Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1845-07-03
THE HERALD,
THURSDAY, July 8, lsi5

lshed IN the National ln,elligehttr OF
! "Wednesday taken for, public document
Of the House Of Repre- halivcs, and the
calculations found upon them, discloses a
sort Of relation, not generally suspected be.
tween the two
lnpursuonce cfa call adop'el by heIlousc
OF Representatives, on the motion OF Il
| Pratt, member from this State, the Score.
tory reported the amount Of duties upon i'm
ports md tonnage, and the COS, OF collection
for several series ofycors The results are
exceedingly curious in some instances, MS
will be seen by whn, we are nbou, to add
For the first dccade or series o: ten years
i'om 1921 TO 1893, the whole amour, Of
duiI's was SlsS.zS0425, collected nj the
cost Of sl0,3l2s73- or about 5 So per
cent The aggregate cos, Of collection
seems not nsonablc-allbough in some
Of the delals the creates, inequality is per.
ccivch. For lns,once--ihc cos of colIec-
ling 1850 $40 in MAISE, was s692 $50
or s ia per cent. In VERMONT, S72,.
$40 cos, for collcc,ings43, l69--or es7 l.3
per cent. Ia DELEwARE, the revenue be.
ing $1,000, the cost of collection was
sll73j0 or S46,430 more than the re-
ceipis In Ono, the collection Of the rev.
enuc costs more than twice the whole sum
collected, and in MIcnI0AN more than
three times the sum, while in New YoRK,
where the collections amounted for the ten
years to one hundred and forty two millions
OF 'dolurs, the cost of collection averages
only 2 90 per cent In PKSNsYLvANIA,
the cos, OF collection, was l3 per cent,
and in MA"AcHu.ErTs 3 70 per cent.
!, is however to be borne in mind lha, in
the districts where the cost OF collection cx.
ceeds the receipt.-some expense, perhaps
unavoldably d'.pro porioncd 10 the revenue
must be incurred in order to proven, SNUG.
gling-the quanlum Of tina, expense never
/ lhcless can hardly, one would think, be lc.
giIimaiely two or three fold that of the re.
ccipls Blu, if the results Of the first decdde
are startling, those Of the second, from '43,
are vastly more so
In that period the receipts fell shor, Of
those of,ho preceding period in the sum Of
nearly ninety millions If dollars, while the
expenses Of collection increased in the sum
OF nearly IL mIlions--and the average
cost almost doubled Here are the fig.
urcs-
Duties from "a to '43, Sl99 ,2O9,7ls-
Expenses of collection sl3,6s3 527-Av,
ernge rate 6 &c c. per cent In This period
the receipts in Maine fell offalmost one bal II,
while tho expenses Of collection was nearly
tiplcd-averoging 40 Is per cent, instead
Of g 4as before
In Vermont neither receipts nor expcn,
.os varied much.
In Delaware The receipts were larger,
viz sl23, 200--the expenses lS9, l70-or
$3.50 more Than the collections 10
Ohio the collections cost only about q dol.
tar and half for every dollar received and
in Michigan only two dollars
Bu, in New York Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts where the revenue fall, of,
the cost Of collection greatly increased, as
thus: Average
Collection. Cost percent
\. York, iO9,5272sS 5,O79,59O $50
Penn. l9,9s24lO osO3sO 4O5
Mass 3i9s5,4I0 l,ol9,llO SOC
The table for the preceding decade from
% 10 SO gives these results
y. York, ii1,Oso,o7o 1905 $50 Q og
Penn. ~ O72,0o5 9s399O PIP
Mass. 5L5o9,03o 1902, go 27O
Hence IT appears thai for ten years sub.
s'qncnl to 1924, one hundred and forylwo
mdion' Of dollars were collected in New
York for less than three millions Of dollars.
whle ior Ike period from ls43 to "A il
costs more than five million Of dollars %
collect one hundred nihe and ha lfmill,oos
and ~ like proportion, as the above table
shew, N Pennsylvania and Missaehnscu.
In 1888, and subsequently,, General
Jackson being rr-el'cscd, the purpose Of
transmitting hc rurpit to tls nominee wa,
seriously co'ercd uron The nom nee b,v.
mC studied m! Praeieed io--nay hayinc
o1oi"t, she school which teaches that pub.
lac o.hces are parllsan spols, and which
process rpon the assumed venality o,
al. pro-! SD politicians we nigh, perhap,
end "a ,hcs Gcis an eIplansgiou Of the sud
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