Text this: Receipts and expenditures of the government. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 6, 1897, tabulated statements showing the amount of the receipts and expenditures, and the excess of either, for each fiscal year, 1875 to 1896, both inclusive and the same for each annual period, beginning March 1, 1885, and ending March 1, 1897. April 22, 1897. -- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.