through the United States, imposes a heavy export duty upon that
product. Our petroleum exports are hampered in Turkey and in other
Eastern ports by restrictions as to storage and by onerous taxation.
For these mischiefs adequate relief is not always afforded by
reciprocity treaties like that with Hawaii or that lately negotiated
with Mexico and now awaiting the action of the Senate. Is it not
advisable to provide some measure of equitable retaliation in our
relations with governments which discriminate against our own? If, for
example, the Executive were empowered to apply to Spanish vessels and
cargoes from Cuba and Puerto Rico the same rules of treatment and scale
of penalties for technical faults which are applied to our vessels and
cargoes in the Antilles, a resort to that course might not be barren of
good results.

The report of the Secretary of the Treasury gives a full and interesting
exhibit of the financial condition of the country.

It shows that the ordinary revenues from all sources for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1883, amounted to $398,287,581.95, whereof there was
received--

From customs $214,706,496.93
From internal revenue 144,720,368.98
From sales of public lands 7,955,864.42
From tax on circulation and deposits of national banks 9,111,008.85
From profits on coinage, bullion deposits, and assays 4,460,205.17
From other sources 17,333,637.60
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Total 398,287,581.95

For the same period the ordinary expenditures were:

For civil expenses $22,343,285.76
For foreign intercourse 2,419,275.24
For Indians 7,362,590.34
For pensions $66,012,573.64
For the military establishment, including river and
harbor improvements and arsenals 48,911,382.93
For the naval establishment, including vessels,
machinery, and improvements at navy-yards 15,283,437.17
For miscellaneous expenditures, including public
buildings, light-houses, and collecting the revenue 40,098,432.73
For expenditures on a