresponding period of 1903 of 22 imports tree of duty tor the same period increased 42 while du liable imports decreased in 1903 43 per cent of the imports were free of duty while in 1904 47 per cent were free of duty virtually the entire increase in free imports was in three articles coffee indian rubber and raw silk although dutiable imports decreased 20 raw sugar and wool show increases aggregating 28 all other dutiable imports decreased nearly 50 of this decrease was in iron and steel |