Annual Report Highlights from Secretary Sherman Treasury
Summary of the 1880 81 financial year notes ordinary revenues of 273 827 184 46 and expenditures of 266 947 883 53 leaving surplus. It discusses sinking fund usage pensions payments and proposed reforms including a permanent appropriations committee and potential tax measures. Also covers resumption of specie payments banking statistics and Navy War Department concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Congress
Sherman
Fuad
Treasury
Comptroller
Als
War Department Expenditures and Appropriations Summary
The War Department reports actual expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1879 at $42,653,723.63. Appropriations available for the year ending June 30, 1873 totaled $45,076,702.95, for 1879 $653,016,040.096, and for the current fiscal period $46,269,821.94.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W McCraft
Voan
War Department
Navy Secretary Urges $3 Million for New Vessels and Navy Modernization
Secretary of the Navy Richard W. Thompson reports eighty vessels in good condition and twenty usable tugs, urging Congress to provide $3,000,000 to fund new vessels. He notes wood preservation experiments, argues for renewed shipbuilding, and seeks funds to maintain naval schools and repair Pensacola yard.
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Richard W. Thompson
Navy
Congress
Thompson
Jongrens
Flo
L’hompson
England
Secretary of the Navy
Treasury
America
Sdé Siilura
FP hGiapaon
Saena
Dor i
Treasury Revenue and Expenditure Report of 1879
The report by Treasurer James G. Gilfillan shows total net revenue for fiscal year 1879 at $273,827,184 with further expenditures described in the same fiscal summary. It outlines the government's financial activities for that year and accompanying allocations.
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James G. Gilfillan
United States
Revenue and banking figures for 1879 fiscal year
The report shows 1879 revenue by source with a net increase of 16 million over 1878 and a 29.9 million rise in expenditures. Customs and internal revenue rise, lands fall, miscellaneous sources rebound. Bond issuance and redemptions yield a net excess of issuances. National banks totals, trust holdings, currency outstanding, and bond retirements are listed.
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Treasury
United States
Washington, D.C
Baltimore
New York
Sub-treasury
Philadelphia
Boston
Mass
Cincinnati
Ohio
Chicago
St Louis
New Orleans
San Francisco
Cal
Debee Eben Stewanny Wesasenesees
United States Treasury
Pacific Railway
General Sherman outlines army force composition and frontier needs
Gen Sherman reports the army proper includes 1,559 officers 20,566 men and 233 Indian scouts with other detachments totaling 3,463 enlisted. He urges Congress to allow 5,000 men for line requirements and funds for Fort Assiniboine and a Wood Mountain post, plus military education improvements.
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Ordnance
Engineer Corps
Willet’s Point
Signal Corps
West Point
Military Academy
Fort Leavenworth
Davie Island
Columbus
Univ
Jefferson Barracks
Congress
theTegular Arnh
Congoes
Sherman
S‘terman
Iing Bull
Rio Grande
Tur
Fortress Moores
West Port
Lavenworth
Sneling
Vaitlé
Avud Danzer
Army report urges action on retiring certain sergeants
Maj Gen W. B. Hancock commanding the Division of the Atlantic submits his annual report. He recommends examining the propriety of a law retiring certain ordnance sergeants and discusses attention to Maj Arnold's views on the issue.
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W. 8. Hancock
the Atlantic
Maj
Arnold
Army reports urge reforms and Ute relocation plan
Major topics include extending meritorious service benefits to senior sergeants, a sea patrol proposal for Governor’s Island, and detailed West Point and Army staffing views. General Schurz weighs Indian policy, urging restraint, a redesigned reservation system, and new posts to protect settlers and support riparian exploration. The document advocates slow progress toward tribal dissolution and emphasizes careful steps to avoid costly wars.
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Governor's Island
McDowell
Division of the Pacific
Salinas
Mancopas
War Department
Schofield
West Point
West Point Academy
Fortress Monroe
Hoe
Congress
Ey Academy
Pope
Department of the Platte
Great Ute Reservation
Colorado
West Fork
Charna
OC. Ord
Department of Texas
Mexico
Lac
Schurz
Interior Department plan for Indians seeks gradual assimilation
Secretary Carl Schurz outlines a program favoring work, education, and private land titles for Indians. He argues most reservations are peaceful, calls for allotment and self support, and envisions eventual equality under U.S. law without forced removal.
Internal Revenue report outlines tax receipts and enforcement
The Raum report forecasts internal revenue receipts at 115 million dollars for the current year. It notes 3,117 illicit distilleries seized over three years and 6,363 prosecutions, with 27 officers killed and 48 wounded. It details production, exports, and revenue from spirits and tobacco, the cost of collecting taxes, and staff and district expenditures.
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Green B. Raum
Internal Revenue
Raum
Gen. Raum
Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
United States
Post Office Department Seeks Higher Rail Mail Funding
The Postmaster General urges a law to adjust mail rail compensation by space speed and frequency plus mail weight. Proposes 400 000 dollar appropriation for facilities and notes 10 000 000 dollar rail service estimate for next year with 1 350 000 for rail post office cars. Calls for reclassification of railway mail service employers and regulation to curb losses from star routes.
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Ohio
Kentucky
South Carolina
North Carolina
Tennessee
Geornia
France
Mienisnsippi
Alabama
Secretary of the Treasury
Postmaster General
United States
Department
Postal Union
Postal Service
Congress
Railway Post Office
Key
Land Office 1878 Report Shows Large Public Lands Disposals
The General Land Office annual report states that for the year ending June 30, 9,333,353 acres of public lands were disposed of and 9,484,996 acres surveyed, with 1,081,000,000 acres still unsurveyed. Homesteads rose by 841,766 acres and timber culture by 805,159 acres, while cash sales fell. Depredations on timber persist, especially along the northern boundary with Canada, totaling substantial losses.
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General Land Office
Arkansas
Abedigee
Northern National Boundary Line
Secret Service and Dead Letter Office Year in Review
The Secret Service report details 579 arrests with 279 counterfeit charges and 35 for passing counterfeits, totaling 420 years eight months four days imprisonment and 41 485 in fines. The Dead Letter Office processed 2 996 513 letters, a drop of 190 292, with envelopes prompting returns contributing to the decline. a May test showed 354 696 letters mailed in four cities, 193 879 requested returns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chef Brooks
Secret Service Department
Treasury
E. J. Dallas
Postoffice Department
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Commissary General Report on Army Subsistence Costs
The annual report to the Secretary of War shows total subsistence disbursements for the year ending June 30 amounting to 3 008 475 dollars with 791 611 dollars reimbursed by store sales to officers and enlisted men. Five percent of the total 125 088 dollars was from tobacco sold to enlisted men. the remainder was provided by Congressional appropriations. The accompanying tables indicate a steady decline in department costs for subsistence supplies since 1877, especially in meat and flour components of rations.
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Sherman
War Department
Canby
Custer
Thornburgh
Judge Advocate
Yelowstone
Milk River
Ariington Cemeery
Ueneas
United Sates
Mississippi River
Maj
Bada
Diana
Meeker
Maj. Shornburgh
United States Army
Secretary of War
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ARMY
Interior Department
Carl Schurz
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